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The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-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.

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Newbery Medal

2007Susan PatronThe Higher Power of Lucky
2006Lynne Rae PerkinsCriss Cross
2005Cynthia KadohataKira-Kira
2004Kate DiCamilloThe Tale of Despereaux
2003AviCrispin: The Cross of Lead
2002Linda Sue ParkA Single Shard
2001 Peck, Richard A Year Down Yonder
2000 Curtis, Christopher Paul Bud, Not Buddy
1999 Sachar, Louis Holes
1998 Hesse, Karen Out of the Dust
1997 Konigsburg, E. L. The View from Saturday
1996 Cushman, Karen The Midwife's Apprentice
1995 Creech, Sharon Walk Two Moons
1994 Lowry, Lois The Giver
1993 Rylant, Cynthia Missing May
1992 Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Shiloh
1991 Spinelli, Jerry Maniac Magee
1990 Lowry, Lois Number the Stars
1989 Fleischman, Paul Joyful Noise
1988 Freedman, Russell Lincoln
1987 Fleischman, Sid The Whipping Boy
1986 MacLachlan, Patricia Sarah, Plain and Tall
1985 McKinley, Robin The Hero and the Crown
1984 Cleary, Beverly Dear Mr. Henshaw
1983 Voigt, Cynthia Dicey's Song
1982 Willard, Nancy A Visit to William Blake's Inn
1981 Paterson, Katherine Jacob Have I Loved
1980 Blos, Joan W. A Gathering of Days
1979 Raskin, Ellen The Westing Game
1978 Paterson, Katherine Bridge to Terabithia
1977 Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1976 Cooper, Susan The Grey King
1975 Hamilton, Virginia M. C. Higgins, The Great
1974 Fox, Paula The Slave Dancer
1973 George, Jean Craighead Julie of the Wolves
1972 O'Brien, Robert C. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
1971 Byars, Betsy The Summer of the Swans
1970 Armstrong, William H. Sounder
1969 Alexander, Lloyd The High King
1968 Konigsburg, E. L. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1967 Hunt, Irene Up a Road Slowly
1966 Trevino, Elizabeth Borton de I, Juan de Pareja
1965 Wojciechowska, Maia Shadow of a Bull
1964 Neville, Emily Cheney It's Like This, Cat
1963 L'Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time
1962 Speare, Elizabeth George The Bronze Bow
1961 O'Dell, Scott Island of the Blue Dolphins
1960 Krumgold, Joseph Onion John
1959 Speare, Elizabeth George The Witch of Blackbird Pond
1958 Keith, Harold Rifles for Watie
1957 Sorensen, Virginia Eggertsen Miracles on Maple Hill
1956 Latham, Jean Lee Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
1955 DeJong, Meindert The Wheel on the School
1954 Krumgold, Joseph And Now Miguel
1953 Clark, Ann Nolan Secret of the Andes
1952 Estes, Eleanor Ginger Pye
1951 Yates, Elizabeth Amos Fortune, Free Man
1950 DeAngeli, Marguerite The Door in the Wall
1949 Henry, Marguerite King of the Wind
1948 DuBois, William Pene The Twenty-one Balloons
1947 Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin Miss Hickory
1946 Lenski, Lois Strawberry Girl
1945 Lawson, Robert Rabbit Hill
1944 Forbes, Esther Johnny Tremain
1943 Gray, Elizabeth Janet Vining Adam of the Road
1942 Edmonds, Walter D. The Matchlock Gun
1941 Sperry, Armstrong Call It Courage
1940 Daugherty, James Daniel Boone
1939 Enright, Elizabeth Thimble Summer
1938 Seredy, Kate The White Stag
1937 Sawyer, Ruth Roller Skates
1936 Brink, Carol Ryrie Caddie Woodlawn
1935 Shannon, Monica Dobry
1934 Meigs, Cornelia Invincible Louisa
1933 Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
1932 Armer, Laura Adams Waterless Mountain
1931 Coatsworth, Elizabeth Jane The Cat Who Went to Heaven
1930 Field, Rachel Hitty
1929 Kelly, Eric P. The Trumpeter of Krakow
1928 Mukerji, Dhan Gopal Gay-Neck
1927 James, Will Smoky, the Cowhorse
1926 Chrisman, Arthur Bowie Shen of the Sea
1925 Finger, Charles Joseph Tales from Silver Lands
1924 Hawes, Charles Boardman The Dark Frigate,
wherein is told the story of Philip Marsham
who lived in the time of King Charles and was bred a sailor
1923 Lofting, Hugh The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
1922 VanLoon, Hendrik Willem The Story of Mankind