Newbery medal award winners
(I’ll slowly add to these by year).
2021
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
Honor Books:
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford
Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly
A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat
2020
New Kid by Jerry Craft
Honor Books:
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
Scary Stories for Young Foxes by Christian McKay Heidicker
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
2019
Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
Honor Books:
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
2018
Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
Honor Books:
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
2017
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Honor Books:
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
2016
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
Honor Books:
The War that Saved my Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan
2015
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Honor Books:
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
2014
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
Honor Books:
Doll Bones by Holly Black
The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes
One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
Paperboy by Vince Vawter
2013
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Honor Books:
Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schiltz
Bomb: the Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
2012
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Honor Books:
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
2011
Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
Honor Books:
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
2010
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Honor Books:
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
2009
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean
Honor Books:
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, illus. by David Small
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
Savvy by Ingrid Law
After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
2008
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schiltz
Honor Books:
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
2007
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
Honor Books:
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm Hattie
Big Sky by Kirby Larson
"Rules by Cynthia Lord
2006
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
Honor Books:
Whittington by Alan Armstrong
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
2005
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
Honor Books:
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
2004
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo
Honor Books:
Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
2003
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
Honor Books:
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy
Farmer Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
2002
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Honor Books:
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath Carver:
A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson
2001
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Honor Books:
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
2000
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Honor Books:
Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola
1999
Holes by Louis Sachar
Honor Book:
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
YEAR
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Honor Book:
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1992
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Honor Book:
Nothing But the Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman
1989
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
Honor Books:
In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
1982
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
Honor Book:
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal
1979
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
Honor Book:
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
1972
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Honor Book:
Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1969
The High King by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
Honor Books:
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester (Dial)
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
1962
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
Honor Book:
Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Belling the Tiger by Mary Stolz
1952
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
Honor Book:
Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity
Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling
The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer
The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff
1942
The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
Honor Book:
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski Down
Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin
1932
Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
Honor Book:
The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop
Calico Bush by Rachel Field
Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens
Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery
Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee
Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis
1922
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
Honor Book:
The Great Quest by Charles Hawes
Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall
The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs