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Award-Winning Fiction: Newbery Medal and Honor Books

Award-winners in contemporary literature, mystery fiction, and science fiction and fantasy

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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.

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Winners by Year

2015

The Crossover -- Kwame Alexander (pg. 240) Medal

El Deafo -- Cece Bell (pg. 248) Honor

Brown Girl Dreaming -- Jacqueline Woodson (pg. 352) Honor

2012

           Dead End in Norvelt  --  Jack Gantos    PZ7.G15334 DD 2011 (pg. 341)   Medal

           Inside Out & Back Again   -- Thanhha Lai    PZ7.5 .L35 IN 2011 (pg. 262)   Honor

           Breaking Stalin's Nose   -- Eugene Yelchin      PS 3566 .E2187 B56 2011 Honor

2011

           Moon over Manifest  --  Clare Vanderpool    PZ7 .P28393 MO 2010  (pg. 351)   Medal

           Turtle in Paradise   --  Jennifer L. Holm    PZ7 .H732226 TU 2011 Honor

           Heart of a Samurai   --  Margi Preus     PZ7 .P92434 HE 2010 Honor

2010

            When You Reach Me  --  Rebecca Stead    PZ7 S80857 WH 2009    (pg. 199)   Medal

            Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice  --  Phillip Hoose   Honor

            The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate  --  Jacqueline Kelly   Honor

            Where the Mountain Meets the Moon  --  Grace Lin   Honor

            The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg  --  Rodman Philbrick   Honor

2009

            The Graveyard Book  --  Neil Gaiman   PZ7 G1273 2008   (pg. 312)   Medal

            The Underneath  --  Kathi Appelt   Honor

            The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom  --  Margarita Engle   Honor

            Savvy  --  Ingrid Law   Honor

            After Tupac & D Foster  --  Jacqueline Woodson   Honor

2008

            Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village  --  Laura Amy Schlitz  PZ7 S35 GO 2007   (pg. 85)   Medal

            Elijah of Buxton  --  Christopher Paul Curtis   PZ7 C94137 EL 2007   (pg. 341)   Honor

            The Wednesday Wars  --  Gary D. Schmidt   PZ7 S3527 WE 2007   (pg. 204)   Honor

            Feathers  --  Jacqueline Woodson   PZ7 W868 FE 2007   (pg. 118)   Honor

2007

            The Higher Power of Lucky  --  Susan Patron   PZ7 P27565 HIG 2006   (pg. 134)  Medal

            Penny From Heaven  --  Jennifer L. Holm   PZ7 H732226 PEN 2006   (pg. 274)   Honor

            Hattie Big Sky  --  Kirby Larson   PZ7 L32394 HAT 2006   (pg. 289)   Honor

            Rules  --  Cynthia Lord   PZ7 L87734 RUL 2008   (pg. 200)   Honor

2006

            Criss Cross  --  Lynne Rae Perkins   PZ7 P4313 CR 2005   (pg. 337)   Medal 

            Whittington  --  Alan Armstrong   PZ7 A8625 WH 2005   (pg. 191)   Honor

            Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow  --  Susan Campbell Bartoletti   DD253 B37 2005   (pg. 176)   Honor

            Princess Academy  --  Shannon Hale   PZ7 H13824 PR 2005   (pg. 314)   Honor

            Show Way  --  Jacqueline Woodson   PZ7 W868 SH 2005   (unpaged)   Honor

2005

            Kira-Kira  --  Cynthis Kadohata   PZ7 K1166 KI 2004   (pg. 244)   Medal

            Al Capone Does My Shirts  --  Gennifer Choldenko   PZ7 C446265 AL 2004   (pg. 228)     Honor

            The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights  --  Russell Freedman   ML3930 A5 F73 2004  (pg. 114)   Honor

            Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy  --   Gary D. Schmidt  PZ7 S3527 LI 2004   (pg.219)   Honor

2004

            The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread  --  Kate DiCamillo   PZ7 D525 TAL 2003   (pg. 267)   Medal

            Olive’s Ocean  --  Kevin Henkes   PZ7 H389 OL 2005   (pg. 217)   Honor

            An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793  --  Jim Murphy   RA644 Y4 M875 2003   (pg. 165)   Honor

2003

            Crispin: The Cross of Lead  --  Avi  PZ7 A953 CR 2002   (pg. 262)   Medal

            The House of the Scorpion  --  Nancy Farmer   Honor

            Pictures of Hollis Woods  --  Patricia Reilly Giff   PZ7 G3626 PK 2004   (pg.166) Honor

            Hoot  --  Carl Hiaasen   PZ7 H52 2002   (pg. 292)   Honor

            A Corner of The Universe  --  Ann M. Martin   Honor

            Surviving the Applewhites  --  Stephanie S. Tolan   Honor

2002

            A Single Shard  --  Linda Sue Park   PZ7 P22115 SI 2001   (pg. 152)   Medal

            Everything on a Waffle  --  Polly Horvath   Honor

            Carver: A Life in Poems  --  Marilyn Nelson   Honor

2001

            A Year Down Yonder  --  Richard Peck   PZ7 P338 YH 2000   (pg. 130)   Medal

            Hope Was Here  --  Joan Bauer   Honor

            Because of Winn-Dixie  --  Kate DiCamillo   Honor

            Joey Pigza Loses Control  --  Jack Gantos   Honor

            The Wanderer  --  Sharon Creech   Honor

2000

            Bud Not Buddy  --  Christopher Paul Curtis   PZ7 C94137 BU 2002   (pg. 245)   Medal

            Getting Near to Baby  --  Audrey Couloumbis   Honor

            Our Only May Amelia  --  PZ7 H732226 OU 2000   (pg. 253)   Honor

            26 Fairmont Avenue  --  Tomie dePaola   Honor

1999

            Holes  --  Louis Sachar   PZ7 S1185 HO 2000   (pg. 233)   Medal

1998

            Out of Dust  --  Karen Hesse   Medal

            Lily’s Crossing  --  Patricia Reilly Giff   PZ7 G3626 LI 1999   (pg. 180)  Honor

1997

            The View from Saturday  --  E. L. Konigsburg   PZ7 K8352 VI 1996   (pg. 163)   Medal

            Belle Prater’s Boy  --  Ruth White   PZ7 W58446 BE 2004   (pg. 196)   Honor

1996

            The Midwife’s Apprentice  --  Karen Cushman   PZ7 C962 MI 1995   (pg. 122)   Medal

            The Watsons Go To Birmingham:1963  --  Christopher Paul Curtis   PZ7 C94137 WAT 1997   (pg. 210)   Honor

1995

            Walk Two Moons  --  Sharon Creech   PZ7 C8615 WAL 1994   (pg. 280)   Medal

1994

            The Giver  --  Lois Lowry   PZ7 L9673 GI 1993   (pg. 180)   Medal

            Dragon’s Gate  --  Laurence Yep   PZ7 Y44 DQR 1993   (pg. 273)   Honor

1993

            Missing May  --  Cynthia Rylant    PZ7 R982 MJ 1993   (pg. 89)   Medal

1992

           Shiloh  --  Phyllis Reynolds   PZ7 N24 SG 2000   (pg. 137)   Medal

1991

            Maniac Magee  --  Jerry Spinelli   Medal

            The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle  --  Avi   PZ7 A953 TR 1997   (pg. 229)  Honor

1990

            Number the Stars  --  Lois Lowry   PZ7 L9673 NU 1989   (pg. 137)   Medal

            The Winter Room  --  Gary Paulsen   PZ7 P2843 WH 1989   (pg. 103)   Honor

1989

            Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices  --  Paul Fleischman   Medal

1988

            Lincoln: A Photobiography  --  Russell Freedman   Medal

            Hatchet  --  Gary Paulsen   PZ7 P2843 HAT 1987   (pg. 195)   Honor

1987

            The Whipping Boy  --  Sid Fleischman   PZ7 F5992 WH 2003   (pg. 90)   Medal

            A Fine White Dust  --  Cynthis Rylant   PZ7 R982 FI    (pg. 106)   Honor

1986

            Sarah, Plain and Tall  --  Patricia MacLachlan   PZ7 M2225 SAR 1985   (pg. 58)   Medal

1985

            The Hero and the Crown  --  Robin McKinley   PZ7 M157 HE   (pg. 246)   Medal

1984

            Dear Mr. Henshaw  --  Beverly Cleary    Medal

            The Sign of the Beaver  --  Elizabeth George Speare   PZ7 S7376 SI 2005   (pg. 135) Honor

1983

            Dicey’s Song  --  Cynthis Voigt   PZ7 V874 DI 2003   Medal

1982

            A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers  --  Nancy Willard   Medal

1981

            Jacob Have I Loved  --  Katherine Paterson   PZ7 P273 JAC 2004   (pg. 263)   Medal

1980

            A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832  --  Joan W. Blos   PZ7 B6237 GAT 1990   (pg. 144)   Medal