Newbery Medal and Honor Books 1922 Present

The John Newbery Medal is awarded to authors whose contribution to children’s literature has far exceeded that of previous author’s contributions in new, stimulating, and imagination evoking ways. The award is given to the author by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

The awards conception was proposed by Frederic G. Melcher in 1921. Melcher suggested that the award be named after the eighteeth-century English bookseller John Newberry. Many books are nominated by other committees that are similar to the ALA and if nominated enough, win the Caldecott Honor Book award. Many of the winners of this prestigious honor can be located online for purchase or there are printable versions as long as you have printer ink and a printer. On record, only five authors have won the Newbery Medal multiple times. Laura Ingalls Wilder has received the most Newbery Honors with 5. Listed below are the winners of the Newbery Medal from the 1990's to the present.

The 2000s

2009 Medal Winner: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean (HarperCollins)

Honor Books:

• The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, illus. by David Small (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster)

• The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle (Henry Holt)

• Savvy by Ingrid Law (Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group in partnership with Walden Media)

• After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Books for Young Readers)

2008 Medal Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)

Honor Books:

• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)

• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion)

• Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam)

2007 Medal Winner: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)

Honor Books:

• Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm, (Random House)

• Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson (Delacorte Press)

• Rules by Cynthia Lord (Scholastic)
   

2006 Medal Winner: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)

Honor Books:

• Whittington by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by S.D. Schindler (Random House)

• Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic)

• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury Children's Books)

• Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott (G.P. Putnam's Sons)

2005 Medal Winner: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)

Honor Books:

• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (G.P. Putnam's Sons/a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)

• The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)

• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin) 

2004 Medal Winner: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering, (Candlewick Press)

Honor Books:

• Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books)

• An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy (Clarion Books)

2003 Medal Winner: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)

Honor Books:

• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (Atheneum)

• Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff (Random House/Wendy Lamb Books)

• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)

• A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin (Scholastic)

• Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan (HarperCollins)

2002 Medal Winner:  A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)

Honor Books:

• Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath (Farrar Straus Giroux)

• Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)

2001 Medal Winner:  A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck (Dial)

Honor Books:

• Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)

• Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)

• The Wanderer by Sharon Creech (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)

2000 Medal Winner:  Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)

Honor Books:

• Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis (Putnam)

• Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm (HarperCollins)

• 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola (Putnam)

1999 Medal Winner: Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)

Honor Book:

• A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck (Dial)

1998 Medal Winner:   Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)

Honor Books:

• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (HarperCollins)

• Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (Delacorte)

• Wringer by Jerry Spinelli (HarperCollins)

1997 Medal Winner: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)

Honor Books:

• A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer (Richard Jackson/Orchard Books)

• Moorchild by Eloise McGraw (Margaret McElderry/Simon & Schuster)

• The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow/Morrow)

• Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White (Farrar Straus Giroux)

1996 Medal Winner:  The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)

Honor Books:

• What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman (Front Street)

• The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)

• Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner (Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster)

• The Great Fire by Jim Murphy (Scholastic)

1995 Medal Winner:   Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)

Honor Books:

• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (Clarion)

• The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer (Jackson/Orchard)

1994 Medal Winner:  The Giver by Lois Lowry (Houghton)

Honor Books:

• Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly (HarperCollins)

• Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep (HarperCollins)

• Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books)

1993 Medal Winner: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)

Honor Books:

• What Hearts by Bruce Brooks (A Laura Geringer Book, a HarperCollins imprint)

• The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack (Knopf)

• Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Hardcover)

1992 Medal Winner: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)

Honor Books:

• Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi (Jackson/Orchard)

• The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)

1991 Medal Winner: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)

Honor Book:

• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (Jackson/Orchard)

1990 Medal Winner: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Houghton)

Honor Books:

• Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle (Jackson/Orchard)

• Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples (Knopf)

• The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen (Jackson/Orchard)