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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.
| 2009 | ||||||||
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| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | Dave McKean | HarperCollins | ||||
| Honor Books | The Underneath | Kathi Appelt | David Small | Atheneum Books | ||||
| The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom | Margarita Engle | Henry Holt | ||||||
| Savvy | Ingrid Law | Dial Books | ||||||
| After Tupac & D Foster | Jacqueline Woodson | G.P. Putnam's Sons | ||||||
| 2008 | ||||||||
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| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village | Laura Amy Schlitz | Candlewick Press | |||||
| Honor Books | Elijah of Buxton | Christopher Paul Curtis | Scholastic | |||||
| The Wednesday Wars | Gary D. Schmidt | Clarion | ||||||
| Feathers | Jacqueline Woodson | Putnam | ||||||
| 2007 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | The Higher Power of Lucky | Susan Patron | Matt Phelan | Simon & Schuster / Richard Jackson | ||||
| Honor Books | Penny from Heaven | Jennifer L. Holm | Random House | |||||
| Hattie Big Sky | Kirby Larson | Delacorte Press | ||||||
| Rules | Cynthia Lord | Scholastic | ||||||
| 2006 | ||||||||
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| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Criss Cross | Lynne Rae Perkins | Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins | |||||
| Honor Books | Whittington | Alan Armstrong | S.D. Schindler | Random House | ||||
| Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Scholastic | ||||||
| Princess Academy | Shannon Hale | Bloomsbury Children's Books | ||||||
| Show Way | Jacqueline Woodson | Hudson Talbott | G.P. Putnam's Sons | |||||
| 2005 | ||||||||
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| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Kira-Kira | Cynthia Kadohata | Atheneum Books for Young Readers / Simon & Schuster | |||||
| Honor Books | Al Capone Does My Shirts | Gennifer Choldenko | G.P. Putnam's Sons / a division of Penguin Young Readers Group |
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| The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights |
Russell Freedman | Clarion Books / Houghton Mifflin | ||||||
| Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy | Gary D. Schmidt | Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin | ||||||
| 2004 | ||||||||
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| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread | Kate DiCamillo | Timothy Basil Ering | Candlewick Press | ||||
| Honor Books | Olive's Ocean | Kevin Henkes | Greenwillow Books | |||||
| An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | Jim Murphy | Clarion Books | ||||||
| 2003 | ||||||||
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| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Crispin: The Cross of Lead | Avi | Hyperion Books for Children | |||||
| Honor Books | The House of the Scorpion | Nancy Farmer | Atheneum | |||||
| Pictures of Hollis Woods | Patricia Reilly Giff | Random House / Wendy Lamb Books | ||||||
| Hoot | Carl Hiaasen | Knopf | ||||||
| A Corner of The Universe | Ann M. Martin | Scholastic | ||||||
| Surviving the Applewhites | Stephanie S. Tolan | HarperCollins | ||||||
| 2002 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | A Single Shard | Linda Sue Park | Clarion Books / Houghton Mifflin | |||||
| Honor Books | Everything on a Waffle | Polly Horvath | Farrar Straus Giroux | |||||
| Carver: A Life In Poems | Marilyn Nelson | Front Street | ||||||
| 2001 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | A Year Down Yonder | Richard Peck | Dial | |||||
| Honor Books | Hope Was Here | Joan Bauer | G.P. Putnam's Sons | |||||
| Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo | Candlewick Press | ||||||
| Joey Pigza Loses Control | Jack Gantos | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux | ||||||
| The Wanderer | Sharon Creech | Joanna Cotler Books / HarperCollins | ||||||
| 2000 | ||||||||
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| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis | Delacorte | |||||
| Honor Books | Getting Near to Baby | Audrey Couloumbis | Putnam | |||||
| Our Only May Amelia | Jennifer L. Holm | HarperCollins | ||||||
| 26 Fairmount Avenue | Tomie dePaola | Putnam | ||||||
