Complete List of Newbery Medal Winners

• 2003 Medal Winner: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
  Honor Books:
  
  • The House of Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
  • Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Hoot by Carl Hiassen
  • A Corner of the Universe by Anne M. Martin
  • Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
• 2002 Medal Winner: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
  Honor Books:
  • Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
  • Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
• 2001 Medal Winner: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
  Honor Books:
  • Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
  • Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
  • Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
  • The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
• 2000 Medal Winner: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
  Honor Books:
  • Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
  • Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
  • 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola

• 1999 Medal Winner: Holes by Louis Sachar
  Honor Book:
  • A Long Way from Chicago
    by Richard Peck

• 1998 Medal Winner: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
  Honor Books:
  • Ella Enchanted
    by Gail Carson Levine
  • Lily's Crossing
    by Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Wringer
    by Jerry Spinelli

• 1997 Medal Winner: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
  Honor Books:
  • A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
  • Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
  • The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
  • Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

• 1996 Medal Winner: 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 Medal Winner: 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 Medal Winner: The Giver by Lois Lowry
  Honor Books:
  • Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
  • Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
  • Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman

• 1993 Medal Winner: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
  Honor Books:
  • What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
  • The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack
  • Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers

• 1992 Medal Winner: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  Honor Books:
  • Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi
  • The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman

• 1991 Medal Winner: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
  Honor Book:
  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

• 1990 Medal Winner: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
  Honor Books:
  • Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
  • Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
  • The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen

• 1989 Medal Winner: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
  Honor Books:
  • In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
  • Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers

• 1988 Medal Winner: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
  Honor Books:
  • After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
  • Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

• 1987 Medal Winner: 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 Medal Winner: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
  Honor Books:
  • Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
  • Dogsong by Gary Paulsen

• 1985 Medal Winner: 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 Medal Winner: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
  Honor Books:
  • The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
  • A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
  • Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
  • The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain

• 1983 Medal Winner: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
  Honor Books:
  • The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
  • Doctor DeSoto by William Steig
  • Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
  • Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
  • Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

• 1982 Medal Winner: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
  Honor Books:
  • Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
  • Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal

• 1981 Medal Winner: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
  Honor Books:
  • The Fledgling by Jane Langton
  • A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle

• 1980 Medal Winner: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
  Honor Book:
  • The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian

• 1979 Medal Winner: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
  Honor Book:
  • The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

• 1978 Medal Winner: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
  Honor Books:
  • Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
  • Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater

• 1977 Medal Winner: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
  Honor Books:
  • Abel's Island by William Steig
  • A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond

• 1976 Medal Winner: The Grey King by Susan Cooper
  Honor Books:
  • The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
  • Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

• 1975 Medal Winner: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
  Honor Books:
  • Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin
  • My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
  • The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
  • Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene

• 1974 Medal Winner: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
  Honor Book:
  • The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

• 1973 Medal Winner: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
  Honor Books:
  • Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
  • The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
  • The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

• 1972 Medal Winner: 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. LeGuin
  • Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
  • The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

• 1971 Medal Winner: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
  Honor Books:
  • Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
  • Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
  • Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell

• 1970 Medal Winner: 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 Gaylord Moore
  • Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele

• 1969 Medal Winner: 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 Medal Winner: 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 Medal Winner: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
  Honor Books:
  • The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell
  • Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik

• 1966 Medal Winner: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
  Honor Books:
  • The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
  • The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
  • The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz

• 1965 Medal Winner: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
  Honor Book:
  • Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

• 1964 Medal Winner: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
  Honor Books:
  • Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North
  • The Loner by Ester Wier

• 1963 Medal Winner: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
  Honor Books:
  • Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. (Leclaire Alger)
  • Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge

• 1962 Medal Winner: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
  Honor Books:
  • Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis
  • The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
  • Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz

• 1961 Medal Winner: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
  Honor Books:
  • America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
  • Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer
  • The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden, pseud. (George Thompson)

• 1960 Medal Winner: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
  Honor Books:
  • My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
  • America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
  • The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall

• 1959 Medal Winner: 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 Medal Winner: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
  Honor Books:
  • The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz
  • Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
  • The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson
  • Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko

• 1957 Medal Winner: 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 Medal Winner: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
  Honor Books:
  • The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist
  • Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen

• 1955 Medal Winner: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
  Honor Books:
  • Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
  • Banner In The Sky by James Ullman

• 1954 Medal Winner: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
  Honor Books:
  • All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop
  • Shadrach by Meindert Dejong
  • Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong
  • Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
  • Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff

• 1953 Medal Winner: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
  Honor Books:
  • Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
  • Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis 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 Medal Winner: 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 & Conrad Buff

• 1951 Medal Winner: 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
  • The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish

• 1950 Medal Winner: 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: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst

• 1949 Medal Winner: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
  Honor Books:
  • Seabird by Holling C. Holling
  • Daughter of the Mountain by Louise Rankin
  • My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
  • Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps

• 1948 Medal Winner: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
  Honor Books:
  • Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop
  • Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger
  • The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman
  • The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander
  • Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

• 1947 Medal Winner: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
  Honor Books:
  • Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
  • Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff
  • The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
  • The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet)
  • The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett

• 1946 Medal Winner: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
  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 Medal Winner: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
  Honor Books:
  • 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 Medal Winner: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
  Honor Books:
  • These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Fog Magic by Julia Sauer
  • Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
  • Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates

• 1943 Medal Winner: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
  Honor Books:
  • The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
  • Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt

• 1942 Medal Winner: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
  Honor Books:
  • Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster
  • Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
  • Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin

• 1941 Medal Winner: 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 Medal Winner: 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 Medal Winner: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
  Honor Books:
  • Nino by Valenti Angelo
  • Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
  • Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford
  • Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton
  • Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray

• 1938 Medal Winner: 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 Medal Winner: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
  Honor Books:
  • Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski
  • Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones
  • The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans
  • Winterbound by Margery Bianco
  • The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes
  • Audubon by Constance Rourke

• 1936 Medal Winner: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
  Honor Books:
  • Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong
  • The Good Master by Kate Seredy
  • Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray
  • All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry

• 1935 Medal Winner: Dobry by Monica Shannon
  Honor Books:
  • Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
  • Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
  • Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum

• 1934 Medal Winner: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
  Honor Books:
  • The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
  • Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
  • ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág
  • Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best)
  • New Land by Sarah Schmidt
  • Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum
  • Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes
  • Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle

• 1933 Medal Winner: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
  Honor Books:
  • Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
  • The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift
  • Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon

• 1932 Medal Winner: 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 and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis

• 1931 Medal Winner: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
  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: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best
  • Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen

• 1930 Medal Winner: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
  Honor Books:
  • A 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
  • The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young
  • Vaino by Julia Davis Adams
  • Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift

• 1929 Medal Winner: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
  Honor Books:
  • Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett
  • Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
  • 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 Medal Winner: Gay Neck, 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 Medal Winner: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James

• 1926 Medal Winner: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
  Honor Book:
  • The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum

• 1925 Medal Winner: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
  Honor Books:
  • Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
  • The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish

• 1924 Medal Winner: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes

• 1923 Medal Winner: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
  

• 1922 Medal Winner: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
  Honor Books:
  • The Great Quest by Charles Hawes
  • Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall
  • The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen
  • The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
  • The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs

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