Newbery Award Winners
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| 1979 - 1950 | Present-1980 1949-1922 |
Winner:
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
- Honor Book:
- The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
1978
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
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
Winner:
The Grey King by Susan Cooper
- Honor Books:
- The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
1975
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 and Christopher Collier
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Green
1974
Winner:
The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
- Honor Book:
- The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
1973
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
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. Le Guin
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1971
Winner:
The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
- Honor Books:
- Kneeknock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
1970
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 Moore
Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele
1969
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
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
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 H. Weik
1966
Winner:
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño
- Honor Books:
- The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz
1965
Winner:
Shadow of A Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
- Honor Book:
- Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
1964
Winner:
It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville
- Honor Books:
- Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North
The Loner by Ester Wier
1963
Winner:
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
- Honor Books:
- Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland
by Sorche Nic Leodhas
Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge
1962
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
Winner:
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
- Honor Books:
- America Moves Forward by Gerald W. Johnson
Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
1960
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
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
Winner:
Rifles for Watie by Harold V. 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
Winner:
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
- 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
Winner:
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
- Honor books:
- The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Golden Name Day by Jennie Linquist
Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen
1955
Winner:
The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
- Honor books:
- The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Banner in the Sky by James Ullman
1954
Winner:
... And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
- Honor books:
- All Alone by Claire Hutchet Bishop
Shadrach by Meindert DeJong
Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert DeJong
Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
Magic Maize by Mary and Conrad Buff
1953
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, Volume 1 by Genevieve Foster
1952
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 and Conrad Buff
1951
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
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 and Marion Havighurst
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