Newbery Award

The Newbery Award recognizes the best authors for Children's Literature.

2022
The Last Cuentista

2021
When You Trap a Tiger

2020
New Kid

New Kid

2019
Merci Suárez Changes Gears

2018
Hello, Universe

2017
The Girl Who Drank the Moon

2016
Last Stop on Market Street

2015
The Crossover

2014
Flora & Ulysses

Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

2013
The One and Only Ivan

2012
Dead End in Norvelt

2011
Moon Over Manifest

2010
When You Reach Me

2009
The Graveyard Book

2008
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
Good Masters Sweet Ladies

2007
The Higher Power of Lucky

2006
Criss Cross

2004
The Tale of Despereaux

2003
Crispin: The Cross of Lead

2002
A Single Shard

2001
A Year Down Yonder

2000
Bud, Not Buddy

1999
Holes

Holes

1998
Out of the Dust

1997
The View from Saturday

1996
The Midwife's Apprentice

1995
Walk Two Moons

1993
Missing May

1992
Shiloh

Shiloh

1991
Maniac Magee

1990
Number the Stars

1989
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

1988
Lincoln: A Photobiography
Lincoln A Photobiography

1987
The Whipping Boy

1986
Sarah, Plain and Tall

1985
The Hero and the Crown

1984
Dear Mr. Henshaw

1983
Dicey's Song

1982
A Visit to William Blake's Inn

1981
Jacob Have I Loved

1980
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal

1979
The Westing Game

1978
Bridge to Terabithia

1977
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

1976
The Grey King

1975
M. C. Higgins, the Great

1974
The Slave Dancer

1973
Julie of the Wolves

1972
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

1971
Summer of the Swans

1970
Sounder

Sounder

1969
The High King

1968
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

1967
Up a Road Slowly

1966
I, Juan de Pareja

1965
Shadow of a Bull

1964
It's Like This, Cat

1963
A Wrinkle in Time

1962
The Bronze Bow

1961
Island of the Blue Dolphins

1960
Onion John

1959
The Witch of Blackbird Pond

1958
Rifles for Watie

1957
Miracles on Maple Hill

1956
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

1955
The Wheel on the School

1954
...And Now Miguel

1953
Secret of the Andes

1952
Ginger Pye

1951
Amos Fortune, Free Man

1950
The Door in the Wall

1949
King of the Wind

1948
The Twenty-One Balloons

1947
Miss Hickory

1946
Strawberry Girl

1945
Rabbit Hill

1944
Johnny Tremain

1943
Adam of the Road

1942
The Matchlock Gun

1941
Call It Courage

1939
Thimble Summer

1938
The White Stag

1937
Roller Skates

1936
Caddie Woodlawn

1935
Dobry

Dobry

1933
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze

1932
Waterless Mountain

1931
The Cat Who Went to Heaven

1930
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years

1929
The Trumpeter of Krakow

1928
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon

1927
Smoky the Cow Horse

1926
Shen of the Sea

1924
The Dark Frigate

1923
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

1922
The Story of Mankind

The Newbery Award is awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association. Click here to learn more about this award.