The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. Read more about it at the Newbery homepage.

2009 Gaiman, Neil. THE GRAVEYARD BOOK. Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard. jNEWBERY FICTION GAIMAN NEI

2008 Schlitz, Laura Amy. GOOD MASTERS! SWEET LADIES! VOICES FROM A MEDIEVAL VILLAGE. A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor. jNEWBERY PQ 2 SCH

2007 Patron, Suana. THE HIGHER POWER OF LUCKY. Fearing that her guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, Lucky Trimble determines to run away while continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life. LG.PRINT FICTION PATRON SUS

2006 Perkins, Lynne Rae. CRISS CROSS. Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love. jNEWBERY PERKINS LYNN

2005 Kadohata, Cynthia. KIRA-KIRA. Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. AUDIOBK KADOHATA CYN

2004 DiCamillo, Kate. THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX. he adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. J AUDIOBK DICAMILL KAT

2003 Avi. CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD. Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. YOUNG ADULT PAPERBACK AVI

2002 Park, Linda Sue. A SINGLE SHARD. Tree-ear, an orphan in medieval Korea, lives in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate ceramics himself. jNEWBERY/PARK/LIN

2001 Peck, Richard. A YEAR DOWN UNDER. Mary Alice is sent to live with her grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of the fearsome woman. jNEWBERY/PECK/ RIC

2000 Curtis, Christopher Paul. BUD, NOT BUDDY. Ten-year-old Bud escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father. jNEWBERY/CURTIS/CHR

1999 Sachar, Louis. HOLES. Stanley Yelnats is sent to a correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first friend, a treasure, and a new sense of self. jNEWBERY/SACHAR/LOU

1998 Hesse, Karen. OUT OF THE DUST. In a series of poems, Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's farm during the dust bowl years. jNEWBERY/HESSE/KAR

1997 Konigsburg, E. L. THE VIEW FROM SATURDAY. Four students attract the attention of their teacher who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.jNEWBERY/KONIGSBU/E.L.

1996 Cushman, Karen. THE MIDWIFE'S APPRENTICE. In medieval England, a girl is taken in by a midwife, and gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in the world. jNEWBERY/CUSHMAN/KAR

1995 Creech, Sharon. WALK TWO MOONS. After her mother leaves home, Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. jNEWBERY/CREECH/SHA

1994 Lowry, Lois. THE GIVER. Given his lifetime assignment at the ceremony of twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared only by one other in his community. jNEWBERY/LOWRY/LOI

1993 Rylant, Cynthia. MISSING MAY: a novel. After the death of the aunt who has raised her, Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. jNEWBERY/RYLANT/CYN

1992 Naylor, Phyllis. SHILOH. When he finds a lost beagle, Marty tries to hide it from the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to mistreat his dogs. jNEWBERY/NAYLOR/PHY

1991 Spinelli, Terry. MANIAC MAGEE. After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's accomplishes feats which awe his contemporaries. jNEWBERY/SPINELLI/TERRY

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1990 Lowry, Lois. NUMBER THE STARS. Annemarie learns how to be courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friends from the Nazis. jNEWBERY/LOWRY/LOI

1989 Fleischman, Paul. JOYFUL NOISE. A collection of poems describing the activities of a variety of insects. jNEWBERY/NON FICTION/PP/FLE

1988 Freedman, Russell. LINCOLN: A Photobiography. Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President. jNEWBERY/NON FICTION/CV/LIN

1987 Fleischman, Sid. THE WHIPPING BOY. A prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they trade places. jNEWBERY/FLEISCHM/SID

1986 MacLachlan, Patricia. SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL. Caleb and Anna are captivated by their mail order bride mother and hope she will stay. jNEWBERY/MACLACHL/PAT

1985 McKinley, Robin. HERO AND THE CROWN. Aerin wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king. jNEWBERY/MCKINLEY/ROB

1984 Cleary, Beverly. DEAR MR. HENSHAW. In his letters to his favorite author, Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce and finding his own place in the world. jNEWBERY/CLEARY/BEV

1983 Voigt, Cynthia. DICEY'S SONG. Dicey finds that new beginnings require love, trust, humor and courage. jNEWBERY/VOIGT/CYN

1982 Willard, Nancy. A VISIT TO WILLIAM BLAKE'S INN. A collection of poems describing the menagerie of guests who arrive at William Blake's Inn. jNEWBERY/NON FICTION/PP/WIL

1981 Paterson, Katherine. JACOB HAVE I LOVED. Feeling deprived all her life by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity. jNEWBERY/PATERSON/KAT

1980 Blos, Joan. A GATHERING OF DAYS. The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, recording her father's re-marriage, and the death of her best friend. jNEWBERY/BLOS/JOA

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1979 Raskin, Ellen. THE WESTING GAME. The death of a millionaire brings together an assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. jNEWBERY/RASKIN/ELL

1978 Paterson, Katherine. THE BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA. A story about two youngsters and their magical kingdom, Terabithia. jNEWBERY/PATERSON/KAT

1977 Taylor, Mildred. ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY. A warm and funny story of a poor black family living in rural Mississippi during the Great Depression. jNEWBERY/TAYLOR/MIL

1976 Cooper, Susan. THE GREY KING. Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers. jNEWBERY/COOPER/SUS

1975 Hamilton, Virginia. M.C. HIGGINS, THE GREAT.
M.C. Higgins faces a dilemma-he must think of a way to save Sarah Mountain, his family's home, from being destroyed by strip mining. jNEWBERY/HAMILTON/VIR

1974 Fox, Paula. THE SLAVE DANCER. Jessie finds himself aboard The Moonlight, a slave ship, with a hateful duty awaiting him. jNEWBERY/FOX/PAU

1973 George, Jean. JULIE OF THE WOLVES. A moving novel of a girl's courage and the will to survive in potentially alien worlds. jNEWBERY/GEORGE/JEA

1971 Byars, Betsy. THE SUMMER OF THE SWANS. This book reflects the discontent and anguish Sara experiences when her ten-year-old mentally retarded brother disappears. jNEWBERY/BYARS/BET

1970 Armstrong, William. SOUNDER. A powerful and compassionate story concerning the relationship between a boy and his dog. jNEWBERY/ARMSTRON/WIL

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1969 Alexander, Lloyd. THE HIGH KING. This is the finale to the chronicles of Prydain - the ultimate clash between good and evil. jNEWBERY/ALEXANDE/LLO

1968 Konigsburg, E.L. FROM THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER. Claudia and her younger brother run away to New York and set up housekeeping in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. jNEWBERY/KONIGSBU/E.L.

1967 Hunt, Irene. UP A ROAD SLOWLY. Julie Trelling grows into a compassionate, loving girl , as she copes with the death of her mother. jNEWBERY/HUNT/IRE

1966 Trevino, Elizabeth Borton. I, JUAN DE PAREJA. Born a slave, Juan de Pareja became the assistant and lifelong friend of the great Velasquez. Juan eventually learned the arts and became an accomplished and respected artist. jNEWBERY/TREVINO/ELI

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1965 Wojciechowska, Maia. SHADOW OF A BULL.The people of Arcangel wanted Manolo Olivar to become as great a bullfighter as his father had been. Manolo's touching effort not to disappoint their hopes is played out against the pageantry of the bullring. jNEWBERY/WOJCIECH/MAI

1964 Neville, Emily. IT'S LIKE THIS, CAT.
A stray tomcat named Cat brings Dave Mitchell plenty of adventure, including an encounter with a burglar. New York City, from Lincoln Center to Coney Island, is the background for this humorous true-to-teen story. jNEWBERY/NEVILLE/EMI

1963 L'Engle, Madeleine. A WRINKLE IN TIME. A brother and sister, together with friends, go in search of their scientist father who was lost while engaged in secret work for the government. jNEWBERY/L'ENGLE/MAD

1962 Speare, Elizabeth. THE BRONZE BOW. When the Romans brutally kill Daniel Bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches desperately for a leader to drive them out of his country. He comes to realize, however, that love may be a more effective weapon than hate. jNEWBERY/SPEARE/ELI

1961 O'Dell, Scott. ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS. A young Indian girl is left behind on an island when her tribe is moved. She survives alone for eighteen years in this story based on a true experience. jNEWBERY/O'DELL/SCO

1960 Krumgold, Joseph. ONION JOHN. Onion John is the delightful and amusing town character in Serenity, New Jersey. Young Andy Rusch, Jr., becomes Onion John's best friend and finds the town character's "magical" approach to life appealing. jNEWBERY/KRUMGOLD,JOS

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1959 Speare, Elizabeth. THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND. Kit Tyler, a girl from Connecticut, experiences suspense and romance in this spellbinding historical novel. jNEWBERY/SPEARE/ELI

1958 Keith, Harold. RIFLES FOR WATIE. It is 1861 in the Indian country south of Kansas, and the Western campaign of the Civil War is raging. Jess Bussey, a young farmer, joins the Union volunteers and becomes a scout, thus making him probably the only soldier in the West to see the Civil War from both sides and live to tell about it. jNEWBERY/KEITH/HAR

1957 Sorenson, Virginia. MIRACLES ON MAPLE HILL. Miracles are needed desperately on Maple Hill, the new home of ten-year-old Marly and her family, especially since Daddy, just returned from a prisoner-of-war camp, is still not himself. The beauties of the changing seasons in Pennsylvania and a concerted effort to save the maple sugar harvest combine to prove that miracles really do happen on Maple Hill. jNEWBERY/SORENSON/VIR

1956 Latham, Jean Lee. CARRY ON, MR. BOWDITCH.
Nathaniel Bowditch's dearest wish was to go to Harvard College. Instead, he was compelled to spend nine years indentured to a ship's chandler. jNEWBERY/LATHAM/JEA

1955 DeJong, Meidert. THE WHEEL ON THE SCHOOL. It all started because Lina, one of the six school children in the little Dutch fishing village of Shora, wrote a composition about storks. The storks never came to shore to build their nests, as they did in the neighboring villages. Lina's composition set the children to wondering-why didn't the storks come to Shora? jNEWBERY/DEJONG/MEI

1954 Krumgold, Joseph. AND NOW MIGUEL. Miguel Chavez held a secret wish in his heart to help protect the sheep in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico. He was thought too young until his last great adventure as a boy turned into his first great adventure as a man. jNEWBERY/KRUMGOLD/JOS

1953 Clark, Ann Nolan. THE SECRET OF THE ANDES. A unique Indian tale about a young Indian boy named Cusi and an old Indian man named Chuto. jNEWBERY/CLARK/ANN

1952 Estes, Eleanor. GINGER PYE. Would Gracie the cat be jealous if the Pye's got another pet-a dog? That was what Jerry Pye wanted to know and what he was dreaming about as he sat with Rachel, his sister, on their upstairs veranda. jNEWBERY/ESTES/ELE

1951 Yates, Elizabeth. AMOS FORTUNE, FREE MAN. The haunting spirituals that brought comfort to slaves furnish the musical background for this sensitive documentary about Prince At-mun, who was captured, sold at auction, and freed as Amos Fortune. jNEWBERY/YATES/ELI

1950 De Angeli, Marguerite. THE DOOR IN THE WALL. A dramatic story of Robin, crippled son of a great lord, who proves his courage and wins his king's recognition-set against a background of fourteenth-century England. jNEWBERY/DE ANGEL/MAR

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1949 Henry, Marguerite. KING OF THE WIND. In the 18th century, a little mute Arabian stable boy crosses the seas to France and England with a horse destined to be the ancestor of a line of great thoroughbreds. jNEWBERY/HENRY/MAR

1948 Du Bois, William Péne. THE TWENTY-ONE BALLOONS. This is the story of the most incredibly fabulous voyage around the world in the history of travel. jNEWBERY/DU BOIS/WIL

1947 Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin. MISS HICKORY. The long-favorite tale of the simple doll who, with help from her animal friends, lives through a harsh New Hampshire winter. jNEWBERY/BAILEY/CAR

1946 Lenski, Lois. STRAWBERRY GIRL.
The feud between the Boyers and the Slaters starts when Birdie Boyer moves into the Roddenbery house with "biggety" ideas that their neighbors, the Slaters, don't like. jNEWBERY/LENSKI/LOI

1945 Lawson, Robert. RABBIT HILL. All the hill was boiling with excitement. On every side there rose a continual chattering and squeaking, whispering, and whistling, as the animals discussed the great news. "New folks coming." jNEWBERY/LAWSON/ROB

1944 Forbes, Esther. JOHNNY TREMAIN. Historical fiction portraying Revolutionary War Boston as a living drama through the shrewd eyes of an observant boy. jNEWBERY/FORBES/EST

1943 Gray, Elizabeth. ADAM OF THE ROAD. Life in thirteenth-century England is brought vividly to life through the eyes and travels of a young minstrel. jNEWBERY/GRAY/ELI

1942 Edmonds, THE MATCHLOCK GUN.
A moving tale of a small boy, his younger sister and mother, and an antique matchlock gun. jNEWBERY/EDMONDS/WAL

1941 Sperry, Armstrong. CALL IT COURAGE.
The Polynesians, who worshipped courage, called their chief's son "The Boy Who Was Afraid." How the boy, Mafatu, conquered his fear of the sea is a legend still sung by the people of Hikueru. jNEWBERY/SPERRY/ARM

1940 Daugherty, James. DANIEL BOONE. The life, times and adventures of an American folk hero are related in an exciting and humorous tale. AVAILABLE THROUGH INTER-LIBRARY LOAN

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1939 Enright, Elizabeth. THIMBLE SUMMER. After Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble, rains come to end the long drought on the farm. jNEWBERY/ENRIGHT/ELI

*1938 Seredy, Kate. THE WHITE STAG. Trailing the White Stag legends from the great tomb of Nimrod to the Hungarian Plains-the author traces Hungarian history. jNEWBERY/SEREDY/KAT

1937 Sawyer, Ruth. ROLLER SKATES.
This is a delightful story of Old New York, about a tomboy who could not help being a lady at the same time. jNEWBERY/SAWYER/RUT

1936 Brink, Carol. CADDIE WOODLAWN.
Caddie was allowed to grow up a tomboy in nineteenth-century Wisconsin, where her capacity for adventure was seemingly limitless. jNEWBERY/BRINK/CAR

1935 Shannon, Monica. DOBRY. It was natural to suppose that Dobry would take his grandfather's place as a an important man in the village, but Dobry had other plans. He wanted to be a sculptor. jNEWBERY/SHANNON/MON

1934 Meigs, Cornelia. INVINCIBLE LOUISA. A vivid portrayal of Louisa May Alcott and her eventful career. jNEWBERY/MEIGS/COR

1933 Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman. YOUNG FU OF THE UPPER YANGTZE. A dangerous encounter with the ruthless soldiersstarts a young Chinese boy on a series of adventures and misadventures in the teeming city of Chungking. jNEWBERY/LEWIS/ELI

1932 Armer, Laura Adams. WATERLESS MOUNTAIN.
Waterless Mountain is a sincere and beautiful story of a contemporary Navaho Indian boy, full of imagination and poetry. jNEWBERY/ARMER/LAU

1931 Coatsworth, Elizabeth. THE CAT WHO WENT TO HEAVEN.
The story of a little cat who came to the house of a poor Japanese artist and, by humility and devotion, brought him good fortune. jNEWBERY/COATWORT/ELI

1930 Field, Rachel. HITTY, HER FIRST HUNDRED YEARS. Phoebe Preble, for whom Hitty was made took her everywhere. In this way Hitty's acquired ample material to make her memoirs exciting and instructive. jNEWBERY/FIELD/RAC

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1929 Kelly, Eric. TIlE TRUMPETER OF KRAKOW. The tale of Pan Andrew Charnetski and the jewel he had sworn to guard with his life. jNEWBERY/KELLY/ERI

1928 Mukerji, Dhan Gopal. GAY-NECK: THE STORY OF A PIGEON. The story of a carrier pigeon taught to fly messages for the Allies in France during WW I. jNEWBERY/MUKERJI/DHA

1927 James, Will. SMOKEY THE COW HORSE. One of the most famous and beloved horse stories of the century. jNEWBERY/JAMES/WIL

1926 Chrisman, Arthur Bowie. SHEN OF THE SEA. A series of fascinating Chinese stories with the character of folk tales.jNEWBERY/CHRISMAN/ART

1925 Finger, Charles. TALES FROM SILVER LANDS.
These tales of the Central and South American Indians tell of giants, witches, and strange people who live under the sea. jNEWBERY/NON FICTION/PR/7/FIN

1924 Hawes, Charles Boardman. THE DARK FRIGATE. A swashbuckling sea adventure set during the reign of King Charles I of England. jNEWBERY/HAWES/CHA

1923 Lofting, Hugh. THE VOYAGES OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE. Doctor Dolittle and his young friend, Tommy Stubbins, set off on a voyage to learn all about animals and their languages. jNEWBERY/LOFTING/HUG

1922 Van Loon, Hendrik Willem. THE STORY OF MANKIND. The history of the world is presented. jNEWBERY/NON FICTION/D/VAN

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