Newbery Award Winners

Kids | Newbery Medal

2023 - Amina Luqman-Dawson. Freewater

2022 - Donna Barba Higuera. The Last Cuentista

2021 - Tae Keller. When you trap a tiger

2020 - Jerry Craft. New kid

2019 - Meg Medina. Merci Suárez Changes Gears

2018 - Erin Entrada Kelly. Hello, Universe

2017 - Kelly Barnhill. The Girl Who Drank the Moon

2016 - Matt de la Peña. Last Stop on Market Street

2015 - Kwame Alexander. The Crossover

2014 - Kate DiCamillo. Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

2013 - Katherine Applegate. The One and Only Ivan

2012 - Jack Gantos. Dead End in Norvelt

2011 - Clare Vanderpool. Moon Over Manifest

2010 - Rebecca Stead. When You Reach Me

2009 - Neil Gaiman. The Graveyard Book

2008 - Laura Amy Schlitz. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village

2007 - Susan Patron. The Higher Power of Lucky

2006 - Lynne Rae Perkins. Criss Cross

2005 - Cynthia Kadohata. Kira-Kira

2004 - Kate DiCamillo. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

2003 - Avi. Crispin: The Cross of Lead

2002 - Linda Sue Park. A Single Shard

2001 - Richard Peck. A Year Down Yonder

2000 - Christopher Curtis. Bud, Not Buddy

1999 - Louis Sachar. Holes

1998 - Karen Hesse. Out of the Dust

1997 - E.L. Konigsburg. The View From Saturday

1996 - Karen Cushman. The Midwife's Apprentice

1995 - Sharon Creech. Walk Two Moons

1994 - Lois Lowry. The Giver

1993 - Cynthia Rylant. Missing May

1992 - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Shiloh

1991 - Jerry Spinelli. Maniac Magee

1990 - Lois Lowry. Number the Stars

1989 - Paul Fleischman. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

1988 - Russell Freedman. Lincoln: A Photobiography

1987 - Sid Fleischman. The Whipping Boy

1986 - Patricia MacLachlan. Sarah, Plain and Tall

1985 - Robin McKinley. The Hero and the Crown

1984 - Beverly Cleary. Dear Mr. Henshaw

1983 - Cynthia Voigt. Dicey's Song

1982 - Nancy Willard. A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers

1981 - Katherine Paterson. Jacob Have I Loved

1980 - Joan Blos. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32

1979 - Ellen Raskin. The Westing Game

1978 - Katherine Paterson. Bridge to Terabithia

1977 - Mildred D. Taylor. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

1976 - Susan Cooper. The Grey King

1975 - Virginia Hamilton. M.C. Higgins, the Great

1974 - Paula Fox. The Slave Dancer

1973 - Jean Craighead George. Julie of the Wolves

1972 - Robert C. O'Brien. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

1971 - Betsy Byars. The Summer of the Swans

1970 - William H. Armstrong. Sounder

1969 - Lloyd Alexander. The High King

1968 - E.L. Konigsburg. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

1967 - Irene Hunt. Up a Road Slowly

1966 - Elizabeth Borton de Treviño. I, Juan de Pareja

1965 - Maia Wojciechowska. Shadow of a Bull

1964 - Emily C. Neville. It's Like This, Cat

1963 - Madeleine L'Engle. A Wrinkle in Time

1962 - Elizabeth George Speare. The Bronze Bow

1961 - Scott O'Dell. Island of the Blue Dolphins

1960 - John Krumgold. Onion John

1959 - Elizabeth George Speare. The Witch of Blackbird Pond

1958 - Harold V. Keith. Rifles for Watie

1957 - Virginia Sorensen. Miracles on Maple Hill

1956 - Jean Lee Latham. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

1955 - Meindert De Jong. The Wheel on the School

1954 - John Krumgold. ... And Now Miguel

1953 - Ann Nolan Clark. Secret of the Andes

1952 - Eleanor Estes. Ginger Pye

1951 - Elizabeth Yates. Amos Fortune, Free Man

1950 - Marguerite de Angeli. The Door in the Wall

1949 - Marguerite Henry. King of the Wind

1948 - William Pène du Bois. The Twenty-One Balloons

1947 - Carolyn S. Bailey. Miss Hickory

1946 - Lois Lenski. Strawberry Girl

1945 - Robert Lawson. Rabbit Hill

1944 - Esther Forbes. Johnny Tremain

1943 - Elizabeth Janet Gray. Adam of the Road

1942 - Walter D. Edmonds. The Matchlock Gun

1941 - Armstrong Sperry. Call It Courage

1940 - James Daugherty. Daniel Boone

1939 - Elizabeth Enright. Thimble Summer

1938 - Kate Seredy. The White Stag

1937 - Ruth Sawyer. Roller Skates

1936 - Carol Ryrie Brink. Caddie Woodlawn

1935 - Monica Shannon. Dobry

1934 - Cornelia Meigs. Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women

1933 - Elizabeth Lewis. Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze

1932 - Laura Adams Armer. Waterless Mountain

1931 - Elizabeth Coatsworth. The Cat Who Went to Heaven

1930 - Rachel Field. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years

1929 - Eric P Kelly. The Trumpeter of Krakow: A Tale of the Fifteenth Century

1928 - Dhan Mukerji. Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon

1927 - Will James. Smoky, the Cow Horse

1926 - Arthur Chrisman. Shen of the Sea

1925 - Charles Finger. Tales from Silver Lands

1924 - Charles Hawes. The Dark Frigate

1923 - Hugh Lofting. The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle

1922 - Hendrik Van Loon. The Story of Mankind