Newbery Medal Winners
1970 - Present
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2004 |
Olive's Ocean | Kevin Henkes |
| An American Plague | Jim Murphy | |
2003 |
The House of Scorpion | Nancy Farmer |
| Pictures of Hollis Wood | Patricia Reilly Giff | |
| Hoot | Carl Hiaasen | |
| A Corner of the Universe | Ann Martin | |
| Surviving the Applewhites | Stephanie Tolan | |
2002 |
Everything on a Waffle | Polly Horvath |
| Carver: A Life in Poems | Marilyn Nelson | |
2001 |
Hope Was Here | Joan Bauer |
| Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo | |
| Joey Pizga Loses Control | Jack Gantos | |
| The Wanderer | Sharon Creech | |
2000 |
Getting Near to Baby | Audrey Couloumbis |
| Our Only May Amelia | Jennifer Holm | |
1999 |
A Long Way From Chicago | Richard Peck |
1998 |
Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine |
| Lily's Crossing | Patricia Reilly Giff | |
| Wringer | Jerry Spinelli | |
1997 |
A Girl Named Disaster | Nancy Farmer |
| Moorchild | Eloise McGraw | |
| The Thief | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| Belle Prater's Boy | Ruth White | |
1996 |
What Jamie Saw | Carolyn Coman |
| The Watsons Go to Birmingham | Christopher Paul Curtis | |
| Yolanda's Genius | Carol Fenner | |
| The Great Fire | Jim Murphy | |
1995 |
Catherine, Called Birdy | Karen Cushman |
| The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm | Nancy Farmer | |
1994 |
Crazy Lady | Jane Leslie Conly |
| Dragon's Gate | Laurence Yep | |
| Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery | Russel Freedman | |
1993 |
What Hearts? | Bruce Brooks |
| The Dark Thirty | Patricia McKissack | |
| Somewhere in the Darkness | Walter Dean Myers | |
1992 |
Nothing But the Truth | Avi |
| The Wright Brothers | Russel Freedman | |
1991 |
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi |
1990 |
Afternoon of the Elves | Janet Taylor Lisle |
| Shabanu, Daughter of the Winds | Suzanne Fisher Staples | |
| The Winter Room | Gary Paulsen | |
1989 |
In the Beginning | Virginia Hamilton |
| Scorpions | Walter Dean Myers | |
1988 |
After the Rain | Norma Fox Mazer |
| Hatchet | Gary Paulsen | |
1987 |
A Fine White Dust | Cynthia Rylant |
| On My Honor | Marion Dane Bauer | |
| Volcano | Patricia Lauber | |
1986 |
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun | Rhoda Blumberg |
| Dogsong | Gary Paulsen | |
1985 |
Like Jake and Me | Mavis Jukes |
| The Moves Make the Man | Bruce Brooks | |
| One-Eyed Cat | Paula Fox | |
1984 |
The Sign of the Beaver | Elizabeth George Speare |
| A Solitary Blue | Cynthia Voight | |
| Sugaring Time | Kathryn Lasky | |
| The Wish Giver | Bill Brittain | |
1983 |
The Blue Sword | Robin McKinley |
| Doctor DeSoto | William Steig | |
| Graven Images | Paul Fleischman | |
| Homesick: My Own Story | Jean Fritz | |
| Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush | Virginia Hamilton | |
1982 |
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | Beverly Cleary |
| Upon the Head of a Goat | Aranka Siegal | |
1981 |
The Fledgling | Jane Langton |
| A Ring of Endless Light | Madeline L'engle | |
1980 |
The Road From Home | David Kherdian |
1979 |
The Great Gilly Hopkins | Katherine Paterson |
1978 |
Ramona and Her Father | Beverly Cleary |
| Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey | Jamake Highwater | |
1977 |
Abel's Island | William Steig |
| A String in the Harp | Nancy Bond | |
1976 |
The Hundred Penny Box | Sharon Bell Mathis |
| Dragonwings | Laurence Yep | |
1975 |
Figgs and Phantoms | Ellen Raskin |
| My Brother Sam is Dead | James Collier | |
| The Perilous Gard | Elizabeth Marie Pope | |
| Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe | Bette Greene | |
1974 |
The Dark is Rising | Susan Cooper |
1973 |
Frog and Toad Together | Arnold Lobel |
| The Upstairs Room | Johanna Reiss | |
| The Witches of Worm | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | |
1972 |
Incident at Hawk's Hill | Allen Eckert |
| The Planet of Junior Brown | Virginia Hamilton | |
| The Tombs of Atuan | Ursula K. LeGuin | |
| Annie and the Old One | Miska Miles | |
| The Headless Cupid | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | |
1971 |
Knee Knock Rise | Natalie Babbitt |
| Enchantress from the Stars | Sylvia Louise Engdahl | |
| Sing Down the Moon | Scott O'Dell | |
1970 |
Our Eddie | Sulmaith Ish-Kishor |
| The Many Ways of Seeing | Janet Gaylord Moore |
