Past+Newbery+Award+Winners


 * //How many of these past winners have you read?//

Association for Library Service to Children**
 * Newbery Medal Winners, 1922 – Present **

2009: // The Graveyard Book // by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean (HarperCollins Children’s Books)

2008: // Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village // by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)

2007: // The Higher Power of Lucky // by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)

2006: // Criss Cross // by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)

2005: // Kira-Kira // by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)

2004: // The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of // Thread by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)

2003: // Crispin: The Cross of Lead // by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)

2002: // A Single Shard // by Linda Sue Park(Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)

2001: // A Year Down Yonder // by Richard Peck (Dial)

2000: // Bud, Not Buddy // by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)

1999: // Holes // by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)

1998: // Out of the Dust // by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)

1997: // The View from Saturday // by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)

1996: // The Midwife's Apprentice // by Karen Cushman (Clarion)

1995: // Walk Two Moons // by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)

1994: // The Giver // by Lois Lowry(Houghton)

1993: // Missing May // by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)

1992: // Shiloh // by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)

1991: // Maniac Magee // by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)

1990: // Number the Stars // by Lois Lowry (Houghton)

1989: // Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices // by Paul Fleischman (Harper)

1988: // Lincoln: A Photobiography // by Russell Freedman (Clarion)

1987: // The Whipping Boy // by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)

1986: // Sarah, Plain and Tall // by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)

1985: // The Hero and the Crown // by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)

1984: // Dear Mr. Henshaw // by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)

1983: // Dicey's Song // by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)

1982: // A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers // by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)

1981: // Jacob Have I Loved // by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)

1980: // A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 // by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)

1979: // The Westing Game // by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)

1978: // Bridge to Terabithia // by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)

1977: // Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry // by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)

1976: // The Grey King // by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)

1975: // M. C. Higgins, the Great // by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)

1974: // The Slave Dancer // by Paula Fox (Bradbury)

1973: // Julie of the Wolves // by Jean Craighead George (Harper)

1972: // Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH // by Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum)

1971: // Summer of the Swans // by Betsy Byars (Viking)

1970: // Sounder // by William H. Armstrong (Harper)

1969: // The High King // by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)

1968: // From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler // by E.L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)

1967: // Up a Road Slowly // by Irene Hunt (Follett)

1966: // I, Juan de Pareja // by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar)

1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum)

1964: // It's Like This, Cat // by Emily Neville (Harper)

1963: // A Wrinkle in Time // by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)

1962: // The Bronze Bow // by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)

1961: // Island of the Blue Dolphins // by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)

1960: // Onion John // by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)

1959: // The Witch of Blackbird Pond // by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)

1958: // Rifles for Watie // by Harold Keith (Crowell)

1957: // Miracles on Maple Hill // by Virginia Sorenson (Harcourt)

1956: // Carry On, Mr. Bowditch // by Jean Lee Latham (Houghton)

1955: // The Wheel on the School // by Meindert DeJong (Harper)

1954: // ...And Now Miguel // by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)

1953: // Secret of the Andes // by Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)

1952: // Ginger Pye // by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)

1951: // Amos Fortune, Free Man // by Elizabeth Yates (Dutton)

1950: // The Door in the Wall // by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)

1949: // King of the Wind // by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)

1948: // The Twenty-One Balloons // by William Pène du Bois (Viking)

1947: // Miss Hickory // by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking)

1946: // Strawberry Girl // by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)

1945: // Rabbit Hill // by Robert Lawson (Viking)

1944: // Johnny Tremain // by Esther Forbes (Houghton)

1943: // Adam of the Road // by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)

1942: // The Matchlock Gun // by Walter Edmonds (Dodd)

1941: // Call It Courage // by Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan)

1940: // Daniel Boone // by James Daugherty (Viking)

1939: // Thimble Summer // by Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart)

1938: // The White Stag // by Kate Seredy (Viking)

1937: // Roller Skates // by Ruth Sawyer (Viking)

1936: // Caddie Woodlawn // by Carol Ryrie Brink (Macmillan)

1935: // Dobry // by Monica Shannon (Viking)

1934: // Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women // by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)

1933: // Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze // by Elizabeth Lewis (Winston)

1932: // Waterless Mountain // by Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)

1931: // The Cat Who Went to Heaven // by Elizabeth Coatsworth (Macmillan)

1930: // Hitty, Her First Hundred Years // by Rachel Field (Macmillan)

1929: // The Trumpeter of Krakow // by Eric P. Kelly (Macmillan)

1928: // Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon // by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton)

1927: // Smoky, the Cowhorse // by Will James (Scribner)

1926: // Shen of the Sea // by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton)

1925: // Tales from Silver Lands // by Charles Finger (Doubleday)

1924: // The Dark Frigate // by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)

1923: // The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle // by Hugh Lofting (Lippincott)

1922: // The Story of Mankind // by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Liveright)