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Children's Literature

Newbery Winners

The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

Note: All books listed are in the Children's Literature collection in SJU Library's CMC (Curriculum Materials Center).
You may check a book's availability by clicking the call number.

Year Author Title CMC Call Number
2024 Eggers, Dave The Eyes & The Impossible PZ7.E288 E94 2023
2023 Luqman-Dawson, Amina Freewater PZ7.L97915 F74 2022
2022 Higuera, Donna Barba The Last Cuentista PZ7.H5447 L37 2021
2021 Keller, Tae When You Trap a Tiger PZ7.K28135 W44 2020
2020 Craft, Jerry New Kid PZ7.7.C734 N49 2019
2019 Medina, Meg Merci Suárez Changes Gears PZ7.M51276 M4 2018
2018 Kelly, Erin Entrada Hello Universe PZ7.K2943 H45 2017
2017 Barnhill, Kelly The Girl Who Drank the Moon PZ7.B26663 G57 2016
2016 de la Peña, Matt Last Stop on Market Street PZ7.P3725 L37 2015
2015 Alexander, Kwame The Crossover PZ7.5.A44 C7 2014
2014 DiCamillo, Kate Flora & Ulysses PZ7.D5455 F56 2013
2013 Applegate, Katherine The One and Only Ivan PZ7.A6483 O6 2012
2012 Gantos, Jack Dead End in Norvelt PZ7.G15334 D4 2011
2011 Vanderpool, Clare Moon over Manifest PZ7.V28393 M66 2010
2010 Stead, Rebecca When You Reach Me PZ7.S80857 W4 2009
2009 Gaiman, Neil The Graveyard Book PZ7.G1273 G7 2008 
2008 Schlitz, Laura Amy Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
Voices from a Medieval Village
PS3619.S36 G66 2007
2007 Patron, Susan The Higher Power of Lucky PZ7.P27565 H54 2006 
2006 Perkins, Lynne Rae Criss Cross PZ7.P4313 C7 2005 
2005 Kadohata, Cynthia Kira-Kira PZ7.K1186 K5 2004 
2004 DiCamillo, Kate The Tale of Despereaux PZ8.D525 T35 2003
2003 Avi Crispin: The Cross of Lead PZ7.A953 C7 2002
2002 Park, Linda Sue A Single Shard PZ7.P22115 S5 2001
2001 Peck, Richard A Year Down Yonder PZ7.P338 Y4 2000
2000 Curtis, Christopher Paul Bud, Not Buddy PZ7.C94137 B8 1999
1999 Sachar, Louise Holes PZ7.S1185 H6 1998
1998 Hesse, Karen Out of the Dust PZ7.H4364 O8 1997
1997 Konigsburg, E.L. The View from Saturday PZ7.K8352 V54 1996
1996 Cushman , Karen The Midwife's Apprentice PZ7.C962 M5 1995
1995 Creech, Sharon Walk Two Moons PZ7.C8615 W35 1994
1994 Lowry, Lois The Giver PZ7.L9673 G58 1993
1993 Rylant, Cynthia Missing May PZ7.R982 M57 1992
1992 Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Shiloh PZ7.N24 S45 1991
1991 Spinelli, Jerry Maniac Magee PZ7.S75663 M36 1990
1990 Lowry, Lois Number the Stars PZ7.L9673 N86 1989
1989 Fleischman, Paul Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices PS3556.F55 J6 1988
1988 Freedman, Russell Lincoln: A Photobiography E457.905 .F73 1987
1987 Fleischman, Sid The Whipping Boy PZ7.F5992 W5 1986
1986 MacLachlan, Patricia Sarah, Plain and Tall PZ7.M2225 S3 1985
1985 McKinley, Robin The Hero and the Crown PZ7.M47868 H4 1984
1984 Cleary, Beverly Dear Mr. Henshaw PZ7.C5792 D4 1983
1983 Voigt, Cynthia Dicey's Song PZ7.V874 D5 1983
1982 Willard, Nancy A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers PZ8.3.W5 V5
1981 Paterson, Katherine Jacob Have I Loved PZ7.P273 J3 1980
1980 Blos, Joan W. A Gathering of Days:
A New England Girl's Journal
PZ7.B6237 G3
1979 Raskin, Ellen The Westing Game PZ7.R1817 W4 1978
1978 Paterson, Katherine Bridge to Terabithia PZ7.P273 B7
1977 Taylor, Mildred Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry PZ7.T21723 R6 1976
1976 Cooper, Susan The Grey King PZ7.C7878 G9
1975 Hamilton, Virginia M.C. Higgins the Great PZ7.H1828 M3
1974 Fox, Paula The Slave Dancer PZ7.F838 S55
1973 George, Jean Craighead Julie of the Wolves PZ7.G2933 J8
1972 O'Brien, Robert C. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH PZ7.O135 M5 1972
1971 Byars, Betsy Summer of the Swans PZ7.B9836 S9
1970 Armstrong, William H. Sounder PZ7.A73394 S6
1969 Alexander, Lloyd The High King PZ7.A3774 H5
1968 Konigsburg, E.L. From the Mixed-Up Files
of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
PZ7.K8352 F7 1967
1967 Hunt, Irene Up a Road Slowly PZ7.H9156 U6
1966 de Trevino, Elizabeth I, Juan de Pareja PZ7.T7327 I2
1965 Wojciechowska, Maia Shadow of a Bull PZ7.W8182 S5 1966
1964 Neville, Emily It's Like This, Cat PZ7.N462 I8
1963 L'Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time PZ7.L5385 W7 1962
1962 Speare, Elizabeth G. The Bronze Bow PZ7.S7376 B7
1961 O'Dell, Scott Island of the Blue Dolphins PZ7.O237 I8
1960 Krumgold, Joseph Onion John PZ7.K946 O5
1959 Speare, Elizabeth G. The Witch of Blackbird Pond PZ7.S7376 W5
1958 Keith, Harold Rifles for Watie PZ7.K255 R5
1957 Sorensen, Virginia Miracles on Maple Hill PZ7.S72 M5
1956 Latham, Jean Lee Carry On, Mr. Bowditch PZ7.L348 C3
1955 de Jong, Meindert The Wheel on the School PZ7.D3675 W45
1954 Krumgold, Joseph And Now Miguel PZ7.K946 A5
1953 Clark, Ann Nolan Secret of the Andes PZ7.C5296 S4 1966
1952 Estes, Eleanor Ginger Pye PZ7.E749G5
1951 Yates, Elizabeth Amos Fortune, Free Man E185.97.F73Y3 1967
1950 de Angeli, Marguerite The Door in the Wall PZ7.D35 D6
1949 Henry, Marguerite King of the Wind PZ7.H394 K5
1948 du Bois, William Pene The Twenty-One Balloons PZ7.D8527 T79 1966
1947 Bailey, Carolyn S. Miss Hickory PZ7.B15 M5
1946 Lenski, Lois Strawberry Girl PZ7.L54 S7
1945 Lawson, Robert Rabbit Hill PZ7.L4384 R3
1944 Forbes, Esther Johnny Tremain PZ7.F749 J6
1943 Gray, Elizabeth Janet Adam of the Road PZ7.G777 A3 1967
1942 Edmonds, Walter D. The Matchlock Gun PZ7.E247 M38 1941
1941 Sperry, Armstrong Call it Courage PZ8.1.S75 C3 1966
1940 Daugherty, James Daniel Boone F454 .B733
1939 Enright, Elizabeth Thimble Summer PZ7.E5 T45 1966
1938 Seredy, Kate The White Stag PZ8.1.S457 W45 1966
1937 Sawyer, Ruth Roller Skates PZ7.S269 R6 1966
1936 Brink, Carol R. Caddie Woodlawn PZ7.B78 C3 1967
1935 Shannon, Monica Dobry PZ7.S529 D6 1967
1934 Meigs, Cornelia Invincible Louisa PS1018 .M4
1933 Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze PZ7.L5849 Y6 1966
1932 Armer, Laura Adams Waterless Mountain PZ7.A715 W33
1931 Coatsworth, Elizabeth The Cat Who Went to Heaven PZ7.C6294 C38
1930 Field, Rachel Hitty, Her First Hundred Years PZ7.F442 H5
1929 Kelly, Eric P. The Trumpeter of Krakow PZ7.K294 T7
1928 Mukerji, Dhan Gopal Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon QL795.B57 M8 1967
1927 James, Will Smoky the Cowhorse PZ7.J1545 S6
1926 Chrisman, Arthur B. Shen of the Sea PZ7.C45 S5 1966
1925 Finger, Charles J. Tales from Silver Lands PZ8.F494 T3
1924 Hawes, Charles B. The Dark Frigate PZ7.H312 D3 1962
1923 Lofting, Hugh The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle PZ7.L827 V6
1922 Van Loon, Hendrik Willem The Story of Mankind D21 .V3 1921