John Newbery Medal Winners

Bud Not Buddy
by Shirley Hazzard
• 2012 - Deadend in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
• 2011 - Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
• 2010 - When You Reach Me  by Rebecca Stead
• 2009 - Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus.
• 2008 - Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
• 2007 - The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus.
• 2006 - Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
• 2005 - Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
• 2004 - Tale Despereaux Being Story a Mouse a Princess Some Soup and a Spool Thread by Kate DiCamillo
• 2003 - Crispin : The Cross of Lead by Avi
• 2002 - A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
• 2001 - A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
• 2000 - Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• 1999 - Holes by Louis Sachar
• 1998 - Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
• 1997 - The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
• 1996 - The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
• 1995 - Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
• 1994 - The Giver by Lois Lowry
• 1993 - Missing May by Cynthia Rylant


Shiloh
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• 1992 - Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• 1991 - Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
• 1990 - Number The Stars by Lois Lowry
• 1989 - Joyful Noise : Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
• 1988 - Lincoln : A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
• 1987 - The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
• 1986 - Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
• 1985 - The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
• 1984 - Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
• 1983 - Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
• 1982 - A Visit to William Blake's Inn : Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
• 1981 - Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
• 1980 - A Gathering of Days : A New England Girl's Journal 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
• 1979 - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• 1978 - Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• 1977 - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
• 1976 - The Grey King by Susan Cooper
• 1975 - M. C. Higgins, The Great by Virginia Hamilton
• 1974 - The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
• 1973 - Julie of The Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• 1972 - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien 
• 1971 - The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
• 1970 - Sounder by William Howard Armstrong
• 1969 - The High King by Lloyd Alexander
• 1968 - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
• 1967 - Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
• 1966 - I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
• 1965 - Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
• 1964 - It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
• 1963 - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• 1962 - The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
• 1961 - Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• 1960 - Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
• 1959 - The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare 
• 1958 - Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
• 1957 - Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
• 1956 - Carry On Mr Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
• 1955 - Wheel on School by Meindert DeJong
• 1954 - And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
• 1953 - Secret Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
• 1952 - Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
• 1951 - Amos Fortune: Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
• 1950 - The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
• 1949 - King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
• 1948 - The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
• 1947 - Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
• 1946 - Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
• 1945 - Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
• 1944 - Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
• 1943 - Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
• 1942 - The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
• 1941 - Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
• 1940 - Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
• 1939 - Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
• 1938 - White Stag by Kate Seredy
• 1937 - Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
• 1936 - Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
• 1935 - Dobry by Monica Shannon
• 1934 - Invincible Louisa Story Author Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
• 1933 - Young Fu Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
• 1932 - Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
• 1931 - Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
• 1930 - Hitty Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
• 1929 - Trumpeter Krakow by Eric Kelly
• 1928 - Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji 
• 1927 - Smoky the Cow Horse by Will James
• 1926 - Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
• 1925 - Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
• 1924 - Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
• 1923 - Voyages Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
• 1922 - The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon

The complete list can be viewed at the American Library Association website.