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Newbery Award Winners 
 
The Newbery Medal was named for 18th-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. 
 2024:The Eyes & the Impossible by Dave Eggers  
 
2023: Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson  
2022: The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera 
2021: When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller 
2020: New Kid, written  and illustrated by Jerry Craft 
2019: Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina 
2018: Hello Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly 
2017: The Girl Who Drank The Moon by Kelly Barnhill 
2016: Last Stop On Market Street by Matt de la Pena 
2015: The Crossover by Kwame Alexander 
2014: Flora & Ulysses: the illuminated adventures by Kate DiCamillo 
2013: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate 
2012: Dead End In Norvelt by Jack Gantos 
2011: Moon Over Manifest  by Clare Vanderpool 
2010: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead  
2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 
2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval  Village by Laura Amy Schlitz 
2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron 
2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins  
2005: Kira-Kira by 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  
2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi  
2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park 
2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck  
2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis  
1999: Holes by Louis Sachar  
1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse  
1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg 
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman  
1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech  
1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry 
1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant  
1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor  
1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli  
1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry  
1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman  
1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman  
1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman  
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan  
1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley  
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary  
1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt  
1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers 
by Nancy Willard 
1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson  
1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830- 1832 by Joan W. 
Blos  
1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin  
1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson  
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor  
1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper  
1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton  
1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox  
1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George  
1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien  
1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars  
1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong  
1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander  
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg  
1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt  
1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino  
1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska  
1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville  
1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle  
1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare  
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell  
1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold  
Newbery Award Winners  
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1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare  
1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith  
1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson  
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham  
1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong  
1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold  
1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark  
1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes  
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates  
1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli  
1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry  
1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois  
1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey  
1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski  
1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson  
1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes  
1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray  
1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds  
1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry  
1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty  
1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright  
1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy  
1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer  
1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink  
1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon  
1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women  by Cornelia Meigs  
1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis  
1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer  
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth  
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field  
1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly  
1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji 
1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James  
1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman  
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1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger  
1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes  
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting  
1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon  
Newbery Award Winners