The Newbery Award
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The Newbery Award has been awarded every year since 1922, under the supervision of the Association for Library Service to Children / American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to literature for children published in the United States during the previous year.
2006 Criss Cross
Perkins, Lynne Rae
2005 Kira-Kira
Kadohata, Cynthia
2004 The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
Dicamillo, Kate
2003 Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Avi
2002 A Single Shard
Park, Linda Sue
2001 A Year Down Yonder
Peck,
Richard
2000 Bud, Not Buddy
Curtis,
Christopher Paul
1999 Holes
Sachar,
Louis
1998 Out of the Dust
Hesse,
Karen
1997 The View from Saturday
Konigsburg,
E.L.
1996 The Midwife's Apprentice
Cushman,
Karen
1995 Walk Two Moons
Creech,
Sharon
1994 The Giver
Lowry,
Lois
1993 Missing May
Rylant,
Cynthia
1992 Shiloh
Naylor,
Phyllis Reynolds
1991 Maniac Magee
Spinelli,
Jerry
1990 Number the Stars
Lowry,
Lois
1989 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
Fleischman,
Paul
1988 Lincoln: A Photobiography
Freedman,
Russell
1987 The Whipping Boy
Fleischman,
Sid
1986 Sarah, Plain and Tall
MacLachlan,
Patricia
1985 The Hero and the Crown
McKinley,
Robin
1984 Dear Mr. Henshaw
Cleary,
Beverly
1983 Dicey's Song
Voigt,
Cynthia
1982 A Visit to William Blake's Inn
Willard,
Nancy
1981 Jacob Have I Loved
Paterson,
Katherine
1980 A Gathering of Days
Blos,
Joan
1979 The Westing Game
Raskin,
Ellen
1978 Bridge to Terabithia
Paterson,
Katherine
1977 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Taylor,
Mildred D.
1976 The Grey King
Cooper,
Susan
1975 M.C. Higgins, the Great
Hamilton,
Virginia
1974 The Slave Dancer
Fox,
Paula
1973 Julie of the Wolves
George,
Jean Craighead
1972 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
O'Brien,
Robert C.
1971 Summer of the Swans
Byars,
Betsy
1970 Sounder
Armstrong,
William H.
1969 The High King
Alexander,
Lloyd
1968 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Konigsburg,
E.L.
1967 Up a Road Slowly
Hunt,
Irene
1966 I, Juan de Pareja
de
Trevino, Elizabeth B.
1965 Shadow of a Bull
Wojciechowska,
Maia
1964 It's Like This, Cat
Neville,
Emily Cheney
1963 A Wrinkle in Time
L'Engle,
Madeleine
1962 The Bronze Bow
Speare,
Elizabeth George
1961 Island of the Blue Dolphins
O'Dell,
Scott
1960 Onion John
Krumgold,
Joseph
1959 The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Speare,
Elizabeth George
1958 Rifles for Watie
Keith,
Harold
1957 Miracles On Maple Hill
Sorenson,
Virginia E.
1956 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Latham,
Jean L.
1955 The Wheel on the School
DeJong,
Meindert
1954 ...And Now Miguel
Krumgold,
Joseph
1953 The Secret of the Andes
Clark,
Ann Nolan
1952 Ginger Pye
Estes,
Eleanor
1951 Amos Fortune, Free Man
Yates,
Eleanor
1950 The Door in the Wall
de Angeli,
Marguerite
1949 King of the Wind
Henry,
Marguerite
1948 The Twenty-One Balloons
Pene du
Bois, William
1947 Miss Hickory
Bailey,
Carolyn Sherwin
1946 Strawberry Girl
Lenski,
Lois
1945 Rabbit Hill
Lawson,
Robert
1944 Johnny Tremain
Forbes,
Esther
1943 Adam of the Road
Gray,
Elizabeth Janet
1942 The Matchlock Gun
Edmonds,
Walter D.
1941 Call It Courage
Sperry,
Armstrong
1940 Daniel Boone
Daugherty,
James
1939 Thimble Summer
Enright,
Elizabeth
1938 The White Stag
Seredy,
Kate
1937 Roller Skates
Sawyer,
Ruth
1936 Caddie Woodlawn
Brink,
Carol Ryrie
1935 Dobry
Shannon,
Monica
1934 Invincible Louisa
Meigs,
Cornelia
1933 Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Lewis,
Elizabeth Foreman
1932 Waterless Mountain
Armer,
Laura Adams
1931 The Cat Who Went to Heaven
Coatsworth,
Elizabeth Jane
1930 Hitty: Her First Hundred Years
Field,
Rachel
1929 The Trumpeter of Krakow
Kelly,
Eric Philbrook
1928 Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon
Mukerji,
Dhan Gopal
1927 Smoky, the Cowhorse
James,
Will
1926 Shen of the Sea
Chrisman,
Arthur Bowie
1925 Tales from Silver Lands
Finger,
Charles J.
1924 Dark Frigate
Hawes,
Charles Boardman
1923 Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Lofting,
Hugh
1922 The Story of Mankind
Van Loon,
Hendrik W.
