Newbery Award Winners

Newbery Award, Ongoing Progress

2012 Jack Gantos, Dead End in Norvelt
2011 Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest
2010 Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me 2010

2009 Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book (312 p, in lib) scary story
2008 Laura Amy Schlitz, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! (audiobook inlib) middle ages
2007 Susan Patron, The Higher Power of Lucky (134 p, in lib)
2006 Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross (337p, in lib) 1960s
2005 Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira
2004 Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux 2008
2003 Avi Crispin, The Cross of Lead (262 p, in lib) middle ages
2002 Linda Sue Park, A Single Shard (152 p, in lib) korea
2001 Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder (137 p, in lib) 1937
2000 Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy (245 p, in lib) depression

1999 Louis Sachar, Holes 2007
1998 Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust (227 p, in lib) depression
1997 E. L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday 2008
1996 Karen Cushman, The Midwife's Apprentice (122 p, in lib) mideval
1995 Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons (280 p, in lib)
1994 Lois Lowry, The Giver 2007
1993 Cynthia Rylant, Missing May (89 p, in lib)
1992 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Shiloh 2008
1991 Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee 2008
1990 Lois Lowry, Number the Stars 2008

1989 Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices (44 p, in lib)
1988 Russell Freedman, Lincoln: A Photobiography (150 p, in lib)
1987 Sid Fleischman, The Whipping Boy (90 p, in lib)
1986 Patricia MacLachlan Sarah, Plain and Tall
1985 Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown (246 p, in lib)
1984 Beverly Cleary, Dear Mr. Henshaw 2009
1983 Cynthia Voigt, Dicey's Song (196 p, in lib)
1982 Nancy Willard, A Visit to William Blake's Inn (44 p, in lib)
1981 Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
1980 Joan Blos, A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal

1979 Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game 2010
1978 Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia 2007
1977 Mildred Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (276 p, in lib) 1930s south
1976 Susan Cooper, The Grey King (165 p, in lib)
1975 Virginia Hamilton, M. C. Higgins, the Great (audiobook in lib)
1974 Paula Fox, The Slave Dancer (177 p, in lib)
1973 Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves*
1972 Robert C. O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (233 p, in lib)
1971 Betsy Byars, Summer of the Swans (142 p, in lib)
1970 William H. Armstrong, Sounder (116 p, in lib)

1969 Lloyd Alexander, The High King (285 p, in lib) fairy tale
1968 E. L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.Frankweiler 2008
1967 Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly
1966 Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, I, Juan de Pareja
1965 Maia Wojciechowska, Shadow of a Bull (151 p, in lib)
1964 Emily Cheney Neville, It's Like This, Cat
1963 Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time 2007
1962 Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow (audiobook in lib)
1961 Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins 2008
1960 Joseph Krumgold, Onion John

1959 Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond (249 p, in lib) puritan
1958 Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie
1957 Virginia Sorenson, Miracles on Maple Hill (232 p, in lib)
1956 Jean Lee Latham, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch (251 p, in lib)
1955 Meindert DeJong ,The Wheel on the School *
1954 Joseph Krumgold, ...And Now Miguel
1953 Ann Nolan Clark, Secret of the Andes (120 p, in lib)
1952 Eleanor Estes, Ginger Pye (250 p, in lib)
1951 Elizabeth Yates, Amos Fortune, Free Man
1950 Marguerite de Angeli, The Door in the Wall (120 p, in lib) mideaval

1949 Marguerite Henry, King of the Wind (172 p, in lib) horses
1948 William Pène du Bois, The Twenty-One Balloons(179 p, in lib)
1947 Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Miss Hickory
1946 Lois Lenski, Strawberry Girl
1945 Robert Lawson, Rabbit Hill
1944 Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain
1943 Elizabeth Gray Vining, Adam of the Road (317 p, in lib) mideaval
1942 Walter D. Edmonds, The Matchlock Gun
1941 Armstrong Sperry, Call It Courage (92 p, in lib) polynesian
1940 James Daugherty, Daniel Boone

1939 Elizabeth Enright, Thimble Summer 2010
1938 Kate Seredy, The White Stag
1937 Ruth Sawyer, Roller Skates
1936 Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn 2010
1935 Monica Shannon, Dobry
1934 Cornelia Meigs, Invincible Louisa 2010
1933 Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze (317 p, in lib)
1932 Laura Adams Armer, Waterless Mountain
1931 Elizabeth Coatsworth, The Cat Who Went to Heaven (62 p, in lib)
1930 Rachel Field, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years

1929 Eric P. Kelly, The Trumpeter of Krakow
1928 Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
1927 Will James, Smoky the Cow Horse
1926 Arthur Bowie Chrisman, Shen of the Sea
1925 Charles Finger, Tales from Silver Lands
1924 Charles Hawes, The Dark Frigate
1923 Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
1922 Hendrik Willem van Loon, The Story of Mankind