Newbery Award Winners
2019: Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina [FIC SUAR] Children’s 2018: Hello Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly [FIC KELL] Children’s 2017: The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill [FIC BARN] Children’s 2016: Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña [FIC PENA] Children’s 2015: The Crossover by Kwame Alexander [FIC ALEX] Young Adult 2014: Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo [FIC DICA] Children’s 2013: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate [FIC APPL] Children’s 2012: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos [FIC GANT] Children’s 2011: Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool [FIC GANT] Childrens 2010: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead [FIC GANT] Children’s 2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean [FIC GAIM] Young Adult 2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz [PS 3619 .C43 C55 2007] Children’s 2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan [FIC PATR] Children’s 2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins [FIC PERK] Young Adult 2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata [FIC KADO] Young Adult 2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo [FIC DICA] Children’s 2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi [FIC AVI] Children’s 2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park [FIC PARK] Children’s 2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck [FIC PECK] Children’s 2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis [FIC CURT] Children’s 1999: Holes by Louis Sachar [FIC SACH] Young Adult 1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse [FIC HESS] Children’s 1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg [FIC KONI] Children’s 1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman [FIC CUSH] Young Adult 1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech [FIC CREE] Young Adult 1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry [FIC LOWR] Children’s 1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant [FIC RYLA] Children’s 1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor [FIC NAYL] Children’s 1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli [FIC SPIN] Children’s 1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry [FIC LOWR] Children’s 1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman [PS 3556 .L42268 J69 1988] Children’s 1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman [E 457.905 .F73 1987] Children’s 1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman [FIC FLEI] Children’s 1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan [FIC MACL] Children’s 1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley [FIC MCKI] Young Adult 1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary [FIC CLEA] Children’s 1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt [FIC VOIG] Young Adult 1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard [PS 3573 .I444 V5 1981] Children’s 1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson [FIC PATE] Young Adult 1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos [FIC BLOS] Young Adult 1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin [FIC RASH] Children’s 1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson [FIC PATE] Children’s 1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor [FIC TAYL] Children’s Created by DM, updated 8/30/2019 by AP
Newbery Award Winners
1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper [FIC COOP] Children’s 1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton [FIC HAMI] Children’s 1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox [FIC FOX] Young Adult 1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George [FIC GEOR] Children’s 1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien [FIC OBRI] Children’s 1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars [FIC BYAR] Children’s 1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong [FIC ARMS] Children’s 1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander [FIC ALEX] Children’s 1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg [FIC KONI] Children’s 1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt [FIC HUNT] Young Adult 1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino [FIC TREV] Children’s 1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska [FIC WOJC] Children’s 1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville [FIC NEVI] Children’s 1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle [FIC LENG] Children’s 1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare [FIC SPEA] Children’s 1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell [FIC ODEL] Children’s 1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold [FIC KRUM] Children’s 1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare [FIC SPEA] Children’s 1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith [FIC KEIT] Young Adult 1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen [FIC SORE] Children’s 1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham [FIC LATH] Children’s 1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong [FIC DEJO] Children’s 1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold [FIC KRUM] Children’s 1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark [FIC CLAR] Children’s 1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes [FIC ESTE] Children’s 1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates [E 185.97 .F73 Y3 1989] Children’s 1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli [FIC DEAN] Children’s 1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry [FIC HENR] Children’s 1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois [FIC PENE] Children’s 1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey [FIC BAIL] Children’s 1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski [FIC LENS] Children’s 1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson [FIC LAWS] Children’s 1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes [FIC FORB] Young Adult 1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray [FIC VINI] Young Adult 1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds [FIC EDMO] Children’s 1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry [FIC SPER] Children’s 1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty 1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright [FIC ENRI] Children’s 1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy [PZ 8.1 .S457 W48 1937] Children’s 1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer [FIC SAWY] Children’s 1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink [FIC BRIN] Children’s 1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon [FIC SHAN] Children’s 1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs [FIC MEIG] Young Adult 1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis [FIC LEWI] Young Adult 1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer [FIC ARME] Children’s
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Newbery Award Winners
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth [PZ 8.1 .C638 C3 1958] Children’s 1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field [FIC FIEL] Children’s 1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly [FIC KELL] Young Adult 1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji [FIC MUKE] Children’s 1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James [FIC JAME] Children’s 1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman [FIC CHRI] Children’s 1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger [FIC FING] Children’s 1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes [FIC HAWE] Young Adult 1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting [FIC LOFT] Children’s 1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon [D 21 .V3 1994] Young Adult
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