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Newbery Medal Winners
The Newbery Medal for outstanding youth fiction is given annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, which is a division of the American Library Association, dating back to 1922. The award is named for the 18th-century British bookseller John Newbery. Most years also feature a listing of Newbery Honor Books — titles that the selection committee felt were worth acknowledging, but which didn’t win the actual Newbery Medal for that year. You can visit the official Newbery Medal website to see more information about all the winners and Honor books.
NOTE: The titles in this list are “hotlinked” to the library’s catalog, for all those titles currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries. If, for any reason, we do not own a circulation copy of a Newbery Medal award-winner, we encourage you to track down those titles through our InterLibrary Loan service.
Newbery Medal Winners
2022
Amina Luqman-Dawson
Freewater
2021
Donna Barba Higuera
The Last Cuentista
2020
Tae Keller
When You Trap a Tiger
2019
Jerry Craft
New Kid
2018
Erin Entrada Kelly
Hello, Universe
2017
Kelly Barnhill
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
2016
Matt de la Pena
Last Stop on Market Street
2015
Kwame Alexander
The Crossover
2014
Kate DiCamillo
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
2013
Katherine Applegate
The One and Only Ivan
2012
Jack Gantos
Dead End in Norvelt
2011
Clare Vanderpool
Moon Over Manifest
2010
Rebecca Stead
When You Reach Me
2009
Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book
2008
Laura Ann Schlitz
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village
2007
Susan Patron, illustrated by Matt Phelan
The Higher Power of Lucky
2006
Lynne Rae Perkins
Criss Cross
2005
Cynthia Kadohata
Kira-Kira
2004
Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering
The Tale of Desperaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
2003
Avi
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
2002
Linda Sue Park
A Single Shard
2001
Richard Peck
A Year Down Yonder
2000
Christopher Paul Curtis
Bud, Not Buddy
1999
Louis Sachar
Holes
1998
Karen Hesse
Out of the Dust
1997
E.L. Konigsburg
The View From Saturday
1996
Karen Cushman
The Midwife’s Apprentice
1995
Sharon Creech
Walk Two Moons
1994
Lois Lowry
The Giver
1993
Cynthia Rylant
Missing May
1992
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Shiloh
1991
Jerry Spinelli
Maniac Magee
1990
Lois Lowry
Number the Stars
1989
Paul Fleischman
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
1988
Russell Freedman
Lincoln: A Photobiography
1987
Sid Fleischman
The Whipping Boy
1986
Sarah MacLachlan
Sarah, Plain and Tall
1985
Robin McKinley
The Hero and the Crown
1984
Beverly Cleary
Dear Mr. Henshaw
1983
Cynthia Voight
Dicey’s Song
1982
Nancy Willard
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experience Travelers
1981
Katherine Paterson
Jacob Have I Loved
1980
Joan W. Blos
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832
1979
Ellen Raskin
The Westing Game
1978
Katherine Paterson
Bridge to Terabithia
1977
Mildred D. Taylor
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1976
Susan Cooper
The Grey King
1975
Virginia Hamilton
M.C. Higgins, the Great
1974
Paula Fox
The Slave Dancer
1973
Jean Craighead George
Julie of the Wolves
1972
Robert C. O’Brien
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
1971
Betsy Byars
Summer of the Swans
1970
William H. Armstrong
Sounder
1969
Lloyd Alexander
The High King
1968
E.L. Konigsburg
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mr.s Basil E. Frankweiler
1967
Irene Hunt
Up a Road Slowly
1966
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
I, Juan de Pareja
1965
Maia Wojciechowska
Shadow of a Bull
1964
Emily Neville
It’s Like This, Cat
1963
Madeline L’Engle
A Wrinkle in Time
1962
Elizabeth George Spears
The Bronze Bow
1961
Scott O’Dell
Island of the Blue Dolphins
1960
Joseph Krumgold
Onion Jake
1959
Elizabeth George Spears
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
1958
Harold Keith
Rifles for Watie
1957
Virginia Sorensen
Miracles on Maple Hill
1956
Jean Lee Latham
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
1955
Meindert De Jong
The Wheel on the School
1954
Joseph Krumgold
…And Now Miguel
1953
Ann Nolan Clark
Secret of the Andes
1952
Eleanor Estes
Ginger Pye
1951
Elizabeth Yates
Amos Fortune, Free Man
1950
Marguerite de Angeli
The Door in the Wall
1949
Marguerite Henry
King of the Wind
1948
William Pene du Bois
The Twenty-One Balloons
1947
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Miss Hickory
1946
Lois Lenski
Strawberry Girl
1945
Robert Lawson
Rabbit Hill
1944
Esther Forbes
Johnny Tremain
1943
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Adam of the Road
1942
Walter Edmonds
The Matchlock Gun
1941
Armstrong Sperry
Call it Courage
1940
James Daugherty
Daniel Boone
1939
Elizabeth Enright
Thimble Summer
1938
Kate Seredy
The White Stag
1937
Ruth Sawyer
Roller Skates
1936
Carol Ryrie Brink
Caddie Woodlawn
1935
Monica Shannon
Dobry
1934
Cornelia Meigs
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
1933
Elizabeth Lewis
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
1932
Laura Adams Armer
Waterless Mountain
1931
Elizabeth Coatsworth
The Cat Who Went to Heaven
1930
Rachel Field
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
1929
Eric P. Kelly
The Trumpeter of Krakow
1928
Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
1927
Will James
Smoky, the Cowhorse
1926
Arthur Bowie Chrisman
Shen of the Sea: Chinese Stories for Children
1925
Charles Finger
Tales From Silver Lands
1924
Charles Hawes
The Dark Frigate
1923
Hugh Lofting
the Voyages of Doctor Doolittle
1922
Hendrik Willem van Loon
The Story of Mankind
Updated January 2023 sdc
