The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery.  It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

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2011

Vanderpool, Clare

Moon over Manifest

2010

Stead, Rebecca

When you reach me

2009

Gaiman, Neil

The graveyard book

2008

Schlitz, Laura Amy

Good masters! sweet ladies! : voices from a medieval village

2007

Patron, Susan

The higher power of Lucky

2006

Perkins, Lynne Rae

Criss cross

2005

Kadohata, Cynthia

Kira-Kira

2004

DiCamillo, Kate

The tale of Despereaux

2003

Avi

Crispin : the cross of lead

2002

Park, Linda Sue

A single shard

2001

Peck, Richard

A year down yonder

2000

Curtis, Christopher P.

Bud, not Buddy

1999

Sachar, Louis

Holes

1998

Hesse, Karen

Out of the dust

1997

Konigsburg, E. L.

The view from Saturday

1996

Cushman, Karen

The midwife's apprentice

1995

Creech, Sharon

Walk two moons

1994

Lowry, Lois

The giver

1993

Rylant, Cynthia

Missing May

1992

Naylor, Phyllis R.

Shiloh

1991

Spinelli, Jerry

Maniac Magee

1990

Lowry, Lois

Number the stars

1989

Fleischman, Paul

Joyful noise : poems for two voices

1988

Freedman, Russell

Lincoln : a photobiography

1987

Fleischman, Sid

The whipping boy

1986

MacLachlan, Patricia

Sarah, plain and tall

1985

McKinley, Robin

The hero and the crown

1984

Cleary, Beverly

Dear Mr. Henshaw

1983

Voigt, Cynthia

Dicey's Song

1982

Willard, Nancy

A visit to William Blake's inn

1981

Paterson, Katherine

Jacob have I loved

1980

Blos, Joan

A gathering of days : a New England girl's journal, 1830-1832

1979

Raskin, Ellen

The Westing game

1978

Paterson, Katherine

Bridge to Terabithia

1977

Taylor, Mildred

Roll of thunder, hear my cry

1976

Cooper, Susan

The grey king

1975

Hamilton, Virginia

M.C. Higgins, the great

1974

Fox, Paula

The slave dancer

1973

George, Jean C.

Julie of the wolves

1972

O'Brien, Robert C.

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

1971

Byars, Betsy

The summer of the swans

1970

Armstrong, William H.

Sounder

1969

Alexander, Lloyd

The high king

1968

Konigsburg, E. L.

From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

1967

Hunt, Irene

Up a road slowly

1966

Treviño, Elizabeth de

I, Juan de Pareja

1965

Wojciechowska, Maia

Shadow of a bull

1964

Neville, Emily Cheney

It's like this, cat

1963

L'Engle, Madeleine

A wrinkle in time

1962

Speare, Elizabeth G.

The bronze bow

1961

O'Dell, Scott

Island of the blue dolphins

1960

Krumgold, Joseph

Onion John

1959

Speare, Elizabeth G.

The witch of Blackbird pond

1958

Keith, Harold

Rifles for Watie

1957

Sorensen, Virginia

Miracles on maple hill

1956

Latham, Jean Lee

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch

1955

DeJong, Meindert

The wheel on the school

1954

Krumgold, Joseph

...And now Miguel

1953

Clark, Ann Nolan

Secret of the Andes

1952

Estes, Eleanor

Ginger Pye

1951

Yates, Elizabeth

Amos Fortune, free man

1950

De Angeli, Marguerite

The door in the wall

1949

Henry, Marguerite

King of the wind

1948

Du Bois, William Pène

The twenty-one balloons

1947

Bailey, Carolyn S.

Miss Hickory

1946

Lenski, Lois

Strawberry Girl

1945

Lawson, Robert

Rabbit hill

1944

Forbes, Esther

Johnny Tremain

1943

Vining, Elizabeth Gray

Adam of the road

1942

Edmonds, Walter D.

The matchlock gun

1941

Sperry, Armstrong

Call it courage

1940

Daugherty, James

Daniel Boone

1939

Enright, Elizabeth

Thimble Summer

1938

Seredy, Kate

The white stag

1937

Sawyer, Ruth

Roller skates

1936

Brink, Carol Ryrie

Caddie Woodlawn

1935

Shannon, Monica

Dobry

1934

Meigs, Cornelia

Invincible Louisa

1933

Lewis, Elizabeth F.

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze

1932

Armer, Laura Adams

Waterless mountain

1931

Coatsworth, Elizabeth

The cat who went to Heaven

1930

Field, Rachel

Hitty, her first hundred years

1929

Kelly, Eric P.

The trumpeter of Krakow

1928

Mukerji, Dhan Gopal

Gay Neck : the story of a pigeon

1927

James, Will

Smokey the cowhorse

1926

Chrisman, Arthur B.

Shen of the sea

1925

Finger, Charles

Tales from silver lands

1924

Hawes, Charles

The dark frigate

1923

Lofting, Hugh

The voyages of Doctor Dolittle

1922

Van Loon, Hendrik W.

The story of mankind