Newbery Medal — Children's Literature Home › Newbery Medal › Children's Literature All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson 2026NewberyChildren's The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly 2025NewberyChildren's The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers 2024NewberyChildren's 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 New Kid by Jerry Craft 2020NewberyChildren's Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina 2019NewberyChildren's Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly 2018NewberyChildren's The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill 2017NewberyChildren's Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña 2016NewberyChildren's The Crossover by Kwame Alexander 2015NewberyChildren's Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo 2014NewberyChildren's The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate 2013NewberyChildren's Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos 2012NewberyChildren's Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool 2011NewberyChildren's When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead 2010NewberyChildren's The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 2009NewberyChildren's Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz 2008NewberyChildren's The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron 2007NewberyChildren's Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins 2006NewberyChildren's Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata 2005NewberyChildren's The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo 2004NewberyChildren's Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi 2003NewberyChildren's A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park 2002NewberyChildren's A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck 2001NewberyChildren's Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis 2000NewberyChildren's Holes by Louis Sachar 1999NewberyChildren's Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse 1998NewberyChildren's The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg 1997NewberyChildren's The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman 1996NewberyChildren's Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech 1995NewberyChildren's The Giver by Lois Lowry 1994NewberyChildren's Missing May by Cynthia Rylant 1993NewberyChildren's Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 1992NewberyChildren's Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli 1991NewberyChildren's Number the Stars by Lois Lowry 1990NewberyChildren's Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman 1989NewberyChildren's Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman 1988NewberyChildren's The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman 1987NewberyChildren's Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan 1986NewberyChildren's The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley 1985NewberyChildren's Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary 1984NewberyChildren's Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt 1983NewberyChildren's A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard 1982NewberyChildren's Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson 1981NewberyChildren's A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal by Joan Blos 1980NewberyChildren's The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin 1979NewberyChildren's Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson 1978NewberyChildren's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor 1977NewberyChildren's The Grey King by Susan Cooper 1976NewberyChildren's M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton 1975NewberyChildren's The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox 1974NewberyChildren's Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George 1973NewberyChildren's Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien 1972NewberyChildren's Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars 1971NewberyChildren's Sounder by William H. Armstrong 1970NewberyChildren's The High King by Lloyd Alexander 1969NewberyChildren's From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg 1968NewberyChildren's Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt 1967NewberyChildren's I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño 1966NewberyChildren's Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska 1965NewberyChildren's It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville 1964NewberyChildren's A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle 1963NewberyChildren's The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare 1962NewberyChildren's Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell 1961NewberyChildren's Onion John by Joseph Krumgold 1960NewberyChildren's The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare 1959NewberyChildren's Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith 1958NewberyChildren's Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen 1957NewberyChildren's Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham 1956NewberyChildren's The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong 1955NewberyChildren's ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold 1954NewberyChildren's Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark 1953NewberyChildren's Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes 1952NewberyChildren's Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates 1951NewberyChildren's The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli 1950NewberyChildren's King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry 1949NewberyChildren's The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois 1948NewberyChildren's Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey 1947NewberyChildren's Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski 1946NewberyChildren's Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson 1945NewberyChildren's Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes 1944NewberyChildren's Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray Vining 1943NewberyChildren's The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds 1942NewberyChildren's Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry 1941NewberyChildren's Daniel Boone by James Daugherty 1940NewberyChildren's Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright 1939NewberyChildren's The White Stag by Kate Seredy 1938NewberyChildren's Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer 1937NewberyChildren's Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink 1936NewberyChildren's Dobry by Monica Shannon 1935NewberyChildren's Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs 1934NewberyChildren's Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis 1933NewberyChildren's Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer 1932NewberyChildren's The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth 1931NewberyChildren's Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field 1930NewberyChildren's 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 Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman 1926NewberyChildren's Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger 1925NewberyChildren's The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes 1924NewberyChildren's The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting 1923NewberyChildren's The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon 1922NewberyChildren's
