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Newbery Award Winners

The Newbery Medal is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. It is named in honor of John Newbery, an 18th-century English bookseller. The winners are chosen by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.


If the Jones Library and/or the Branches own a copy of the book, there will be a link to the catalog, where you can check the status of the book. Otherwise, the title of the book will be in italics.


Present - 1980 1979-1950

1949-1922


2006
Winner:
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

Honor books:
Whittington by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by SD Schindler
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott




2005
Winner:
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

Honor books:
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt




2004
Winner:
The Tale of Depereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo

Honor books:
Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy




2003
Winner:
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

Honor books:
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
A Corner of The Universe by Anne M. Martin
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan




2002
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
Winner:
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

Honor books:
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
Hope was Here by Joan Bauer
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos




2000
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
Winner:
Holes by Louis Sachar

Honor book:
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck




1998
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
Winner:
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

Honor Books:
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
The Moorchild by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White




1996
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
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
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
Winner:
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

Honor Books:
What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. McKissack
Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers




1992
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
Winner:
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

Honor Book:
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi




1990
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
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 Myers




1988
Winner:
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

Honor Books:
After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen




1987
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
Winner:
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

Honor Books:
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhonda Blumberg
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen




1985
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
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
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
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
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
Winner:
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 by Joan Blos

Honor Book:
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian




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This page last updated on January 28, 2006.