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Newbery Medal Winners 1980-Current  Tags: bibliography child_lit  

The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year.
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Newbery Medal Winners 1980-Current

  • The Graveyard Book (2009)
    Call Number: PZ7.G1273 Gr 2008
    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.
  • Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village (2008)
    Call Number: PZ7.S34714 Go 2007
    A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.
  • The Higher Power of Lucky (2007)
    Call Number: PZ7.P27565 Hig 2006
    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.
  • Criss Cross (2006)
    Call Number: PZ7.P4313 Cr 2005
    Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
  • Kira-Kira (2005)
    Call Number: PZ7.K1166 Ki 2004
    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.
  • The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (2004)
    Call Number: PZ8.D5455 Tal 2003
    The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
  • Crispin: The Cross of Lead (2003)
    Call Number: PZ7.A953 Cr 2002
    Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
  • A Single Shard (2002)
    Call Number: PZ7.P22115 Si 2001
    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.
  • A Year Down Yonder (2001)
    Call Number: PZ7.P338 Yh 2000
    In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother’s unusual qualities.
  • Bud, Not Buddy (2000)
    Call Number: PZ7.C94137 Bu 1999
    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.
  • Holes (1999)
    Call Number: PZ7.S1185 Ho 1998
    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.
  • Out of the Dust (1998)
    Call Number: PZ7.H4364 Ou 1997
    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.
  • The View from Saturday (1997)
    Call Number: PZ7.K8352 Vi 1996
    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.
  • The Midwife's Apprentice (1996)
    Call Number: PZ7.C962 Mi 1995
    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 most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.
  • Walk Two Moons (1995)
    Call Number: PZ7.C8615 Wal 1994
    After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother’s route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
  • The Giver (1994)
    Call Number: PZ7.L9673 Gi 2006
    Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
  • Missing May (1993)
    Call Number: PZ7.R982 Mj 1992
    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.
  • Shiloh (1992)
    Call Number: PZ7.N24 Sg 1991
    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.
  • Maniac Magee (1991)
    Call Number: PZ7.S75663 Man 1990
    After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee’s life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
  • Number the Stars (1990)
    Call Number: PZ7.L9673 Nu 1998
    In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
  • Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices (1989)
    Call Number: PZ8.3.F58 Joy 1988
    A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects.
  • Lincoln: A Photobiography (1988)
    Call Number: PZ4.5 Bio .F73 Li 1987
    Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.
  • The Whipping Boy (1987)
    Call Number: PZ7.F5992 Wh 1986
    A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
  • Sarah, Plain and Tall (1986)
    Call Number: PZ7.M2225 Sar 1985
    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.
  • Hero and the Crown (1985)
    Call Number: PZ7.M1988 He 1985
    Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the Blue Sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.
  • Dear Mr. Henshaw (1984)
    Call Number: PZ7.C5792 De 1983
    In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents’ divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
  • Dicey's Song (1983)
    Call Number: PZ7.V874 Di 1982
    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.
  • A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers (1982)
    Call Number: PZ8.3.W54 Vi 1981
    A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests who arrive at William Blake’s inn.
  • Jacob I Have Loved (1981)
    Call Number: PZ7.P273 Jac 1980
    Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity.
  • Gathring of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 (1980)
    Call Number: PZ7.B6237 Gat 1979
    The journal of a 14-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.
 
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