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.
 | 2002: A
Single Shard by Linda Sue Park(Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
| 2001: A
Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (Dial)
| 2000: Bud,
Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
| 1999: Holes
by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)
| 1998: Out
of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
| 1997: The
View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum) | 1996: The
Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion) | 1995: Walk
Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins) | 1994: The
Giver by Lois Lowry(Houghton) | 1993: Missing May by Cynthia
Rylant (Jackson/Orchard) | 1992: Shiloh by Phyllis
Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum) | 1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry
Spinelli (Little, Brown) | 1990: Number the Stars by Lois
Lowry (Houghton) | 1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
by Paul Fleischman (Harper) | 1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography
by Russell Freedman (Clarion) | 1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid
Fleischman (Greenwillow) | 1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by
Patricia MacLachlan (Harper) | 1985: The Hero and the Crown by
Robin McKinley (Greenwillow) | 1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by
Beverly Cleary (Morrow) | 1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia
Voigt (Atheneum) | 1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems
for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
(Harcourt) | 1981: Jacob Have I Loved by
Katherine Paterson (Crowell) | 1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England
Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos (Scribner) | 1979: The Westing Game by Ellen
Raskin (Dutton) | 1978: Bridge to Terabithia by
Katherine Paterson (Crowell) | 1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial) | 1976: The Grey King by Susan
Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum) | 1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great
by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan) | 1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula
Fox (Bradbury) | 1973: Julie of the Wolves by
Jean Craighead George (Harper) | 1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
by Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum) | 1971: Summer of the Swans by
Betsy Byars (Viking) | 1970: Sounder by William H.
Armstrong (Harper) | 1969: The High King by Lloyd
Alexander (Holt) | 1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil
E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum) | 1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene
Hunt (Follett) | 1966: I, Juan de Pareja by
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar) | 1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia
Wojciechowska (Atheneum) | 1964: It's Like This, Cat by
Emily Neville (Harper) | 1963: A Wrinkle in Time by
Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar) | 1962: The Bronze Bow by
Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton) | 1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell (Houghton) | 1960: Onion John by Joseph
Krumgold (Crowell) | 1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton) | 1958: Rifles for Watie by
Harold Keith (Crowell) | 1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by
Virginia Sorenson (Harcourt) | 1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by
Jean Lee Latham (Houghton) | 1955: The Wheel on the School
by Meindert DeJong (Harper) | 1954: ...And Now Miguel by
Joseph Krumgold (Crowell) | 1953: Secret of the Andes by
Ann Nolan Clark (Viking) | 1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor
Estes (Harcourt) | 1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by
Elizabeth Yates (Dutton) | 1950: The Door in the Wall by
Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday) | 1949: King of the Wind by
Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally) | 1948: The Twenty-One Balloons
by William Pène du Bois (Viking) | 1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn
Sherwin Bailey (Viking) | 1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois
Lenski (Lippincott) | 1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert
Lawson (Viking) | 1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther
Forbes (Houghton) | 1943: Adam of the Road by
Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking) | 1942: The Matchlock Gun by
Walter Edmonds (Dodd) | 1941: Call It Courage by
Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan) | 1940: Daniel Boone by James
Daugherty (Viking) | 1939: Thimble Summer by
Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart) | 1938: The White Stag by Kate
Seredy (Viking) | 1937: Roller Skates by Ruth
Sawyer (Viking) | 1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol
Ryrie Brink (Macmillan) | 1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon
(Viking) | 1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the
Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown) | 1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
by Elizabeth Lewis (Winston) | 1932: Waterless Mountain by
Laura Adams Armer (Longmans) | 1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven
by Elizabeth Coatsworth (Macmillan) | 1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
by Rachel Field (Macmillan) | 1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow
by Eric P. Kelly (Macmillan) | 1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton) | 1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by
Will James (Scribner) | 1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur
Bowie Chrisman (Dutton) | 1925: Tales from Silver Lands
by Charles Finger (Doubleday) | 1924: The Dark Frigate by
Charles Hawes (Little, Brown) | 1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
by Hugh Lofting (Lippincott) | 1922: The Story of Mankind by
Hendrik Willem van Loon (Liveright) | |