Newbury Medal Winners (and Honor Books) --------------------------------------- * 2008 Medal Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz o Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis o The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt o Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 2007 Medal Winner: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron * Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm * Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson * Rules by Cynthia Lord ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 2006 Medal Winner: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins o Whittington by Alan Armstrong o Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti o Princess Academy by Shannon Hale o Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 2005 Medal Winner: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata o Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko o The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman o Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 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 o Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes o An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 2003 Medal Winner: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi o The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer o Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff o Hoot by Carl Hiaasen o A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin o Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 2002 Medal Winner: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park o Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath o Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 2001 Medal Winner: A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck o Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer o Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo o Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos o The Wanderer by Sharon Creech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 2000 Medal Winner: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis o Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis o Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm o 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1999 Medal Winner: Holes by Louis Sachar o A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1998 Medal Winner: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse o Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine o Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff o Wringer by Jerry Spinelli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1997 Medal Winner: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg o A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer o Moorchild by Eloise McGraw o The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner o Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1996 Medal Winner: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman o What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman o The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis o Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner o The Great Fire by Jim Murphy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1995 Medal Winner: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech o Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman o The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1994 Medal Winner: The Giver by Lois Lowry o Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly o Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep o Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1993 Medal Winner: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant o What Hearts by Bruce Brooks o The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack o Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1992 Medal Winner: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor o Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi o The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1991 Medal Winner: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli o The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1990 Medal Winner: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry o Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle o Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples o The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1989 Medal Winner: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman o In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton o Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1988 Medal Winner: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman o After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer o Hatchet by Gary Paulsen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1987 Medal Winner: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman o A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant o On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer o Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1986 Medal Winner: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan o Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg o Dogsong by Gary Paulsen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1985 Medal Winner: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley o Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes o The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks o One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1984 Medal Winner: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary o The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare o A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt o Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky o The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1983 Medal Winner: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt o The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley o Doctor DeSoto by William Steig o Graven Images by Paul Fleischman o Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz o Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1982 Medal Winner: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard o Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary o Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1981 Medal Winner: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson o The Fledgling by Jane Langton o A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1980 Medal Winner: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos o The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1979 Medal Winner: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin o The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1978 Medal Winner: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson o Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary o Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1977 Medal Winner: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor o Abel's Island by William Steig o A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1976 Medal Winner: The Grey King by Susan Cooper o The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis o Dragonwings by Laurence Yep ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1975 Medal Winner: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton o Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin o My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier o The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope o Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1974 Medal Winner: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox o The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1973 Medal Winner: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George o Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel o The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss o The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1972 Medal Winner: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien o Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert o The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton o The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin o Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles o The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1971 Medal Winner: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars o Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt o Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl o Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1970 Medal Winner: Sounder by William H. Armstrong o Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor o The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore o Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1969 Medal Winner: The High King by Lloyd Alexander o To Be a Slave by Julius Lester o When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1968 Medal Winner: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg o Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg o The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell o The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer o The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1967 Medal Winner: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt o The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell o Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer o The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1966 Medal Winner: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino o The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander o The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell o The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1965 Medal Winner: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska o Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1964 Medal Winner: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville o Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North o The Loner by Ester Wier ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1963 Medal Winner: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle o Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. o Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1962 Medal Winner: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare o Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis o The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw o Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1961 Medal Winner: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell o America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson o Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer o The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden, pseud. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1960 Medal Winner: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold o My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George o America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson o The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1959 Medal Winner: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare o The Family Under The Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson o Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong o Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay o The Perilous Road by William O. Steele ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1958 Medal Winner: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith o The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz o Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright o The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson o Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1957 Medal Winner: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen o Old Yeller by Fred Gipson o The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong o Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson o The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads o Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1956 Medal Winner: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham o The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings o The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist o Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1955 Medal Winner: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong o Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh o Banner In The Sky by James Ullman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1954 Medal Winner: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold o All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop o Shadrach by Meindert Dejong o Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong o Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson o Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1953 Medal Winner: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark o Charlotte's Web by E. B. White o Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw o Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil o The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh o Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1952 Medal Winner: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes o Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity o Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling o The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff o The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer o The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1951 Medal Winner: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates o Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt o Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton o Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson o The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1950 Medal Winner: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli o Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill o The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz o Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery o George Washington by Genevieve Foster o Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1949 Medal Winner: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry o Seabird by Holling C. Holling o Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin o My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett o Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1948 Medal Winner: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois o Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop o Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger o The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman o The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander o Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1947 Medal Winner: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey o Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes o Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff o The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell o The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. o The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1946 Medal Winner: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski o Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry o The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means o Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston o New Found World by Katherine Shippen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1945 Medal Winner: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson o The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes o The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh o Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster o Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1944 Medal Winner: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes o These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder o Fog Magic by Julia Sauer o Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes o Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1943 Medal Winner: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray o The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes o Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1942 Medal Winner: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds o Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder o George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster o Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski o Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1941 Medal Winner: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry o Blue Willow by Doris Gates o Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr o The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder o Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1940 Medal Winner: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty o The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy o Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson o By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder o Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1939 Medal Winner: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright o Nino by Valenti Angelo o Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater o Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford o Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton o Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1938 Medal Winner: The White Stag by Kate Seredy o Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman o Bright Island by Mabel Robinson o On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1937 Medal Winner: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer o Phebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski o Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones o The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans o Winterbound by Margery Bianco o The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes o Audubon by Constance Rourke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1936 Medal Winner: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink o Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong o The Good Master by Kate Seredy o Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray o All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1935 Medal Winner: Dobry by Monica Shannon o Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger o Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke o Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1934 Medal Winner: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs o The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker o Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster o ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág o Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best) o New Land by Sarah Schmidt o Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum o Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes o Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1933 Medal Winner: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis o Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs o The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift o Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1932 Medal Winner: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer o The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop o Calico Bush by Rachel Field o Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens o Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery o Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee o Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1931 Medal Winner: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth o Floating Island by Anne Parrish o The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus o Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard o Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams o Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes o Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray o Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best o Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1930 Medal Winner: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field o A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton o Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller o Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely o The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young o Vaino by Julia Davis Adams o Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1929 Medal Winner: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly o Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett o Millions of Cats by Wanda Gá o The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock o Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs o Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon o Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1928 Medal Winner: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji o The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young o Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1927 Medal Winner: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James o [None recorded] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1926 Medal Winner: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman o The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1925 Medal Winner: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger o Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore o The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1924 Medal Winner: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes o [None recorded] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1923 Medal Winner: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting o [None recorded] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 1922 Medal Winner: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon o The Great Quest by Charles Hawes o Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall o The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen o The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum o The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs ==============================================================================