The John Newbery Medal Award Winners

2005

Kira-Kira

Cynthia Kadohata

2004

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

Kate DiCamillo

2003

Crispin: The Cross of Lead

Avi

2002

A Single Shard

Linda Sue Park

2001

A Year Down Yonder

Richard Peck

2000

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopheer Paul Curtis

1999

The Holes

Louis Sachar

1998

Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse

1997

The View from Saturday

E. L. Koingsburg

1996

The Midwife’s Apprentice

Karen Cushman

1995

Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech

1994

The Giver

Lois Lowry

1993

Missing May

Cynthia Rylant

1992

Shiloh

Phyllis Reynolds

1991

Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli

1990

Number the Stars

Lois Lowry

1989

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

Paul Fleischman

1988

Lincoln

Freeman

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

Nancy Willard

1981

Jacob Have I Loved

Katherine Paterson

1980

A 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

The Grey King

Susan Cooper

1975

M. C. Higgins, the Great

Virginia Hamilton

1974

The Slave Dancer

Paula Fox

1973

Julie of the Wolves

Jean Craighead George

1972

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of N. I. M. H.

Robert C. O'Brien

1971

The Summer of the Swans

Betsy Byars

1970

Sounder

William H. Armstrong

1969

The High King

Lloyd Alexander

1968

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E. L. Koingsburg

1967

Up a Road Slowly

Irene Hunt

1966

I, Juan de Pareja

Elizabeth Borton De Trevino

1965

Shadow of a Bull

Maia Wojciechowska

1964

It's Like This, Cat

Emily Neville

1963

A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle

1962

The Bronze Bow

Elizabeth George Speare

1961

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Scott O'Dell

1960

Onion John

Joseph Krumgold

1959

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Elizabeth George Speare

1958

Rifles for Watie

Harold Keith

1957

Miracles on Maple Hill

Virginia Sorensen

1956

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch

Jean Lee Latham

1955

The Wheel on the School

Meindert DeJong

1954

And Now Miguel

Joseph Krumgold

1953

Secret of the Andes

Ann Nolan CLark

1952

Ginger Pye

Eleanor Estes

1951

Amos Fortune, Free Man

Elizabeth Yates

1950

The Door in the Wall

Marguerite de Angeli

1949

King of the Wind

Marguerite Henry

1948

The Twenty-one Balloons

Willliam Pene de Bois

1947

Miss Hickory

Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

1946

Strawberry Girl

Lois Lenski

1945

Rabbit Hill

Robert Lawson

1944

Johnny Tremain

Esther Forbes

1943

Adam of the Road

Elizabeth Janet Gray

1942

The Matchlock Gun

Walter D. Edmonds

1941

Call it Courage

Armstrong Sperry

1940

Daniel Boone

James Daugherty

1939

Thimble Summer

Elizabeth Enright

1938

The White Stag

Kate Seredy

1937

Roller Skates

Ruth Sawyer

1936

Caddie Woodlawn

Carol Ryrie Brink

1935

Dobry

Monical Shannon

1934

Invincible Louisa

Cornelia Meigs

1933

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze

Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

1932

Waterless Mountain

Laura Adams Armer

1931

The Cat Who Went to Heaven

Elizabeth Coatsworth

1930

Hitty, Her First Hundred Years

Rachel Field

1929

The Trumpeter of Krakow

Eric P. Kelly

1928

Gay-Neck

Dhan Gopal Mukerji

1927

Smoky, the Cowhorse

Will James

1926

Shen of the Sea

Arthur Bowie Chrisman

1925

Tales from Silver Lands

Charles J. Finger

1924

The Dark Frigate

Charles Boardman Hawes

1923

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Hugh Lofting

1922

The Story of Mankind

Hendrik Van Loon