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The Newbery Medals
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The Newbery Medals
The Newbery Medals are awarded each year by the American Library Association in honor of John Newbery, a famous children's book publisher from England. The Medal is given to the book that has made "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." The American Library Association gave the first medal in 1923 and has given it yearly ever since.
These books can be found in your school library or public libraries. Even though the award goes back to 1923, some of these books are classics that can be enjoyed over and over again today.
| 1998 | Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse |
| 1997 | The View From Saturday | E. L. Konigsburg |
| 1996 | The Midwife's Apprentice | Cushman |
| 1995 | Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech |
| 1994 | The Giver | Lois Lowry |
| 1993 | Missing May | Cynthia Rylant |
| 1992 | Shiloh - Review | Phyllis R. 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 | Nancy Willard |
| 1981 | Jacob Have I Loved | Katherine Paterson |
| 1980 | Gathering of Days | 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 | Grey King | Susan Cooper |
| 1975 | M.C. Higgins, the Great | Virginia Hamilton |
| 1974 | The Slave Dancer | Paula Fox |
| 1973 | Julie of the Wolves | Jean C. George |
| 1972 |
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh |
Robert C. O'Brien |
| 1971 | Summer of the Swans | Betsy C. Byars |
| 1970 | Sounder - Review | Will 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 Paraja | Elizabeth Trevino |
| 1965 | Shadow of a Bull | Wojciechowska |
| 1964 | It's Like This, Cat | Neville |
| 1963 | A Wrinkle in Time | L'Engle |
| 1962 | The Bronze Bow | Speare |
| 1961 | Island of the Blue Dolphin | O'Dell |
| 1960 | Onion John | Krumgold |
| 1959 | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Speare |
| 1958 | Rifles for Watie | Keith |
| 1957 | Miracles on Maple Hill | Sorensen |
| 1956 | Carry On, Mr. Bowditch | Latham |
| 1955 | The Wheel on the School | DeJong |
| 1954 | . . . And Now Miguel | Krumgold |
| 1953 | Secret of the Andes | Clark |
| 1952 | Ginger Pye | Estes |
| 1951 | Amos Fortune, Free Man | Yates |
| 1950 | The Door in the Wall | DeAngeli |
| 1949 | King of the Wind | Henry |
| 1948 | The Twenty-one Balloons | Dubois |
| 1947 | Miss Hickory | Bailey |
| 1946 | Strawberry Girl | Lenski |
| 1945 | Rabbit Hill | Lawson |
| 1944 | Johnny Tremain | Forbes |
| 1943 | Adam of the Road | Gray |
| 1942 | The Matchlock Gun | Edmonds |
| 1941 | Call it Courage | Sperry |
| 1940 | Daniel Boone | Daugherty |
| 1939 | Thimble Summer | Enright |
| 1938 | The White Stag | Seredy |
| 1937 | Roller Skates | Sawyer |
| 1936 | Caddie Woodlawn | Brink |
| 1935 | Dobry | Shannon |
| 1934 | Invincible Louis | A Meigs |
| 1933 | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | Lewis |
| 1932 | Waterless Mountain | Armer |
| 1931 | The Cat Who Went to Heaven | Coatsworth |
| 1930 | Hitty, Her First Hundred Years | Field |
| 1929 | The Trumpeter of Krakow | Kelly |
| 1928 | Gay-Neck, The Story of A Pigeon | Mukerj |
| 1927 | Smoky, The Cowhorse | James |
| 1926 | Shen by the Sea | Chrisman |
| 1925 | Tales from Silver Lands | Finger |
| 1924 | The Dark Frigate | Hawes |
| 1923 | The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle | Lofting |
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