The Newbery Medal is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. 105 medals have been given since 1922.
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All 105 Winners
The Newbery Medal is awarded to the author.
2020s
- ☐ All the Blues in the Sky (2026) — Renée Watson
- ☐ The First State of Being (2025) — Erin Entrada Kelly
- ☐ The Eyes and the Impossible (2024) — Dave Eggers
- ☐ Freewater (2023) — Amina Luqman-Dawson
- ☐ The Last Cuentista (2022) — Donna Barba Higuera
- ☐ When You Trap a Tiger (2021) — Tae Keller
- ☐ New Kid (2020) — Jerry Craft
2010s
- ☐ Merci Suárez Changes Gears (2019) — Meg Medina
- ☐ Hello, Universe (2018) — Erin Entrada Kelly
- ☐ The Girl Who Drank the Moon (2017) — Kelly Barnhill
- ☐ Last Stop on Market Street (2016) — Matt de la Peña
- ☐ The Crossover (2015) — Kwame Alexander
- ☐ Flora and Ulysses (2014) — Kate DiCamillo
- ☐ The One and Only Ivan (2013) — Katherine Applegate
- ☐ Dead End in Norvelt (2012) — Jack Gantos
- ☐ Moon over Manifest (2011) — Clare Vanderpool
- ☐ When You Reach Me (2010) — Rebecca Stead
2000s
- ☐ The Graveyard Book (2009) — Neil Gaiman
- ☐ Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! (2008) — Laura Amy Schlitz
- ☐ The Higher Power of Lucky (2007) — Susan Patron
- ☐ Criss Cross (2006) — Lynne Rae Perkins
- ☐ Kira-Kira (2005) — Cynthia Kadohata
- ☐ The Tale of Despereaux (2004) — Kate DiCamillo
- ☐ Crispin: the Cross of Lead (2003) — Avi
- ☐ A Single Shard (2002) — Linda Sue Park
- ☐ A Year Down Yonder (2001) — Richard Peck
- ☐ Bud, Not Buddy (2000) — Christopher Paul Curtis
1990s
- ☐ Holes (1999) — Louis Sachar
- ☐ Out of the Dust (1998) — Karen Hesse
- ☐ The View from Saturday (1997) — E. L. Konigsburg
- ☐ The Midwife's Apprentice (1996) — Karen Cushman
- ☐ Walk Two Moons (1995) — Sharon Creech
- ☐ The Giver (1994) — Lois Lowry
- ☐ Missing May (1993) — Cynthia Rylant
- ☐ Shiloh (1992) — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- ☐ Maniac Magee (1991) — Jerry Spinelli
- ☐ Number the Stars (1990) — Lois Lowry
1980s
- ☐ Joyful Noise (1989) — Paul Fleischman
- ☐ Lincoln: A Photobiography (1988) — Russell Freedman
- ☐ The Whipping Boy (1987) — Sid Fleischman
- ☐ Sarah, Plain and Tall (1986) — Patricia MacLachlan
- ☐ The Hero and the Crown (1985) — Robin McKinley
- ☐ Dear Mr. Henshaw (1984) — Beverly Cleary
- ☐ Dicey's Song (1983) — Cynthia Voigt
- ☐ A Visit to William Blake's Inn (1982) — Nancy Willard
- ☐ Jacob Have I Loved (1981) — Katherine Paterson
- ☐ A Gathering of Days (1980) — Joan W. Blos
1970s
- ☐ The Westing Game (1979) — Ellen Raskin
- ☐ Bridge to Terabithia (1978) — Katherine Paterson
- ☐ Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1977) — Mildred D. Taylor
- ☐ The Grey King (1976) — Susan Cooper
- ☐ M. C. Higgins, the Great (1975) — Virginia Hamilton
- ☐ The Slave Dancer (1974) — Paula Fox
- ☐ Julie of the Wolves (1973) — Jean Craighead George
- ☐ Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1972) — Robert C. O'Brien
- ☐ The Summer of the Swans (1971) — Betsy Byars
- ☐ Sounder (1970) — William H. Armstrong
1960s
- ☐ The High King (1969) — Lloyd Alexander
- ☐ From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1968) — E. L. Konigsburg
- ☐ Up a Road Slowly (1967) — Irene Hunt
- ☐ I, Juan de Pareja (1966) — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
- ☐ Shadow of a Bull (1965) — Maia Wojciechowska
- ☐ It's Like This, Cat (1964) — Emily Cheney Neville
- ☐ A Wrinkle in Time (1963) — Madeleine L'Engle
- ☐ The Bronze Bow (1962) — Elizabeth George Speare
- ☐ Island of the Blue Dolphins (1961) — Scott O'Dell
- ☐ Onion John (1960) — Joseph Krumgold
1950s
- ☐ The Witch of Blackbird Pond (1959) — Elizabeth George Speare
- ☐ Rifles for Watie (1958) — Harold Keith
- ☐ Miracles on Maple Hill (1957) — Virginia Sorensen
- ☐ Carry on, Mr. Bowditch (1956) — Jean Lee Latham
- ☐ The Wheel on the School (1955) — Meindert DeJong
- ☐ ...and Now Miguel (1954) — Joseph Krumgold
- ☐ Secret of the Andes (1953) — Ann Nolan Clark
- ☐ Ginger Pye (1952) — Eleanor Estes
- ☐ Amos Fortune, Free Man (1951) — Elizabeth Yates
- ☐ The Door in the Wall (1950) — Marguerite de Angeli
1940s
- ☐ King of the Wind (1949) — Marguerite Henry
- ☐ The Twenty-One Balloons (1948) — William Pene du Bois
- ☐ Miss Hickory (1947) — Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
- ☐ Strawberry Girl (1946) — Lois Lenski
- ☐ Rabbit Hill (1945) — Robert Lawson
- ☐ Johnny Tremain (1944) — Esther Hoskins Forbes
- ☐ Adam of the Road (1943) — Elizabeth Janet Gray
- ☐ The Matchlock Gun (1942) — Walter D. Edmonds
- ☐ Call It Courage (1941) — Armstrong Sperry
- ☐ Daniel Boone (1940) — James Daugherty
1930s
- ☐ Thimble Summer (1939) — Elizabeth Enright
- ☐ The White Stag (1938) — Kate Seredy
- ☐ Roller Skates (1937) — Ruth Sawyer
- ☐ Caddie Woodlawn (1936) — Carol Ryrie Brink
- ☐ Dobry (1935) — Monica Shannon
- ☐ Invincible Louisa (1934) — Cornelia Meigs
- ☐ Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze (1933) — Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
- ☐ Waterless Mountain (1932) — Laura Adams Armer
- ☐ The Cat Who Went to Heaven (1931) — Elizabeth Coatsworth
- ☐ Hitty Her First Hundred Years (1930) — Rachel Field
1920s
- ☐ The Trumpeter of Krakow (1929) — Eric P. Kelly
- ☐ Gay Neck (1928) — Dhan Gopal Mukerji
- ☐ Smoky, the Cowhorse (1927) — Will James
- ☐ Shen of the Sea (1926) — Arthur Bowie Chrisman
- ☐ Tales from Silver Lands (1925) — Charles J. Finger
- ☐ The Dark Frigate (1924) — Charles Boardman Hawes
- ☐ The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1923) — Hugh Lofting
- ☐ The Story of Mankind (1922) — Hendrik Willem Van Loon