Living Canon

Newbery Medal

The Newbery Medal, awarded annually by the American Library Association since 1922, honors the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. It is the oldest children’s book award in the world.

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  All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson

  2026NewberyChildren's
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  The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly

  2025NewberyChildren's
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  The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers

  2024NewberyChildren's
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  Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson

  2023NewberyChildren's
• The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

  2022NewberyChildren's
• When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller

  2021NewberyChildren's
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  New Kid by Jerry Craft

  2020NewberyChildren's
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  Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina

  2019NewberyChildren's
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  Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly

  2018NewberyChildren's
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  The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

  2017NewberyChildren's
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  Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña

  2016NewberyChildren's
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  The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

  2015NewberyChildren's
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  Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo

  2014NewberyChildren's
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  The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

  2013NewberyChildren's
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  Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos

  2012NewberyChildren's
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  Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

  2011NewberyChildren's
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  When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

  2010NewberyChildren's
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  The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

  2009NewberyChildren's
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  Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz

  2008NewberyChildren's
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  The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

  2007NewberyChildren's
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  Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

  2006NewberyChildren's
• Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

  2005NewberyChildren's
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  The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

  2004NewberyChildren's
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  Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

  2003NewberyChildren's
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  A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

  2002NewberyChildren's
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  A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

  2001NewberyChildren's
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  Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

  2000NewberyChildren's
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  Holes by Louis Sachar

  1999NewberyChildren's
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  Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

  1998NewberyChildren's
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  The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg

  1997NewberyChildren's
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  The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

  1996NewberyChildren's
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  Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

  1995NewberyChildren's
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  The Giver by Lois Lowry

  1994NewberyChildren's
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  Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

  1993NewberyChildren's
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  Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  1992NewberyChildren's
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  Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

  1991NewberyChildren's
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

  1990NewberyChildren's
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  Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

  1989NewberyChildren's
• Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

  1988NewberyChildren's
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  The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

  1987NewberyChildren's
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  Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

  1986NewberyChildren's
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  The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

  1985NewberyChildren's
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  Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

  1984NewberyChildren's
• Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

  1983NewberyChildren's
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  A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard

  1982NewberyChildren's
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  Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

  1981NewberyChildren's
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  A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal by Joan Blos

  1980NewberyChildren's
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  The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

  1979NewberyChildren's
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  Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

  1978NewberyChildren's
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  Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

  1977NewberyChildren's
• The Grey King by Susan Cooper

  1976NewberyChildren's
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  M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton

  1975NewberyChildren's
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  The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

  1974NewberyChildren's
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  Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

  1973NewberyChildren's
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  Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

  1972NewberyChildren's
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  Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

  1971NewberyChildren's
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  Sounder by William H. Armstrong

  1970NewberyChildren's
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  The High King by Lloyd Alexander

  1969NewberyChildren's
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  From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

  1968NewberyChildren's
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  Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt

  1967NewberyChildren's
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  I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

  1966NewberyChildren's
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  Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska

  1965NewberyChildren's
• It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville

  1964NewberyChildren's
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  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

  1963NewberyChildren's
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  The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

  1962NewberyChildren's
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  Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

  1961NewberyChildren's
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  Onion John by Joseph Krumgold

  1960NewberyChildren's
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  The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

  1959NewberyChildren's
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  Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith

  1958NewberyChildren's
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  Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen

  1957NewberyChildren's
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  Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

  1956NewberyChildren's
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  The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong

  1955NewberyChildren's
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  ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold

  1954NewberyChildren's
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  Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark

  1953NewberyChildren's
• Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes

  1952NewberyChildren's
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  Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

  1951NewberyChildren's
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  The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

  1950NewberyChildren's
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  King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

  1949NewberyChildren's
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  The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois

  1948NewberyChildren's
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  Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

  1947NewberyChildren's
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  Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski

  1946NewberyChildren's
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  Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson

  1945NewberyChildren's
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  Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

  1944NewberyChildren's
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  Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray Vining

  1943NewberyChildren's
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  The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds

  1942NewberyChildren's
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  Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry

  1941NewberyChildren's
• Daniel Boone by James Daugherty

  1940NewberyChildren's
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  Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright

  1939NewberyChildren's
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  The White Stag by Kate Seredy

  1938NewberyChildren's
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  Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer

  1937NewberyChildren's
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  Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

  1936NewberyChildren's
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  Dobry by Monica Shannon

  1935NewberyChildren's
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  Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs

  1934NewberyChildren's
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  Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

  1933NewberyChildren's
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  Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer

  1932NewberyChildren's
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  The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth

  1931NewberyChildren's
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  Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field

  1930NewberyChildren's
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  The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly

  1929NewberyChildren's
• Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji

  1928NewberyChildren's
• Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James

  1927NewberyChildren's
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  Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman

  1926NewberyChildren's
• Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger

  1925NewberyChildren's
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  The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes

  1924NewberyChildren's
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  The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

  1923NewberyChildren's
• The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon

  1922NewberyChildren's

• Children’s Literature

See also

• Arthur C. Clarke Award
• Booker Prize
• Caldecott Medal
• Carnegie Medal
• Costa Book Awards
• Edgar Awards
• Giller Prize
• Hugo Awards
• International Booker Prize
• Kirkus Prize
• Lambda Literary Awards
• Locus Awards
• National Book Award
• National Book Critics Circle Award
• Nebula Awards
• Nobel Prize in Literature
• PEN/Faulkner Award
• PEN/Hemingway Award
• Pulitzer Prizes
• Women’s Prize for Fiction
• World Fantasy Awards