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Newbery Award Winners

In honor of John Newbery, a famous 18th century publisher/bookseller, the American Library Association gives the annual Newbery Medal to the author they deem to have made the best contribution to children's literature.

1998

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

1997

View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

1996

The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

Honor Books:
What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner
The Great Fire by Jim Murphy

1995

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Honor Books:
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

1994

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Honor Books:
Crazy Lady by J. Conly
Dragon's Gate by L. Yep
Eleanor Roosevelt by R. Freedman

1993

Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

Honor Books:
What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
Dark Thirty by Patricia McKissack
Somewhere in Darkness by Walter Dean Myers

1992

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Honor Books:
Nothing But the Truth by Avi
Wright Brothers by R. Freeman

1991

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

Honor Book:
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

1990

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Honor Books:
Afternoon of Elves by Janet Lisle
Shabanu, Daughter of The Wind by Suzanne Staples
Winter Room by Gary Paulson

1989

Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman

Honor Books:
In the Beginning by Virginia Hamilton
Scorpions by Walter Myers

1988

Lincoln Photobiography by R.Freedman

Honor Books:
After the Rain by N. Mazer
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

1987

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

Honor Books:
A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
On My Honor: by Marion Dane Bauer
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber

1986

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

Honor Books:
Commodore Perry in the Land of Shogun by Rhonda Blumberg
Dogsong by Gary Paulson

1985

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

Honor Books:
Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox

1984

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

Honor Books:
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voight
The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain

1983

Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voight

Honor Books:
Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Dr. DeSoto by William Steig
Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
My Own Story by Jean Fritz
Sweet Whisper, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

1982

A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard

Honor Books:
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Upon the Head Of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary by Aranka Siegal

1981

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

Honor Books:
The Fledgling by Jane Langton
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeline L'Engle

1980

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-32 by Joan Blos

Honor Books:

The Road From Home: The Story of An Armenian Girl by David Kherdian

1979

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

Honor Books:

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

1978

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Honor Books:

Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary

Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater

 

1977

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

Honor Books:

Abel's Island by William Steig

A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond

 

1976

The Grey King by Susan Cooper

Honor Books:

The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis

Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep

 

1975

M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton

Honor Books:

Figgs and Phantoms by Ellen Raskin

My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope

Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Green

 

1974

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

Honor Books:

The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

 

1973

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Honor Books:

Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel

The Upstairs Room by Johanna Weiss

The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snydey

1972

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

Honor Books:

Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert

The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles

The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

 

1971

Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

Honor Books:

Kneeknock Rise by Natalie Babbitt

Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl

Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell

 

1970

Sounder by William H. Armstrong

Honor Books:

Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor

The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet

Moore

Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele

 

1969

The High King by Lloyd Alexander

Honor Books:

To Be a Slave by Julius Lester

When Shlemiel Went To Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis

Singer

 

1968

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

Honor Books:

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth by E. L.

Konigsburg

The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell

The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

 

1967

Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt

Honor Books:

The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell

Zlateh the Goat by Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Jazz Man by Mary H. Weik

 

1966

I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borten de Trevino

Honor Books:

The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander

The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell

The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz

 

1965

Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska

Honor Books:

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

 

1964

It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville

Honor Books:

Rascal by Sterling North

The Loner by Ester Weir

 

1963

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

Honor Books:

Thistle and Thyme by Sorche Nic Leodhas

Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge

 

1962

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

Honor Books:

Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis

The Golden Goblet by Eloise McGraw

Belling the Tiger by Mary Stolz

1961

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Honor Books:

America Moves Forward by Gerald W. Johnson

Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

 

1960

Onion John by Joseph Krumgold

Honor Books:

My Side of the Mountain by Jean George

America Is Born by Gerald W. Johnson

The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall

1959

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Honor Books:

The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson

Along Came a Dog by Meindert Dejong

Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay

The Perilous Road by William O. Steele

 

1958

Rifles For Watie by Harold Keith

Honor Books:

The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz

Goneaway Lake by Elizabeth Enright

The Greaat Wheel by Robert Lawson

Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko

 

1957

Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson

Honor Books:

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert Dejong

Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson

The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads

Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli

 

1956

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

Honor Books:

The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The Golden Name Day by Jennie Linquist

Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen

 

1955

The Wheel on the School by Meindert Dejong

Honor Books:

The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh

Banner In The Sky by James Ullman

 

1954

And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold

Honor Books:

All Alone by Claire Hutchet Bishop

Shadrach by Meindert Dejong

Hurry Home Candyby Meindert Dejong

Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson

Magic Maize by Mary and Conrad Buff

 

1953

Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark

Honor Books:

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

Moccasin Trail by Eloise McGraw

Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil

The Bears On Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh

Birthdays of Freedom Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster

 

1952

Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes

Honor Books:

Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity

Minn of The Mississippi by Holling C Holling

The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff

The Light At Tern Rock by Julia Sauer

The Apple and the Arrow by Mary and Conrad Buff

 

1951

Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

Honor Books:

Better Known As Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt

Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton

Abraham Lincoln, Friend Of the People by Clara Ingram Judson

Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish

 

1950

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

Honor Books:

Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill

The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz

Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery

George Washington by Genevieve Foster

Song of the Pines by Walter and Marion Havighurst

 

1949

King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

Honor Books:

Seabird by Holling C. Holling

Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin

My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett

Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps

 

1948

The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois

Honor Books:

Pancakes-Paris by Claire Hutchet Bishop

Le Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger

The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman

The Cow-Tail Switch by Harold Courlander

Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerit Henry

 

1947

Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Honor Books:

Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes

Big Tree by Mary and Conrad Buff

The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell

The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher

The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett

 

1946

Strawberry Girl by Lois Lensky

Honor Books:

Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry

The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means

Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston

New Found World by Katherine Shippen

 

1945

Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson

Honor:

The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes

The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh

Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster

Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton

 

1944

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Honor Books:

The Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Fog Magic by Julia Sauer

Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes

Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yeates

 

1943

Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray

Honor Books:

The Middle Moffat by Eleanore Estes

Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt

 

1942

The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds

Honor Books:

Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster

Indian Captive by Lois Lenski

Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin

1941

Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry

Honor Books:

Blue Willow by Doris Gates

Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr

The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall

 

1940

Daniel Boone by James Daugherty

Honor Books:

The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy

Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson

By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Boy With a Pack by Stephen W. Meader

 

1939

Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright

Honor Books:

Nino by Valenti Angelo

Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater

Hello the Boat by Phyllis Crawford

Leader By Destiny: George Washington by Jeanette Eaton

Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray

 

1938

The White Stag by Kate Seredy

Honor Books:

Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman

Bright Island by Mabel Robinson

On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

 

1937

Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer

Honor Books:

Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski

Stokes: Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones

Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans

Winterbound by Margery Bianco

The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes

 

1936

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

Honor Books:

Honk, the Moose by Phil Strong

The Good Master by Kate Seresy

Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray

All Sail Set by Armstrong Sperry

 

1935

Dobry by Monica Shannon

Honor Books:

Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger

Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke

Day on Skates by Hilda Von Stockum

 

1934

Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs

Honor Books:

The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker

Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster

ABC Bunny by Wanda Gag

Winged Girl Of Knossos by Erik Berry

New Land by Sarah Schmidt

Big Tree Of Bunlahy by Padraic Colum

Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes

Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle

 

1933

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

Honor Books:

Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs

The Railroad To Freedom by Hildegarde Swift

Children of the Soil by Nora Burglon

 

1932

Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer

Honor Books:

The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop

Calico Bush by Rachel Field

Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens

Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery

Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee

Truce Of the Wolf by Mary Gould Davis

 

1931

The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatswirth

Honor Books:

Floating Island by Anne Parrish

The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of a Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus

Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard

Mountains Are Free by Julie Davis Adams

Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes

Meggy Macintosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray

Garram the Hunter by Herbert Best

Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide and Margaret Johansen

 

1930

Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field

Honor Books:

Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton

Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller

Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely

Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young

Vaino: A Boy of New England by Julia Davis Adams

Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift

1929

The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly

Honor Books:
Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock
Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon
Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney

1928

Gayneck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Honor Books:
The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young
Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker

1927

Smoky, the Cow Horse by Will James

1926

Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman

Honor:
Voyagers by Padraic Colum

1925

Tales From the Silver Lands by Charles Finger

Honor Books:
Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Anne Carroll Moore
Dream Coach by Anne Parrish

1924

The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes

1923
The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle
by Hugh Lofting

1922

The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Honor:
The Great Quest by Charles Hawes
Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall
The Old Tobacco Shop by William Bowen
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic
Colum
Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs

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