Newbery

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.

165 books

2023

4 books

Freewater

Amina Luqman-Dawson

Iveliz Explains It All

Andrea Beatriz Arango, Alyssa Bermudez

The Last Mapmaker

Christina Soontornvat

Maizy Chen's Last Chance

Lisa Yee

2022

5 books

The Last Cuentista: Newbery Medal Winner

Donna Barba Higuera

Watercress

Andrea Wang, Jason Chin

Red, White, and Whole: A Newbery Honor Novel in Verse about an Indian American Girl Navigating Identity and Grief

Rajani LaRocca

A Snake Falls to Earth: Newbery Honor Award Winner

Darcie Little Badger

Too Bright to See

Kyle Lukoff

2021

6 books

When You Trap a Tiger

Tae Keller

All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team

Christina Soontornvat

BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

Carole Boston Weatherford, Michele Wood

Fighting Words

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

A Wish in the Dark

Christina Soontornvat

We Dream of Space: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Erin Entrada Kelly

2020

5 books

New Kid: A Story About Fitting In, School Diversity, and Friendship

Jerry Craft

The Undefeated: A Powerful Poem Celebrating Strength and Black Excellence for Children

Kwame Alexander, Kadir Nelson

Genesis Begins Again

Alicia D. Williams

Other Words for Home: A Newbery Honor Award Winner―A Middle Eastern Girl's Immigration Story in Verse

Jasmine Warga

Scary Stories for Young Foxes

Christian McKay Heidicker, Junyi Wu

2019

3 books

Merci Suárez Changes Gears

Meg Medina

The Night Diary

Veera Hiranandani

The Book of Boy

Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Tim Gerard Reynolds

2018

4 books

Hello, Universe: A Story About Bullying, Friendship, and Being Different

Erin Entrada Kelly, Isabel Roxas

Long Way Down

Jason Reynolds

Piecing Me Together

Renée Watson

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

Derrick Barnes, Gordon C. James

2017

4 books

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Kelly Barnhill

Wolf Hollow

Lauren Wolk

The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog

Adam Gidwitz, Hatem Aly

Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan

Ashley Bryan

2016

4 books

Last Stop on Market Street

Matt de la Peña, Christian Robinson

Echo

Adam Rex

The War that Saved My Life

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Roller Girl

Victoria Jamieson

2015

2 books

The Crossover Tie-in Edition: A Newbery Award Winner―A Slam-Dunk Sports Book for Boys and Girls Ages 8-12

Kwame Alexander, Dawud Anyabwile

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson

2014

4 books

Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Kate DiCamillo, K. G. Campbell

Doll Bones

Holly Black, Eliza Wheeler

The Year of Billy Miller: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Kevin Henkes

Paperboy

Vince Vawter

2013

4 books

The One and Only Ivan

Katherine Applegate

Splendors and Glooms (Booklist Editor's Choice. Books for Youth (Awards))

Laura Amy Schlitz

Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

Steve Sheinkin

Three Times Lucky

Sheila Turnage

2012

3 books

Dead End in Norvelt:

Jack Gantos

Inside Out and Back Again: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Thanhhà Lai

Breaking Stalin's Nose

Eugene Yelchin

2011

5 books

Moon Over Manifest

Clare Vanderpool

Turtle in Paradise

Jennifer L. Holm

Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night: A Newbery Honor Award Winner – An Illustrated Poetry Book About the Nighttime Forest for Children

Joyce Sidman, Rick Allen

One Crazy Summer: A Newbery Honor Winner―A Moving Novel About Family, Activism, and Self-Discovery in 1960s America―An Exciting Summer Reading Book for Children

Rita Williams-Garcia

Heart of a Samurai: Newbery Medal-Winning Adventure Novel

Margi Preus

2010

5 books

When You Reach Me:

Rebecca Stead

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Grace Lin

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Phillip Hoose

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

Jacqueline Kelly

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg

Rodman Philbrick

2009

5 books

The Graveyard Book: A Newbery Award Winner

Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Margaret Atwood

The Underneath

Kathi Appelt, David Small

Savvy

Ingrid Law

After Tupac and D Foster

Jacqueline Woodson

The Surrender Tree / El árbol de la rendición: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom/ Poemas de la lucha de Cuba por su libertad

Margarita Engle

2008

3 books

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village

Laura Amy Schlitz, Robert Byrd

Elijah of Buxton

Christopher Paul Curtis

The Wednesday Wars: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Gary D. Schmidt

2007

4 books

The Higher Power of Lucky

Susan Patron, Matt Phelan

Penny from Heaven

Jennifer L. Holm

Rules

Cynthia Lord

Hattie Big Sky

Kirby Larson

2006

5 books

Show Way

Jacqueline Woodson, Hudson Talbott

Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters

Shannon Hale

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Princess Academy: Deluxe Anniversary Edition

Shannon Hale

Whittington

Alan Armstrong

2005

4 books

Kira-Kira

Cynthia Kadohata

Al Capone Does My Shirts

Gennifer Choldenko

The Voice That Challenged a Nation: A Newbery Honor Award Winner – A Sibert Medal Biography About Marian Anderson and Her Fight for Civil Rights for Kids

Russell Freedman

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Gary D. Schmidt

2004

1 book

Tale of Despereaux

Kate DiCamillo

2003

4 books

Crispin: Cross of Lead

Avi

The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer

Hoot

Carl Hiaasen

A Corner of the Universe

Ann M. Martin

2002

2 books

A Single Shard

Linda Sue Park

Everything on a Waffle

Polly Horvath

2001

4 books

A Year Down Yonder

Richard Peck

Hope Was Here

Joan Bauer

Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo

The Wanderer: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Sharon Creech, David Diaz

2000

2 books

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis

26 Fairmount Avenue

Tomie dePaola

1999

2 books

Holes

Louis Sachar

A Long Way From Chicago

Richard Peck

1998

2 books

Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse

Lily's Crossing

Patricia Reilly Giff

1997

3 books

The View from Saturday

E. L. Konigsburg

The Moorchild

Eloise McGraw

A Girl Named Disaster

Nancy Farmer, Lisette Lecat, Recorded Books

1996

3 books

The Midwife's Apprentice: A Newbery Award Winner

Karen Cushman

The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

Christopher Paul Curtis

What Jamie Saw

Carolyn Coman

1995

1 book

Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech

1994

1 book

The Giver

Lois Lowry, Ron Rifkin, Listening Library

1992

3 books

Shiloh

Naylor Phyllis Reynolds, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Tania Janco

Shiloh

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Nothing But the Truth

Avi

1991

3 books

Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Avi

The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane

Russell Freedman

1990

2 books

Number the Stars: A Newbery Award Winner

Lois Lowry

The Winter Room

Gary Paulsen

1989

2 books

Joyful Noise: A Newbery Award Winner

Paul Fleischman, Eric Beddows

Scorpions: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Walter Dean Myers

1988

2 books

Lincoln: A Newbery Award Winner

Russell Freedman

Hatchet

Gary Paulsen

1987

2 books

The Whipping Boy

Sid Fleischman

On My Honor: A Newbery Honor Award Winner – A Devastating Novel of Friendship, Guilt, and Tragedy for Children

Marion Dane Bauer

1986

2 books

Sarah, Plain and Tall: A Newbery Medal Winner

Patricia MacLachlan

Dogsong

Gary Paulsen

1985

1 book

The Hero and the Crown

Robin McKinley

1984

1 book

Dear Mr. Henshaw: A Newbery Award Winner

Beverly Cleary, Paul O. Zelinsky

1983

2 books

Doctor De Soto

William Steig

The Blue Sword

Robin McKinley

1982

2 books

A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers

Nancy Willard, Alice Provensen, Martin Provensen

Ramona Quimby, Age 8

Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Rogers

1979

1 book

The Westing Game

Ellen Raskin, Mac Barnett

1978

2 books

Bridge to Terabithia: A Story About Friendship, Imagination, and Loss

Katherine Paterson, Donna Diamond

Ramona and Her Father

Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Rogers

1977

1 book

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor, Lynne Thigpen, Jacqueline Woodson, Listening Library

1976

1 book

Dragonwings

Laurence Yep

1973

1 book

Julie of the Wolves: A Newbery Award Winner

Jean Craighead George, John Schoenherr

1972

1 book

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

Robert C. O'Brien, Zena Bernstein

1971

1 book

Enchantress from the Stars

Sylvia Engdahl, Jennifer Ikeda, Recorded Books

1970

1 book

Sounder: A Newbery Award Winner

William H. Armstrong, James Barkley

1969

1 book

The High King

Lloyd Alexander

1968

2 books

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

E.L. Konigsburg

The Black Pearl: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Scott O'Dell

1967

1 book

Up a Road Slowly

Irene Hunt

1966

1 book

I, Juan de Pareja

Elizabeth De Trevino

1963

1 book

A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

Madeleine L'Engle

1961

2 books

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Scott O'Dell

Cricket in Times Square (08) by Selden, George [Paperback (2008)]

Selden

1960

1 book

My Side of the Mountain

Michael Crouch, Jean Craighead George, Listening Library

1959

1 book

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Elizabeth George Speare

1957

1 book

Old Yeller

Fred Gipson, Peter Francis James, HarperCollins

1953

1 book

Charlotte's Web: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

E. B. White, Garth Williams

1949

1 book

King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian

Marguerite Henry, Wesley Dennis

1948

1 book

Misty of Chincoteague

Marguerite Henry, Wesley Dennis

1945

1 book

The Hundred Dresses

Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin

1944

2 books

Johnny Tremain: A Newbery Award Winner―A Revolutionary War Adventure for Kids

Esther Hoskins Forbes

These Happy Golden Years: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

1943

1 book

Adam of the Road

Elizabeth Janet Gray, Robert Lawson

1942

1 book

The Matchlock Gun

Walter D. Edmonds, Paul Lantz

1941

1 book

Call It Courage

Armstrong Sperry

1940

1 book

By the Shores of Silver Lake

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Cherry Jones, HarperCollins

1939

1 book

Mr. Popper's Penguins

Richard Atwater

1938

2 books

The White Stag

Kate Seredy

On the Banks of Plum Creek

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

1936

1 book

Caddie Woodlawn

Carol Ryrie Brink

1932

1 book

Waterless Mountain

Laura Adams Armer

1931

1 book

The Cat Who Went to Heaven

Elizabeth Coatsworth, Raoul Vitale

1930

1 book

Hitty Her First Hundred Years

Rachel Field, Dorothy P. Lathrop

1929

1 book

The Trumpeter of Krakow

Eric Philbrook Kelly

1924

1 book

The Dark Frigate

Charles Boardman Hawes

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Sibert

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English during the preceding year. The award is named in honor of Robert F. Sibert, the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. of Jacksonville, Illinois.

Pura Belpré

The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

Ezra Jack Keats

The Ezra Jack Keats Award was created to nurture illustrators and writers, early in their careers, who create extraordinary books that reflect our diverse population, the universal experience of childhood and the strength of family and community. Over the years the EJK has succeeded in fostering the early careers of many of our country's leading children's book makers.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award is given annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year. The winner(s), recognized for their literary and artistic achievements that demonstrate creativity and imagination to engage children in reading, receives a bronze medal. Honor Book authors and illustrators receive certificates, which are presented at the ALA Annual Conference. The award was established in 2004 and first presented in 2006. The award is named for the world-renowned children's author, Theodor Geisel. "A person's a person no matter how small," Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, would say. "Children want the same things we want: to laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained and delighted." Brilliant and playful, Dr. Seuss charmed his way into the consciousness of four generations of youngsters and parents. In the process, he helped them to read.

Caldecott

The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.