Newbery Medal Award Winners
Titles above the line indicate the last 25 years

2008 Medal Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)
2007 Medal Winner: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)
2006 Medal Winner:  Criss Cross byLynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)
2005 Medal Winner:  Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
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, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering, (Candlewick Press)
2003 Medal Winner:  Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)
2002 Medal Winner:  A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
2001 Medal Winner:  A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck (Dial)
2000 Medal Winner:  Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
1999 Medal Winner:  Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)
1998 Medal Winner:  Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
1997 Medal Winner:  The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
1996 Medal Winner:  The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
1995 Medal Winner:  Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)
1994 Medal Winner:  The Giver by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1993 Medal Winner:  Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)
1992 Medal Winner:  Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)
1991 Medal Winner:  Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)
1990 Medal Winner:  Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1989 Medal Winner:  Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
1988 Medal Winner:  Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
1987 Medal Winner:  The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
1986 Medal Winner:  Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)
1985 Medal Winner:  The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
1984 Medal Winner:  Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
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1983 Medal Winner:  Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
1982 Medal Winner:  A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)
1981 Medal Winner:  Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1980 Medal Winner:  A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)
1979 Medal Winner:  The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
1978 Medal Winner:  Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1977 Medal Winner:  Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)
1976 Medal Winner:  The Grey King by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)
1975 Medal Winner:  M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
1974 Medal Winner:  The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (Bradbury)
1973 Medal Winner:  Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Harper)
1972 Medal Winner:  Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum)
1971 Medal Winner:  Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (Viking)
1970 Medal Winner:  Sounder by William H. Armstrong (Harper)
1969 Medal Winner:  The High King by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
1968 Medal Winner:  From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
1967 Medal Winner:  Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (Follett)
1966 Medal Winner:  I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar)
1965 Medal Winner:  Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum)
1964 Medal Winner:  It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (Harper)
1963 Medal Winner:  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)
1962 Medal Winner:  The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
1961 Medal Winner:  Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
1960 Medal Winner:  Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
1959 Medal Winner:  The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
1958 Medal Winner:  Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (Crowell)
1957 Medal Winner:  Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen (Harcourt)
1956 Medal Winner:  Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (Houghton)
1955 Medal Winner:  The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (Harper)
1954 Medal Winner: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
1953 Medal Winner:  Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)
1952 Medal Winner:  Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
1951 Medal Winner:  Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (Dutton)
1950 Medal Winner:  The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
1949 Medal Winner:  King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
1948 Medal Winner:  The Twenty-One Balloons by William PËne du Bois (Viking)
1947 Medal Winner:  Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking)
1946 Medal Winner:  Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)
1945 Medal Winner:  Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (Viking)
1944 Medal Winner:  Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Houghton)
1943 Medal Winner:  Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
1942 Medal Winner:  The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (Dodd)
1941 Medal Winner:  Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan)
1940 Medal Winner:   Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (Viking)
1939 Medal Winner:   Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart)
1938 Medal Winner:   The White Stag by Kate Seredy (Viking)
1937 Medal Winner:   Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (Viking)
1936 Medal Winner:   Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Macmillan)
1935 Medal Winner:   Dobry by Monica Shannon (Viking)
1934 Medal Winner:   Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
1933 Medal Winner:  Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (Winston)
1932 Medal Winner:  Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)
1931 Medal Winner:  The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (Macmillan)
1930 Medal Winner:  Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (Macmillan)
1929 Medal Winner:  The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (Macmillan)
1928 Medal Winner:  Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton)
1927 Medal Winner:  Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (Scribner)
1926 Medal Winner:  Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton)
1925 Medal Winner:  Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (Doubleday)
1924 Medal Winner:  The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)
1923 Medal Winner:  The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (Stokes)
1922 Medal Winner:  The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Liveright)