Each year since 1922, the Newbery Medal has been awarded to American authors of literature for children. These books often become timeless classics. If you are interested in reading a beautifully written book out loud, or know a child searching for an excellent read, Newbery Medal and Honor books are a good place to start.

Millions of readers have enjoyed Newbery award winning books. The list below includes twenty years of award-winning books. More of these beloved classics are listed at the American Library Association website. Check out the list below to look for favorite books from your childhood, and discover new books to share with your children.

2002 – 2012 Newbery Medal and Honor Books List

2012 Medal Winner
Dead End in Norvelt (Farrar Straus Giroux), by Jack Gantos

2012 Honor Books
Inside Out & Back Again (HarperCollins Children's Books), by Thanhha Lai Breaking Stalin's Nose (Henry Holt and Company), by Eugene Yelchin

2011 Medal Winner
Moon over Manifest (Delacorte Press), by Clare Vanderpool

2011 Honor Books
Turtle in Paradise (Random House Children's Books), by Jennifer L. Holm
Heart of a Samurai (Amulet Books), by Margi Preus
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children), by Joyce Sidman
One Crazy Summer (Amistad), by Rita Williams-Garcia

2010 Medal Winner
When You Reach Me (Wendy Lamb Books), by Rebecca Stead

2010 Honor Books
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), by Phillip Hoose
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Henry Holt), by Jacqueline Kelly
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers), by Grace Lin
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg (The Blue Sky Press), by Rodman Philbrick

2009 Medal Winner
The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins), by Neil Gaiman

2009 Honor Books
The Underneath (Atheneum Books for Young Readers), by Kathi Appelt
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom (Henry Holt), by Margarita Engle
Savvy (Dial Books for Young Readers), by Ingrid Law
After Tupac & D Foster (G.P. Putnam's Sons), by Jacqueline Woodson

2008 Medal Winner
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village (Candlewick), by Laura Amy Schlitz

2008 Honor Books
Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic), by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Wednesday Wars (Clarion), by Gary D. Schmidt
Feathers (Putnam), by Jacqueline Woodson

2007 Medal Winner
The Higher Power of Lucky (Simon & Schuster), by Susan Patron

2007 Honor Books
Penny from Heaven (Random House), by Jennifer L. Holm
Hattie Big Sky (Delacorte Press), by Kirby Larson
Rules (Scholastic), by Cynthia Lord

2006 Medal Winner
Criss Cross (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins), by Lynne Rae Perkins

2006 Honor Books
Whittington (Random House), by Alan Armstrong
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Scholastic), by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Princess Academy (Bloomsbury Children's Books), by Shannon Hale
Show Way (G.P. Putnam's Sons), by Jacqueline Woodson

2005 Medal Winner
Kira-Kira (Atheneum Books for Young Readers), by Cynthia Kadohata

2005 Honor Books
Al Capone Does My Shirts (G.P. Putnam's Sons), by Gennifer Choldenko
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin), by Russell Freedman
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin), 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 (Candlewick Press), by Kate DiCamillo

2004 Honor Books
Olive's Ocean (Greenwillow Books), by Kevin Henkes
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Clarion Books), by Jim Murphy

2003 Medal Winner
Crispin: The Cross of Lead (Hyperion Books for Children), by Avi

2003 Honor Books
The House of the Scorpion (Atheneum), by Nancy Farmer
Pictures of Hollis Woods (Random House), by Patricia Reilly Giff
Hoot (Knopf), by Carl Hiaasen
A Corner of The Universe (Scholastic), by Ann M. Martin
Surviving the Applewhites (HarperCollins), by Stephanie S. Tolan

2002 Medal Winner
A Single Shard (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin), by Linda Sue Park

2002 Honor Books
Everything on a Waffle (Farrar Straus Giroux), by Polly Horvath
Carver: A Life In Poems (Front Street), by Marilyn Nelson

2001 Medal Winner
A Year Down Yonder (Dial), by Richard Peck

2001 Honor Books
Hope Was Here (G.P. Putnam’s Sons), by Joan Bauer
Because of Winn-Dixie (Candlewick Press), by Kate DiCamillo
Joey Pigza Loses Control (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), by Jack Gantos
The Wanderer (HarperCollins), by Sharon Creech

2000 Medal Winner
Bud, Not Buddy (Delacorte), by Christopher Paul Curtis

2000 Honor Books
Getting Near to Baby (Putnam), by Audrey Couloumbis
Our Only May Amelia (HarperCollins), by Jennifer L. Holm
26 Fairmount Avenue (Putnam), by Tomie dePaola

1999 Medal Winner
Holes (Frances Foster), by Louis Sachar

1999 Honor Book
A Long Way from Chicago (Dial), by Richard Peck

1998 Medal Winner
Out of the Dust (Scholastic), by Karen Hesse

1998 Honor Books
Ella Enchanted (HarperCollins), by Gail Carson Levine
Lily's Crossing (Delacorte), by Patricia Reilly Giff
Wringer (HarperCollins), by Jerry Spinelli

1997 Medal Winner
The View from Saturday (Atheneum), by E.L. Konigsburg

1997 Honor Books
A Girl Named Disaster (Orchard Books), by Nancy Farmer
Moorchild (Simon & Schuster), by Eloise McGraw
The Thief (Morrow), by Megan Whalen Turner
Belle Prater's Boy (Farrar Straus Giroux), by Ruth White

1996 Medal Winner
The Midwife's Apprentice (Clarion), by Karen Cushman

1996 Honor Books
What Jamie Saw (Front Street), by Carolyn Coman
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 (Delacorte), by Christopher Paul Curtis
Yolonda's Genius (Simon & Schuster), by Carol Fenner
The Great Fire (Scholastic), by Jim Murphy

1995 Medal Winner
Walk Two Moons (HarperCollins), by Sharon Creech

1995 Honor Books
Catherine, Called Birdy (Clarion), by Karen Cushman
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (Orchard), by Nancy Farmer

1994 Medal Winner
The Giver (Houghton), by Lois Lowry

1994 Honor Books
Crazy Lady (HarperCollins), by Jane Leslie Conly
Dragon's Gate (HarperCollins), by Laurence Yep
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery (Clarion Books), by Russell Freedman

1993 Medal Winner
Missing May (Orchard), by Cynthia Rylant

1993 Honor Books
What Hearts (HarperCollins), by Bruce Brooks
The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural (Knopf), by Patricia McKissack
Somewhere in the Darkness (Scholastic), by Walter Dean Myers

1992 Medal Winner
Shiloh (Atheneum), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

1992 Honor Books
Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel (Orchard), by Avi
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane (Holiday House), by Russell Freedman

Dead End in Norvelt (Farrar Straus Giroux), by Jack Gantos is the 2012 Newbery Medal winner. It is available at Amazon.com and your local public library.



Inside Out & Back Again (HarperCollins Children's Books), by Thanhha Lai is a 2012 Newbery Honor award winner. It is available at Amazon.com and your local public library.