The Newbery Medal
The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year.

2005

Winner:
Kira-Kira,  by Cynthia Kadohata

Honor Books:
Al Capone Does My Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, by Russell Freedman
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt

2004

Winner:
The Tale of Despereaux : Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering, Candlewick Press

Honor Books:
Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy


2003

Winner:
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

Honor Books:
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan


2002

Winner:
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

Honor Books:
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson


2001

Winner:
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

Honor Books:
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer 
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech


2000

Winner:
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Honor Books:
Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola


1999

Winner:
Holes by Louis Sachar

Honor Book:
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck


1998

Winner:
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

Honor Books:
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff 
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli


1997

Winner:
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

Honor Books:
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White


1996

Winner:
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

Honor Books:
What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner
The Great Fire by Jim Murphy


1995

Winner:
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Honor Books:
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer


1994

Winner:
The Giver by Lois Lowry

Honor Books:
Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman


1993

Winner:
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

Honor Books:
What Hearts by Bruce Brooks 
The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack 
Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers


1992

Winner:
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Honor Books:
Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi 
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman


1991

Winner:
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

Honor Book:
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi


1990

Winner:
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Honor Books:
Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen


1989

Winner:
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

Honor Books:
In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers


1988

Winner:
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

Honor Books:
After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen


1987

Winner:
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

Honor Books:
A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber


1986

Winner:
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

Honor Books:
Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg 
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen


1985

Winner:
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

Honor Books:
Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox


1984

Winner:
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

Honor Books:
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky 
The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain


1983

Winner:
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

Honor Books:
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley 
Doctor DeSoto by William Steig 
Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton


1982

Winner:
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard

Honor Books:
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary 
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal


1981

Winner:
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

Honor Books:
The Fledgling by Jane Langton
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle


1980

Winner:
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos

Honor Book:
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian


1979

Winner:
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

Honor Book:
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson


1978

Winner:
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Honor Books:
Ramona and Her Father, by Beverly Cleary 
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater


1977

Winner:
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Honor Books:
Abel's Island by William Steig 
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond


1976

Winner:
The Grey King by Susan Cooper

Honor Books:
The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis 
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep


1975

Winner:
M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton

Honor Books:
Figgs & Phantoms, by Ellen Raskin 
My Brother Sam Is Dead, by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier 
The Perilous Gard, by Elizabeth Marie Pope 
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe, by Bette Green


1974

Winner:
The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

Honor Book:
The Dark Is Rising, by Susan Cooper


1973

Winner:
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Honor Books:
Frog and Toad Together, by Arnold Lobel 
The Upstairs Room, by Johanna Weiss 
The Witches of Worm, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder


1972

Winner:
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

Honor Books:
Incident At Hawk's Hill, by Allan W. Eckert 
The Planet of Junior Brown, by Virginia Hamilton 
The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin 
Annie and the Old One, by Miska Miles 
The Headless Cupid, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder


1971

Winner:
Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

Honor Books:
Kneeknock Rise, by Natalie Babbitt 
Enchantress from the Stars, by Sylvia Louise Engdahl 
Sing Down the Moon, by Scott O'Dell


1970

Winner:
Sounder by William H. Armstrong

Honor Books:
Our Eddie, by Sulamith Ish-Kishor 
The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art, by Janet Moore 
Journey Outside, by Mary Q. Steele


1969

Winner:
The High King by Lloyd Alexander

Honor Books:
To Be a Slave, by Julius Lester 
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories, by Isaac Bashevis Singer


1968

Winner:
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

Honor Books:
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth, by E. L. Konigsburg 
The Black Pearl, by Scott O'Dell 
The Fearsome Inn, by Isaac Bashevis Singer 
The Egypt Game, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder


1967

Winner:
Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt

Honor Books:
The King's Fifth, by Scott O'Dell 
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories, by Isaac Bashevis Singer 
The Jazz Man, by Mary H. Weik


1966

Winner:
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

Honor Books:
The Black Cauldron, by Lloyd Alexander 
The Animal Family, by Randall Jarrell 
The Noonday Friends, by Mary Stolz


1965

Winner:
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska

Honor Book:
Across Five Aprils, by Irene Hunt


1964

Winner:
It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville

Honor Books:
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era, by Sterling North 
The Loner, by Ester Weir


1963

Winner:
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Honor Books:
Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland, by Sorche Nic Leodhas 
Men of Athens, by Olivia Coolidge


1962

Winner:
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

Honor Books:
Frontier Living, by Edwin Tunis 
The Golden Goblet, by Eloise Jarvis McGraw 
Belling the Tiger, by Mary Stolz


1961

Winner:
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Honor Books:
America Moves Forward: A History for Peter, by Gerald W. Johnson 
Old Ramon, by Jack Schaefer 
The Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden 


1960

Winner:
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold

Honor Books:
My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George 
America Is Born: A History for Peter, by Gerald W. Johnson 
The Gammage Cup, by Carol Kendall


1959

Winner:
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Honor Books:
The Family Under the Bridge, by Natalie Savage Carlson
Along Came a Dog, by Meindert DeJong 
Chúcaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa, by Francis Kalnay 
The Perilous Road, by William O. Steele 


1958

Winner:
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith

Honor Books:
The Horsecatcher, by Mari Sandoz 
Gone-Away Lake, by Elizabeth Enright 
The Great Wheel, by Robert Lawson 
Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle, by Leo Gurko


1957

Winner:
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson

Honor Books:
Old Yeller, by Fred Gipson 
The House of Sixty Fathers, by Meindert DeJong 
Mr. Justice Holmes, by Clara Ingram Judson 
The Corn Grows Ripe, by Dorothy Rhoads 
Black Fox of Lorne, by Marguerite de Angeli


1956

Winner:
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

Honor Books:
The Secret River, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 
The Golden Name Day, by Jennie Linquist 
Men, Microscopes, and Living Things, by Katherine Shippen


1955

Winner:
The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong

Honor Books:
The Courage of Sarah Noble, by Alice Dalgliesh 
Banner in the Sky, by James Ullman


1954

Winner:
...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold

Honor Books:
All Alone, by Claire Hutchet Bishop 
Shadrach, by Meindert DeJong 
Hurry Home, Candy, by Meindert DeJong 
Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot, by Clara Ingram Judson 
Magic Maize, by Mary and Conrad Buff


1953

Winner:
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark

Honor Books:
Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White 
Moccasin Trail, by Eloise Jarvis McGraw 
Red Sails to Capri, by Ann Weil 
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain, by Alice Dalgliesh 
Birthdays of Freedom, Volume 1, by Genevieve Foster


1952

Winner:
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes

Honor Books:
Americans Before Columbus, by Elizabeth Baity 
Minn of the Mississippi, by Holling C. Holling 
The Defender, by Nicholas Kalashnikoff 
The Light At Tern Rock, by Julia Sauer 
The Apple and the Arrow, by Mary and Conrad Buff 


1951

Winner:
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

Honor Books:
Better Known As Johnny Appleseed, by Mabel Leigh Hunt 
Gandhi, Fighter Without A Sword, by Jeanette Eaton 
Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People, by Clara Ingram Judson 
The Story of Appleby Capple, by Anne Parrish 


1950

Winner:
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

Honor Books:
Tree of Freedom, by Rebecca Caudill 
The Blue Cat of Castle Town, by Catherine Coblentz 
Kildee House, by Rutherford Montgomery 
George Washington, by Genevieve Foster
Song of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin, by Walter and Marion Havighurst 


1949

Winner:
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

Honor Books:
Seabird by Holling C. Holling
Daughter of the Mountain by Louise Rankin
My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps


1948

Winner:
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois

Honor Books:
Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop
Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger
The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman 
The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander 
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry


1947

Winner:
Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Honor Books:
Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff
The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet)
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett


1946

Winner:
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski

Honor Books:
Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means
Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston 
New Found World by Katherine Shippen 


1945

Winner:
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson

Honor Books:
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh 
Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster
Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton


1944

Winner:
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Honor Books:
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fog Magic by Julia Sauer
Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates


1943

Winner:
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray

Honor Books:
The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt


1942

Winner:
The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds

Honor Books:
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder 
George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster 
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski 
Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin


1941

Winner:
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry

Honor Books:
Blue Willow by Doris Gates
Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall


1940

Winner:
Daniel Boone by James Daugherty

Honor Books:
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader


1939

Winner:
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright

Honor Books:
Nino by Valenti Angelo
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford
Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton
Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray


1938

Winner:
The White Stag by Kate Seredy

Honor Books:
Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman
Bright Island by Mabel Robinson
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder


1937

Winner:
Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer

Honor Books:
Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski
Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones 
The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans 
Winterbound by Margery Bianco
The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes
Audubon by Constance Rourke


1936

Winner:
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

Honor Books:
Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong
The Good Master by Kate Seredy
Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray
All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry


1935

Winner:
Dobry by Monica Shannon

Honor Books:
Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum


1934

Winner:
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs

Honor Books:
The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág 
Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best)
New Land by Sarah Schmidt
Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum
Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes
Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle


1933

Winner:
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis

Honor Books:
Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift
Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon


1932

Winner:
Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer

Honor Books:
The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop
Calico Bush by Rachel Field
Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens
Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery
Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee 
Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis


1931

Winner:
The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth

Honor Books:
Floating Island by Anne Parrish 
The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus
Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard
Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams
Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes 
Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best
Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen


1930

Winner:
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field

Honor Books:
A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton 
Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller
Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely 
The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young 
Vaino by Julia Davis Adams 
Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift


1929

Winner:
The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly

Honor Books:
Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock
Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon
Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney


1928

Winner:
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Honor Books:
The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young
Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker


1927

Winner:
Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James


1926

Winner:
Shen of the Sea  by Arthur Bowie Chrisman

Honor Books:
The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum


1925

Winner:
Tales from Silver Lands  by Charles Finger

Honor Books:
Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story - by Anne Carroll Moore
The Dream Coach - by Anne and Dillwyn Parrish


1924

Winner:
The Dark Frigate  by Charles B. Hawes


1923

Winner:
The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle  by Hugh Lofting


1922

Winner:
The Story of Mankind  by Hendrik Willem van Loon

Honor Books:
The Great Quest  by Charles B. Hawes
Cedric the Forester by Bernard G. Marshall
The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs



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