The Newbery Medal is awarded by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's books published the previous year. On June 21, 1921, Frederic G. Melcher proposed to the American Library Association meeting of the children's Librarians' Section that a medal be given for the most distinguished children's book of the year... For more information visit the official Newbery Medal homepage.
Click on the title to see copies owned by the Alvin Sherman Library.
(* a red star means the book has been ordered, but has not arrived at the library yet)
| 2008 |
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village -
Laura Amy Schlitz |
| 2007 |
The Higher Power of Lucky - Susan Patron |
| 2006 |
Criss Cross -
Lynne Rae Perkins |
| 2005 |
Kira-Kira - Cynthia Kadohata |
|
2004 |
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread - Kate DiCamillo |
|
2003 |
Crispin:
The Cross of Lead -
Avi |
|
2002 |
A Single Shard - Linda Sue Park |
|
2001 |
A Year Down Yonder - Richard Peck |
|
2000 |
Bud, Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis |
|
1999 |
Holes -
Louis Sachar |
|
1998 |
Out
of the Dust - Karen Hesse |
|
1997 |
The View from Saturday - E.L. Konigsburg |
|
1996 |
The
Midwife's Apprentice - Karen Cushman |
|
1995 |
Walk
Two Moons - Sharon Creech |
|
1994 |
The Giver
- Lois Lowry |
|
1993 |
Missing
May - Cynthia Rylant |
|
1992 |
Shiloh
- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
|
1991 |
Maniac Magee - Jerry Spinelli |
|
1990 |
Number the Stars - Lois Lowry |
|
1989 |
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices - Paul Fleischman |
|
1988 |
Lincoln: A Photobiography - Russell Freedman |
|
1987 |
The Whipping Boy - Sid Fleischman |
|
1986 |
Sarah, Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan |
|
1985 |
The Hero and the Crown - Robin McKinley |
|
1984 |
Dear
Mr. Henshaw - Beverly Cleary |
|
1983 |
Dicey's Song - Cynthia Voigt |
|
1982 |
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers - Nancy Willard |
|
1981 |
Jacob
Have I Loved - Katherine Paterson |
|
1980 |
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 - Joan W. Blos |
|
1979 |
The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin |
|
1978 |
Bridge
to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson |
|
1977 |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor |
|
1976 |
The Grey King - Susan Cooper |
|
1975 |
M. C. Higgins, the Great - Virginia Hamilton |
|
1974 |
The
Slave Dancer - Paula Fox |
|
1973 |
Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craighead George |
|
1972 |
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien |
|
1971 |
Summer
of the Swans - Betsy Byars |
|
1970 |
Sounder -
William H. Armstrong |
|
1969 |
The High King - Lloyd Alexander |
|
1968 |
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E.L. Konigsburg |
|
1967 |
Up a Road Slowly - Irene Hunt |
|
1966 |
I,
Juan de Pareja - Elizabeth Borton de Trevino |
|
1965 |
Shadow of a Bull - Maia Wojciechowska |
|
1964 |
It's Like This, Cat - Emily Neville |
|
1963 |
A
Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle |
|
1962 |
The
Bronze Bow - Elizabeth George Speare |
|
1961 |
Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell |
|
1960 |
Onion John - Joseph Krumgold |
|
1959 |
The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare |
|
1958 |
Rifles
for Watie - Harold Keith |
|
1957 |
Miracles on Maple Hill - Virginia Sorenson |
|
1956 |
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch - Jean Lee Latham |
|
1955 |
The Wheel on the School - Meindert DeJong |
|
1954 |
...And
Now Miguel - Joseph Krumgold |
|
1953 |
Secret of the Andes - Ann Nolan Clark |
|
1952 |
Ginger Pye - Eleanor Estes |
|
1951 |
Amos Fortune, Free Man - Elizabeth Yates |
|
1950 |
The Door in the Wall - Marguerite de Angeli |
|
1949 |
King of the Wind - Marguerite Henry |
|
1948 |
The Twenty-One Balloons - William Pène du Bois |
|
1947 |
Miss Hickory - Carolyn Sherwin Bailey |
|
1946 |
Strawberry
Girl - Lois Lenski |
|
1945 |
Rabbit Hill - Robert Lawson |
|
1944 |
Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes |
|
1943 |
Adam
of the Road - Elizabeth Janet Gray |
|
1942 |
The
Matchlock Gun - Walter Edmonds |
|
1941 |
Call It Courage - Armstrong Sperry |
|
1940 |
Daniel Boone - James Daugherty |
|
1939 |
Thimble Summer - Elizabeth Enright |
|
1938 |
The
White Stag - Kate Seredy |
|
1937 |
Roller Skates - Ruth Sawyer |
|
1936 |
Caddie
Woodlawn - Carol Ryrie Brink |
|
1935 |
Dobry - Monica Shannon |
|
1934 |
Invincible
Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women - Cornelia
Meigs |
|
1933 |
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze - Elizabeth Lewis |
|
1932 |
Waterless Mountain - Laura Adams Armer |
|
1931 |
The Cat Who Went to Heaven - Elizabeth Coatsworth |
|
1930 |
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years - Rachel Field |
|
1929 |
The Trumpeter of Krakow - Eric P. Kelly |
|
1928 |
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon - Dhan Gopal Mukerji |
|
1927 |
Smoky, the Cowhorse - Will James |
|
1926 |
Shen of the Sea - Arthur Bowie Chrisman |
|
1925 |
Tales from Silver Lands - Charles Finger |
|
1924 |
The Dark Frigate - Charles Hawes |
|
1923 |
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle - Hugh Lofting |
|
1924 |
The Story of Mankind - Hendrik Willem van Loon |