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.
2005 — Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
2004 — The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering.
2003 — Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
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2002 — A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
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2001 — A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
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2000 — Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
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Microsoft e-book
1999 — Holes by Louis Sachar
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1998 — Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
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1997 — The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
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1996 — The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
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1995 — Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
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1994 — The Giver by Lois Lowry
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1993 — Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
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1992 — Shilohby Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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1991 — Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
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1990 — Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
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1989 — Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
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1988 — Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
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1987 — The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
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1986 — Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
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Study Guide
1985 — The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
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1984 — Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
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1983 — Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt
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Lesson Plans on CD
1982 — A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
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1981 — Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
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Lesson Plans on CD
1980 — A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
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1979 — The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
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1978 — Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
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Lesson Plans on CD
1977 — Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
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Lesson Plans on CD
1976 — The Grey King by Susan Cooper
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1975 — M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
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1974 — The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
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1973 — Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
1972 — Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien
1971 — Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
1970 — Sounder by William H. Armstrong
1969 — The High King by Lloyd Alexander
1968 — From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
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1967 — Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
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1966 — I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
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1965 — Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
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1964 — It’s Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
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1963 — A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
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1962 — The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
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1961 — Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
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1960 — Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
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1959 — The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
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1958 — Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
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1957 — Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson
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1956 — Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
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1955 — The Wheel on The School by Meindert DeJong
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1954 — And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
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1953 — Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
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1952 — Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
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1951 — Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
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1950 — The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
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1949 — King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
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1948 — The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
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1947 — Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
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1946 — Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
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1945 — Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
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1944 — Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
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1943 — Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
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1942 — The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
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1941 — Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
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1940 — Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
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1939 — Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
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1938 — The White Stag by Kate Seredy
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1937 — Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
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1936 — Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
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1935 — Dobry by Monica Shannon
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1934 — Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
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1933 — Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
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1932 — Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
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1931 — The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
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1930 — Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
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1929 — The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
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1928 — Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
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1927 — Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James
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1926 — Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
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1925 — Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
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1924 — The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
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1923 — The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
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1922 — The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
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