Newbery Award Winners View Larger Image Newbery Award WinnersFor the most distinguished contribution to American Literature for Children. View our Printable BrochureBooksBooks 2021: When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller – JF KEL 2020: New Kid by Jerry Craft – GRAPHIC J CRA 2019: Merci Suaarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina – TWEEN F MED 2018: Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly – JF KEL 2017: The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill – JF BAR 2016: Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena – P DEL 2015: The Crossover by Kwame Alexander – JF ALE 2014: Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo – JF DIC 2013: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate – JF APP 2012: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos – JF GAN 2011: Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool – JF VAN 2010: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead – JF STE 2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman – JF GAI 2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz – J 812.6 SCH 2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron – JF PAT 2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins – YA PER 2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata – YA KAD 2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo – JF DIC 2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi – JF AVI 2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park – JF PAR 2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck – JF PEC 2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis – JF CUR 1999: Holes by Louis Sachar – JF SAC 1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse – JF HES 1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg – JF KON 1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech – YA CRE 1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry – YA LOW 1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant – JF RYL 1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor – JF NAY 1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli – JF SPI 1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry – JF LOW 1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman – J 811.54 FLE 1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman – JB LIN 1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman – JF FLE 1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan – JF MAC 1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary – JF CLE 1983: Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt Summer – JF VOI 1982: A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard – J 811.54 WIL 1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson – JF PAT 1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos – JF BLO 1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin – JF RAS 1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson – JF PAT 1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor – JF TAY 1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper – JF COO 1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton – JF HAM 1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox – JF Fox 1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien – JF OBR 1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars – JF BYA 1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong – JF ARM 1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander – JF ALE 1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska – JF WOJ 1964: It’s Like This, Cat by Emily Neville – JF NEV 1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle – JF LEN 1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare – JF SPE 1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell – JF ODE 1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold – JF KRU 1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare – JF SPE 1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith – JF KEI 1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen – JF SOR 1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham – JF LAT 1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong – JF DEJ 1954: …And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold – JF KRU 1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark – JF CLA 1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes – JF EST 1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli – JF DEA 1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry – JF HEN 1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois – JF DUB 1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey – JF BAI 1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski – JF LEN 1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson – JF LAW Ishva2022-01-25T14:48:04-05:00 Share This! FacebookXLinkedInTumblrPinterestEmail