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The Eyes & the Impossible
by Dave Eggers
From the award-winning author of The Every and the illustrator behind the beloved picture book Her Right Foot comes an endearing and beautifully illustrated story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals.
2024 Newbery Medal Winner.
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Freewater
by Amina Luqman-Dawson
."Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there's no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines, secret doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the swamp. In this society created by formerly enslaved people and some freeborn children, Homer finds new friends, almost forgetting where he came from. But when he learns of a threat that could destroy Freewater, he crafts a plan to find his mother and help his new home. Deeply inspiring and loosely based on the history of maroon communities in the South, this is a striking tale of survival, adventure, friendship, and courage."
2023 Newbery Medal Winner.
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The Last Cuentista
by Donna Barba Higuera
"A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - havebeen chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard - or purged them altogether. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again? "
2022 Newbery Medal Winner.
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When You Trap a Tiger
by Tae Keller
Moving with her parents into the home of her sick grandmother, young Lily forges a complicated pact with a magical tiger, in a story inspired by Korean folktales. By the author of The Science of Unbreakable Things.
2021 Newbery Medal Winner.
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New Kid
by Jerry Craft
Enrolled in a prestigious private school where he is one of only a few students of color, talented seventh grade artist Jordan finds himself torn between the worlds of his Washington Heights apartment home and the upscale circles of Riverdale Academy.
2020 Newbery Medal Winner.
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Merci Suârez Changes Gears
by Meg Medina
Merci Suâarez begins the sixth grade and knows things will change, but she did not count on her grandfather acting strangely, not fitting in at her private school, and dealing with Edna Santos' jealousy.
2019 Newbery Medal Winner.
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Hello Universe
by Erin Entrada Kelly
Two boys and two girls explore respective views about courage and being different in the wake of a prank that traps one of them at the bottom of a well and compels the others to embark on a search-and-rescue mission.
2018 Newbery Medal Winner.
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon
by Kelly Regan Barnhill
Luna, whose magical abilities are emerging, was raised in the forest by a witch, a swamp monster, and a dragon, but when a young man from the Protectorate is determined to kill the witch, Luna must use her magic to protect her family.
2017 Newbery Medal Winner.
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Last Stop on Market Street
by Matt de la Pen~a
A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.
2016 Newbery Medal Winner.
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The Crossover
by Kwame Alexander
A middle-grade novel in verse follows the experiences of twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan, who struggle with challenges on and off the court while their father ignores his declining health.
2015 Newbery Medal winner.
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Flora & Ulysses : the illuminated adventures
by Kate DiCamillo
Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.
​2014 Newbery Medal winner.
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The One and Only Ivan
by Katherine Applegate
When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-
themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
​2013 Newbery Medal winner.
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Dead End in Norvelt
by Jack Gantos
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore.
​2012 Newbery Medal winner.
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Moon Over Manifest
by Clare Vanderpool
Jumping off a train in Kansas to learn more about her father's exciting past, Abilene Tucker is initially disappointed by the run-down Depression town she encounters before finding a hidden box of mementos and letters that mention a spy who played an important role in the town's secret history.
2011 Newbery Medal winner.
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When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
​2010 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
2009 Newbery Medal winner.
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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! : voices from a medieval village
by Laura Amy Schlitz
Journey to an English village in 1255 where a cast of characters, from millers to maidens, are introduced through colorful portraits and personal stories, in an informative guide to the Medieval era.
2008 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Higher Power of Lucky
by Susan Patron
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
2007 Newbery Medal winner.
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Criss Cross
by Lynne Rae Perkins
Provides a coming-of-age tale as a young girl struggles with the hardships of becoming a woman while hanging with her friends, trying to learn to drive, dealing with family dramas, and experiencing life in a new town--all while trying to find a meaningful relationship with a caring boy in the process.
2006 Newbery Medal winner.
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Kira-Kira
by Cynthia Kadohata
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. Reader's Guide available.
2005 Newbery Medal winner.
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Crispin : The Cross of Lead
by Avi
After being accused of a crime, thirteen-year-old Crispin becomes a wanted man and so must use a new identity and keep on the run in order to stay alive, in a suspenseful middle reader set in fourteenth-century England. A Newbery Medal Book & ALA Notable Children's Book.
2003 Newbery Medal winner.
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A Single Shard
by Linda Sue Park
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
2002 Newbery Medal winner.
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A Year Down Yonder
by Richard Peck
During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman. A Newbery Medal Winner & ALA Notable Book.
2001 Newbery Medal winner.
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Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
2000 Newbery Medal winner.
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Holes
by Louis Sachar
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
1999 Newbery Medal winner.
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Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
1998 Newbery Medal winner.
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The View from Saturday
by E. L. Konigsburg
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
1997 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Midwife's Apprentice
by Karen Cushman
In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife and, in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she wants most: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in the world.
1996 Newbery Medal winner.
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Walk Two Moons
by Sharon Creech
After her mother leaves home suddenly, as thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
1995 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Giver
by Lois Lowry
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
1994 Newbery Medal winner.
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Missing May
by Cynthia Rylant
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. A Newbery Medal Book & ALA Notable Children's Book.
1993 Newbery Medal winner.
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Shiloh
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
1992 Newbery Medal winner.
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Maniac Magee
by Jerry Spinelli
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
1991 Newbery Medal winner.
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Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
During the German occupation of Denmark, Annemarie helps shelter a Jewish friend from the Nazis.
1990 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Whipping Boy
by Sid Fleischman
A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
1987 Newbery Medal winner.
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Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia MacLachlan
When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.
1986 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Hero and the Crown
by Robin McKinley
With the aid of the wizard Luthe and the Blue Sword, Aerin wins the birthright due to her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North. A Newbery Medal winner.
1985 Newbery Medal winner.
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Dear Mr. Henshaw
by Beverly Cleary
Leigh Botts writes letters to his favorite author asking for information and describing his own life since his parents got divorced.
1984 Newbery Medal winner.
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Dicey's Song
by Cynthia Voigt
Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.
1983 Newbery Medal winner.
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Jacob Have I Loved
by Katherine Paterson
A remote Chesapeake Bay island and the ancient biblical story of sibling rivalry form the background to this story about an unloved elder twin sister who struggles to claim her own birthright.
1981 Newbery Medal winner.
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A Gathering of Days : a novel
by Joan W. Blos
The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
1980 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
1979 Newbery Medal winner.
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Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
Jess Aarons gains the strength to cope with unexpected tragedy by going to a secret kingdom in the woods invented by Leslie Burke, a newcomer to his rural Virginia community.
1978 Newbery Medal winner.
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor
A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
1977 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Grey King
by Susan Cooper
Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers.
1976 Newbery Medal winner.
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M.C. Higgins, the Great
by Virginia Hamilton
As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love. A Newbery Medal Winner & ALA Notable Children's Book.
1975 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Slave Dancer
by Paula Fox
Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
1974 Newbery Medal winner.
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Julie of the Wolves
by Jean Craighead George
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
1973 Newbery Medal winner.
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
by Robert C. O'Brien
Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.
1972 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Summer of the Swans
by Betsy Cromer Byars
A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost.
1971 Newbery Medal winner.
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Sounder
by William Howard Armstrong
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.
1970 Newbery Medal winner.
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The High King
by Lloyd Alexander
In this final part of the chronicle of Prydain, the forces of good and evil meet in an ultimate confrontation, which determines the fate of Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper who wanted to be a hero.
1969 Newbery Medal winner.
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
1968 Newbery Medal winner.
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Up a Road Slowly
by Irene Hunt
After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with her Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes, including love, jealousy, and tragedy, as she grows into a young woman.
1967 Newbery Medal winner.
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I, Juan de Pareja
by Elizabeth Borton de Treviäno
Although Juan is a slave, a friendship develops between him and his benevolent master, the great Spanish artist Velazques, who secretly teaches him to paint.
1966 Newbery Medal winner.
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Shadow of a Bull
by Maia Wojciechowska
Manolo Olivar has to make a decision to either follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor.
1965 Newbery Medal winner.
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It's Like This, Cat
by Emily Neville
The story of a fourteen-year-old New York boy and his relationships with a stray tomcat, an eccentric old woman, a troubled older boy, the first girl with whom he has been friends, and his father.
1964 Newbery Medal winner.
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A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government, in a rerelease of the classic story.
1963 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Bronze Bow.
by Elizabeth George Speare
A young Jewish rebel is filled with hatred for the Romans and a desire to avenge his parents' deaths until Jesus of Nazareth teaches him love and understanding of others.
1962 Newbery Medal winner.
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
1961 Newbery Medal winner.
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Onion John
by Joseph Krumgold
His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
1960 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare
In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
1959 Newbery Medal winner.
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Rifles for Watie
by Harold Keith
Jeff Bussey, a Union volunteer, sees the Civil War from both sides when he is sent to spy on Stand Watie and his Confederate Cherokee raiders.
1958 Newbery Medal winner.
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Miracles on Maple Hill
by Virginia Sorensen
Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to Grandma's old farmhouse on Maple Hill.
1957 Newbery Medal winner.
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
by Jean Lee Latham
After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator," also known as the "Sailors' Bible."
1956 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Wheel on the School.
by Meindert De Jong
Dutch schoolgirl Lina's composition about storks began the children's campaign to bring storks back to their village.
1955 Newbery Medal winner.
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And Now Miguel
by Joseph Krumgold
Miguel, the middle son of a family of sheep-raisers, finds himself at the awkward age between boyhood and manhood.
1954 Newbery Medal winner.
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Secret of the Andes
by Ann Nolan Clark
An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.
1953 Newbery Medal winner.
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Ginger Pye
by Eleanor Estes
The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
1952 Newbery Medal winner.
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Amos Fortune, Free Man : Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates
The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
1951 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Door in the Wall
by Marguerite De Angeli
Set in England during the Middle Ages, this award-winning tale presents the touching story of a courageous young boy who suddenly loses the use of his legs and is forced to learn how to deal with his new disability.
1950 Newbery Medal winner.
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King of the wind : the story of the Godolphin Arabian
by Marguerite Henry
Sham and the stable boy Agba travel from Morocco to France to England where, at last, Sham's majesty is recognized and he becomes the "Godolphin Arabian," ancestor of the most superior Thoroughbred horses.
1949 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Twenty-One Balloons
by William Páene du Bois
Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic.
1948 Newbery Medal winner.
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Miss Hickory
by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Relates the adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut for a head.
1947 Newbery Medal winner.
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Strawberry girl
by Lois Lenski
Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer's cannot wait to pick some ripe and juicy strawberries, but she and her family, just moved to the Florida backwoods, have to deal first with some natural obstacles and some feuding neighbors.
1946 Newbery Medal winner.
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Rabbit Hill
by Robert Lawson
When a new family moves into the neighborhood the animals of Rabbit Hill are very curious about how these human inhabitants will act.
1945 Newbery Medal winner.
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Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes
After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
1944 Newbery Medal winner.
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Adam of the Road
by Elizabeth Gray Vining
The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick.
1943 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Matchlock Gun
by Walter Dumaux Edmonds
The story of Edward, a child in 1756 colonial New York State, whose father, called away to watch for raids, entrusts him to defend his family from the constant threats of warring French and Indians.
1942 Newbery Medal winner.
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Call It Courage
by Armstrong Sperry
Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people.
1941 Newbery Medal winner.
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Thimble Summer
by Elizabeth Enright
A summer full of happiness and good times begins after nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble at the swimming hole.
1939 Newbery Medal winner.
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The White Stag
by Kate Seredy
Retells the legendary story of the Huns' and Magyars' long migration from Asia to Europe where they hope to find a permanent home.
1938 Newbery Medal winner.
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Roller Skates
by Ruth Sawyer
The discoveries and adventures of ten-year-old Lucinda, who spends a wonderful year exploring the New York City of the 1890's.
1937 Newbery Medal winner.
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Caddie Woodlawn
by Carol Ryrie Brink
The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
1936 Newbery Medal winner.
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Dobry
by Monica Shannon
A Bulgarian peasant boy must convince his mother that he is destined to be a sculptor, not a farmer.
1935 Newbery Medal winner.
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Invincible Louisa : the story of the author of Little women
by Cornelia Lynde Meigs
Profiles the life of the noted nineteenth-century writer, detailing her early, happy childhood in Pennsylvania and Boston, and her later success as author of the classic "Little Women."
1934 Newbery Medal winner.
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Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
In the 1920s, a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune.
1933 Newbery Medal winner.
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Waterless Mountain
by Laura Adams Armer
Younger Brother, a Navaho Indian boy, undergoes eight years of training in the ancient religion of his people and the practical knowledge of material existence.
1932 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Cat Who Went to Heaven
by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
A little cat comes to the home of a poor Japanese artist and, by humility and devotion, brings him good fortune.
1931 Newbery Medal winner.
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Hitty : her first hundred years
by Rachel Field
When Phoebe Preble brings her special doll, Hitty, with her everywhere she goes, Hitty experiences wonderful adventures and makes a lot of new friends.
1930 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Trumpeter of Krakow
by Eric Philbrook Kelly
A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy's memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father.
1929 Newbery Medal winner.
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Gay-Neck : the story of a pigeon
by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield.
1928 Newbery Medal winner.
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Smoky the Cowhorse
by Will James
Follows the experiences of a mouse-colored horse from his birth in the wild, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age.
1927Newbery Medal winner.
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Tales from Silver Lands
by Charles Joseph Finger
"Atmospheric woodcuts illustrate this Newbery Award-winning collection of 19 South American folktales. Charles J. Finger heard the tales firsthand from native storytellers, whose fables of talking animals, witches, giants, and ordinary people in supernatural settings provide remarkable insights into regional values and culture. The first of the stories, "A Tale of Three Tails," tells of an age when the rat had a tail like a horse, the rabbit had a tail like a cat, and the deer's tail was plumed like the tail of a dog. "The Magic Dog" recounts an act of kindness to a stray animal that helps overcome a witch's curse. In "The Calabash Man," the creatures of the jungle assist a suitor in winning his bride, and in "El Enano," a greedy troll's insatiable appetite leads to his downfall. Packed with adventure and full of surprises, these and other stories emphasize the importance of hard work, courage, and loyalty".
1925 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Dark Frigate
by Charles Boardman Hawes
In seventeenth-century England, orphaned Philip Marsham, forced to flee London after a terrible accident, finds himself in an even more difficult situation when his ship is taken over by pirates and he is forced to become a member of their crew.
1924 Newbery Medal winner.
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The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
by N. H. Kleinbaum
A young reader's adaptation of the children's classic that won the Newbery Medal in 1923 follows Doctor Doolittle as he journeys to such faraway lands as Africa and Spidermonkey Island, accompanied by his many animal companions.
1923 Newbery Medal winner.
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The story of mankind
by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Examines civilization's progress from ancient times, revealing man's efforts to enhance his knowledge, wealth, and power.
1922 Newbery Medal winner.
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