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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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| 1979 |
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Illustrator |
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| Medal Winner |
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The Westing Game |
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Ellen Raskin |
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Dutton |
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| Honor Books |
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The Great Gilly Hopkins |
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Katherine Paterson |
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Crowell |
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| 1978 |
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Illustrator |
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| Medal Winner |
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LBridge to Terabithia |
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Katherine Paterson |
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Crowell |
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| Honor Books |
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Ramona and Her Father |
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Beverly Cleary |
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Morrow |
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| Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey |
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Jamake Highwater |
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Lippincott |
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| 1977 |
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| Medal Winner |
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
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Mildred D. Taylor |
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Dial |
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| Honor Books |
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Abel's Island |
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William Steig |
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Farrar |
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| A String in the Harp |
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Nancy Bond |
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Atheneum |
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| 1976 |
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| Medal Winner |
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The Grey King |
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Susan Cooper |
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McElderry/Atheneum |
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| Honor Books |
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The Hundred Penny Box |
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Sharon Bell Mathis |
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Viking |
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| Dragonwings |
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Laurence Yep |
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Harper |
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| 1975 |
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| Medal Winner |
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M. C. Higgins, the Great |
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Virginia Hamilton |
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Macmillan |
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| Honor Books |
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Figgs & Phantoms |
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Ellen Raskin |
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Dutton |
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| My Brother Sam is Dead |
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James Lincoln Collier &
Christopher Collier |
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Four Winds |
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| The Perilous Gard |
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Elizabeth Marie Pope |
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Houghton |
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| Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe |
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Bette Greene |
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Dial |
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| 1974 |
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Illustrator |
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| Medal Winner |
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The Slave Dancer |
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Paula Fox |
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Bradbury |
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| Honor Books |
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The Dark Is Rising |
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Susan Cooper |
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McElderry/Atheneum |
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| 1973 |
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| Medal Winner |
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Julie of the Wolves |
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Jean Craighead George |
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Harper |
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Frog and Toad Together |
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Arnold Lobel |
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Harper |
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| The Upstairs Room |
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Johanna Reiss |
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Crowell |
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| The Witches of Worm |
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Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
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Atheneum |
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| 1972 |
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH |
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Robert C. O'Brien |
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Atheneum |
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| Honor Books |
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Incident At Hawk's Hill |
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Allan W. Eckert |
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Little, Brown |
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| The Planet of Junior Brown |
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Virginia Hamilton |
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Macmillan |
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| The Tombs of Atuan |
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Ursula K. LeGuin |
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Atheneum |
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| Annie and the Old One |
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Miska Miles |
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Little, Brown |
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| The Headless Cupid |
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Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
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Atheneum |
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| 1971 |
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| Medal Winner |
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Summer of the Swans |
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Betsy Byars |
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Viking |
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| Honor Books |
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Knee Knock Rise |
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Natalie Babbitt |
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Farrar |
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| Enchantress From the Stars |
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Sylvia Louise Engdahl |
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Atheneum |
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| Sing Down the Moon |
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Scott O'Dell |
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Houghton |
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| 1970 |
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Book Title |
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Illustrator |
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| Medal Winner |
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Sounder |
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William H. Armstrong |
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Harper |
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| Honor Books |
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Our Eddie |
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Sulamith Ish-Kishor |
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Pantheon |
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The Many Ways of Seeing:
An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art |
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Janet Gaylord Moore |
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World |
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| Journey Outside |
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Mary Q. Steele |
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Viking |
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