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Scotch Plains Public Library Children’s Department Newbery Award The winning book is listed in bold, followed by the honor books. If SPPL owns the book the call number can be found on the right side. 2020 New Kid by Jerry Craft J B CRA The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander J 811.6 ALE Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga J WAR Genesis Begins Again by Alicia Williams YA WIL 2019 Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina J MED The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani J HIR The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock J MUR 2017 The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill J BAR Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan J BRY The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz J GID illustrated by Hatem Aly Wolf Hollow: a novel by Lauren Wolk YA WOL 2016 Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de La Peña J DEL The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley J BRA Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson J G JAM Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan J RYA J CD RYA 2015 The Crossover by Kwame Alexander J ALE El Deafo by Cece Bell J 617.8 BEL G B BELL Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson J B WOO 2014 Flora & Ulysses: the Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo J DIC Doll Bones by Holly Black J BLA The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes J HEN One Came Home by Amy Timberlake YA TIM Paperboy by Vince Vawter YA VAW 2013 The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate J APP J CD APP Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz J SCH Bomb: the Race to Build and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin J 623.4511 SHE Three Times Lucky by Shelia Turnage J TUR Updated 01/2020 Scotch Plains Public Library Children’s Department Newbery Award 2012 Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos J GAN Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai YA LAI Breaking Stalin’s Nose by Eugene Yelchin J YEL 2011 Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool J VAN Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm Heart of a Samurai: based on the true story of Nakahama Manjiro by Margi Preus YA PRE Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman J 811.54 SID One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia J WIL 2010 When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead J STE J CD STE Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose YA B COL The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly J KEL Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin J LIN The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick J PHI 2009 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman YA GAI The Underneath by Kathi Appelt illustrated by David Small J APP The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle YA 811.54 ENG Savvy by Ingrid Law J LAW After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson YA WOO 2008 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz J 812.6 SCH Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis J CUR The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt YA SCH Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson J WOO 2007 The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron illustrated by Matt Phelan J PAT Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm J HOL Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson YA LAR Rules by Cynthia Lord YA LOR 2006 Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins YA PER J PER J CD PER Whittington by Alan Armstrong J CD ARM Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti J 943.086 BAR Princess Academy by Shannon Hale YA HAL PLA YA HALE Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson P WOO Updated 01/2020 Scotch Plains Public Library Children’s Department Newbery Award 2005 Kira-Kira by Cynthis Kadohata J KAD J CD KAD J LARGE PRINT KAD YA 468 KAD Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko YA CHO The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman J B AND Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt J SCH 2004 The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo J DIC Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes J HEN An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy YA 614.541 MUR 2003 Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi J AVI The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff J GIF Hoot by Carl Hiaasen J HIA A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin J MAR Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan J TOL 2002 A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park J PARK Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath J HOR Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson 811.54 NEL 2001 A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck J PEC J CD PEC Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo J DIC Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos J GAN The Wanderer by Sharon Creech J CRE 2000 Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis J CUR Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis J COU Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm J HOL 26 Fairmont Avenue by Tomie DePaiola J B DEP 1999 Holes by Louis Sachar J SAC J CD SAC A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck J PEC Updated 01/2020 Scotch Plains Public Library Children’s Department Newbery Award 1998 Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse J HES J CD HES Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine J LEV Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff J GIF Wringer by Jerry Spinelli J SPI 1997 The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg J KON A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer YA FAR Moorchild by Eloise McGraw The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner J TUR Belle Prater’s Boy by Ruth White 1996 The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman J CUS What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis J CUR J CD CUR Yolonda’s Genius by Carol Fenner The Great Fire by Jim Murphy 1995 Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech J CRE J CD CRE Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer 1994 The Giver by Lois Lowry J LOW J CD LOW Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly Dragon’s Gate by Laurence Yep Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman J B ROO 1993 Missing May by Cynthia Rylant J RYL What Hearts by Bruce Brooks The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack J MCK Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers 1992 Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds J REY Nothing but the Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi J AVI The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman J 629.13 FRE 1991 Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli J SPI The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi J AVI Updated 01/2020 Scotch Plains Public Library Children’s Department Newbery Award 1990 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry J LOW Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle Shabanu. Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen J PAU 1989 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman J 811.54 FLE In the Beginning: Creation Myths from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton J 291.2 IN Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers J MYE 1988 Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman J B LIN After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer J MAZ J LARGE PRINT MAZ Hatchet by Gary Paulsen J PAU J CD PAU 1987 The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman J FLE A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer J BAU Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber J 551.21 LAU 1986 Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan J MAC Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg Dogsong by Gary Paulsen J PAU 1985 The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley J MCK Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox J FOX 1984 Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary J CLE The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare J SPE A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain 1983 Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley J MCK Doctor DeSoto by William Steig Graven Images by Paul Fleischman Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz J FRI Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton Updated 01/2020 Scotch Plains Public Library Children’s Department Newbery Award 1982 A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard J 811 WIL Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary J CLE Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939 -1944 by Aranka Siegal J 940.5315 SIE 1981 Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson J PAT The Fledgling by Jane Langton A Ring of Endless Lights by Madeleine L’Engle YA LEN 1980 A Gathering of Days: A New Englend Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W.