My Newbery Project

Newbery Medal and Honor Books

1960-2017

You can read all about my Newbery project here.

2017

• The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (2017)
• Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan (2017)
• The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz
• Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

2016

• Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
• The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (2017)
• Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
• Echo by Pam Muñoz Royan (2017)

2015

• The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (2015)
• El Deafo by Cece Bell (2017)
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacuqeline Woodson (2017)

2014

• Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
• Doll Bones by Holly Black 
• The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes
• One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
• Paperboy by Vince Vawter

2013

• The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (2015)
• Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz (2014)
• Bomb: The Race to Build -- and Steal -- the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
• Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage (2017)

2012

• Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
• Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai (2015)
• Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin

2011

• Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
• Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
• Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
• Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman
• One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

2010

• When You Read Me by Rebecca Stead
• Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
• The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick

2009

• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (2017)
• The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
• The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
• Savvy by Ingrid Law (2017)
• After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

2008

• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schiltz
• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
• Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

2007

• The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
• Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
• Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
• Rules by Cynthia Lord (2013)

2006

• Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
• Whittington by Alan Armstrong
• Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (2017)
• Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson

2005

• Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (2013)
• The Voice that Challenged a  Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

2004

• The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo (2016)
• Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
• An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy

2003

• Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (2013)
• Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
• A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin
• Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan

2002

• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
• Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
• Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

2001

• A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
• Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
• Joey Pigza Loses Control by JAck Gantos
• The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

2000

• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
• Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
• 26 Fairmont Avenue by Tomie dePaola

1999

• Holes bu Louis Sachar
• A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

1998

• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (2016)
• Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
• Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

1997

• The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg 
• A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
• Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
• The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
• Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

1996

• The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
• What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (2015)
• Yolanda's Genius by Carol Fenner
• The Great Fire by Jim Murphy

1995

• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (2015)
• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
• The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

1994

• The Giver by Lois Lowry (2017)
• Dragon's Gate by Lauren Yep
• Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman

1993

• Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
• What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
• The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack
• Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers

1992

• Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi
• The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman

1991

• Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

1990

• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (2015)
• Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
• Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
• The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen 

1989

• Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
• In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
• Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers

1988

• Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
• After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

1987

• The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
• A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
• On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer (2017)
• Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber

1986

• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
• Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
• Dogsong by Gary Paulsen

1985

• The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
• Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
• The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
• One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox

1984

• Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
• A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
• Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
• The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain

1983

• Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
• The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
• Doctor DeSoto by William Steig
• Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
• Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
• Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

1982

• A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
• Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal

1981

• Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
• The Fledgling by Jane Langton
• A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle

1980

• A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
• The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian

1979

• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

1978

• Bridge to Terabithia by Beverly Cleary
• Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
• Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater

1977

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
• Abel's Island by William Steig
• A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond

1976

• The Grey King by Susan Cooper
• The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
• Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

1975

• M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
• Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin
• My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
• The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
• Phillip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene

1974

• The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
• The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

1973

• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
• The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
• The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1972

• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
• Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
• The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
• The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
• Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
• The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1971

• Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
• Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
• Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
• Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell

1970

• Sounder by William H. Armstrong
• Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
• The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction the the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore
• Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele

1969

• High King by Lloyd Alexander
• To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
• When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1968

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Frank E. Basilweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (2017)
• Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E.L. Konigsburg
• The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
• The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1967

• Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
• The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell
• Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik

1966

• I, Juan de Pareja by Elzabeth Borton de Trevino
• The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
• The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
• The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz

1965

• Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

1964

• It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
• Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North
• The Loner by Ester Wier

1963

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (2016)
• Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas
• Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge

1962

• The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
• Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis
• The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
• Belling the Tiger by Mary Stolz

1961

• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
• Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer
• The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

1960

• Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
• America is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
• The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall