Newbery Medal
The Newbery Medal is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution of American literature for children.
It is named for 18'th century bookseller John Newbery and is awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children.
| Yr | Book | Author | |
| 2010 | When You Reach Me | Rebecca Stead |
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| 2009 | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman |
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| 2008 | Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From A Medieval Village | Laura Amy Schlitz |
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| 2007 | The Higher Power Of Lucky | Susan Patron |
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| 2006 | Criss Cross | Lynn Rae Perkins |
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| 2005 | Kira-Kira | Cynthia Kadohata |
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| 2004 | The Tale Of Despereaux | Kate DiCamillo |
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| 2003 | Crispin: The Cross Of Lead | Avi |
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| 2002 | A Single Shard | Linda Sue Park |
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| 2001 | A Year Down Yonder | Richard Peck |
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| 2000 | Bud Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis | |
| 1999 | Holes | Louis Sachar | |
| 1998 | Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse | |
| 1997 | The View From Saturday | E L Konigsburg | |
| 1996 | The Midwife's Apprentice | Karen Cushman | |
| 1995 | Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech | |
| 1994 | The Giver | Lois Lowry | |
| 1993 | Missing May | Cynthia Rylant | |
| 1992 | Shiloh | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | |
| 1991 | Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 1990 | Number the Stars | Lois Lowry | |
| 1989 | Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | Paul Fleischman | |
| 1988 | Lincoln: A Photobiography | Russell Freedman | |
| 1987 | The Whipping Boy | Sid Fleischman | |
| 1986 | Sarah Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan | |
| 1985 | The Hero and the Crown | Robin McKinley | |
| 1984 | Dear Mr Henshaw | Beverly Cleary | |
| 1983 | Dicey's Song | Cynthia Voigt | |
| 1982 | A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers | Nancy Willard |
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| 1981 | Jacob Have I Loved | Katherine Paterson | |
| 1980 | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-1832 | Joan W Blos |
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| 1979 | The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin | |
| 1978 | Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | |
| 1977 | Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry | Mildred D Taylor | |
| 1976 | Grey King | Susan Cooper | |
| 1975 | M C Higgins the Great | Virginia Hamilton | |
| 1974 | The Slave Dancer | Paula Fox | |
| 1973 | Julie of the Wolves | Jean George | |
| 1972 | Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C O'Brien | |
| 1971 | The Summer of the Swans | Betsy Byars | |
| 1970 | Sounder | William H Armstrong | |
| 1969 | The High King | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 1968 | From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler | E L Konigsburg | |
| 1967 | Up A Road Slowly | Irene Hunt | |
| 1966 | I Juan de Pareja | Elizabeth Borton de Trevino | |
| 1965 | Shadow of a Bull | Maja Wojciechowska | |
| 1964 | It's Like This Cat | Emily Cheney Neville | |
| 1963 | A Wrinkle In Time | Madeleine L'Engle |
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| 1962 | The Bronze Bow | Elizabeth George Speare | |
| 1961 | Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell | |
| 1960 | Onion John | Joseph Krumgold | |
| 1959 | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare | |
| 1958 | Rifles for Watie | Harold Keith | |
| 1957 | Miracles on Maple Hill | Virginia Sorensen | |
| 1956 | Carry On Mr Bowditch | Jean Lee Latham | |
| 1955 | The Wheel on the School | Meindert DeJong | |
| 1954 | And Now Miguel | Joseph Krumgold |
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| 1953 | Secret of the Andes | Ann Nolan Clark | |
| 1952 | Ginger Pye | Eleanor Estes | |
| 1951 | Amos Fortune Free Man | Elizabeth Yates |
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| 1950 | The Door in the Wall | Marguerite de Angeli | |
| 1949 | King of the Wind | Marguerite Henry | |
| 1948 | Twenty-One Balloons | William Pene Du Bois | |
| 1947 | Miss Hickory | Carolyn S Bailey | |
| 1946 | Strawberry Girl | Lois Lenski | |
| 1945 | Rabbit Hill | Robert Lawson | |
| 1944 | Johnny Tremain | Esther Forbes | |
| 1943 | Adam Of The Road | Elizabeth Janet Gray |
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| 1942 | The Matchlock Gun | Walter D Edmonds | |
| 1941 | Call It Courage | Armstrong Sperry | |
| 1940 | Daniel Boone | James Daugherty | |
| 1939 | Thimble Summer | Elizabeth Enright | |
| 1938 | The White Stag | Kate Seredy | |
| 1937 | Roller Skates | Ruth Sawyer | |
| 1936 | Caddie Woodlawn | Carol Ryrie Brink | |
| 1935 | Dobry | Monica Shannon | |
| 1934 | Invincible Louisa | Cornelia Lynde Meigs | |
| 1933 | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | Elizabeth Foreman Lewis | |
| 1932 | Waterless Mountain | Laura Adams Armer | |
| 1931 | The Cat Who Went To Heaven | Elizabeth Coatsworth | |
| 1930 | Hitty - Her First Hundred Years | Rachel Field | |
| 1929 | The Trumpeter of Krakow | Eric P Kelly | |
| 1928 | Gay-Neck | Dhan Gopal Mukerji | |
| 1927 | Smoky the Cowhorse | Will James | |
| 1926 | Shen of the Sea | Arthur Bowie Chrisman | |
| 1925 | Tales from Silver Lands | Charles Joseph Finger | |
| 1924 | The Dark Frigate | Charles Boardman Hawes | |
| 1923 | The Voyages of Dr Dolittle | Hugh Lofting | |
| 1922 | The Story Of Mankind | Hendrik Willem van Loon |