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Suggested Reading List

Newbery Medal, Winner and Honor Books



2011 Medal Winner: Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool  J FIC Vanderpool 
Honor Books:

Turtle in Paradise
by Jennifer L. Holm J FIC Holm
Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus J FIC Preus
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night
by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen J 811.54 S
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia J FIC Williams-Garcia 

2010 Medal Winner: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead J FIC Stead
Honor Books:
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
by Phillip Hoose [Y BIOGRAPHY] Y B Colvin H
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly J FIC Kelly
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin J FIC Lin
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick J FIC Philbrick

2009 Medal Winner: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean Y FIC Gaiman
Honor Books:
The Underneath
by Kathi Appelt, illus. by David Small J FIC Appelt
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle Y 811.54 E
Savvy by Ingrid Law J FIC Law
After Tupac & D Foster
by Jacqueline Woodson

2008 Medal Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz J 812.6 S
Honor Books:
Elijah of Buxton
by Christopher Paul Curtis J FIC Curtis
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt Y FIC Schmidt
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson J FIC Woodson

2007 Medal Winner: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan J FIC Patron
Honor Books:

Penny from Heaven
by Jennifer L. Holm J FIC Holm
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson Y FIC Larson
Rules by Cynthia Lord J FIC Lord/Y FIC Lord

2006 Medal Winner: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins Y FIC Perkins
Honor Books:

Whittington
by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by S.D. Schindler
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti J 943.086 B
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale Y FIC Hale
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott [OLDER] E Woodson

2005 Medal Winner: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata Y FIC Kadohata
Honor Books:
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko Y FIC Choldenko
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman [J BIOGRAPHY] JB Anderson F
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt Y FIC 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 J FIC DiCamillo
Honor Books:
Olive's Ocean
by Kevin Henkes Y FIC Henkes
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy Y 614.541 M

2003 Medal Winner: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi J FIC Avi
Honor Books:
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer LT Y FIC Farmer
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff Y FIC Giff
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen Y FIC Hiaasen/YPB H
A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin Y FIC Martin
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan Y FIC Tolan/YPB Tolan

2002 Medal Winner: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park Y FIC Park/YPB Park
Honor Books
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath J FIC Horvath
Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson

2001 Medal Winner: A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck
Honor Books:
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 Medal Winner: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Honor Books:
Getting Near to Baby
by by Audrey Couloumbis
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola

1999 Medal Winner: Holes by Louis Sachar
Honor Book:

A Long Way from Chicago
by Richard Peck

1998 Medal Winner: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Honor Books:
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Lily's Crossing
by Patricia Reilly Giff
Wringer
by Jerry Spinelli

1997 Medal Winner: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
Honor Books:

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 Medal Winner: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
Honor Books:

What Jamie Saw
by Carolyn Coman
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Yolonda's Genius
by Carol Fenner
The Great Fire
by Jim Murphy

1995 Medal Winner: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Honor Books:

Catherine, Called Birdy
by Karen Cushman
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
by Nancy Farmer

1994 Medal Winner: The Giver by Lois Lowry
Honor Books:

Crazy Lady
by Jane Leslie Conly
Dragon's Gate
by Laurence Yep
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
by Russell Freedman

1993 Medal Winner: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
Honor Books:

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 Medal Winner: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Honor Books:

Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel
by Avi
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
by Russell Freedman

1991 Medal Winner: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Honor Book:

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by Avi

1990 Medal Winner: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Honor Books:
Afternoon of the Elves
by Janet Taylor Lisle
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind
by Suzanne Fisher Staples
The Winter Room
by Gary Paulsen

1989 Medal Winner: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
Honor Books:
In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
by Virginia Hamilton
Scorpions
by Walter Dean Myers

1988 Medal Winner: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
Honor Books:
After The Rain
by Norma Fox Mazer
Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen

1987 Medal Winner: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
Honor Books:
A Fine White Dust
by Cynthia Rylant
On My Honor
by Marion Dane Bauer
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens
by Patricia Lauber

1986 Medal Winner: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)
Honor Books:

Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun
by Rhoda Blumberg
Dogsong
by Gary Paulsen

1985 Medal Winner: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Honor Books:
Like Jake and Me
by Mavis Jukes (Knopf)
The Moves Make the Man
by Bruce Brooks (Harper)
One-Eyed Cat
by Paula Fox (Bradbury)

1984 Medal Winner: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
Honor Books:

The Sign of the Beaver
by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
A Solitary Blue
by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
Sugaring Time
by Kathryn Lasky (Macmillan)
The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree
by Bill Brittain (Harper)

1983 Medal Winner: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
Honor Books:
The Blue Sword
by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
Doctor DeSoto
by William Steig (Farrar)
Graven Images
by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
Homesick: My Own Story
by Jean Fritz (Putnam)
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)

1982 Medal Winner: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)
Honor Books:

Ramona Quimby, Age 8
by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944
by Aranka Siegal (Farrar)

1981 Medal Winner: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
Honor Books:
The Fledgling
by Jane Langton (Harper)
A Ring of Endless Light
by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)

1980 Medal Winner: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)
Honor Book:

The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl
by David Kherdian (Greenwillow)

1979 Medal Winner:
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
Honor Book:
The Great Gilly Hopkins
by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)

1978 Medal Winner:
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
Honor Books:
Ramona and Her Father
by Beverly Cleary (Morrow
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater (Lippincott)

1977 Medal Winner:
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)
Honor Books:
Abel's Island
by William Steig (Farrar
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond (Atheneum)

1976 Medal Winner:
The Grey King by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)
Honor Books:
The Hundred Penny Box
by Sharon Bell Mathis (Viking)
Dragonwings
by Laurence Yep (Harper)

1975 Medal Winner:
M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
Honor Books:
Figgs & Phantoms
by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
My Brother Sam is Dead
by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier (Four Winds)
The Perilous Gard
by Elizabeth Marie Pope (Houghton)
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe
by Bette Greene (Dial)

1974 Medal Winner:
The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (Bradbury)
Honor Book:
The Dark Is Rising
by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)

1973 Medal Winner:
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Harper)
Honor Books:
Frog and Toad Together
by Arnold Lobel (Harper)
The Upstairs Room
by Johanna Reiss (Crowell)
The Witches of Worm
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)

1972 Medal Winner:
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum)
Honor Books:
Incident At Hawk's Hill
by Allan W. Eckert (Little, Brown)
The Planet of Junior Brown
by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin (Atheneum)
Annie and the Old One
by Miska Miles (Little, Brown)
The Headless Cupid
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)

1971 Medal Winner:
Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (Viking)
Honor Books:
Knee Knock Rise
by Natalie Babbitt (Farrar)
Enchantress From the Stars
by Sylvia Louise Engdahl (Atheneum)
Sing Down the Moon
by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)

1970 Medal Winner:
Sounder by William H. Armstrong (Harper)
Honor Books:
Our Eddie
by Sulamith Ish-Kishor (Pantheon)
The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art
by Janet Gaylord Moore (World)
Journey Outside
by Mary Q. Steele (Viking

1969 Medal Winner: The High King by Lloyd Alexander
Honor Books:
To Be a Slave
by Julius Lester (Dial)
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories
by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar)

1968 Medal Winner:
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)