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The Newbery Medal and Honor was established in 1922 that presents an author a medal for a great book for children published in the United States. Usually two or three Honor Books are named each year. The Newbery Medal was named after John Newbery, an eighteenth century British bookseller. 2002 A Single Shard Linda Sue Park Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. 2001 A Year Down Yonder Richard Peck In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities. 2000 Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. 1999 Holes Louis Sachar As further evidence of his family's bad fortune, which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish boys' juvenile detention center in the Texas desert. As punishment, the boys here must each dig a hole every day, five feet deep and five feet across. Ultimately, Stanley "digs up the truth" -- and through his experience, finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. 1998 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. 1997 The View from Saturday E.L. Konigsburg Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition. 1996 The Midwife’s Apprentice Karen Cushman In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world. 1995 Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left. 1994 The Giver Lois Lowry Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. 1993 Missing May Cynthia Rylant After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. 1992 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs. 1991 Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries. 1990 Number the Stars Lois Lowry In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. 1989 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices Paul Fleischman A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects. 1988 Lincoln: A Photobiography Russell Freedman This remarkable account of the life of Abraham Lincoln includes lively and detailed text and photographs. 1987 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleischman A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becomming involved with dangerous outlaws. 1986 Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay. 1985 The Hero and the Crown Robin McKinley Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the Blue Sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North. 1984 Dear Mr. Henshaw Beverly Cleary In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world. 1983 Dicey’s Song Cynthia Voigt Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage. 1982 A visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers Nancy Willard A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests who arrive at William Blake's inn. 1981 Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Paterson Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity. 1980 A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832 Joan W. Blos The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend. 1979 The Westing Game Ellen Raskin The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. 1978 Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. 1977 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand. 1976 The Grey King Susan Cooper A strange boy and dog remind Will Stanton that he is an immortal, whose quest is to find the golden harp which will rouse others from a long slumber in the Welsh hills so they may prepare for the ultimate battle of Light versus Dark. 1975 M.C. Higgins, the Great Virginia Hamilton As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love. 1974 The Slave Dancer Paula Fox Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo. 1973 Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack. 1972 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Robert C. O’brien Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived. 1971 Summer of the Swans Betsy Byars A teenage girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost. 1970 Sounder William H. Armstrong A sharecropper steals to feed his family and is forcibly arrested--dividing the family and injuring Sounder, the great coon dog. Set in the 19th-century South, the story shifts to the search by the sharecropper's young son for his missing father and faithful Sounder's role in the boy's odyssey. 1969 The High King Lloyd Alexander In this final part of the chronicle of Prydain the forces of good and evil meet in an ultimate confrontation, which determines the fate of Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper who wanted to be a hero. 1968 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E.L. Konigsburg When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone for just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would live in comfort — at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She invited her brother Jamie to go, too, mostly because he was a miser and would have money. 1967 Up a Road Slowly Irene Hunt After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen. 1966 I, Juan de Pareja Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Novel based on the true story of the slave, Juan de Pareja, who was willed to Velazquez and whose relationship with the great Spanish painter evolved into one of friendship and equality. 1965 Shadow of a Bull Maia Wojciechowska Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor. 1964 It’s Like This, Cat Emily Neville Dave Mitchell and his father disagree on almost everything: Dave's music, his hair, even what makes a better pet, a dog or a cat. Dave's father thinks that a dog could be very educational. So dave gets Cat. Cat is a strong-willed tomcat who loves adventure almost as much as Dave does. With Cat around, Dave meets lots of new people - like Tom, a young dropout on his own in the city, and Mary, the first girl he can talk to like a real person. As things change, Dave starts to understand his father a little better. They still don't see eye-to-eye on a lot of things, but there is one thing they can both agree on: Having a cat can be very educational, too - especially when it's one like Cat. 1963 A wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. 1962 The Bronze Bow Elizabeth George Speare Set in Galilee in the time of Jesus, this is the story of a young Jewish rebel who is won over to the gentle teachings of Jesus. 1961 Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O’Dell Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast. 1960 Onion John Joseph Krumgold The story of a friendship between a 12-year-old boy and an immigrant handyman, almost wrecked by the good intentions of the townspeople. 1959 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Puritan neighbors regard Kit Tyler with suspicion, fear, and anger, when she befriends an old woman accused of witchcraft. 1958 Rifles for Watie Harold Keith Jeff Bussey walked briskly up the rutted wagon road toward Fort Leavenworth on his way to join the Union volunteers. It was 1861 in Linn County, Kansas, and Jeff was elated at the prospect of fighting for the North at last. In the Indian country south of Kansas there was dread in the air; and the name, Stand Watie, was on every tongue. A hero to the rebel, a devil to the Union man, Stand Watie led the Cherokee Indian Na-tion fearlessly and successfully on savage raids behind the Union lines. Jeff came to know the Watie men only too well. He was probably the only soldier in the West to see the Civil War from both sides and live to tell about it. Amid the roar of cannon and the swish of flying grape, Jeff learned what it meant to fight in battle. He learned how it felt never to have enough to eat, to forage for his food or starve. He saw the green fields of Kansas and Okla-homa laid waste by Watie's raiding parties, homes gutted, precious corn deliberately uprooted. He marched endlessly across parched, hot land, through mud and slash-ing rain, always hungry, always dirty and dog-tired.And, Jeff, plain-spoken and honest, made friends and enemies. The friends were strong men like Noah Babbitt, the itinerant printer who once walked from Topeka to Galveston to see the magnolias in bloom; boys like Jimmy Lear, too young to carry a gun but old enough to give up his life at Cane Hill; ugly, big-eared Heifer, who made the best sourdough biscuits in the Choctaw country; and beautiful Lucy Washbourne, rebel to the marrow and proud of it. The enemies were men of an-other breed - hard-bitten Captain Clardy for one, a cruel officer with hatred for Jeff in his eyes and a darksecret on his soul. 1957 Miracles on Maple Hill Virginia Sorenson Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill. 1956 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Jean Lee Latham The story of a boy who had the persistence to master navigation. 1955 The Wheel on the School Meindert DeJong Why did the storks no longer come to the little Dutch fishing village of Shora to nest? It was Lina, one of the six schoolchildren, who first asked the question, and she set the others to wondering. And sometimes when you begin to wonder, you begin to make things happen. So the children set out to bring the storks back. They had to overcome many obstacles, including the fierce and threatening sea. But they wouldn't give up - and soon their determination and their vision got the whole village working, until at last the dream began to come true. 1954 …And Now Miguel Joseph Krumgold Every summer the men of the Chavez family go on a long and difficult sheep drive to the mountains. All the men, that is, except for Miguel. All year long, twelve-year-old Miguel tries to prove that he, too, is up to the challenge - that he, too, is ready to take the sheep into his beloved Sangre de Cristo Mountains. When his deeds go unnoticed, he prays to San Ysidro, the saint for farmers everywhere. And his prayer is answered...but with devastating consequences. 1953 Secret of the Andes Ann Nolan Clark An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors. 1952 Ginger Pye Eleanor Estes The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children. 1951 Amos Fortune, Free Man Elizabeth Yates The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty. 1950 The Door in the Wall Marguerite de Angeli A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King. 1949 King of the Wind Marguerite Henry Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life. 1948 The Twenty-One Balloons William Pene du Bois A balloonist lands abruptly on an uninhabited Pacific island and is welcomed by a colony of formally dressed people living in an advanced civilization. An unlikely, imaginative, and funny parable about what it is like to live on the edge of disaster. 1947 Miss Hickory Carolyn Sherwin Bailey Miss Hickory is very worried. Her owner has moved to Boston, and how can Miss Hickory survive a harsh New Hampshire winter all alone? After all, she is just a doll whose body is an apple -wood twig and whose head is a hickory nut, and whose house is made out of corncobs. But Miss Hickory has ingenuity, and the help of neighbors like Crow, Bull Frog, and Ground Hog to see her through. And near the end of those cold, dark months, something unexpected happens to Miss Hickory--something even more welcome than the coming of spring. 1946 Strawberry Girl Lois Lenski Story of a "strawberry family" in rural 1940s Florida and a way of life that has long disappeared. 1945 Rabbit Hill Robert Lawson New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers. 1944 Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution. 1943 Adam of the Road Elizabeth Janet Gray The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick. 1942 The Matchlock Gun Walter Edmonds In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy. 1941 Call It Courage Armstrong Sperry Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people. 1940 Daniel Boone James Daugherty 1939 Thimble Summer Elizabeth Enright A summer full of happiness and good times begins after a little girl finds a silver thimble at the swimming hole. 1938 The White Stag Kate Seredy Retells the legendary story of the Huns' and Magyars' long migration from Asia to Europe where they hope to find a permanent home. 1937 Roller Skates The discoveries and adventures of ten-year-old Lucinda, who spends a wonderful year exploring the New York City of the 1890's. 1936 Caddie Woodlawn Chronicles the adventures of eleven-year-old Caddie growing up with her six brothers and sisters on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century. 1935 Dobry Monica Shannon A Bulgarian peasant boy must convince his mother that he is destined to be a sculptor, not a farmer. 1934 Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women Cornelia Meigs A celebrated short biography of Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women. 1933 Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze Elizabeth Lewis In the 1920's a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune. 1932 Waterless Mountain Laura Adams Armer Younger Brother, a Navaho Indian boy, undergoes eight years of training in the ancient religion of his people and the practical knowledge of material existence. 1931 The Cat Who Went to Heaven Elizabeth Coatsworth A little cat comes to the home of a poor Japanese artist and, by humility and devotion, brings him good fortune. 1930 Hitty, Her First Hundred Years Rachel Field Hitty is a very special doll who belongs to Phoebe. Phoebe is proud of her beautiful doll and brings Hitty everywhere she goes. This is thrilling for Hitty, who finds herself involved in the most wonderful adventures both on land and at sea. She meets many people and makes new friends. This is the story of the first hundred years of Hitty's life. And that's only the beginning for a doll as special as Hitty. 1929 The Trumpeter of Krakow Eric P. Kelly A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy's memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father. 1928 Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon Dhan Gopal Mukerji 1927 Smoky, the Cowhorse Will James The experiences of a mouse-colored horse from his birth in the wild, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age. 1926 Shen of the Sea Arthur Bowie Chrisman 1925 Tales from Silver Lands Charles Finger 1924 The Dark Frigate Charles Hawes In seventeenth-century England, orphaned Philip Marsham, forced to flee London after a terrible accident, finds himself in an even more difficult situation when his ship is taken over by pirates and he is forced to become a member of their crew. 1923 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting When his colleague Long Arrow disappears, Dr. Dolittle sets off with his assistant, Tommy Stubbins, his dog, Jip, and Polynesia the parrot on an adventurous voyage over tropical seas to floating Spidermonkey Island. 1922 The Story of Mankind Hendrik Willem van Loon |
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