NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS

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2000's Newbery Medal Winners

2009 Neil Gaiman. The Graveyard Book. HarperCollins Children's Books  
2008 Laura Amy Schlitz. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village. Candlewick  
2007 Susan Patron. The Higher Power of Lucky. Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson  
2006 Lynne Rae Perkins. Criss Cross. Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins  
2005 Cynthia Kadohata. Kira-Kira. Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster  
2004 Kate DiCamillo. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread. Candlewick Press.  
2003 Avi. Crispin: The Cross of Lead. Hyperion Books  
2002 Linda Sue Park. A Single Shard. Houghton Mifflin/Clarion  
2001 Richard Peck. A Year Down Yonder. Dial Books.  
2000 Christopher Paul Curtis. Bud, Not Buddy. Delacorte Press  

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1990's Newbery Medal Winners

1999 Louis Sachar. Holes. Farrar Straus and Giroux.  
1998 Karen Hesse. Out of the Dust. Scholastic Press.
 
1997 E.L. Konigsburg. The View from Saturday. Jean Karl/Atheneum.
 
1996 Karen Cushman. The Midwife's Apprentice. Clarion Books, N.Y.
 
1995 Sharon Creech. Walk Two Moons. Harper-Collins.  
1994 Lois Lowry. The Giver. Houghton Mifflin.  
1993 Cynthia Rylant. Missing May. Orchard Books.  
1992 Phyllis R. Naylor. Shiloh. Maxwell Macmillan International Pub. Group.  
1991 Jerry Spinelli. Maniac Magee. Little, Brown.  
1990 Lois Lowry. Number the Stars. Houghton Mifflin.  

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1980's Newbery Medal Winners

1989 Paul Fleischman. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices. Harper & Row.  
1988 Russell Freedman. Lincoln: A Photobiography. Clarion.  
1987 Sid Fleischman. The Whipping Boy. Greenwillow Books.  
1986 Patricia MacLachlan. Sarah, Plain and Tall. Harper & Row.  
1985 Robin McKinley. The Hero and the Crown. Greenwillow Books.  
1984 Beverly Cleary. Dear Mr. Henshaw. Morrow.  
1983 Cynthia Voigt. Dicey's Song. Atheneum.  
1982 Nancy Willard. A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent & Experienced Travelers. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.  
1981 Katherine Paterson. Jacob Have I Loved. Crowell.  
1980 Joan W. Blos. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32. Scribner.  

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1970's Newbery Medal Winners
1979 Ellen Raskin. The Westing Game. Dutton.  
1978 Katherine Paterson. Bridge to Terabithia. Crowell.  
1977 Mildred D. Taylor. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Dial Press.  
1976 Susan Cooper. The Grey King. illus. by Michael Heslop. Atheneum (A Margaret K. McElderry Book).  
1975 Virginia Hamilton. M. C. Higgins the Great. Macmillan.  
1974 Paula Fox. The Slave Dancer. Bradbury Press.  
1973 Jean Craighead George. Julie of the Wolves. Harper.  
1972 Robert C. O'Brien. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Atheneum.  
1971 Betsy Byars. Summer of the Swans. Viking Press.  
1970 William H. Armstrong. Sounder. Harper & Row.  

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1960's Newbery Medal Winners

1969 Lloyd Alexander. The High King. Holt, Rinehart & Winston.  
1968 E. L. Konigsburg. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. illus. by the author. Atheneum.  
1967 Irene Hunt. Up a Road Slowly. Follett.  
1966 Elizabeth Borton de Trevino. I, Juan de Pareja. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.  
1965 Maia Wojciechowska. Shadow of a Bull. illus. by Alvin Smith. Atheneum.  
1964 Emily Neville. It's Like This, Cat. illus. by Emil Weiss. Harper & Row.  
1963 Madeleine L'Engle. A Wrinkle in Time. Farrar, Straus.  
1962 Elizabeth George Speare. The Bronze Bow. Houghton Mifflin.  
1961 Scott O'Dell. Island of the Blue Dolphins. Houghton Mifflin.  
1960 Joseph Krumgold. Onion John. illus. by Symeon Shimin. Thomas Y. Crowell.  

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1950's Newbery Medal Winners

1959 Elizabeth George Speare. The Witch of Blackbird Pond. Houghton Mifflin.  
1958 Harold Keith. Rifles for Watie. illus. by Peter Burchard. Thomas Y. Crowell.  
1957 Virginia Sorenson. Miracles on Maple Hill. illus. by Beth & Joe Krush. Harcourt, Brace.  
1956 Jean Lee Latham. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch. illus. by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Houghton Mifflin.  
1955 Meindert DeJong. The Wheel on the School. illus. by Maurice Sendak. Harper.  
1954 Joseph Krumgold. ...And Now Miguel. illus. by Jean Charlot. Thomas Y. Crowell.  
1953 Ann Nolan Clark. Secret of the Andes. illus. by Jean Charlot. Viking Press.  
1952 Eleanor Estes. Ginger Pye. illus. by the author. Harcourt, Brace.  
1951 Elizabeth Yates. Amos Fortune, Free Man. illus. by Nora S. Unwin. Aladdin Books.  
1950 Marguerite de Angeli. The Door in the Wall. illus. by the author. Doubleday.  

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1940's Newbery Medal Winners

1949 Marguerite Henry. King of the Wind. illus. by Wesley Dennis. Rand McNally.  
1948 William Pene du Bois. The Twenty-One Balloons. illus. by the author. Viking Press.  
1947 Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. Miss Hickory. illus. by Ruth Gannett. Viking Press.  
1946 Lois Lenski. Strawberry Girl illus. by the author. Lippincott-Stokes.  
1945 Robert Lawson. Rabbit Hill. illus. by the author. Viking Press.  
1944 Esther Forbes. Johnny Tremain. illus. by Lynd Ward. Houghton Mifflin.  
1943 Elizabeth Janet Gray. Adam of the Road. illus. by Robert Lawson. Viking Press.  
1942 Walter Dumaux Edmonds. The Matchlock Gun. illus. by Paul Lantz. Dodd, Mead.  
1941 Armstrong Sperry. Call It Courage. illus. by the author. Macmillan.  

1940

James Daugherty. Daniel Boone illus. by the author. Viking Press.  

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1930's Newberry Medal Winners

1939 Elizabeth Enright. Thimble Summer. illus. by the author. Farrar & Rinehart.  
1938 Kate Seredy. The White Stag. illus. by the author. Viking Press.  
1937 Ruth Sawyer. Roller Skates. illus. by Valenti Angelo. Viking Press.  
1936 Carol Ryrie Brink. Caddie Woodlawn. illus. by Kate Seredy. Macmillan.  
1935 Monica Shannon. Dobry. illus. by Atanas Katchamokoff. Viking Press.  
1934 Cornelia Lynde Meigs. Story of the Author of "Little Women"; Invincible Louisa. Little, Brown.  
1933 Elizabeth Foreman Lewis. Young Fu of The Upper Yangtze. illus. by Kurt Wiese. John C. Winston.  
1932 Laura Adams Armer. Waterless Mountain. illus. by Sidney Armer and the author. Longmans, Green.  
1931 Elizabeth Coatsworth. The Cat Who Went to Heaven. illus. by Lynd Ward. Macmillan.  
1930 Rachel Lyman Field. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. illus. by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Macmillan.  

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1920's Newbery Medal Winners

1929 Eric P. Kelly. Trumpeter of Krakow. illus. by Angela Pruszynska. Macmillan.  
1928 Dhan Gopal Mukerji. Gay-Neck. illus. by Boris Artzybasheff. E. P. Dutton.  
1927 Will James. Smoky, the Cowhorse. illus. by the author. Charles Scribner's Sons.  
1926 Arthur Bowie Chrisman. Shen of the Sea. illus. by Else Hasselriis. E. P. Dutton.  
1925 Charles Joseph Finger. Tales from Silver Lands. illus. by Paul Honore. Doubleday, Doran.  
1924 Charles Boardman Hawes. The Dark Frigate. Little, Brown.  
1923 Hugh Lofting. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle. illus. by the author. Frederick A. Stokes.  
1922 Willem Van Loon Hendrik. The Story of Mankind. illus. by the author. Liveright.  

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