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.
Established in 1922. Sponsored by the American Library Association.
Below are all the Newbery winners back to 1922, hotlinked to the books where they are still in print.
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2007 Medal |
The Higher Power of Lucky By Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson) |
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2007 Honor |
Penny from Heaven By Jennifer L. Holm, (Random House) |
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2007 Honor |
Hattie Big Sky By Kirby Larson (Delacorte Press) |
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2007 Honor |
Rules By Cynthia Lord (Scholastic) |
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2006 Medal |
Criss Cross By Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins) |
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2006 Honor |
Whittington By Alan Armstrong, illustrated byS.D. Schindler (Random House) |
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2006 Honor |
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow By Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic) |
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2006 Honor |
Princess Academy By Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury Children's Books) |
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2006 Honor |
Show Way By Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott (G.P. Putnam's Sons) |
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2005 Medal |
Kira-Kira By Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster) |
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2005 Honor |
Al Capone Does My Shirts By Gennifer Choldenko (G.P. Putnam's Sons a division of Penguin Young Readers Group) |
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2005 Honor |
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights By Russell Freedman (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin) |
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2005 Honor |
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy By Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin) |
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2004 Medal |
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread By Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering, (Candlewick Press) |
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2004 Honor |
Olive's Ocean By Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books) |
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2004 Honor |
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 By Jim Murphy (Clarion Books) |
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2003 Medal |
Crispin: The Cross of Lead By Avi (Hyperion Books for Children) |
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2003 Honor |
The House of the Scorpion By Nancy Farmer (Atheneum) |
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2003 Honor |
Pictures of Hollis Woods By Patricia Reilly Giff (Random House/Wendy Lamb Books) |
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2003 Honor |
Hoot By Carl Hiaasen (Knopf) |
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2003 Honor |
A Corner of The Universe By Ann M. Martin (Scholastic) |
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2003 Honor |
Surviving the Applewhites By Stephanie S. Tolan (HarperCollins) |
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2002 Medal |
A Single Shard By Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin) |
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2002 Honor |
Everything on a Waffle By Polly Horvath (Farrar Straus Giroux) |
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2002 Honor |
Carver: A Life In Poems By Marilyn Nelson (Front Street) |
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2001 Medal |
A Year Down Yonder By Richard Peck (Dial) |
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2001 Honor |
Hope Was Here By Joan Bauer (G.P. Putnam's Sons) |
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2001 Honor |
Because of Winn-Dixie By Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press) |
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2001 Honor |
Joey Pigza Loses Control By Jack Gantos (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) |
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2001 Honor |
The Wanderer By Sharon Creech (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins) |
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2000 Medal |
Bud, Not Buddy By Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte) |
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2000 Honor |
Getting Near to Baby By Audrey Couloumbis (Putnam) |
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2000 Honor |
Our Only May Amelia By Jennifer L. Holm (HarperCollins) |
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2000 Honor |
26 Fairmount Avenue By Tomie dePaola (Putnam) |
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1999 Medal |
Holes By Louis Sachar (Frances Foster) |
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1999 Honor |
A Long Way from Chicago By Richard Peck (Dial) |
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1998 Medal |
Out of the Dust By Karen Hesse (Scholastic) |
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1998 Honor |
Ella Enchanted By Gail Carson Levine (HarperCollins) |
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1998 Honor |
Lily's Crossing By Patricia Reilly Giff (Delacorte) |
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1998 Honor |
Wringer By Jerry Spinelli (HarperCollins) |
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1997 Medal |
The View from Saturday By E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum) |
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1997 Honor |
A Girl Named Disaster By Nancy Farmer (Richard Jackson/Orchard Books) |
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1997 Honor |
Moorchild By Eloise McGraw (Margaret McElderry/Simon & Schuster) |
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1997 Honor |
The Thief By Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow/Morrow) |
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1997 Honor |
Belle Prater's Boy By Ruth White (Farrar Straus Giroux) |
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1996 Medal |
The Midwife's Apprentice By Karen Cushman (Clarion) |
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1996 Honor |
What Jamie Saw By Carolyn Coman (Front Street) |
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1996 Honor |
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 By Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte) |
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1996 Honor |
Yolonda's Genius By Carol Fenner (Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster) |
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1996 Honor |
The Great Fire By Jim Murphy (Scholastic) |
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1995 Medal |
Walk Two Moons By Sharon Creech (HarperCollins) |
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1995 Honor |
Catherine, Called Birdy By Karen Cushman (Clarion) |
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1995 Honor |
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm By Nancy Farmer (Jackson/Orchard) |
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1994 Medal |
The Giver By Lois Lowry (Houghton) |
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1994 Honor |
Crazy Lady By Jane Leslie Conly (HarperCollins) |
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1994 Honor |
Dragon's Gate By Laurence Yep (HarperCollins) |
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1994 Honor |
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery By Russell Freedman (Clarion Books) |
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1993 Medal |
Missing May By Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard) |
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1993 Honor |
What Hearts By Bruce Brooks (A Laura Geringer Book, a HarperCollins imprint) |
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1993 Honor |
The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural By Patricia McKissack (Knopf) |
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1993 Honor |
Somewhere in the Darkness By Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Hardcover) |
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1992 Medal |
Shiloh By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum) |
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1992 Honor |
Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel By Avi (Jackson/Orchard) |
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1992 Honor |
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane By Russell Freedman (Holiday House) |
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1991 Medal |
Maniac Magee By Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown) |
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1991 Honor |
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle By Avi (Jackson/Orchard) |
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1990 Medal |
Number the Stars By Lois Lowry (Houghton) |
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1990 Honor |
Afternoon of the Elves By Janet Taylor Lisle (Jackson/Orchard) |
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1990 Honor |
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind By Suzanne Fisher Staples (Knopf) |
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1990 Honor |
The Winter Room By Gary Paulsen (Jackson/Orchard) |
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1989 Medal |
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices By Paul Fleischman (Harper) |
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1989 Honor |
In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World By Virginia Hamilton (Harcourt) |
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1989 Honor |
Scorpions By Walter Dean Myers (Harper) |
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1988 Medal |
Lincoln: A Photobiography By Russell Freedman (Clarion) |
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1988 Honor |
After The Rain By Norma Fox Mazer (Morrow) |
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1988 Honor |
Hatchet By Gary Paulsen (Bradbury) |
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1987 Medal |
The Whipping Boy By Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow) |
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1987 Honor |
A Fine White Dust By Cynthia Rylant (Bradbury) |
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1987 Honor |
On My Honor By Marion Dane Bauer (Clarion) |
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1987 Honor |
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens By Patricia Lauber (Bradbury) |
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1986 Medal |
Sarah, Plain and Tall By Patricia MacLachlan (Harper) |
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1986 Honor |
Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun By Rhoda Blumberg (Lothrop) |
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1986 Honor |
Dogsong By Gary Paulsen (Bradbury) |
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1985 Medal |
The Hero and the Crown By Robin McKinley (Greenwillow) |
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1985 Honor |
Like Jake and Me By Mavis Jukes (Knopf) |
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1985 Honor |
The Moves Make the Man By Bruce Brooks (Harper) |
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1985 Honor |
One-Eyed Cat By Paula Fox (Bradbury) |
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1984 Medal |
Dear Mr. Henshaw By Beverly Cleary (Morrow) |
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1984 Honor |
The Sign of the Beaver By Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton) |
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1984 Honor |
A Solitary Blue By Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum) |
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1984 Honor |
Sugaring Time By Kathryn Lasky (Macmillan) |
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1984 Honor |
The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree By Bill Brittain (Harper) |
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1983 Medal |
Dicey's Song By Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum) |
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1983 Honor |
The Blue Sword By Robin McKinley (Greenwillow) |
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1983 Honor |
Doctor DeSoto By William Steig (Farrar) |
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1983 Honor |
Graven Images By Paul Fleischman (Harper) |
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1983 Honor |
Homesick: My Own Story By Jean Fritz (Putnam) |
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1983 Honor |
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush By Virginia Hamilton (Philomel) |
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1982 Medal |
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers By Nancy Willard (Harcourt) |
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1982 Honor |
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 By Beverly Cleary (Morrow) |
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1982 Honor |
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 By Aranka Siegal (Farrar) |
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1981 Medal |
Jacob Have I Loved By Katherine Paterson (Crowell) |
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1981 Honor |
The Fledgling By Jane Langton (Harper) |
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1981 Honor |
A Ring of Endless Light By Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar) |
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1980 Medal |
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 By Joan W. Blos (Scribner) |
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1980 Honor |
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl By David Kherdian (Greenwillow) |
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1979 Medal |
The Westing Game By Ellen Raskin (Dutton) |
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1979 Honor |
The Great Gilly Hopkins By Katherine Paterson (Crowell) |
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1978 Medal |
Bridge to Terabithia By Katherine Paterson (Crowell) |
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1978 Honor |
Ramona and Her Father By Beverly Cleary (Morrow) |
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1978 Honor |
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey By Jamake Highwater (Lippincott) |
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1977 Medal |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry By Mildred D. Taylor (Dial) |
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1977 Honor |
Abel's Island By William Steig (Farrar) |
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1977 Honor |
A String in the Harp By Nancy Bond (Atheneum) |
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1976 Medal |
The Grey King By Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum) |
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1976 Honor |
The Hundred Penny Box By Sharon Bell Mathis (Viking) |
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1976 Honor |
Dragonwings By Laurence Yep (Harper) |
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1975 Medal |
M. C. Higgins, the Great By Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan) |
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1975 Honor |
My Brother Sam is Dead By James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier (Four Winds) |
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1975 Honor |
The Perilous Gard By Elizabeth Marie Pope (Houghton) |
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1975 Honor |
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe By Bette Greene (Dial) |
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1974 Medal |
The Slave Dancer By Paula Fox (Bradbury) |
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1974 Honor |
The Dark Is Rising By Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum) |
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1973 Medal |
Julie of the Wolves By Jean Craighead George (Harper) |
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1973 Honor |
Frog and Toad Together By Arnold Lobel (Harper) |
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1973 Honor |
The Upstairs Room By Johanna Reiss (Crowell) |
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1973 Honor |
The Witches of Worm By Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum) |
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1972 Medal |
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH By Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum) |
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1972 Honor |
Incident At Hawk's Hill By Allan W. Eckert (Little, Brown) |
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1972 Honor |
The Planet of Junior Brown By Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan) |
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1972 Honor |
The Tombs of Atuan By Ursula K. LeGuin (Atheneum) |
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1972 Honor |
Annie and the Old One By Miska Miles (Little, Brown) |
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1972 Honor |
The Headless Cupid By Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum) |
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1971 Medal |
Summer of the Swans By Betsy Byars (Viking) |
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1971 Honor |
Knee Knock Rise By Natalie Babbitt (Farrar) |
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1971 Honor |
Enchantress From the Stars By Sylvia Louise Engdahl (Atheneum) |
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1971 Honor |
Sing Down the Moon By Scott O'Dell (Houghton) |
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1970 Medal |
Sounder By William H. Armstrong (Harper) |
1970 Honor The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art Janet Gaylord Moore (World),br.
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1970 Honor |
Journey Outside By Mary Q. Steele (Viking) |
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1969 Medal |
The High King By Lloyd Alexander (Holt) |
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1969 Honor |
To Be a Slave By Julius Lester (Dial) |
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1968 Medal |
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler By E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum) |
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1968 Honor |
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth By E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum) |
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1968 Honor |
The Black Pearl By Scott O'Dell (Houghton) |
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1968 Honor |
The Egypt Game By Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum) |
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1967 Medal |
Up a Road Slowly By Irene Hunt (Follett) |
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1967 Honor |
The King's Fifth By Scott O'Dell (Houghton) |
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1967 Honor |
Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories By Isaac Bashevis Singer (Harper) |
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1967 Honor |
The Jazz Man By Mary Hays Weik (Atheneum) |
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1966 Medal |
I, Juan de Pareja By Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar) |
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1966 Honor |
The Black Cauldron By Lloyd Alexander (Holt) |
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1966 Honor |
The Animal Family By Randall Jarrell (Pantheon) |
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1966 Honor |
The Noonday Friends By Mary Stolz (Harper) |
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1965 Medal |
Shadow of a Bull By Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum) |
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1965 Honor |
Across Five Aprils By Irene Hunt (Follett) |
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1964 Medal |
It's Like This, Cat By Emily Neville (Harper) |
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1964 Honor |
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era By Sterling North (Dutton) |
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1963 Medal |
A Wrinkle in Time By Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar) |
1963 Honor Men of Athens Olivia Coolidge (Houghton)
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1962 Medal |
The Bronze Bow By Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton) |
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1962 Honor |
Frontier Living By Edwin Tunis (World) |
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1962 Honor |
The Golden Goblet By Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward) |
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1961 Medal |
Island of the Blue Dolphins By Scott O'Dell (Houghton) |
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1961 Honor |
The Cricket In Times Square By George Selden, pseud. (George Thompson) (Farrar) |
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1960 Medal |
Onion John By Joseph Krumgold (Crowell) |
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1960 Honor |
My Side of the Mountain By Jean Craighead George (Dutton) |
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1960 Honor |
The Gammage Cup By Carol Kendall (Harcourt) |
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1959 Medal |
The Witch of Blackbird Pond By Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton) |
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1959 Honor |
The Family Under The Bridge By Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton) |
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1959 Honor |
Along Came A Dog By Meindert Dejong (Harper) |
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1959 Honor |
The Perilous Road By William O. Steele (Harcourt) |
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1958 Medal |
Rifles for Watie By Harold Keith (Crowell) |
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1958 Honor |
The Horsecatcher By Mari Sandoz (Westminster) |
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1958 Honor |
Gone-Away Lake By Elizabeth Enright (Harcourt) |
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1958 Honor |
The Great Wheel By Robert Lawson (Viking) |
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1957 Medal |
Miracles on Maple Hill By Virginia Sorensen (Harcourt) |
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1957 Honor |
Old Yeller By Fred Gipson (Harper) |
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1957 Honor |
The House of Sixty Fathers By Meindert DeJong (Harper) |
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1957 Honor |
The Corn Grows Ripe By Dorothy |
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1956 Medal |
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch By Jean Lee Latham (Houghton) |
1956 Honor The Golden Name Day Jennie Lindquist (Harper)
1956 Honor Men, Microscopes, and Living Things Katherine Shippen (Viking)
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1955 Medal |
The Wheel on the School By Meindert DeJong (Harper) |
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1955 Honor |
Courage of Sarah Noble By Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner) |
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1955 Honor |
Banner In The Sky By James Ullman (Lippincott) |
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1954 Medal |
">...And Now Miguel By Joseph Krumgold (Crowell) |
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1954 Honor |
Shadrach By Meindert Dejong (Harper) |
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1954 Honor |
Hurry Home, Candy By Meindert Dejong (Harper) |
1954 Honor Magic Maize Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton)
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1953 Medal |
Secret of the Andes By Ann Nolan Clark (Viking) |
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1953 Honor |
Charlotte's Web By E. B. White (Harper) |
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1953 Honor |
Moccasin Trail By Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward) |
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1953 Honor |
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain By Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner) |
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1952 Medal |
Ginger Pye By Eleanor Estes (Harcourt) |
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1952 Honor |
Minn of the Mississippi By Holling C. Holling (Houghton) |
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1952 Honor |
The Light at Tern Rock By Julia Sauer (Viking) |
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1952 Honor |
The Apple and the Arrow By Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton) |
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1951 Medal |
Amos Fortune, Free Man By Elizabeth Yates (Dutton) |
1951 Honor Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword Jeanette Eaton (Morrow)
1951 Honor Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
1951 Honor The Story of Appleby Capple Anne Parrish (Harper)
1950 Medal
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