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Newbery Medal Winners

Celebrating 100 Years of the Newbery Award

Newbery Medal Winners by Genre

Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Newbery Medal 1941)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Spe

ISBN: 9780689713910

Publication Date: 1990-04-30
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1950)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction DeA

ISBN: 038507283X

Publication Date: 1989-05-15
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Newbery Medal 1961)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction ODe

ISBN: 0395069629

Publication Date: 1960-09-09
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George; John Schoenherr (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1973)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Geo

ISBN: 0064400581

Publication Date: 2019-07-02
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman; Peter Sís (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1987)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction FLe

ISBN: 0816710384

Publication Date: 1996-10-15

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink; Trina Schart Hyman (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1936)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Bri

ISBN: 0689713703

Publication Date: 1990-02-28
Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson (Newbery Medal 2023 and Coretta Scott King Award Winner)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Luq

ISBN: 9780316056618

Publication Date: 2022-02-01
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos (Newbery Medal 1980)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction BLo

ISBN: ‎0153052236

Publication Date: 1979
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Newbery Medal 1961)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction ODe

ISBN: 0395069629

Publication Date: 1960-09-09
Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes; Michael McCurdy (Illustrator); Esther Forbes (Newbery Medal 1944)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction For

ISBN: 9780395900116

Publication Date: 1998-10-26
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (Newbery Medal 1958)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Kei

ISBN: 9780064470308

Publication Date: 1987-09-25
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Newbery Medal 1986)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Mac

ISBN: 0064402053

Publication Date: 1987-09-04
The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (Newbery Medal 1974)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Fox

ISBN: 0440961327

Publication Date: 1974-12-15
Sounder by William H. Armstrong; James Barkley (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1970)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Arm

ISBN: 0064400204

Publication Date: 2019-12-30
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Newbery Medal 1959)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Spe

ISBN: 0440995779

Publication Date: 1978-05-15

... and Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold; Jean Charlot (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1954)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Kru

ISBN: 9780064401432

Publication Date: 1984-04-04
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Newbery Medal 2000)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Cur

ISBN: 0440413281

Publication Date: 2002-01-08
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Newbery Medal 2006)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Per

ISBN: 9780060092733

Publication Date: 2005-08-30
It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (Newbery Medal 1964)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Nev

ISBN: ‎0486814785

Publication Date: 1963
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Newbery Medal 1981)
Call Number: Young Adult Fiction Pat

ISBN: 9780064403689

Publication Date: 2020-05-05
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Newbery Medal 2005)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Kad

ISBN: 0689856393

Publication Date: 2004-02-01
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen; Joe Krush (Illustrator); Beth Krush (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1957)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Sor

ISBN: 9780152047191

Publication Date: 2003-08-01
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Newbery Medal 1998)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Hes

ISBN: 9780590360807

Publication Date: 1997-10-01
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Newbery Medal 1977)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Tay

ISBN: 9780140348934

Publication Date: 1991-10-01
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1939)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Enr

ISBN: 9780312380021

Publication Date: 2008-04-29
Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (Newbery Medal 1967)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Hun

ISBN: 9780425100035

Publication Date: 1986-09-01
A Year down Yonder by Richard Peck; Steve Cieslawski (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 2001)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Pec

ISBN: 0803725183

Publication Date: 2000-10-01

The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers; Shawn Harris (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 2024)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Egg

ISBN: 9781524764203

Publication Date: 2023-05-09
Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo; K. G. Campbell (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 2014)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction DiC

ISBN: 9780763660406

Publication Date: 2013-09-24
Gay Neck by Dhan Gopal Mukerji; Boris Artzybasheff (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1928)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Muk

ISBN: 0525304002

Publication Date: 1968-07-15
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (Newbery Medal 1952)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Est

ISBN: 0152024999

Publication Date: 2000-09-01
It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (Newbery Medal 1964)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Nev

ISBN: ‎0486814785

Publication Date: 1963
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George; John Schoenherr (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1973)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Geo

ISBN: 0064400581

Publication Date: 2019-07-02
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry; Wesley Dennis (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1949)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Hen

ISBN: 0027436292

Publication Date: 1990-11-01
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien; Zena Bernstein (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1972)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction OBr

ISBN: 9780689710681

Publication Date: 1986-03-01
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate; Patricia Castelao (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 2013)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction App

ISBN: 9780061992254

Publication Date: 2012-01-17
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (Newbery Medal 1945)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Law

ISBN: 9780140310108

Publication Date: 1977-10-27
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Newbery Medal 1992)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Nay

ISBN: 0689316143

Publication Date: 1991-09-30
Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James (Newbery Medal 1927)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Jam

ISBN: 9781416949411

Publication Date: 2008-01-08
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller (Newbery Medal 2021)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction KeL

ISBN: 9781524715700

Publication Date: 2020-01-28

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (Newbery Medal 1956)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Lat

ISBN: 9780618250813

Publication Date: 2003-05-19
Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs (Newbery Medal 1934)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Mei

ISBN: 9780316565943

Publication Date: 1995-10-01
Lincoln by Russell Freedman (Newbery Medal 1988)
Call Number: Juvenile Non Fiction Fre

ISBN: 0899193803

Publication Date: 1987-11-16

Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo; K. G. Campbell (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 2014)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction DiC

ISBN: 9780763660406

Publication Date: 2013-09-24
Holes by Louis Sachar (Newbery Medal 1999)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Sac

ISBN: 0374332657

Publication Date: 1998-08-20
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Newbery Medal 1991)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Spi

ISBN: 0316738247

Publication Date: 1990.
The Twenty-One Balloons (Puffin Modern Classics) by William Pene du Bois (Newbery Medal 1948)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Pen

ISBN: 9780142403303

Publication Date: 2005-04-21

Hitty, her first hundred years. by Rachel Field. With illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. (Newbery Medal 1930)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Fie

ISBN: ‎9780689822841

Publication Date: 1930.
Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Newbery Medal 1947)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Bai

ISBN: 9780140309560

Publication Date: 1977-05-26

The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly (Newbery Medal 2025)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction KeL

ISBN: 9780063337312

Publication Date: 2024-03-05
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (Newbery Medal 2017)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Bar

ISBN: 9781616205676

Publication Date: 2016-08-09
The Grey King by Susan Cooper (Newbery Medal 1976)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Coo

ISBN: 0689704488

Publication Date: 1978-04-01
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley; David M. Johnston (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1985)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction McK

ISBN: 0688025935

Publication Date: 1984-10-15
The High King by Lloyd Alexander (Newbery Medal 1969)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction ALe

ISBN: ‎080508052X

Publication Date: 1968.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien; Zena Bernstein (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1972)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction OBr

ISBN: 9780689710681

Publication Date: 1986-03-01
The Tale of Despereaux by Timothy Basil Ering (Illustrator); Kate DiCamillo (Newbery Medal 2004)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction DiC

ISBN: 9780763617226

Publication Date: 2003-08-25
The Twenty-One Balloons (Puffin Modern Classics) by William Pene du Bois (Newbery Medal 1948)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Pen

ISBN: 9780142403303

Publication Date: 2005-04-21
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (Newbery Medal 1923)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Lof

ISBN: 9780440400028

Publication Date: 1988-05-01
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller (Newbery Medal 2021)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction KeL

ISBN: 9781524715700

Publication Date: 2020-01-28
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman; Peter Sís (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1987)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction FLe

ISBN: 0816710384

Publication Date: 1996-10-15
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Newbery Medal 1963)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction LEn

ISBN: 0374386137

Publication Date: 1962-01-01

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (Newbery Medal 1968)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Kon

ISBN: 0689711816

Publication Date: 1998-04-01
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Newbery Medal 1979)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Ras

ISBN: 0140386645

Publication Date: 1997-06-01
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Newbery Medal 2010)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Ste

ISBN: 9780385737425

Publication Date: 2009-07-14

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (Newbery Medal 2015)
Call Number: Young Adult Fiction ALe

ISBN: 9780544107717

Publication Date: 2014-03-18
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz; Robert Byrd (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 2008)
Call Number: Juvenile Non Fiction Sch

ISBN: 9780763615789

Publication Date: 2007-07-24
Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman; Eric Beddows (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1989)
Call Number: Juvenile Non Fiction FLe

ISBN: 0060218525

Publication Date: 1988-03-01
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Newbery Medal 1998)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Hes

ISBN: 9780590360807

Publication Date: 1997-10-01
A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard; Alice Provensen (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1982)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction WiL

ISBN: 9780152938239

Publication Date: 1982-10-29

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson; Donna Diamond (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1978)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Pat

ISBN: 0690013590

Publication Date: 2017-05-02
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (Newbery Medal 2015)
Call Number: Young Adult Fiction ALe

ISBN: 9780544107717

Publication Date: 2014-03-18
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary; Paul O. Zelinsky (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1984)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction CLe

ISBN: 9780380709588

Publication Date: 2000-05-31
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Newbery Medal 1983)
Call Number: Young Adult Fiction Voi

ISBN: 9780449702765

Publication Date: 1987-04-12
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (Newbery Medal 1968)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Kon

ISBN: 0689711816

Publication Date: 1998-04-01
Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly; Isabel Roxas (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 2018)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction KeL

ISBN: 9780062414151

Publication Date: 2017-03-14
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron; Matt Phelan (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 2007)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Pat

ISBN: 9781416901945

Publication Date: 2006-11-07
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Newbery Medal 1991)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Spi

ISBN: 0316738247

Publication Date: 1990.
M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (Newbery Medal 1975)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Ham

ISBN: 068971694X

Publication Date: 1993-04-30
Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina (Newbery Medal 2019)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Med

ISBN: 9780763690496

Publication Date: 2018-09-11
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Newbery Medal 1993)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction RyL

ISBN: 0440408652

Publication Date: 1993-09-01
New Kid by Jerry Craft (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 2020)
Call Number: Juvenile Graphic Novel Cra

ISBN: 9780062691200

Publication Date: 2019-02-05
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Newbery Medal 1992)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Nay

ISBN: 0689316143

Publication Date: 1991-09-30
The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (Newbery Medal 1971)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Bya

ISBN: 0380000989

Publication Date: 1978-04-01
The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg (Newbery Medal 1997)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Kon

ISBN: 068980993X

Publication Date: 1996-09-01
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (Newbery Medal 1995)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Cre

ISBN: 0060233346

Publication Date: 1994-05-19
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Newbery Medal 2010)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Ste

ISBN: 9780385737425

Publication Date: 2009-07-14

The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly (Newbery Medal 2025)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction KeL

ISBN: 9780063337312

Publication Date: 2024-03-05
Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo; K. G. Campbell (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 2014)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction DiC

ISBN: 9780763660406

Publication Date: 2013-09-24
The Giver by Lois Lowry (Newbery Medal 1994)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Low

ISBN: 9780440237686

Publication Date: 2002-09-10
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman; Dave McKean (Illustrator); Margaret Atwood (Foreword by) (Newbery Medal 2009)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Gai

ISBN: 9780060530921

Publication Date: 2008-09-30
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Newbery Medal 2010)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Ste

ISBN: 9780385737425

Publication Date: 2009-07-14

The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth; Raoul Vitale (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1931)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Coa

ISBN: 9781416949732

Publication Date: 2008-01-08
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1950)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction DeA

ISBN: 038507283X

Publication Date: 1989-05-15
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz; Robert Byrd (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 2008)
Call Number: Juvenile Non Fiction Sch

ISBN: 9780763615789

Publication Date: 2007-07-24
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Newbery Medal 1996)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Cus

ISBN: 0395692296

Publication Date: 1995-03-27
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Newbery Medal 1990)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Low

ISBN: 0395510600

Publication Date: 1989-04-24
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Newbery Medal 1986)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Mac

ISBN: 0064402053

Publication Date: 1987-09-04
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman; Peter Sís (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1987)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction FLe

ISBN: 0816710384

Publication Date: 1996-10-15

Crispin: the Cross of Lead by Avi (Newbery Medal 2003)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Avi

ISBN: 0786826479

Publication Date: 2002-06-03
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1950)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction DeA

ISBN: 038507283X

Publication Date: 1989-05-15
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz; Robert Byrd (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 2008)
Call Number: Juvenile Non Fiction Sch

ISBN: 9780763615789

Publication Date: 2007-07-24
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton De Trevino (Newbery Medal 1966)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Tre

ISBN: 9780312380052

Publication Date: 2008-04-29
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Newbery Medal 1996)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Cus

ISBN: 0395692296

Publication Date: 1995-03-27
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Newbery Medal 1990)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Low

ISBN: 0395510600

Publication Date: 1989-04-24
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (Newbery Medal 1953)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction CLa

ISBN: 9780140309263

Publication Date: 1976-10-28
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (Newbery Medal 1965)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Woj

ISBN: 978-1416933953

Publication Date: 1965
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Newbery Medal 2002)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction Par

ISBN: 0395978270

Publication Date: 2001-04-23
The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong; Maurice Sendak (Illustrator) (Newbery Medal 1955)
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction DeJ

ISBN: 0060215860

Publication Date: 1954-01-21

Acknowledgement

Thank you to the Public Library of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County for their genre headings list of Newbery winners.

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