About the Award
"The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." -- From Association for Library Service to Children Newbery Medal
The Medal has been awarded since 1922.
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Award by Year
| 2020 | New Kid by Jerry Craft PZ 7.7 .C734 N4 2019 |
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2019 |
Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina FIC MED |
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2018 |
Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly FIC KEL |
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2017 2016 |
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill FIC BAR Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña illustrated by Christian Robinson E DE |
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2015 |
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander FIC ALE |
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2014 |
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo SUMMIT |
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2013 |
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate FIC APP |
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2012 |
Dead End in Norvelt b Jack Gantos FIC GAN |
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2011 |
Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool FIC VAN |
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2010 |
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead FIC STE |
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2009 |
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean FIC GAI |
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2008 |
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz PS3619.C43 C55 2007 |
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2007 |
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illustrated by Matt Phelan FIC PAT |
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2006 |
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins FIC PER |
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2005 |
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata FIC KAD |
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2004 |
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo FIC DIC |
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2003 |
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi FIC AVI |
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2002 |
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park FIC PAR |
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2001 |
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck FIC PEC |
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2000 |
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis FIC CUR |
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1999 |
Holes by Louis Sachar FIC SAC |
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1998 |
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse FIC HES |
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1997 |
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg FIC KON |
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1996 |
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman FIC CUS |
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1995 |
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech FIC CRE |
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1994 |
The Giver by Lois Lowry FIC LOW |
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1993 |
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant FIC RYL |
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1992 |
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor FIC NAY |
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1991 |
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli FIC SPI |
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1990 |
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry FIC LOW |
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1989 |
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman PN6109.97 .F59 1988 |
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1988 |
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman E457.905 .F85 1987 |
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1987 |
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman FIC FLE |
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1986 |
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan FIC MAC |
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1985 |
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley FIC MCK |
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1984 |
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Clearly FIC CLE |
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1983 |
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt FIC VOI |
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1982 |
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard PN6109.97 .W69 1981 |
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1981 |
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson FIC PAT |
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1980 |
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos FIC BLO |
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1979 |
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin FIC RAS |
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1978 |
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson FIC PAT |
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1977 |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor FIC TAY |
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1976 |
The Grey King by Susan Cooper FIC COO |
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1975 |
M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton FIC HAM |
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1974 |
The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox FIC FOX |
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1973 |
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George FIC GEO |
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1972 |
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien FIC OBR |
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1971 |
Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars FIC BYA |
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1970 |
Sounder by William H. Armstrong FIC ARM |
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1969 |
The High King by Lloyd Alexander FIC ALE |
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1968 |
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg FIC KON |
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1967 |
Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt FIC HUN |
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1966 |
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino FIC TRE |
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1965 |
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska FIC WOJ |
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1964 |
It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville FIC NEV |
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1963 |
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle FIC LEN |
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1962 |
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare FIC SPE |
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1961 |
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell FIC ODE |
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1960 |
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold FIC KRU |
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1959 |
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare FIC SPE |
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1958 |
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith FIC KEI |
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1957 |
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen FIC SOR |
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1956 |
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham VK140.B78 L35 1955 |
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1955 |
The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong FIC DEJ |
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1954 |
...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold FIC KRU |
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1953 |
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark FIC KLA |
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1952 |
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes FIC EST |
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1951 |
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates E185.97.F73 Y32 1950 |
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1950 |
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli FIC DEA |
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1949 |
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry FIC HEN |
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1948 |
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois FIC DUB |
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1947 |
Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey FIC BAI |
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1946 |
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski FIC LEN |
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1945 |
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson FIC LAW |
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1944 |
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes FIC FOR |
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1943 |
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray Vining FIC GRA |
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1942 |
The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds FIC EDM |
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1941 |
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry FIC SPE |
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1940 |
Daniel Boone by James Daugherty F454.B73 D23 1939 |
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1939 |
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright FIC ENR |
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1938 |
The White Stag by Kate Seredy GR73 .S48 1937 |
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1937 |
Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer FIC SAW |
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1936 |
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink FIC BRI |
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1935 |
Dobry by Monica Shannon DR63 .S52 1934 |
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1934 |
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs PS1018 .M4 1968 |
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1933 |
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis FIC LEW |
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1932 |
Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer FIC ARM |
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1931 |
The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth FIC COA |
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1930 |
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field FIC FIE |
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1929 |
The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly FIC KEL |
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1928 |
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji FIC MUK |
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1927 |
Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James FIC JAM |
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1926 |
Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman FIC CHR |
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1925 |
Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger GR73 .F49 1924 |
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1924 |
The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes FIC HAW |
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1923 |
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting FIC LOF |
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1922 |
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon D21 .V26 1921 |
