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The John Newbery Medal is a literary award of the American Library Association (ALA).
The medal is given to writers of books for children.
The Newbery Medal has been given since 1922. It was the first children's literary award in the world. It is named for John Newbery , an 18th century English publisher of books for children.[ 1]
Since 1971, there has also been the "Newbery Honor". Each year, one or more books are named "Newbery Honor books". Some books from before 1971 were also named Newbery Honor books.[ 2]
Books with a yellow background won the Newbery Medal. Books with a white background are Newbery Honor Books.
Hendrik Willem van Loon won the first Newbery Medal in 1922 for his book The Story of Mankind .Dhan Gopal Mukerji was the first Indian American to with the Newbery Medal.[ 3]
Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote five books named a Newbery Honor between 1938 and 1944.Elizabeth Gray Vining (right) won the Newbery Medal in 1943 for Adam of the Road , which was illustrated by Robert Lawson , who won the Newbery Medal himself in 1945.
Lois Lenski , who won two Newbery Honors and one Newbery Medal, wrote series that were connected by themes rather than characters.
E. B. White won a Newbery Honor for Charlotte's Web for which he also recorded an unabridged audiobook.
Jean Craighead George won both a Newbery Medal and Honor.
Beverly Cleary won two Newbery Honors for her Ramona series and the Medal for Dear Mr. Henshaw .
Paul Fleischman won the Newbery Medal in 1989, two years after his father Sid Fleischman won it.
Lois Lowry won two Newbery Medals four years apart.
Jerry Spinelli is one of many authors to have been awarded both the Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor.Karen Cushman followed her 1995 Newbery Honor with a 1996 Newbery Medal.
Sharon Creech has been both a winner and Honor recipient.
Louis Sachar won in 1999 for Holes .
Kate DiCamillo is one of six authors to have been a Newbery winner multiple times.
Jacqueline Woodson has been a Newbery Honor recipient four times.
Christopher Paul Curtis won a Newbery Honor and Newbery Medal for the first two books he published, The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 and Bud, Not Buddy .
Winners and Honor Books
Year
Author
Book
Award
1922
Hendrik Willem van Loon
The Story of Mankind
Winner
Charles Boardman Hawes
The Great Quest
Honor
Bernard Marshall
Cedric the Forester
Honor
William Bowen
The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure
Honor
Padraic Colum
The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
Honor
Cornelia Meigs
The Windy Hill
Honor
1923
Hugh Lofting
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Winner
1924
Charles Boardman Hawes
The Dark Frigate
Winner
1925
Charles Finger
Tales from Silver Lands
Winner
Annie Carroll Moore
Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story
Honor
Anne Parrish & Dillwyn Parrish
The Dream Coach
Honor
1926
Arthur Bowie Chrisman
Shen of the Sea
Winner
Padraic Colum
The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery
Honor
1927
Will James
Smoky the Cow Horse
Winner
1928
Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
Winner
Ella Young
The Wonder Smith and His Son
Honor
Caroline Snedeker
Downright Dencey
Honor
1929
Eric P. Kelly
The Trumpeter of Krakow
Winner
John Bennett
The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo with Seventeen Other Laughable Tales and 200 Comical Silhouettes
Honor
Wanda Gág
Millions of Cats
Honor
Grace Hallock
The Boy Who Was
Honor
Cornelia Meigs
Clearing Weather
Honor
Grace Moon
Runaway Papoose
Honor
Elinor Whitney Field
Tod of the Fens
Honor
1930
Rachel Field
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
Winner
Jeanette Eaton
A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland
Honor
Elizabeth Miller
Pran of Albania
Honor
Marian Hurd McNeely
The Jumping-Off Place
Honor
Ella Young
The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales
Honor
Julia Davis Adams
Vaino, A Boy of New Finland
Honor
Hildegarde Swift
Little Blacknose: The Story of a Pioneer
Honor
1931
Elizabeth Coatsworth
The Cat Who Went to Heaven
Winner
Anne Parrish
Floating Island
Honor
Alida Malkus
The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess
Honor
Ralph Hubbard
Queer Person
Honor
Julia Davis Adams
Mountains are Free
Honor
Agnes Hewes
Spice and the Devil's Cave
Honor
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Meggy MacIntosh
Honor
Herbert Best
Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes
Honor
Alice Alison Lide and Margaret Alison Johansen
Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer
Honor
1932
Laura Adams Armer
Waterless Mountain
Winner
Dorothy P. Lathrop
The Fairy Circus
Honor
Rachel Field
Calico Bush
Honor
Eunice Tietjens
Boy of the South Seas
Honor
Eloise Lownsbery
Out of the Flame
Honor
Marjorie Hill Allee
Jane's Island
Honor
Mary Gould Davis
Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy
Honor
1933
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Winner
Cornelia Meigs
Swift Rivers
Honor
Hildegarde Swift
The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War
Honor
Nora Burglon
Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia
Honor
1934
Cornelia Meigs
Invincible Louisa
Winner
Caroline Snedeker
The Forgotten Daughter
Honor
Elsie Singmaster
Swords of Steel
Honor
Wanda Gág
ABC Bunny
Honor
Erick Berry
Winged Girl of Knossos
Honor
Sarah Lindsay Schmidt
New Land [ 4]
Honor
Padraic Colum
The Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside
Honor
Agnes Hewes
Glory of the Seas
Honor
Ann Kyle
Apprentice of Florence
Honor
1935
Monica Shannon
Dobry
Winner
Elizabeth Seeger
Pageant of Chinese History
Honor
Constance Rourke
Davy Crockett
Honor
Hilda van Stockum
A Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic
Honor
1936
Carol Ryrie Brink
Caddie Woodlawn
Winner
Phil Stong
Honk, the Moose
Honor
Kate Seredy
The Good Master
Honor
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Young Walter Scott
Honor
Armstrong Sperry
All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud
Honor
1937
Ruth Sawyer
Roller Skates
Winner
Lois Lenski
Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book
Honor
Idwal Jones
Whistler's Van
Honor
Ludwig Bemelmans
The Golden Basket
Honor
Margery Williams
Winterbound
Honor
Constance Rourke
Audubon
Honor
Agnes Hewes
The Codfish Musket
Honor
1938
Kate Seredy
The White Stag
Winner
James Cloyd Bowman
Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time
Honor
Mabel Robinson
Bright Island
Honor
Laura Ingalls Wilder
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Honor
1939
Elizabeth Enright
Thimble Summer
Winner
Valenti Angelo
Nino
Honor
Richard & Florence Atwater
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Honor
Phyllis Crawford
Hello the Boat!
Honor
Jeanette Eaton
Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot
Honor
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Penn
Honor
1940
James Daugherty
Daniel Boone
Winner
Kate Seredy
The Singing Tree
Honor
Mabel Robinson
Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz
Honor
Laura Ingalls Wilder
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Honor
Stephen W. Meader
Boy with a Pack
Honor
1941
Armstrong Sperry
Call It Courage
Winner
Doris Gates
Blue Willow
Honor
Mary Jane Carr
Young Mac of Fort Vancouver
Honor
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Long Winter
Honor
Anna Gertrude Hall
Nansen
Honor
1942
Walter D. Edmonds
The Matchlock Gun
Winner
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little Town on the Prairie
Honor
Genevieve Foster
George Washington's World
Honor
Lois Lenski
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison
Honor
Eva Roe Gaggin
Down Ryton Water
Honor
1943
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Adam of the Road
Winner
Eleanor Estes
The Middle Moffat
Honor
Mabel Leigh Hunt
Have You Seen Tom Thumb?
Honor
1944
Esther Forbes
Johnny Tremain
Winner
Laura Ingalls Wilder
These Happy Golden Years
Honor
Julia Sauer
Fog Magic
Honor
Eleanor Estes
Rufus M.
Honor
Elizabeth Yates
Mountain Born
Honor
1945
Robert Lawson
Rabbit Hill
Winner
Eleanor Estes
The Hundred Dresses
Honor
Alice Dalgliesh
The Silver Pencil
Honor
Genevieve Foster
Abraham Lincoln's World
Honor
Jeanette Eaton
Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams
Honor
1946
Lois Lenski
Strawberry Girl
Winner
Marguerite Henry
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
Honor
Florence Crannell Means
The Moved-Outers
Honor
Christine Weston
Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear
Honor
Katherine Shippen
New Found World
Honor
1947
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Miss Hickory
Winner
Nancy Barnes
The Wonderful Year
Honor
Mary & Conrad Buff
Big Tree
Honor
William Maxwell
The Heavenly Tenants
Honor
Cyrus Fisher
The Avion My Uncle Flew
Honor
Eleanore M. Jewett
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston
Honor
1948
William Pène du Bois
The Twenty-One Balloons
Winner
Claire Huchet Bishop
Pancakes-Paris
Honor
Carolyn Treffinger
Li Lun, Lad of Courage
Honor
Catherine Besterman
The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot
Honor
Harold Courlander
The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories
Honor
Marguerite Henry
Misty of Chincoteague
Honor
1949
Marguerite Henry
King of the Wind
Winner
Holling C. Holling
Seabird
Honor
Louise Rankin
Daughter of the Mountains
Honor
Ruth S. Gannett
My Father's Dragon
Honor
Arna Bontemps
Story of the Negro
Honor
1950
Marguerite de Angeli
The Door in the Wall
Winner
Rebecca Caudill
Tree of Freedom
Honor
Catherine Coblentz
The Blue Cat of Castle Town
Honor
Rutherford George Montgomery
Kildee House
Honor
Genevieve Foster
George Washington
Honor
Walter & Marion Havighurst
Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin
Honor
1951
Elizabeth Yates
Amos Fortune, Free Man
Winner
Mabel Leigh Hunt
Better Known as Johnny Appleseed
Honor
Jeanette Eaton
Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword
Honor
Clara Ingram Judson
Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People
Honor
Anne Parrish
The Story of Appleby Capple
Honor
1952
Eleanor Estes
Ginger Pye
Winner
Elizabeth Baity
Americans Before Columbus
Honor
Holling C. Holling
Minn of the Mississippi
Honor
Nicholas Kalashnikoff
The Defender
Honor
Julia Sauer
The Light at Tern Rock
Honor
Mary & Conrad Buff
The Apple and the Arrow
Honor
1953
Ann Nolan Clark
Secret of the Andes
Winner
E. B. White
Charlotte's Web
Honor
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Moccasin Trail
Honor
Ann Weil
Red Sails to Capri
Honor
Alice Dalgliesh
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
Honor
Genevieve Foster
Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1
Honor
1954
Joseph Krumgold
...And Now Miguel
Winner
Claire Huchet Bishop
All Alone
Honor
Meindert DeJong
Shadrach
Honor
Meindert DeJong
Hurry Home, Candy
Honor
Clara Ingram Judson
Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot
Honor
Mary & Conrad Buff
Magic Maize
Honor
1955
Meindert DeJong
The Wheel on the School
Winner
Alice Dalgliesh
The Courage of Sarah Noble
Honor
James Ullman
Banner in the Sky
Honor
1956
Jean Lee Latham
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Winner
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Secret River
Honor
Jennie Lindquist
The Golden Name Day
Honor
Katherine Shippen
Men, Microscopes, and Living Things
Honor
1957
Virginia Sorensen
Miracles on Maple Hill
Winner
Fred Gipson
Old Yeller
Honor
Meindert DeJong
The House of Sixty Fathers
Honor
Clara Ingram Judson
Mr. Justice Holmes
Honor
Dorothy Rhoads
The Corn Grows Ripe
Honor
Marguerite de Angeli
Black Fox of Lorne
Honor
1958
Harold Keith
Rifles for Watie
Winner
Mari Sandoz
The Horsecatcher
Honor
Elizabeth Enright
Gone-Away Lake
Honor
Robert Lawson
The Great Wheel
Honor
Leo Gurko
Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle
Honor
1959
Elizabeth George Speare
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Winner
Natalie Savage Carlson
The Family Under the Bridge
Honor
Meindert DeJong
Along Came a Dog
Honor
Francis Kalnay
Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa
Honor
William O. Steele
The Perilous Road
Honor
1960
Joseph Krumgold
Onion John
Winner
Jean Craighead George
My Side of the Mountain
Honor
Gerald W. Johnson
America Is Born: A History for Peter
Honor
Carol Kendall
The Gammage Cup
Honor
1961
Scott O'Dell
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Winner
Gerald W. Johnson
America Moves Forward: A History for Peter
Honor
Jack Schaefer
Old Ramon
Honor
George Selden
The Cricket in Times Square
Honor
1962
Elizabeth George Speare
The Bronze Bow
Winner
Edwin Tunis
Frontier Living
Honor
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The Golden Goblet
Honor
Mary Stolz
Belling The Tiger
Honor
1963
Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time
Winner
Sorche Nic Leodhas
Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland
Honor
Olivia Coolidge
Men of Athens
Honor
1964
Emily Cheney Neville
It's Like This, Cat
Winner
Sterling North
Rascal
Honor
Ester Wier
The Loner
Honor
1965
Maia Wojciechowska
Shadow of a Bull
Winner
Irene Hunt
Across Five Aprils
Honor
1966
Elizabeth Borton de Treviño
I, Juan de Pareja
Winner
Lloyd Alexander
The Black Cauldron
Honor
Randall Jarrell
The Animal Family
Honor
Mary Stolz
The Noonday Friends
Honor
1967
Irene Hunt
Up a Road Slowly
Winner
Scott O'Dell
The King's Fifth
Honor
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories
Honor
Mary Hays Weik
The Jazz Man
Honor
1968
E. L. Konigsburg
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Winner
E. L. Konigsburg
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
Honor
Scott O'Dell
The Black Pearl
Honor
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Fearsome Inn
Honor
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Egypt Game
Honor
1969
Lloyd Alexander
The High King
Winner
Julius Lester
To Be a Slave
Honor
Isaac Bashevis Singer
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories
Honor
1970
William H. Armstrong
Sounder
Winner
Sulamith Ish-kishor
Our Eddie
Honor
Janet Gaylord Moore
The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art
Honor
Mary Q. Steele
Journey Outside
Honor
1971
Betsy Byars
Summer of the Swans
Winner
Natalie Babbitt
Knee-Knock Rise
Honor
Sylvia Engdahl
Enchantress from the Stars
Honor
Scott O'Dell
Sing Down the Moon
Honor
1972
Robert C. O'Brien
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Winner
Allan W. Eckert
Incident at Hawk's Hill
Honor
Virginia Hamilton
The Planet of Junior Brown
Honor
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Tombs of Atuan
Honor
Miska Miles
Annie and the Old One
Honor
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Headless Cupid
Honor
1973
Jean Craighead George
Julie of the Wolves
Winner
Arnold Lobel
Frog and Toad Together
Honor
Johanna Reiss
The Upstairs Room
Honor
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Witches of Worm
Honor
1974
Paula Fox
The Slave Dancer
Winner
Susan Cooper
The Dark Is Rising
Honor
1975
Virginia Hamilton
M. C. Higgins, the Great
Winner
Ellen Raskin
Figgs & Phantoms
Honor
James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
My Brother Sam Is Dead
Honor
Elizabeth Marie Pope
The Perilous Gard
Honor
Bette Greene
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe
Honor
1976
Susan Cooper
The Grey King
Winner
Sharon Bell Mathis
The Hundred Penny Box
Honor
Laurence Yep
Dragonwings
Honor
1977
Mildred Taylor
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Winner
William Steig
Abel's Island
Honor
Nancy Bond
A String in the Harp
Honor
1978
Katherine Paterson
Bridge to Terabithia
Winner
Beverly Cleary
Ramona and Her Father
Honor
Jamake Highwater
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey
Honor
1979
Ellen Raskin
The Westing Game
Winner
Katherine Paterson
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Honor
1980
Joan Blos
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal
Winner
David Kherdian
The Road from Home
Honor
1981
Katherine Paterson
Jacob Have I Loved
Winner
Jane Langton
The Fledgling
Honor
Madeleine L'Engle
A Ring of Endless Light
Honor
1982
Nancy Willard
A Visit to William Blake's Inn
Winner
Beverly Cleary
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Honor
Aranka Siegal
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939–1944
Honor
1983
Cynthia Voigt
Dicey's Song
Winner
Robin McKinley
The Blue Sword
Honor
William Steig
Doctor De Soto
Honor
Paul Fleischman
Graven Images
Honor
Jean Fritz
Homesick: My Own Story
Honor
Virginia Hamilton
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Honor
1984
Beverly Cleary
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Winner
Elizabeth George Speare
The Sign of the Beaver
Honor
Cynthia Voigt
A Solitary Blue
Honor
Kathryn Lasky
Sugaring Time
Honor
Bill Brittain
The Wish Giver
Honor
1985
Robin McKinley
The Hero and the Crown
Winner
Mavis Jukes
Like Jake and Me
Honor
Bruce Brooks
The Moves Make the Man
Honor
Paula Fox
One-Eyed Cat
Honor
1986
Patricia MacLachlan
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Winner
Rhoda Blumberg
Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun
Honor
Gary Paulsen
Dogsong
Honor
1987
Sid Fleischman
The Whipping Boy
Winner
Cynthia Rylant
A Fine White Dust
Honor
Marion Dane Bauer
On My Honor
Honor
Patricia Lauber
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens
Honor
1988
Russell Freedman
Lincoln: A Photobiography
Winner
Norma Fox Mazer
After the Rain
Honor
Gary Paulsen
Hatchet
Honor
1989
Paul Fleischman
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
Winner
Virginia Hamilton
In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
Honor
Walter Dean Myers
Scorpions
Honor
1990
Lois Lowry
Number the Stars
Winner
Janet Taylor Lisle
Afternoon of the Elves
Honor
Suzanne Fisher Staples
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind
Honor
Gary Paulsen
The Winter Room
Honor
1991
Jerry Spinelli
Maniac Magee
Winner
Avi
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Honor
1992
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Shiloh
Winner
Avi
Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel
Honor
Russell Freedman
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
Honor
1993
Cynthia Rylant
Missing May
Winner
Bruce Brooks
What Hearts
Honor
Patricia McKissack
The Dark-Thirty
Honor
Walter Dean Myers
Somewhere in the Darkness
Honor
1994
Lois Lowry
The Giver
Winner
Jane Leslie Conly
Crazy Lady!
Honor
Laurence Yep
Dragon's Gate
Honor
Russell Freedman
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
Honor
1995
Sharon Creech
Walk Two Moons
Winner
Karen Cushman
Catherine, Called Birdy
Honor
Nancy Farmer
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
Honor
1996
Karen Cushman
The Midwife's Apprentice
Winner
Carolyn Coman
What Jamie Saw
Honor
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963
Honor
Carol Fenner
Yolonda's Genius
Honor
Jim Murphy
The Great Fire
Honor
1997
E. L. Konigsburg
The View from Saturday
Winner
Nancy Farmer
A Girl Named Disaster
Honor
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The Moorchild
Honor
Megan Whalen Turner
The Thief
Honor
Ruth White
Belle Prater's Boy
Honor
1998
Karen Hesse
Out of the Dust
Winner
Gail Carson Levine
Ella Enchanted
Honor
Patricia Reilly Giff
Lily's Crossing
Honor
Jerry Spinelli
Wringer
Honor
1999
Louis Sachar
Holes
Winner
Richard Peck
A Long Way from Chicago
Honor
2000
Christopher Paul Curtis
Bud, Not Buddy
Winner
Audrey Couloumbis
Getting Near to Baby
Honor
Jennifer L. Holm
Our Only May Amelia
Honor
Tomie dePaola
26 Fairmount Avenue
Honor
2001
Richard Peck
A Year Down Yonder
Winner
Joan Bauer
Hope Was Here
Honor
Kate DiCamillo
Because of Winn-Dixie
Honor
Jack Gantos
Joey Pigza Loses Control
Honor
Sharon Creech
The Wanderer
Honor
2002
Linda Sue Park
A Single Shard
Winner
Polly Horvath
Everything on a Waffle
Honor
Marilyn Nelson
Carver: A Life in Poems
Honor
2003
Avi
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Winner
Nancy Farmer
The House of the Scorpion
Honor
Patricia Reilly Giff
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Honor
Carl Hiaasen
Hoot
Honor
Ann M. Martin
A Corner of the Universe
Honor
Stephanie S. Tolan
Surviving the Applewhites
Honor
2004
Kate DiCamillo
The Tale of Despereaux
Winner
Kevin Henkes
Olive's Ocean
Honor
Jim Murphy
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Honor
2005
Cynthia Kadohata
Kira-Kira
Winner
Gennifer Choldenko
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Honor
Russell Freedman
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
Honor
Gary D. Schmidt
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Honor
2006
Lynne Rae Perkins
Criss Cross
Winner
Alan Armstrong
Whittington
Honor
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
Honor
Shannon Hale
Princess Academy
Honor
Jacqueline Woodson
Show Way
Honor
2007
Susan Patron
The Higher Power of Lucky
Winner
Jennifer L. Holm
Penny from Heaven
Honor
Kirby Larson
Hattie Big Sky
Honor
Cynthia Lord
Rules
Honor
2008
Laura Amy Schlitz
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
Winner
Christopher Paul Curtis
Elijah of Buxton
Honor
Gary D. Schmidt
The Wednesday Wars
Honor
Jacqueline Woodson
Feathers
Honor
2009
Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book
Winner
Kathi Appelt
The Underneath
Honor
Margarita Engle
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
Honor
Ingrid Law
Savvy
Honor
Jacqueline Woodson
After Tupac and D Foster
Honor
2010
Rebecca Stead
When You Reach Me
Winner
Phillip Hoose
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Honor
Jacqueline Kelly
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Honor
Grace Lin
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Honor
Rodman Philbrick
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Honor
2011
Clare Vanderpool
Moon Over Manifest
Winner
Jennifer L. Holm
Turtle in Paradise
Honor
Margi Preus
Heart of a Samurai
Honor
Joyce Sidman
Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night
Honor
Rita Williams-Garcia
One Crazy Summer
Honor
2012
Jack Gantos
Dead End in Norvelt
Winner
Thanhha Lai
Inside Out & Back Again
Honor
Eugene Yelchin
Breaking Stalin's Nose
Honor
2013
Katherine Applegate
The One and Only Ivan
Winner
Laura Amy Schlitz
Splendors and Glooms
Honor
Steve Sheinkin
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon
Honor
Sheila Turnage
Three Times Lucky
Honor
2014
Kate DiCamillo
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Winner
Holly Black
Doll Bones
Honor
Kevin Henkes
The Year of Billy Miller
Honor
Amy Timberlake
One Came Home
Honor
Vince Vawter
Paperboy
Honor
2015
Kwame Alexander
The Crossover
Winner
Cece Bell
El Deafo
Honor
Jacqueline Woodson
Brown Girl Dreaming
Honor
2016
Matt de la Peña
Last Stop on Market Street
Winner
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
The War That Saved My Life
Honor
Victoria Jamieson
Roller Girl
Honor
Pam Muñoz Ryan
Echo
Honor
2017
Kelly Barnhill
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Winner
Ashley Bryan
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
Honor
Adam Gidwitz
The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
Honor
Lauren Wolk
Wolf Hollow
Honor
2018
Erin Entrada Kelly
Hello, Universe
Winner
Derrick Barnes
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
Honor
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
Honor
Renée Watson
Piecing Me Together
Honor
2019
Meg Medina
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Winner
Veera Hiranandani
The Night Diary
Honor
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
The Book of Boy
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