Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present 2007 Medal Winner: Susan Patron. The Higher Power of Lucky. Illustrated by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson) Honor Books: Jennifer L. Holm. Penny from Heaven (Random House) Kirby Larson. Hattie Big Sky (Delacorte Press) Cynthia Lord. Rules (Scholastic) 2006 Medal Winner: Lynne Rae Perkins. Criss Cross (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins) Honor Books: Alan Armstrong. Whittington, illustrated by S.D. Schindler (Random House) Susan Campbell Bartoletti. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Scholastic) Shannon Hale. Princess Academy (Bloomsbury Children's Books) Jacqueline Woodson. Show Way, illustrated by Hudson Talbott (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) 2005 Medal Winner: Cynthia Kadohata. Kira-Kira (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster) Honor Books: Gennifer Choldenko. Al Capone Does My Shirts (G.P. Putnam’s Sons/a division of Penguin Young Readers Group) Russell Freedman. The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin) Gary D. Schmidt. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin) 2004 Medal Winner: Kate DiCamillo. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread. Illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering. (Candlewick Press) Honor Books: Kevin Henkes. Olive's Ocean (Greenwillow Books) Jim Murphy. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Clarion Books) 2003 Medal Winner: Avi. Crispin: The Cross of Lead (Hyperion Books for Children) Honor Books: Nancy Farmer. The House of the Scorpion (Atheneum) Patricia Reilly Giff. Pictures of Hollis Woods (Random House/Wendy Lamb Books) Carl Hiaasen. Hoot (Knopf) Ann M. Martin. A Corner of The Universe (Scholastic) Stephanie S. Tolan. Surviving the Applewhites (HarperCollins) 2002 Medal Winner: Linda Sue Park. A Single Shard (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin) Honor Books: Polly Horvath. Everything on a Waffle (Farrar Straus Giroux) Marilyn Nelson. Carver: A Life In Poems (Front Street) 2001 Medal Winner: Richard Peck. A Year Down Yonder (Dial) Honor Books: Joan Bauer. Hope Was Here (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) Kate DiCamillo. Because of Winn-Dixie (Candlewick Press) Jack Gantos. Joey Pigza Loses Control (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) Sharon Creech. The Wanderer (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins) 2000 Medal Winner: Christopher Paul Curtis. Bud, Not Buddy (Delacorte) Honor Books: Audrey Couloumbis. Getting Near to Baby (Putnam) Jennifer L. Holm. Our Only May Amelia (HarperCollins) Tomie dePaola. 26 Fairmount Avenue (Putnam) 1999 Medal Winner: Louis Sachar. Holes (Frances Foster) Honor Book: Richard Peck. A Long Way from Chicago (Dial) 1998 Medal Winner: Karen Hesse. Out of the Dust (Scholastic) Honor Books: Gail Carson Levine. Ella Enchanted (HarperCollins) Patricia Reilly Giff. Lily's Crossing (Delacorte) Jerry Spinelli. Wringer (HarperCollins) 1997 Medal Winner: E.L. Konigsburg. The View from Saturday (Jean Karl/Atheneum) Honor Books: Nancy Farmer. A Girl Named Disaster (Richard Jackson/Orchard Books) Eloise McGraw. Moorchild (Margaret McElderry/Simon & Schuster) Megan Whalen Turner. The Thief (Greenwillow/Morrow) Ruth White. Belle Prater's Boy (Farrar Straus Giroux) 1996 Medal Winner: Karen Cushman. The Midwife's Apprentice (Clarion) Honor Books: Carolyn Coman. What Jamie Saw (Front Street) Christopher Paul Curtis. The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 (Delacorte) Carol Fenner. Yolonda's Genius (Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster) Jim Murphy. The Great Fire (Scholastic) 1995 Medal Winner: Sharon Creech. Walk Two Moons (HarperCollins) Honor Books: Karen Cushman. Catherine, Called Birdy (Clarion) Nancy Farmer. The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (Jackson/Orchard) 1994 Medal Winner: Lois Lowry. The Giver (Houghton) Honor Books: Jane Leslie Conly. Crazy Lady (HarperCollins) Laurence Yep. Dragon's Gate (HarperCollins) Russell Freedman. Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery (Clarion Books) 1993 Medal Winner: Cynthia Rylant. Missing May (Jackson/Orchard) Honor Books: Bruce Brooks. What Hearts (A Laura Geringer Book, a HarperCollins imprint) Patricia McKissack. The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural (Knopf) Walter Dean Myers. Somewhere in the Darkness (Scholastic Hardcover) 1992 Medal Winner: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Shiloh (Atheneum) Honor Books: Avi. Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel (Jackson/Orchard) Russell Freedman. The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane (Holiday House) 1991 Medal Winner: Jerry Spinelli. Maniac Magee (Little, Brown) Honor Book: Avi. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (Jackson/Orchard) 1990 Medal Winner: Lois Lowry. Number the Stars (Houghton) Honor Books: Janet Taylor Lisle. Afternoon of the Elves (Jackson/Orchard) Suzanne Fisher Staples. Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind (Knopf) Gary Paulsen. The Winter Room (Jackson/Orchard) 1989 Medal Winner: Paul Fleischman. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices (Harper) Honor Books: Virginia Hamilton. In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World (Harcourt) Walter Dean Myers. Scorpions (Harper) 1988 Medal Winner: Russell Freedman. Lincoln: A Photobiography (Clarion) Honor Books: Norma Fox Mazer. After The Rain (Morrow) Gary Paulsen. Hatchet (Bradbury) 1987 Medal Winner: Sid Fleischman. The Whipping Boy (Greenwillow) Honor Books: Cynthia Rylant. A Fine White Dust (Bradbury) Marion Dane Bauer. On My Honor (Clarion) Patricia Lauber. Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens (Bradbury) 1986 Medal Winner: Patricia MacLachlan. Sarah, Plain and Tall (Harper) Honor Books: Rhoda Blumberg. Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun (Lothrop) Gary Paulsen. Dogsong (Bradbury) 1985 Medal Winner: Robin McKinley. The Hero and the Crown (Greenwillow) Honor Books: Mavis Jukes. Like Jake and Me (Knopf) Bruce Brooks. The Moves Make the Man (Harper) Paula Fox. One-Eyed Cat (Bradbury) 1984 Medal Winner: Beverly Cleary. Dear Mr. Henshaw (Morrow) Honor Books: Elizabeth George Speare. The Sign of the Beaver (Houghton) Cynthia Voigt. A Solitary Blue (Atheneum) Kathryn Lasky. Sugaring Time (Macmillan) Bill Brittain. The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree (Harper) 1983 Medal Winner: Cynthia Voigt. Dicey’s Song (Atheneum) Honor Books: Robin McKinley. The Blue Sword (Greenwillow) William Steig. Doctor DeSoto by (Farrar) Paul Fleischman. Graven Images (Harper) Jean Fritz. Homesick: My Own Story (Putnam) Virginia Hamilton. Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (Philomel) 1982 Medal Winner: Nancy Willard. A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers (Harcourt) Honor Books: Beverly Cleary. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Morrow) Aranka Siegal. Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 (Farrar) 1981 Medal Winner: Katherine Paterson. Jacob Have I Loved (Crowell) Honor Books: Jane Langton. The Fledgling (Harper) Madeleine L’Engle. A Ring of Endless Light (Farrar) 1980 Medal Winner: Joan W. Blos. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 (Scribner) Honor Book: David Kherdian. The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl (Greenwillow) 1979 Medal Winner: Ellen Raskin. The Westing Game (Dutton) Honor Book: Katherine Paterson. The Great Gilly Hopkins (Crowell) 1978 Medal Winner: Katherine Paterson. Bridge to Terabithia (Crowell) Honor Books: Beverly Cleary. Ramona and Her Father (Morrow) Jamake Highwater. Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey (Lippincott) 1977 Medal Winner: Mildred D. Taylor. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Dial) Honor Books: William Steig. Abel's Island (Farrar) Nancy Bond. A String in the Harp (Atheneum) 1976 Medal Winner: Susan Cooper. The Grey King (McElderry/Atheneum) Honor Books: Sharon Bell Mathis. The Hundred Penny Box (Viking) Laurence Yep. Dragonwings (Harper) 1975 Medal Winner: Virginia Hamilton. M. C. Higgins, the Great (Macmillan) Honor Books: Ellen Raskin. Figgs & Phantoms (Dutton) James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier. My Brother Sam is Dead (Four Winds) Elizabeth Marie Pope. The Perilous Gard (Houghton) Bette Greene. Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe (Dial) 1974 Medal Winner: Paula Fox. The Slave Dancer (Bradbury) Honor Book: Susan Cooper. The Dark Is Rising (McElderry/Atheneum) 1973 Medal Winner: Jean Craighead George. Julie of the Wolves (Harper) Honor Books: Arnold Lobel. Frog and Toad Together (Harper) Johanna Reiss. The Upstairs Room (Crowell) Zilpha Keatley Snyder. The Witches of Worm (Atheneum) 1972 Medal Winner: Robert C. O’Brien. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Atheneum) Honor Books: Allan W. Eckert. Incident At Hawk's Hill (Little, Brown) Virginia Hamilton. The Planet of Junior Brown (Macmillan) Ursula K. LeGuin. The Tombs of Atuan (Atheneum) Miska Miles. Annie and the Old One (Little, Brown) Zilpha Keatley Snyder. The Headless Cupid (Atheneum) 1971 Medal Winner: Betsy Byars. Summer of the Swans (Viking) Honor Books: Natalie Babbitt. Knee Knock Rise (Farrar) Sylvia Louise Engdahl. Enchantress From the Stars (Atheneum) Scott O'Dell. Sing Down the Moon (Houghton) 1970 Medal Winner: William H. Armstrong Sounder (Harper) Honor Books: Sulamith Ish-Kishor. Our Eddie (Pantheon) Janet Gaylord. The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art Moore (World) Mary Q. Steele. Journey Outside (Viking) 1969 Medal Winner: Lloyd Alexander. The High King (Holt) Honor Books: Julius Lester. To Be a Slave (Dial) Isaac Bashevis Singer. When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories (Farrar) 1968 Medal Winner: E. L. Konigsburg. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Atheneum) Honor