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Newbery Medal Winners

These award winning children's books are available from the Wisconsin Talking Book and Braille Library catalog.

Newbery Medal Winners 

Year Title Author Book Number
2023 Freewater Amina Luqman-Dawson DB106684
2022 The Last Cuentista Donna Barba Higuera DB105729
2021 When You Trap a Tiger Tae Keller DB 99005
2020 New Kid Jerry Craft DB 94151
2019 Merci Suárez Changes Gears Meg Medina DB 93532
2018 Hello, Universe Erin Entrada Kelly DB 88222
2017 The Girl Who Drank the Moon Kelly Regan Barnhill DB 85739
2016 Last Stop on Market Street Matt de la Peña DBC06858 / BR 21056
2015 The Crossover Kwame Alexander DB 79528 / DB111942
2014 Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures Kate DiCamillo DB 80753
2013 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate DB 75687
2012 Dead End in Norvelt Jack Gantos DB 74209
2011 Moon Over Manifest Clare Vanderpool DB 72632
2010 When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead DB 69837
2009 The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman DB 68027
2008 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz DB 65935
2007 The Higher Power of Lucky Susan Patron DB 63864
2006 Criss Cross Lynne Rae Perkins DB 61389
2005 Kira-Kira Cynthia Kadohata DB 59896
2004 The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread Kate DiCamillo DB 57805
2003 Crispin: The Cross of Lead Avi DB 55295
2002 A Single Shard Linda Sue Park DB 53670
2001 A Year Down Yonder Richard Peck DB 51259
2000 Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis DB 49311
1999 Holes Louis Sachar DB 47444
1998 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse DB 46712
1997 The View from Saturday E.L. Konigsburg DB 43549
1996 The Midwife's Apprentice Karen Cushman DB 40833
1995 Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech DB 39621
1994 The Giver Lois Lowry DB 37689
1993 Missing May Cynthia Rylant DB 36384
1992 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor DB 35064
1991 Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli DB 33527
1990 Number the Stars Lois Lowry DB 31580 / BR 08258
1989 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices Paul Fleischman DB 28922
1987 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleischman DB 25778
1986 Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan DB 23524 / BR 09531
1985 The Hero and the Crown Robin McKinley DB 25926
1984 Dear Mr. Henshaw Beverly Cleary DB 21309
1983 Dicey's Song Cynthia Voigt DB 21617
1982 A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers Nancy Willard DB 58664 / BR 05501
1981 Jacob Have I loved Katherine Peterson DB 59388
1980 A gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 Joan W. Blos DB 59476
1979 The Westing Game Ellen Raskin DB 58350
1978 Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson DB 48732 / DBC17940
1977 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor DB 50326
1976 The Grey King Susan Cooper DB 50442
1975 M.C. Higgins, the Great Virginia Hamilton DB 36699
1974 The Slave Dancer Paula Fox DB 58319
1973 Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George DB 34451
1972 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats Robert C. O'Brien DB 23562
1971 Summer of the Swans Betsy Byars DB 23118
1970 Sounder William H. Armstrong DB 22898
1969 The High King Lloyd Alexander DB 27715
1968 From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E.L. Konigsburg DB 22914
1967 Up a Road Slowly Irene Hunt DB 22915
1966 I, Juan de Pareja Elizabeth Borton de Trevino DB 23338
1965 Shadow of a Bull Maia Wojciechowska DB 23786
1964 It's Like This, Cat Emily Neville DB 22850
1963 A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle DB 48972
1962 The Bronze Bow Elizabeth George Speare DB 17367
1961 Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O'Dell DB 62761
1960 Onion John Joseph Krumgold DB 18347
1959 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare DB 22927
1958 Rifles for Watie Harold Keith DB 16572
1957 Miracles on Maple Hill Virginia Sorenson DB 23479
1956 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Jean Lee Latham DB 17659
1955 The Wheel on the School Meindert DeJong DB 23202
1954 And Now Miguel Joseph Krumgold DB 23489
1953 Secret of the Andes Ann Nolan Clark DB 11319
1952 Ginger Pye Eleanor Estes DB 58399
1951 Amos Fortune, Free Man Elizabeth Yates DB 23596
1950 The Door in the Wall Marguerite de Angeli DB 22885
1949 King of the Wind Marguerite Henry DB 16570
1948 The Twenty-one Balloons William Pene du Bois DB 23467
1947 Miss Hickory Carolyn Sherwin Bailey DB 22824
1946 Strawberry Girl Lois Lenski DB 15118
1945 Rabbit Hill Robert Lawson DB 23114
1944 Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes DB 22808
1943 Adam of the Road Elizabeth Gray Vining DB 23486
1942 The Matchlock Gun Walter Dumaux Edmonds DB 57031
1941 Call It Courage Armstrong Sperry DB 22825
1940 Daniel Boone James Henry Daugherty DB 60235
1939 Thimble Summer Elizabeth Enright DB 23207 / BRW00313
1938 The White Stag Kate Seredy DB 23270
1937 Roller Skates Ruth Sawyer DB 23119
1936 Caddie Woodlawn Carol Ryrie Brink DB 22917
1935 Dobry Monica Shannon DB 23168
1934 Invincible louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women Cornelia Meigs DB 23477
1933 Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze Elizabeth Lewis DB 23364
1932 Waterless Mountain Laura Adams Armer DB 16608 / BR 10589
1931 The Cat Who Went to Heaven Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth DB 58398
1930 Hitty, Her First Hundred Years Rachel Field DB 58360
1929 The Trumpeter of Krakow Eric P. Kelly DB 22916
1928 Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon Dhan Gopal Mukerji DB 32318
1927 Smoky, the Cowhorse Will James DB 23452
1926 Shen of the Sea: Chinese Stories for Children Arthur Bowie Chrisman DB 58412
1925 Tales from Silver Lands Charles Finger DB 24830
1924 The Dark Frigate Charles Hawes DB 23407
1923 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting DB 28256
1922 The Story of Mankind Hendrik Willem Van Loon DB 17628