Newbery Medal Books
      1922-2007

 

 

      The 2007 Newbery Medal Winner!

      The Higher Power of Lucky

      by Susan Patron

      (written by a librarian!)



 

YEAR 

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2006

Criss Cross (Additional Summary) Lynne Rae Perkins

 2005 

 Kira-Kira

 Cynthia Kadohata

 2004

 The Tale of Despereaux:
 Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

 Kate DiCamillo

 2003

 Crispin: The Cross of Lead

 Avi

2002

 A Single Shard  

 Linda Sue Park 

 2001

 A Year Down Yonder

 Richard Peck

 2000

 Bud, Not Buddy

 Christopher Paul Curtis

 1999

 Holes

 Louis Sachar

 1998

 Out of the Dust

 Karen Hesse

 1997

 The View from Saturday

 E.L. Konigsburg

 1996

 The Midwife's Apprentice

 Karen Cushman

 1995

 Walk Two Moons

 Sharon Creech

 1994

 The Giver

 Lois Lowry

 1993

 Missing May

 Cynthia Rylant

 1992

 Shiloh

 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

 1991

 Maniac Magee

 Jerry Spinelli

 1990

 Number the Stars

 Lois Lowry

 1989

 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

 Paul Fleischman

 1988

 Lincoln: A Photobiography

 Russell Freedman

 1987

 The Whipping Boy

 Sid Fleischman

 1986

 Sarah, Plain and Tall

 Patricia MacLachlan

 1985

 The Hero and the Crown

 Robin McKinley

 1984

 Dear Mr. Henshaw

 Beverly Cleary

 1983

 Dicey's Song

 Cynthia Voigt

 1982

 A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers

 Nancy Willard

 1981

 Jacob Have I Loved

 Katherine Paterson

 1980

 A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832

 Joan W. Blos

 1979

 The Westing Game

 Ellen Raskin

 1978

 Bridge to Terabithia

 Katherine Paterson

 1977

 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

 Mildred D. Taylor

 1976

 The Grey King

 Susan Cooper

 1975

 M. C. Higgins, the Great

 Virginia Hamilton

 1974

 The Slave Dancer

 Paula Fox

 1973

 Julie of the Wolves

 Jean Craighead George

 1972

 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

 Robert C. O'Brien

 1971

 Summer of the Swans

 Betsy Byars

 1970

 Sounder

 William H. Armstrong

 1969

 The High King

 Lloyd Alexander

 1968

 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

 E.L. Konigsburg

 1967

 Up a Road Slowly

 Irene Hunt

 1966

 I, Juan de Pareja

 Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

 1965

 Shadow of a Bull

 Maia Wojciechowska

 1964

 It's Like This, Cat

 Emily Neville

 1963

 A Wrinkle in Time

 Madeleine L'Engle

 1962

 The Bronze Bow

 Elizabeth George Speare

 1961

 Island of the Blue Dolphins

 Scott O'Dell

 1960

 Onion John

 Joseph Krumgold

 1959

 The Witch of Blackbird Pond

 Elizabeth George Speare

 1958

 Rifles for Watie

 Harold Keith

 1957

 Miracles on Maple Hill

 Virginia Sorenson

 1956

 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

 Jean Lee Latham

 1955

 The Wheel on the School

 Meindert DeJong

 1954

 ...And Now Miguel

Joseph Krumgold

 1953

 Secret of the Andes

 Anna Nolan Clark

 1952

 Ginger Pye

 Eleanor Estes

 1951

 Amos Fortune, Free Man

 Elizabeth Yates

 1950

 The Door in the Wall

 Marguerite de Angeli

 1949

 King of the Wind

 Marguerite Henry

 1948

 The Twenty-One Balloons

 William Pène du Bois

 1947

 Miss Hickory

 Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

 1946

 Strawberry Girl

 Lois Lenski

 1945

 Rabbit Hill