The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is 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. Click on a book title or author name for more information and free teaching resources.

2012 — Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos

2011 — Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

2010 — When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

2009 — The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean

2008 — Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz

2007 — The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

2006 — Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

2005 — Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

2004 — The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo

2003 — Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

2002 — A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

2001 — A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

2000 — Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

1999 — Holes by Louis Sachar

1998 — Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

1997 — The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

1996 — The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman 

1995 — Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech 

1994 — The Giver by Lois Lowry

1993 — Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

1992 — Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

1991 — Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

1990 — Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

1989 — Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

1988 — Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

1987 — The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

1986 — Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

1985 — The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

1984 — Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

1983 — Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

1982 — A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard

1981 — Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

1980 — A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos

1979 — The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

1978 — Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

1977 — Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

1976 — The Grey King by Susan Cooper

1975 — M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton