Newbery Medal Children's Literature Winners — Complete List (1922–2026)

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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

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• The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

  2022NewberyChildren's

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• 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

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• 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

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• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

  1990NewberyChildren's

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  Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

  1989NewberyChildren's

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji

  1928NewberyChildren's

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• Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James

  1927NewberyChildren's

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  Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman

  1926NewberyChildren's

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• 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

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• The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon

  1922NewberyChildren's

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