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.

Newberry Medal Winner and Honor Books

  • Elf Dog and Owl Head

    Elf Dog and Owl Head by M.T. Anderson

    Quarantined with his family as a global plague ravages the world, Clay retreats to the woods where he meets a special little dog who leads him on surreal adventures where choosing the wrong pa

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  • Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

    Pedro Martin

    Pedro Martin's grown up in the U.S.

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  • Eagle Drums by Nasugraq Rainey Hopson

    Nasugraq Rainey Hopson

    "Winter approaches, and there's much to do if PiKa's family wants to be prepared: hunting, fishing, gathering, and more.

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  • Simon Sort of Says

    Erin Bow

    Two years after a tragedy saddles him with viral fame, twelve-year-old Simon O'Keeffe and his family move to Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, where the internet and cell phones are banned so astrop

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  • The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers

    Dave Eggers

    Free dog Johannes' job is to observe everything that happens in his urban park and report back to the park's three bison elders, but changes are afoot, including more humans, a new building, a

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • The Graveyard Book

    Neil Gaiman

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

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  • Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

    Laura Amy Schlitz

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

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  • 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

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