Newbery Award Winners List by Year
The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association (ALA) to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
Newbery Award Winners List
| Year | Book Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The First State of Being | Erin Entrada Kelly |
| 2024 | The Kites of the Kingdom | Katherine Rundell |
| 2023 | Freewater | Alesha Harris |
| 2022 | The Last Cuentista | Donna Barba Higuera |
| 2021 | When You Trap a Tiger | Tae Keller |
| 2020 | New Kid | Jerry Craft |
| 2019 | Merci Suárez Changes Gears | Meg Medina |
| 2018 | Hello, Universe | Erin Entrada Kelly |
| 2017 | The Girl Who Drank the Moon | Kelly Barnhill |
| 2016 | Last Stop on Market Street | Matt de la Peña |
| 2015 | The Crossover | Kwame Alexander |
| 2014 | Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures | Kate DiCamillo |
| 2013 | The One and Only Ivan | Katherine Applegate |
| 2012 | Dead End in Norvelt | Jack Gantos |
| 2011 | Tales for Very Picky Eaters | Josh Schneider |
| 2010 | The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate | Jacqueline Kelly |
| 2009 | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman |
| 2008 | Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! | Laura Amy Schlitz |
| 2007 | The Higher Power of Lucky | Susan Patron |
| 2006 | Criss Cross | Lynne Rae Perkins |
| 2005 | Kira-Kira | Cynthia Kadohata |
| 2004 | The Tale of Despereaux | Kate DiCamillo |
| 2003 | Crispin: The Cross of Lead | Avi |
| 2002 | A Single Shard | Linda Sue Park |
| 2001 | Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | Paul Fleischman |
| 2000 | Holes | Louis Sachar |
| 1999 | Stuart Little | E.B. White |
| 1998 | The Midwife’s Apprentice | Karen Cushman |
| 1997 | The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 | Christopher Paul Curtis |
| 1996 | The Thief | Megan Whalen Turner |
| 1995 | Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech |
| 1994 | The Giver | Lois Lowry |
| 1993 | Missing May | Cynthia Rylant |
| 1992 | Shiloh | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| 1991 | Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli |
| 1990 | Number the Stars | Lois Lowry |
| 1989 | The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin |
| 1988 | Lincoln: A Photobiography | Russell Freedman |
| 1987 | The Whipping Boy | Sid Fleischman |
| 1986 | Sarah, Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan |
| 1985 | The Hero and the Crown | Robin McKinley |
| 1984 | Dear Mr. Henshaw | Beverly Cleary |
| 1983 | Dicey’s Song | Cynthia Voigt |
| 1982 | A Visit to William Blake’s Inn | Nancy Willard |
| 1981 | Jacob Have I Loved | Katherine Paterson |
| 1980 | The Summer of the Swans | Betsy Byars |