Newberry Award Winners

2008 Medal Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
2007 Medal Winner: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

2006 Medal Winner: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

2005 Medal Winner: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

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

2003 Medal Winner: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

2002 Medal Winner: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

2001 Medal Winner: A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck

2000 Medal Winner: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

1999 Medal Winner: Holes by Louis Sachar

1998 Medal Winner: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

1997 Medal Winner: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

1996 Medal Winner: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

1995 Medal Winner: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

1994 Medal Winner: The Giver by Lois Lowry

1993 Medal Winner: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

1992 Medal Winner: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

1991 Medal Winner: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

1990 Medal Winner: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
1989 Medal Winner: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

1988 Medal Winner: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

1987 Medal Winner: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

1986 Medal Winner: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

1985 Medal Winner: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

1984 Medal Winner: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

1983 Medal Winner: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

1982 Medal Winner: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard

1981 Medal Winner: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

1980 Medal Winner: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos

1979 Medal Winner: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

1978 Medal Winner: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

1977 Medal Winner: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

1976 Medal Winner: The Grey King by Susan Cooper

1975 Medal Winner: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton

1974 Medal Winner: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

1973 Medal Winner: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

1972 Medal Winner: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

1971 Medal Winner: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

1970 Medal Winner: Sounder by William H. Armstrong

1969 Medal Winner: The High King by Lloyd Alexander

1968 Medal Winner: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg 1967 Medal Winner: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
1966 Medal Winner: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
1965 Medal Winner: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
1964 Medal Winner: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
1963 Medal Winner: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
1962 Medal Winner: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
1961 Medal Winner: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
1960 Medal Winner: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
1959 Medal Winner: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
1958 Medal Winner: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
1957 Medal Winner: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
1956 Medal Winner: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
1955 Medal Winner: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
1954 Medal Winner: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
1953 Medal Winner: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
1952 Medal Winner: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
1951 Medal Winner: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
1950 Medal Winner: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
1949 Medal Winner: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
1948 Medal Winner: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
1947 Medal Winner: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
1946 Medal Winner: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
1945 Medal Winner: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
1944 Medal Winner: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
1943 Medal Winner: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
1942 Medal Winner: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
1941 Medal Winner: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
1940 Medal Winner: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
1939 Medal Winner: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
1938 Medal Winner: The White Stag by Kate Seredy
1937 Medal Winner: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
1936 Medal Winner: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
1935 Medal Winner: Dobry by Monica Shannon
1934 Medal Winner: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
1933 Medal Winner: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
1932 Medal Winner: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
1931 Medal Winner: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
1930 Medal Winner: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
1929 Medal Winner: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
1928 Medal Winner: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
1927 Medal Winner: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James
1926 Medal Winner: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
1925 Medal Winner: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
1924 Medal Winner: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
1923 Medal Winner: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
1922 Medal Winner: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon