This award, established in 1936 in honor of Andrew Carnegie, is given for recognition of an outstanding book for children written in English and first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. Note: Since 2007 the year relates to when the medal was awarded. Previously the year refers to the publication date of the books.
A listing of Carnegie Medal Award Winners housed in the Curriculum Materials/Media Center is below. These are organized according to the Library of Congress system of classification.
| Date | Title/ Author and Illustrator | Call Number |
|---|---|---|
|
2009 |
March on! : the day my brother Martin changed the world / Christine King Farris. |
E185.97 .K5 F369 2008 |
|
2008 |
Here lies Arthur / Philip Reeve When her village is attacked and burned, Gwyna seeks protection from the bard Myrddin, who uses Gwyna in his plan to transform young Arthur into the heroic King Arthur. |
PZ7.R25576 HE 2008 |
|
2007 |
Convinced that fate is out to get him, fifteen-year-old David Case assumes a new identity in the hope of avoiding what he believes is certain doom. |
PZ7 .R71957 JUS 2006 |
|
2005 |
PZ7 .P3564 TA 2006 |
|
|
2004 |
Millions / Frank Cottrell Boyce After their mother dies, two brothers find a huge amount of money which they must spend quickly before England switches to the new European currency, but they disagree on what to do with it. |
PZ7.C82963 MI 2004 |
|
2003 |
A Gathering Light / Jennifer Donnelly |
Not in collection |
|
2002 |
Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler. |
PZ7.C8615 RU 2002 |
|
2001 |
The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents / Terry Pratchett |
PR6066.R34 A73 2001 |
|
2000 |
The other side of truth / Beverley Naidoo Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria. |
PZ7.N1384 OT 2001 |
|
1999 |
Postcards from no man's land / Aidan Chambers |
Not in collection |
|
1998 |
Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel. |
PS7 .A448 SK 2000 |
|
1997 |
Knowing that he is dying, Jess's grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special painting and fulfill a life-long dream. |
PZ7.B6786 RI 2000 |
|
1996 |
Junk / Melvin Burgess |
Not in collection |
|
1995 |
Northern lights / Philip Pullman |
Not in collection |
|
1994 |
Whispers in the graveyard / Theresa Breslin |
Not in collection |
|
1993 |
Stone cold / Robert E. Swindells |
Not in collection |
|
1992 |
When his class of underachievers is assigned to spend three torturous weeks taking care of their own "babies" in the form of bags of flour, Simon makes amazing discoveries about himself while coming to terms with his long-absent father. |
PZ7 .F495673 FL 1992 |
|
1991 |
Dear nobody / Berlie Doherty |
Not in collection |
|
1990 |
Wolf / Gillian Cross |
Not in collection |
|
1989 |
My war with Goggle-Eyes / Anne Fine Kitty is not pleased with her mother's boyfriend, especially his views on the anti-nuclear issue, until unexpected events prompt her, after all, to help him find his place in the family. |
PZ7 .F495673 GO 1989 |
|
1988 |
A pack of lies / Geraldine McGraughrean |
Not in collection |
|
1987 |
The ghost drum: a cat's tale / Susan Price |
Not in collection |
|
1986 |
Granny was a buffer girl / Berlie Doherty |
Not in collection |
|
1985 |
Storm / Kevin Crossley-Holland |
Not in collection |
|
1984 |
The changeover: a supernatural romance / Margaret Mahy |
Not in collection |
|
1983 |
Handles / Jan Mark |
Not in collection |
|
1982 |
The haunting / Margaret Mahy |
Not in collection |
|
1981 |
The scarecrows / Rober Westall |
Not in collection |
|
1980 |
City of gold and other stories from the old testament / Peter Dickinson |
Not in collection |
|
1979 |
Tulku / Peter Dickinson |
Not in collection |
|
1978 |
Exeter blitz / David Rees |
Not in collection |
|
1977 |
The turbulent term of Tyke Tilter / Gene Kemp |
Not in collection |
|
1976 |
Thunder and lightenings / Jan Mark |
Not in collection |
|
1975 |
The machine-gunners / Chris Waters |
Not in collection |
|
1974 |
The stronghold / Molly Hunter |
Not in collection |
|
1973 |
The ghost of Thomas Kempe / Illus. by Antony Maitland. The ghost of a seventeenth-century sorcerer emerges as a poltergeist and attempts to make young James his apprentice. |
PZ7 .L7397 GH |
|
1972 |
Watership Down / Richard Adams |
Not in collection |
|
1971 |
Josh / Ian Southall |
Not in collection |
|
1970 |
The God beneath the sea / Leon Garfield |
Not in collection |
|
1969 |
The edge of the cloud / K. M. Peyton |
Not in collection |
|
1968 |
The moon in the cloud / Rosemary Harris |
Not in collection |
|
1967 |
The owl service / Alan Garner |
Not in collection |
|
1966 |
(No award given) |
|
|
1965 |
The grange at high force / Philip Turner |
Not in collection |
|
1964 |
Nordy bank / Sheena Porter |
Not in collection |
|
1963 |
Time of trial / Hester Burton |
Not in collection |
|
1962 |
The twelve and the Genii / Pauline Clarke |
Not in collection |
|
1961 |
A stranger at Green Knowe / L.M. Boston |
Not in collection |
|
1960 |
The making of man /I.W. Cornwall |
Not in collection |
|
1959 |
The lantern bearers / Rosemary Sutcliff |
Not in collection |
|
1958 |
Tom's midnight garden / Philippa Pearce ; illustrated by Susan Einzig |
PZ7 .P27 TO |
|
1957 |
A grass rope / William Mayne |
Not in collection |
|
1956 |
The last battle / C.S. Lewis ; illustrated by Pauline Baynes When evil comes to Narnia, Jill and Eustace help fight the great last battle and Aslan leads his people to a glorious new paradise. |
PZ7 .L58474 LAS 1994 BK. 7 |
|
1955 |
The little bookroom / Eleanor Farjeon |
Not in collection |
|
1954 |
Knight crusader / Ronald Welch |
Not in collection |
|
1953 |
A valley grows up / Edward Osmond |
Not in collection |
|
1952 |
The borrowers / by Mary Norton ; illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock. |
PZ7 .N826 BO |
|
1951 |
Nicholas and the wool-pack / Cynthia Harnett |
Not in collection |
|
1950 |
The lark on the wing / Elfrida Foulds |
Not in collection |
|
1949 |
The story of your home / Agnes Allen |
Not in collection |
|
1948 |
Sea change / Richard Armstrong |
Not in collection |
|
1947 |
Collected stories for children / Walter De La Mare |
Not in collection |
|
1946 |
The little White House / Elizabeth Goudge |
Not in collection |
|
1945 |
(No award given) |
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|
1944 |
Wind on the moon / Eric Linklater |
Not in collection |
|
1943 |
(No award given) |
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|
1942 |
The little grey men / BB |
Not in collection |
|
1941 |
We couldn't leave Dinah / Mary Treadgold |
Not in collection |
|
1940 |
Visitors from London / Kitty Barne |
Not in collection |
|
1939 |
Radium women / Eleanor Doorly |
Not in collection |
|
1938 |
The circus is coming / Noel Streatfeild |
Not in collection |
|
1937 |
The family from One End Street and some of their adventures / Eve Garnett |
Not in collection |
|
1936 |
Pigeon post / Arthur Ransome |
Not in collection |