The John Newbery MedalThe Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
John Newbery Medal Winners available from Mail-A-Book:
2006:
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins2005:
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata2004:
The Tale of Despereaux:by Kate DiCamillo2003:
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
2002:
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
2001:
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck2000:
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis1999:
Holes by Louis Sachar1998:
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
1997:
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg1996:
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman1995:
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech1994:
The Giver by Lois Lowry1993:
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant1992:
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor1991:
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli1990:
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry1989:
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
1988:
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman1987:
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman 1985:
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley1984:
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary1980:
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal by Joan W. Blos1978:
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson1977:
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor1975:
M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton1973:
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George1963:
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle1959:
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare1953:
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
