Newbery Medal

Newberry Medal

This annual award honors the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

For more information about the Newbery Medal, please see the ALA Newbery Medal Home Page.

2020 Newberry Medal Winner and Honor Books

  • New Kid

    Jerry Craft

    Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real, fro

    Read More.
  • Flora & Ulysses

    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 f

    Read More.
  • The Graveyard Book

    Neil Gaiman

    Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.

    Read More.
  • Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

    Laura Amy Schlitz

    Maidens, monks, and millers’ sons — in these pages, readers will meet them all.

    Read More.
  • When You Reach Me

    Rebecca Stead

    In the 1980s, as her mother prepares to be a contestant on a television game show, Miranda tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy t

    Read More.
  • Moon Over Manifest

    Clare Vanderpool

    Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out s

    Read More.
  • Dead End in Norvelt

    Jack Gantos

    Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction!

    Read More.
  • The One and Only Ivan

    Katherine Applegate

    Winner of the Newbery Medal and a #1 New York Times bestseller!

    Read More.
  • The Crossover

    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.

    Read More.
  • Last Stop on Market Street

    Matt de la Pena

    A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.

    Read More.