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Newbery Medal Award
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 .ALSC Caldecott Medal Home Page
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2008 Medal Winner |
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2008 Honor Books |
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2007 Medal Winner |
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan |
2007 Honor Book |
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm |
2007 Honor Book |
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson |
2007 Honor Book |
Rules by Cynthia Lord |
2006 Medal Winner |
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins |
2006 Honor Book |
Whittington by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by S.D. Schindler |
2006 Honor Book |
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
2006 Honor Book |
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale |
2006 Honor Book |
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson |
2005 Medal Winner |
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata |
2005 Honor Book |
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko |
2005 Honor Book |
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman |
2005 Honor Book |
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt |
2004 Medal Winner |
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 |
2004 Honor Book |
Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes |
2004 Honor Book |
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy |
2003 Medal Winner |
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi |
2003 Honor Book |
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer |
2003 Honor Book |
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff |
2003 Honor Book |
A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin |
| 2003 Honor Book | Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan |
2002 Medal Winner |
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park |
2002 Honor Book |
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath |
2002 Honor Book |
Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson |
2001 Medal Winner |
A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck |
2001 Honor Book |
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer |
2001 Honor Book |
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo |
2001 Honor Book |
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos |
| 2001 Honor Book | The Wanderer by Sharon Creech |
2000 Medal Winner |
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis |
2000 Honor Book |
Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis |
2000 Honor Book |
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm |
2000 Honor Book |
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola |
Visit the ALSC Newbery Medal Home Page for a list of all of the years.
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