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Newbery Medal
The Newbery Medal honors outstanding writing in children's literature. Find these and other award winning books at your local local library or the centralcoastkids.com bookstore
Winners
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2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, by Laura Amy Schlitz, illustrated by Robert Byrd 2007: The Higher Power of Lucky , by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan 2006: Criss Cross , Lynne Rae Perkins 2005: Kira-Kira , Cynthia Kadohata 2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering 2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead , Avi 2002: A Single Shard , Linda Sue Park 2001: A Year Down Yonder , Richard Peck 2000: Bud, Not Buddy , Christopher Paul Curtis 1999: Holes, Louis Sachar 1998: Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse 1997: The View From Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg 1996: The Midwife's Apprentice, Karen Cushman 1995: Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech 1994: The Giver, Lois Lowry 1993: Missing May, Cynthia Rylant 1992: Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 1991: Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli 1990: Number the Stars, Lois Lowry 1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, Paul Fleischman, illustrated by Eric Beddows 1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman 1987: The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman, illustrated by Peter Sis 1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan 1985: The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley 1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky 1983: Dicey's Song, Cynthia Voigt 1982: A Visit to William Blanke's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, Nancy Willard, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen 1981: Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson 1980: A Gathering of Days, Joan W. Blos 1979: The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin 1978: Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson, illustrated by Donna Diamond 1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney 1976: The Grey King, Susan Cooper, illustrated by Michael Heslop 1975: M.C. Higgins, the Great, Virginia Hamilton 1974: The Slave Dancer, Paula Fox, illustrated by Eros Keith 1973: Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George, illustrated by John Schoenherr 1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien, illustrated by Zena Bernstein 1971: Summer of the Swans, Betsy Byars, illustrated by Ted CoConis 1970: Sounder, William H. Armstrong, illustrated by James Barkley 1969: The High King, Lloyd Alexander 1968: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg 1967: Up a Road Slowly, Irene Hunt 1966: I, Juan de Pareja, Elizabeth Borton de Trevino 1965: Shadow of a Bull, Maia Wojciechowska, illustrated by Alvin Smith 1964: It's Like This, Cat, Emily Cheney Neville, illustrated by Emil Weiss 1963: A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L' Engle 1962: The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare 1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell 1960: Onion John, Joseph Krumgold, illustrated by Symeon Shimin 1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare 1958: Rifles for Watie, Harold Keith, illustrated by Peter Burchard 1957: Miracles on Maple Hill, Virginia Sorensen, illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush 1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham, illustrated by J.O. Cosgrove 1955: The Wheel on the School, Meindert DeJong, illustrated by Maurice Sendak 1954: ...And Now Miguel, Joseph Krumgold, illustrated by Jean Charlot 1953: Secret of the Andes, Ann Nolan Clark, illustrated by Jean Charlot 1952: Ginger Pye, Eleanor Estes 1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man, Elizabeth Yates, illustrated by Nora S. Unwin 1950: The Door in the Wall: Story of Medieval London, Marguerite de Angeli 1949: King of the Wind, Marguerite Henry, illustrated by Wesley Dennis 1948: The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pe'ne du Bois 1947: Miss Hickory, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, illustrated by Ruth Chrisman Gannet 1946: Strawberry Girl, Lois Lenski 1945: Rabbit Hill, Robert Lawson 1944: Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes, illustrated by Lynd Ward 1943: Adam of the Road, Elizabeth Janet Gray, illustrated by Robert Lawson 1942: The Matchlock Gun, Walter D. Edmonds, illustrated by Paul Lantz 1941: Call It Courage, Armstrong Sperry 1940: Daniel Boone, James Daugherty 1939: Thimble Summer, Elizabeth Enright 1938: The White Stag, Kate Seredy 1937: Roller Skates, Ruth Sawyer, illustrated by Valenti Angelo 1936: Caddie Woodlawn, Carol Ryrie Brink, illustrated by Kate Seredy 1935: Dobry, Monica Shannon, illustrated by Atanas Katchamakoff 1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women, Cornelia L. Meigs 1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, illustrated by Kurt Wiese 1932: Waterless Mountain, Laura Adams Armer, illustrated by Sydney and Laura Adams Armer 1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven, Elizabeth Coatsworth, illustrated by Lynd Ward 1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field, illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop 1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow, Eric P. Kelly, illustrated by Angela Pruszynska 1928: Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff 1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse, Will James 1926: Shen of the Sea, Arthur Bowie Chrisman, illustrated by Else Hasselriis 1925: Tales from Silver Lands, Charles Joseph Finger, illustrated by Paul Honore 1924: The Dark Frigate, Charles Boardman Hawes, illustrated by A.L. Ripley 1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting 1922: The Story of Mankind, Henrik Willem Van Loon |