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. To learn more about the Newbery Medal, visit: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal.cfm
A listing of Newbery Medal Winners housed in the Curriculum Materials/Media Center is below. These are organized according to the Library of Congress system of classification.
| Award Date | Title/ Author and Illustrator | Call Number |
|---|---|---|
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2009 |
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean. After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own. |
PZ7 .G1273 GR 2008 |
|
2008 |
A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor. |
PS3619 .C43 C55 2007 |
|
2007 |
The higher power of Lucky / by Susan Patron ; with illustrations by Matt Phelan. Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life. |
PZ7 .P27565 HIG 2006 |
|
2006 |
Criss cross / by Lynne Rae Perkins. Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love. |
PZ7.P4313 CR 2005 |
|
2005 |
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. And so are people's eyes. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it's Lynn who explains to her why people stop them on the street to stare. And it's Lynn who, with her special way of viewing the world, teaches Katie to look beyond tomorrow. But when Lynn becomes desperately ill, and the whole family begins to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering -- kira-kira -- in the future. Luminous in its persistence of love and hope, Kira-Kira is Cynthia Kadohata's stunning debut in middle-grade fiction. |
PZ7.K1166 KI 2004 |
|
2004 |
The adventures of Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. |
PZ8 .D525 TAL 2004 |
|
2003 |
Crispin : the cross of lead / Avi. Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. |
PZ7.A953 CR 2002 |
|
2002 |
A single shard / Linda Sue Park Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. |
PZ7.P22115 SI 2001 |
|
2001 |
A year down yonder / Richard Peck In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities. |
PZ7.P338 YH 2000 |
|
2000 |
Bud, not Buddy / Christopher Paul Curtis Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. |
PZ7.C94137 BU 1999 |
|
1999 |
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. |
PZ7 .S1185 HO 1998 |
|
1998 |
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. |
PZ7.H4364 OU 1999 |
|
1997 |
The view from Saturday / E.L. Konigsburg Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who choses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition. |
PZ7.K8352 VI 1998X PZ7.K8352 VI 1996 |
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1996 |
The midwife's apprentice / by Karen Cushman In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world. |
PZ7.C962 MI 1995 |
|
1995 |
Walk two moons / by Sharon Creech After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left. |
PZ7.C8615 WAL 1994 |
|
1994 |
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. |
PZ7 .L9673 GI 1993B |
|
1993 |
Missing May / by Cynthia Rylant After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. |
PZ7 .R982 MJ 1992 |
|
1992 |
Shiloh / by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs. |
PZ7 .N24 SG 1991 |
|
1991 |
Maniac Magee : a novel / by Jerry Spinelli After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries. |
PZ7 .S75663 MAN 1990 |
|
1990 |
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. |
PZ7 .L9673 NU 1989 |
|
1989 |
Joyful noise : poems for two voices / Paul Fleischman ; illustrated by Eric Beddows. |
PS3556 .L42268 J69 1988 |
|
1988 |
Lincoln : a photobiography / Russell Freedman Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President. |
E457.905 .F73 1987 |
|
1987 |
The whipping boy / by Sid Fleischman ; illustrations by Peter Sis A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws. |
PZ7 .F5992 WH 1986 |
|
1986 |
Sarah, plain and tall / Patricia MacLachlan When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay. |
PZ7.M2225 SAR 1985 |
|
1985 |
The hero and the crown / Robin McKinley Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North. |
PZ7 .M1988 HE 1985 |
|
1984 |
Dear Mr. Henshaw / Beverly Cleary ; illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world. Dear Mr. Henshaw, I wish somebody would stop stealing the good stuff out of my lunchbag. I guess I wish a lot of other things, too. I wish someday Dad and Bandit would pull up in front in the rig ... Dad would yell out of the cab, "Come on, Leigh. Hop in and I'll give you a lift to school." Leigh Botts has been author Boyd Henshaw's number one fan ever since he was in second grade. Now in sixth grade, Leigh lives with his mother and is the new kid at school. He's lonely, troubled by the absence of his father, a cross-country trucker, and angry because a mysterious thief steals from his lunchbag. Then Leigh's teacher assigns a letter-writing project. Naturally Leigh chooses to write to Mr. Henshaw, whose surprising answer changes Leigh's life. |
PZ7 .C5792 DE 1983 |
|
1983 |
Dicey's song / by Cynthia Voigt Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage. |
PZ7 .V874 DI 1982 |
|
1982 |
A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests who arrive at William Blake's inn. |
PS3573 .I444 V5 1981 |
|
1981 |
Jacob have I loved / Katherine Paterson Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity. |
PZ7 .P273 JAC 1980 |
|
1980 |
A gathering of days : a New England girl's journal, 1830-32 : a novel / Joan Blos The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend. |
PZ7 .B6237 GAT |
|
1979 |
The Westing game / by Ellen Raskin The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. |
PZ7 .R1817 WE 1978 |
|
1978 |
Bridge to Terabithia / Katherine Paterson ; illustrated by Donna Diamond The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. |
PZ7 .P273 BR |
|
1977 |
Roll of thunder, hear my cry / Mildred D. Taylor ; frontispiece by Jerry Pinkney A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand. |
PZ7 .T21723 RO |
|
1976 |
In this fourth book of The Dark Is Rising sequence, Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers. |
PZ7.C7878 GR2 1986B PZ7 .C7878 GT |
|
1975 |
M. C. Higgins, the great / Virginia Hamilton As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love. |
PZ7 .H1828 MAC |
|
1974 |
The slave dancer; a novel / Paula Fox ; With illus. by Eros Keith Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo. |
PZ7 .F838 SL |
|
1973 |
Julie of the wolves / Jean Craighead George ; Pictures by John Schoenherr While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack. |
PZ7 .G2933 JU |
|
1972 |
Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh / Robert C. O'Brien. Illustrated by Zena Bernstein Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived. |
PZ10.3 .O19 MI |
|
1971 |
The summer of the swans / Betsy Byars ; Illustrated by Ted CoConis A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally retarded brother gets lost |
PZ7 .B98396 SU |
|
1970 |
Sounder, by William H. Armstrong. Illus. by James Barkley Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder. |
PZ7 .A73394 SO |
|
1969 |
The high king / Lloyd Alexander In this fifth and final chronicle of Prydain the forces of good and evil meet in ultimate confrontation. |
PZ7 .A3774 HI |
|
1968 |
From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler / written and illustrated by E. L. Konigsburg Claudia and her brother run away from home and hide out in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. There they discover a work of art and set out to solve the mystery of its creator. They solve the mystery and return home. |
PZ7 .K8352 FR |
|
1967 |
Ten years in the life of a young girl, Julie, who goes through her first love and endures hardship to be relatively mature by age 17. |
PZ7 .H9156 UP |
|
1966 |
I, Juan de Pareja / [by] Elizabeth Borton de Treviño Offers a fictionalized account of the life of Juan de Pareja, a young slave who grew to become an assistant to the painter Velazquez. |
PZ7 .T7327 I |
|
1965 |
Shadow of a bull / Drawings by Alvin Smith. Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor. |
PZ7 .R617 SH |
|
1964 |
It's like this, Cat / by Emily Neville. Pictures by Emil Weiss The story of a fourteen-year-old New York boy and his relationships with a stray tomcat, an eccentric old woman, a troubled older boy, the first girl with whom he has been friends, and his father. |
PZ7 .N462 IT |
|
1963 |
A wrinkle in time / Madeleine L'Engle A story of the adventures in time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe, who are in search of their father. |
PZ7 .L5385 WR |
|
1962 |
The bronze bow / Elizabeth George Speare When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate. |
PZ7 .S7376 BR |
|
1961 |
Island of the Blue Dolphins / Scott O'Dell Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind. |
PZ7.O237 IS |
|
1960 |
Onion John / Joseph Krumgold ; Illustrated by Symeon Shimin His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father. |
PZ7 .K946 ON |
|
1959 |
The witch of Blackbird Pond / Elizabeth George Speare In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft. |
PZ7 .S7376 WI |
|
1958 |
Rifles for Watie / Harold Keith Young Jeff Bussey experiences war from both the Union and Confederate side as he becomes acquainted with Stand Waite, a Confederate Cherokee General, and his band of raiders. |
PZ7 .K255 RI |
|
1957 |
Miracles on Maple Hill / Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen ; illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush |
PZ7 .S72 MI |
|
1956 |
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch; illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II |
PZ7 .L348 CAR |
|
1955 |
The wheel on the school / Meindert De Jong ; Pictures by Maurice Sendak |
PZ7 .D3675 WH |
|
1954 |
... and now Miguel / Joseph Krumgold ; Illustrated by Jean Charlot Young Miguel Chavez of New Mexico yearns to go with the men of his family to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. |
PZ7 .K946 AN |
|
1953 |
Secret of the Andes / Ann Nolan Clark ; With drawings by Jean Charlot An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors. |
PZ7 .C5296 SE |
|
1952 |
The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children. |
PZ7 .E749 GI |
|
1951 |
Amos Fortune : free man / Elizabeth Yates ; illustrated by Nora S. Unwintrong |
E185.97 .F73 Y3 1968 |
|
1950 |
The door in the wall / Marguerite De Angeli Robin de Bureford, a crippled page at Lindsay Hall, secures help for the town when it is beseiged by the Welsh. |
PZ7 .D35 DO |
|
1949 |
King of the Wind / Marguerite Henry ; illus. by Wesley Dennis Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life. |
PZ10.3 .H43 KI |
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1948 |
The twenty-one balloons / written and illustrated by William Pène Du Bois Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic. |
PZ7 .D8527 TW |
|
1947 |
Miss Hickory / Carolyn Sherwin Bailey ; with lithographs by Ruth Gannett Relates the adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut for a head. |
PZ8.9 .B16 MI |
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1946 |
PZ7 .L54 ST |
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|
1945 |
Rabbit hill / by Robert Lawson New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers. |
PZ10.3 .L39 RAB |
|
1944 |
Johnny Tremain, a novel for old & young / written by Esther Forbes, with illustrations by Lynd Ward A young boy, Johnny Tremain, becomes a man by joining the patriots in the American Revolution. |
PZ7 .F749 JO |
|
1943 |
Adam of the road / by Elizabeth Janet Gray ; illustrated by Robert Lawson The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick. |
PZ7 .V746 AD |
|
1942 |
The matchlock gun / Walter D. Edmonds, illustrated by Paul Lantz In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy. |
PZ9 .E515 MAT |
|
1941 |
Call it courage / Armstrong Sperry: illustrations by the author Based on a Polynesian legend, this is the story of a youth who overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe. |
PZ8.1 .S75 CAL |
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1940 |
Daniel Boone / James Daugherty; with original lithographs in color by the author |
F454 .B733 |
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1939 |
Thimble summer / written and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright Garnet Linden found a silver thimble in a dried-up river bed that seemed to bring good luck to the family farm. |
PZ7 .E724 TH |
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1938 |
The white stag / written and illustrated by Kate Seredy Retells the legendary story of the Huns and Magyars' long migration from Asia to Europe where they hope to find a permanent home. |
PZ8.1 .S457 WH |
|
1937 |
Roller skates / written by Ruth Sawyer ; and illustrated by Valenti Angelo The discoveries and adventures of ten-year-old Lucinda, who spends a wonderful year exploring the New York City of the 1890's. |
PZ7 .S269 RO |
|
1936 |
Caddie Woodlawn / Carol Ryrie Brink; illustrated by Kate Seredy The adventiures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century. |
PZ7 .B78 CAD |
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1935 |
Dobry/ by Monica Shannon; illustrated by Atanas Katchamakoff The story of a Bulgarian peasant boy growing up, of his longing to be a sculptor, and of his mother's incomprehension of his wish to leave the fields, which she worshipped. Grades 4-7. |
PZ7 .S529 DO |
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1934 |
The story of the author of Little women : Invincible Louisa, by Cornelia Meigs |
PS1018 .M4 |
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1933 |
Young Fu of the upper Yangtze / Elizabeth Lewis, illustrated by Kurt Wiese |
PZ7 .L5849 YO 1960 |
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1932 |
PZ7 .A715 WAT 1966 |
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1931 |
The cat who went to heaven / Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth ; Illustrated by Lynd Ward The story of a cat who came home to a Japanese artist and, by humility and devotion, brought good fortune. |
PZ10.3 .C629 CAT5 |
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1930 |
Hitty, her first hundred years / Rachel Field, with illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop |
PZ8.9 .F442 HI |
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1929 |
PZ7 .K2953 TR 1944 |
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1928 |
Gay-Neck; the story of a pigeon / Dhan Gopal Mukerji ; Illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield. |
PZ10.3 .M8 G3 |
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1927 |
Smoky, the cowhorse / Will James The experiences of a mouse-colored horse from his birth on the range, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age. |
PZ10.3.J275 SM 1954 |
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1926 |
Shen of the sea; a book for children. Illustrated with over fifty silhouettes by Else Hasselriis |
PZ7 .C45 SH |
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1925 |
Tales from silver lands / by Charles J. Finger, woodcuts by Paul Honoré Presents a series of stories about animals, magic, witches, giants, and other beings from Central and South America. |
PZ8 .F494 TA |
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1924 |
PZ7 .H312 DA7 |
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1923 |
The voyages of Doctor Dolittle / by Hugh Lofting; Illustrated by the author The story of Doctor Dolittle's voyage to Spidermonkey Island. |
PZ7 .L827 VO |
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1922 |
The story of mankind / Hendrik Willem Van Loon Chronicles the history of man and civilization from primitive beginnings to the current day. |
D21 .V3 1972 |