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Newbery List
The 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. This is a complete list of Newbery medal and honor books from 1922 to present.
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| 1959 |
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Illustrator |
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| Medal Winner |
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
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Elizabeth George Speare |
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Houghton |
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| Honor Books |
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The Family Under The Bridge |
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Natalie Savage Carlson |
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Harper |
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| Along Came A Dog |
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Meindert Dejong |
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Harper |
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| Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa |
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Francis Kalnay |
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Harcourt |
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| The Perilous Road |
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William O. Steele |
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Harcourt |
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| 1958 |
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Book Title |
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Illustrator |
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| Medal Winner |
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Rifles for Watie |
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Harold Keith |
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Crowell |
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| Honor Books |
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The Horsecatcher |
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Mari Sandoz |
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Westminster |
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| Gone-Away Lake |
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Elizabeth Enright |
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Harcourt |
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| The Great Wheel |
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Robert Lawson |
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Viking |
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| Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle |
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Leo Gurko |
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Crowell |
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| 1957 |
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Illustrator |
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| Medal Winner |
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Miracles on Maple Hill |
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Virginia Sorensen |
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Harcourt |
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| Honor Books |
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Old Yeller |
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Fred Gipson |
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Harper |
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| The House of Sixty Fathers |
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Meindert DeJong |
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Harper |
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| Mr. Justice Holmes |
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Mr. Justice Holmes |
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Follett |
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| The Corn Grows Ripe |
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Dorothy Rhoads |
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Vikin |
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| Black Fox of Lorne |
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Marguerite de Angeli |
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Doubleday |
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| 1956 |
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Illustrator |
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| Medal Winner |
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditch |
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Jean Lee Latham |
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Houghton |
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| Honor Books |
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The Secret River |
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
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Scribner |
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| The Golden Name Day |
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Jennie Lindquist |
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Harper |
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| Men, Microscopes, and Living Things |
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Katherine Shippen |
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Viking |
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| 1955 |
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Illustrator |
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| Medal Winner |
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The Wheel on the School |
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Meindert DeJong |
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Harper |
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| Honor Books |
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Courage of Sarah Noble |
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Alice Dalgliesh |
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Scribner |
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| Banner In The Sky |
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James Ullman |
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Lippincott |
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| 1954 |
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| Medal Winner |
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...And Now Miguel |
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Joseph Krumgold |
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Crowell |
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| Honor Books |
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All Alone |
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Claire Huchet Bishop |
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Viking |
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| Shadrach |
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Meindert Dejong |
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Harper |
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| Hurry Home, Candy |
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Meindert Dejong |
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Harper |
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| Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot |
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Clara Ingram Judson |
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Follett |
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| Magic Maize |
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Mary & Conrad Buff |
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Houghton |
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| 1953 |
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| Medal Winner |
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Secret of the Andes |
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Ann Nolan Clark |
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Viking |
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| Honor Books |
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Charlotte's Web |
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E. B. White |
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Harper |
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| Moccasin Trail |
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Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
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Coward |
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| Red Sails to Capri |
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Ann Weil |
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Viking |
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| The Bears on Hemlock Mountain |
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Alice Dalgliesh |
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Scribner |
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| Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 |
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Genevieve Foster |
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Scribner |
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| 1952 |
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Book Title |
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Illustrator |
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| Medal Winner |
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Ginger Pye |
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Eleanor Estes |
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Harcourt |
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| Honor Books |
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Americans Before Columbus |
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Elizabeth Baity |
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Viking |
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| Minn of the Mississippi |
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Holling C. Holling |
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Houghton |
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| The Defender |
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Nicholas Kalashnikoff |
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Scribner |
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| The Light at Tern Rock |
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Julia Sauer |
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Viking |
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| The Apple and the Arrow |
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Mary & Conrad Buff |
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Houghton |
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| 1951 |
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Book Title |
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| Medal Winner |
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Amos Fortune, Free Man |
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Elizabeth Yates |
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Dutton |
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| Honor Books |
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Better Known as Johnny Appleseed |
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Mabel Leigh Hunt |
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Lippincott |
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| Old Ramon |
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Jack Schaefer |
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Houghton |
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| Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword |
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Jeanette Eaton |
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Morrow |
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| Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People |
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Clara Ingram Judson |
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Follett |
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| The Story of Appleby Capple |
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Anne Parrish |
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Harper |
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| 1950 |
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Book Title |
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| Medal Winner |
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The Door in the Wall |
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Marguerite de Angeli |
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Doubleday |
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| Honor Books |
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Tree of Freedom |
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Rebecca Caudill |
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Viking |
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| The Blue Cat of Castle Town |
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Catherine Coblentz |
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Longmans |
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| Kildee House |
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Rutherford Montgomery |
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Doubleday |
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| Genevieve Foster |
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Genevieve Foster |
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Scribner |
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Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian
Lumbering in Wisconsin |
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Walter & Marion Havighurst |
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Winston |
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