The Newbery Award is a medal presented annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children published in the United States in the preceding year. Many of the Newbery winners have become children's classics. Below is a list of Newbery Medal winners from 1922 to the present. Most of them are at the reading level of 4th through 7th grade.
When my children were growing up, we read most of the Newbery Medal Winners and they are all well worth reading, particularly all the ones prior to 1995.
Our favorites are marked with a *.
| Newbery Medal Winners from 1922 to the Present |
| 2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins |
| 2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata |
| 2004: The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo Agee |
| 2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi |
| 2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park |
| 2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck |
| 2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis |
| *1999: Holes by Louis Sachar |
| 1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse |
| *1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg |
| *1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman |
| 1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech |
| *1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry |
| 1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant |
| *1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| *1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli |
| *1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry |
| 1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman |
| 1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman |
| *1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman |
| *1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan |
| 1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley |
| 1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary |
| 1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt |
| 1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard |
| 1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson |
| 1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos |
| 1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin |
| 1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson |
| *1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor |
| 1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper |
| *1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton |
| *1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox |
| *1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George |
| *1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien |
| 1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars |
| *1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong |
| 1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander |
| *1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg |
| 1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt |
| *1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino |
| 1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska |
| 1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville |
| *1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle |
| *1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare |
| *1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell |
| 1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold |
| 1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare |
| *1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith |
| 1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson |
| 1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham |
| *1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong |
| *1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold |
| 1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark |
| *1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes |
| 1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates |
| *1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli |
| *1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry |
| 1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois |
| 1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey |
| 1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski |
| 1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson |
| 1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes |
| *1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray |
| *1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds |
| *1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry |
| 1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (out of print) |
| 1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright |
| *1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy |
| 1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer |
| *1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink |
| 1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon (out of print) |
| 1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs |
| *1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis |
| 1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (out of print) |
| 1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth |
| 1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field |
| *1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly |
| 1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji |
| *1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James |
| 1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman |
| 1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (out of print) |
| 1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes |
| *1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting |
| 1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon |
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