Newbery Award Winners By Grade Level
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The Newbery Award is given, on a yearly basis, by the Association for Library Service, which is a division of the American Library Association. The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century bookseller John Newbery. Since 1922, the award has been given to the author who has contributed the most to American literature for children. This site provides a comprehensive list that chronicles the Newbery winners from each year and provides links to purchase many of these books. In addition, links are provided, when available, to literature units that have been created for these books.
In addition to the winning books, all of the honorary books, for each year, are listed. Many of these books are excellent and well worth reading as well. This is particularly true of certain books, specifically many of the books that were written by authors who eventually ended up winning the award for a different novel.
I've rated the Newbery books based on input given by hundreds of teachers, multiple reviews found throughout the Internet, and student comments from over a thousand students on books they've read. Additional input and book reviews are always welcomed and reviewed. Just leave a comment at the bottom of this site!
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Newbery Award Past Winners
2014: Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Grade 4
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A cynic meets a highly-unlikely superhero, a squirrel.
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures Buy Now 2013: The One and Only Ivan
Grade 3
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This book is a celebration of unexpected friendships. It was inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan; it's told from Ivan's point of view.
The One and Only Ivan Buy Now 2012: Dead End in Norvelt
Grade 5
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This novel is about an amazing two months for a kid named Jack Gantos. His plans for vacation excitement are destroyed when he is "grounded for life" by his quarrelling parents.
Dead End in Norvelt (Norvelt Series) Buy Now 2011: Moon Over Manifest
Grade 5
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Abilene Tucker feels like she has been abandoned. Her father must work on the railroad and has to place her on a train to live with an old friend for the summer. Abilene jumps off the train in Manifest, Kansas, because she is determined to learn about the boy her father once was.
Moon Over Manifest Buy Now 2010: When You Reach Me
Grade 4
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Miranda and her best friend, Sal, think that they know their New York City neighborhood. They think they know where it's safe to go; they think that they know whom to avoid. Mysterious notes reveal that somebody knows things no one should know, and Miranda starts to question herself.
When You Reach Me (Yearling Newbery) Buy Now 2009: The Graveyard Book
Grade 5
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2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Midieval Village
Grade 5
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2007: The Higher Power of Lucky
Grade 5
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2006: Criss Cross
Grade 5
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2005: Kira-Kira
Grade 4
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kira-kira (kee ra kee ra): glittering; shining Glittering. Lynn, makes everything seem like kira-kira. The sky is kira-kira. The sea is kira-kira. Lynn sees pretty much everything as kira-kira. Lynn becomes ill after her family moves. Her sister, Katie, must learn how to see everything as kira-kira.
2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
Grade 4
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Despereaux Tilling is a mouse who loves music, stories, and a princess named Pea. Roscuro is a cat who lives in the darkness but dreams of a world of light. Miggery Sow is a slow-witted, serving girl who has a simple wish. The characters journey down a dungeon and through a castle, all while forming a bond of friendship.
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread Buy Now 2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Grade5
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2002: A Single Shard
Grade 6
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2001: A Year Down Yonder
Grade 4
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2000: Bud, Not Buddy
Grade 5
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1999: Holes
Grade 4
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1998: Out of the Dust
Grade 5
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1997: The View from Saturday
Grade 5
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1996: The Midwife's Apprentice
Grade 6
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1995: Walk Two Moons
Grade 4
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Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle and her grandparents take a car trip, from Ohio to Idaho, after her mother leaves home quite suddenly. Along the way, she tells a story about her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
Walk Two Moons Buy Now 1994: The Giver
Grade 5
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This book is a children's version of 1984, a dystopian novel.
Jonas's world is perfect because there is total control, no war, and no pain. Unfortunately, he doesn't recognize the fact that there are no choices. When Jonas turns 12, he is singled out to receive special training. The Giver alone holds all of the memories, the history. This causes Jonas great pain. Jonas must find a way to share the pain and truly free the community.
The Giver (1) (Giver Quartet) Buy Now 1993: Missing May
Grade 5
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1992: Shiloh
Grade 4
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1991: Maniac Magee
Grade 4
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1990: Number the Stars
Grade 4
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Ellen Rosen is concealed from Nazi troops who are searching for Jewish people. Annemarie Johansen's family does their best to hide and protect Ellen. Meanwhile, the Danish resistance smuggles the Jewish population of Denmark across the sea to Sweden. This is a book of heroism during a horrific war, World War II.
Number the Stars Buy Now 1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
(Unknown)
1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography
Grade 4
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1987: The Whipping Boy
Grade 3
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1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall
Grade 3
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1985: The Hero and the Crown
Grade 7
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1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw
Grade 4
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1983: Dicey's Song
Grade 5
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1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
Grade 4
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1981: Jacob Have I Loved
Grade 5
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1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832
Grade 6
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1979: The Westing Game
Grade 5
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1978: Bridge to Terabithia
Grade 4
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1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Grade 5
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1976: The Grey King
Grade 6
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1975: M.C. Higgins, the Great
Grade 4
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1974: The Slave Dancer
Grade 6
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1973: Julie of the Wolves
Grade 5
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1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Grade 5
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Mrs. Frisby is a widowed mouse with four small children. She must move her family to their summer quarters or face death. Unfortunately, her youngest son is ill with pneumonia and can't be moved. She encounters the rats of NIMH, highly intelligent creatures. The rats of NIMH come up with a brilliant solution. In return, Mrs. Frisby renders a great service.
1971: Summer of the Swans
Grade 4
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1970: Sounder
Grade 5
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1969: The High King
Grade 6
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1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Grade 4
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1967: Up a Road Slowly
Grade 6
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1966: I, Juan de Pareja
Grade 6
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1965: Shadow of a Bull
Grade 5
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1964: It's Like This, Cat
Grade 4
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1963: A Wrinkle in Time
Grade 4
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Meg Murry's Father, a physicist, disappears while working for the government on a tesseract, a wrinkle in time. Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin journey through space and time in an effort to find him.
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet) Buy Now 1962: The Bronze Bow
Grade 5
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1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins
(Grade 5)
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This story is based on a true story. It's about a 12-year-old girl named Karana who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. As the 18 years passed by, she waited for a ship to rescue her and take her away from the island.
Island of the Blue Dolphins Buy Now 1960: Onion John
Grade 4
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1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Grade 5
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1958: Rifles for Watie
Grade 6
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1957: Miracles on Maple Hill
Grade 4
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1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Grade 4
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1955: The Wheel on the School
Grade 4
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1954: ...And Now Miguel
Grade 4
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1953: Secret of the Andes
Grade 4
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1952: Ginger Pye
Grade 6
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Ginger Pye is one smart dog! Jerry and Rachel Pye feel that the one dollar they spent to purchase Ginger was the best money they ever spent. Everybody loves Ginger, and they are very unhappy when someone steals him.
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man
Grade 6
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1950: The Door in the Wall
Grade 6
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1949: King of the Wind
Grade 5
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1948: The Twenty-One Balloons
Grade 6
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1947: Miss Hickory
Grade 5
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1946: Strawberry Girl
Grade 4
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1945: Rabbit Hill
Grade 6
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1944: Johnny Tremain
Grade 5
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1943: Adam of the Road
Grade 6
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1942: The Matchlock Gun
Grade 5
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1941: Call It Courage
Grade 6
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1940: Daniel Boone
4
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1939: Thimble Summer
Grade 5
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1938: The White Stag
Grade 6
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1937: Roller Skates
Grade 6
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1936: Caddie Woodlawn
Grade 6
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1935: Dobry
Grade 5
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1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
Grade 8
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1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Grade 6
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1932: Waterless Mountain
Grade 5
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1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven
Grade 5
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A struggling artist in ancient Japan is angered when his housekeeper brings home a tiny, white cat. When the village's head priest commissions a painting of the Buddha, the artist believes the cat has brought him luck, and his hatred softens.
The Cat Who Went to Heaven Buy Now 1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
Grade 7
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1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow
Grade 7
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1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
Grade 6
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1927: Smoky, the Cow Horse
Grade 6
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Smoky lives on the open range, and he is free to do whatever he wishes. He knows what he has to do to survive, and he knows he can beat any enemy. When he comes across a new enemy, Smoky realizes that giving up some of his freedom might mean getting something more valuable.
Smoky: The Cow Horse Buy Now 1926: Shen of the Sea
Grade 5
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1925: Tales from Silver Lands
Grade 6
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1924: The Dark Frigate
Grade 6
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1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Grade 5
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The story is told by a boy, Tommy Stubbins, who is nine years old. Doctor Dolittle and his company head out to Spidermonkey Island. Along with his friends, Polynesia the parrot and Chee-Chee the monkey, Doctor Dolittle survives a shipwreck, and he lands on a highly mysterious, floating island. While on the floating island, he meets the wondrous Great Glass See Snail, a creature who holds the key to the greatest mystery.
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (Doctor Dolittle Series) Buy Now 1922: The Story of Mankind
Grade 9
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Newbery Award Honorary Recognition
2012 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Inside Out & Back Again
Author: Thanhha Lai
Breaking Stalin's Nose
Author: Eugene Yelchin
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2011 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Turtle in Paradise
Author: Jennifer L. Holm
Heart of a Samurai
Author: Margi Preus
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night
Author: Joyce Sidman
One Crazy Summer
Author: Rita Williams-Garcia
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2010 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Author: Phillip Hoose
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Author: Jacqueline Kelly
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Author: Grace Lin
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Author: Rodman Philbrick
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2009 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Underneath
Author: Kathi Appelt
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
Author: Margarita Engle
Savvy
Author: Ingrid Law
After Tupac & D Foster
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
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2008 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Elijah of Buxton
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
The Wednesday Wars
Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Feathers
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
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2007 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Penny from Heaven
Author: Jennifer L. Holm
Hattie Big Sky
Author: Kirby Larson
Rules
Author: Cynthia Lord
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2006 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Whittington
Author: Alan Armstrong
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
PrincessAcademy
Author: Shannon Hale
Show Way
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
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2005 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Author: Gennifer Choldenko
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
Author: Russell Freedman
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Author: Gary D. Schmidt
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2004 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Olive's Ocean
Author: Kevin Henkes
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Author: Jim Murphy
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2003 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The House of the Scorpion
Author: Nancy Farmer
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Author: Patricia Reilly
Hoot
Author: Carl Hiaasen
A Corner of The Universe
Author: Ann M. Martin
Surviving the Applewhites
Author: Stephanie S. Tolan
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2002 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Everything on a Waffle
Author: Polly Horvath
Carver: A Life In Poems
Author: Marilyn Nelson
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2001 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Hope Was Here
Author: Joan Bauer
Because of Winn-Dixie
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Joey Pigza Loses Control
Author: Jack Gantos
The Wanderer
Author: Sharon Creech
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2000 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Getting Near to Baby
Author: tour Lệ Giang Author: Audrey Couloumbis
Our Only May Amelia
Author: Jennifer L. Holm
26 Fairmount Avenue
Author: Tomie dePaola
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1999 Honor Book:
A Long Way from Chicago
Author: Richard Peck
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1998
Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Ella Enchanted
Author: Gail Carson Levine
Lily's Crossing
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Wringer
Author: Jerry Spinelli
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1997 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
A Girl Named Disaster
Author: Nancy Farmer
Moorchild
Author: Eloise McGraw
The Thief
Author: Megan Whalen Turner
Belle Prater's Boy
Author: Ruth White
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1996 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
What Jamie Saw
Author: Carolyn Coman
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Yolonda's Genius
Author: Carol Fenner
The Great Fire
Author: Jim Murphy
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1995 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Catherine, Called Birdy
Author: Karen Cushman
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
Author: Nancy Farmer
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1994 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Crazy Lady
Author: Jane Leslie Conly
Dragon's Gate
Author: Laurence Yep)
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
Author: Russell Freedman
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1993 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
What Hearts
Author: Bruce Brooks
The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
Author: Patricia McKissack
Somewhere in the Darkness
Author: Walter Dean Myers
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1992 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Nothing But The Truth: A Documentary Novel
Author: Avi
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
Author: Russell Freedman
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1991 Honor Book:
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Author: Avi
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1990 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Afternoon of the Elves
Author: Janet Taylor Lisle
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind
Author: Suzanne Fisher Staples
The Winter Room
Author: Gary Paulsen
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1989 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Scorpions
Author: Walter Dean Myers
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1988 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
After The Rain
Author: Norma Fox Mazer
Hatchet
Author: Gary Paulsen
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1987 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
A Fine White Dust
Author: Cynthia Rylant
On My Honor
Author: Marion Dane Bauer
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens
Author: Patricia Lauber
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1986 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun
Author: Rhoda Blumberg (Lothrop)
Dogsong
Author: Gary Paulsen
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1985 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Like Jake and Me
Author: Mavis Jukes
The Moves Make the Man
Author: Bruce Brooks
One-Eyed Cat
Author: Paula Fox
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1984 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Sign of the Beaver
Author: Elizabeth George Speare
A Solitary Blue
Author: Cynthia Voigt
Sugaring Time
Author: Kathryn Lasky
The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree
Author: Bill Brittain
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1983 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Blue Sword
Author: Robin McKinley
Doctor DeSoto
Author: William Steig
Graven Images
Author: Paul Fleischman
Homesick: My Own Story
Author: Jean Fritz
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Author: Virginia Hamilton
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1982 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Author: Beverly Cleary
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944
Author: Aranka Siegal
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1981 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Fledgling
Author: Jane Langton
A Ring of Endless Light
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
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1980 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl
Author: David Kherdian
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1979 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Author: Katherine Paterson
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1978 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Ramona and Her Father
Author: Beverly Cleary
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey
Author: Jamake Highwater
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1977 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Abel's Island
Author: William Steig
A String in the Harp
Author: Nancy Bond
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1976 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Hundred Penny Box
Author: SharonBell Mathis
Dragonwings
Author: Laurence Yep
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1975 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Figgs & Phantoms
Author: Ellen Raskin
My Brother Sam is Dead
Author: James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
The Perilous Gard
Author: Elizabeth Marie Pope
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe
Author: Bette Greene
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1974 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Dark Is Rising
Author: Susan Cooper
1973 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Frog and Toad Together
Author: Arnold Lobel
The Upstairs Room
Author: Johanna Reiss
The Witches of Worm
Author: Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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1972 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Incident At Hawk's Hill
Author: Allan W. Eckert
The Planet of Junior Brown
Author: Virginia Hamilton
The Tombs of Atuan
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
Annie and the Old One
Author: Miska Miles
The Headless Cupid
Author: Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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1971 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Knee Knock Rise
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Enchantress From the Stars
Author: Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Sing Down the Moon
Author: Scott O'Dell
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1970 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Our Eddie
Author: Sulamith Ish-Kishor
The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art
Author: Janet Gaylord Moore
Journey Outside
Author: Mary Q. Steele
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1969 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
To Be a Slave
Author: Julius Lester
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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1968 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
Author: E. L. Konigsburg
The Black Pearl
Author: Scott O'Dell
The Fearsome Inn
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Egypt Game
Author: Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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1967 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The King's Fifth
Author: Scott O'Dell
Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Jazz Man
Author: Mary Hays Weik
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1966 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Black Cauldron
Author: Lloyd Alexander
The Animal Family
Author: Randall Jarrell
The Noonday Friends
Author: Mary Stolz
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1965 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Across Five Aprils
Author: Irene Hunt
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1964 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era
Author: Sterling North
The Loner
Author: Ester Wier
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1963 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland
Author: Sorche Nic Leodhas
Men of Athens
Author: Olivia Coolidge
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1962 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Frontier Living
Author: Edwin Tunis
The Golden Goblet
Author: Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Belling The Tiger
Author: Mary Stolz
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1961 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
America Moves Forward: A History for Peter
Author: Gerald W. Johnson
Old Ramon
Author: Jack Schaefer
The Cricket In Times Square
Author: George Selden
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1960 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
My Side of the Mountain
Author: Jean Craighead George
America Is Born: A History for Peter
Author: Gerald W. Johnson
The Gammage Cup
Author: Carol Kendall
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1959 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Family Under The Bridge
Author: Natalie Savage Carlson
Along Came A Dog
Author: Meindert Dejong
Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa
Author: Francis Kalnay
The Perilous Road
Author: William O. Steele
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1958 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Horsecatcher
Author: Mari Sandoz
Gone-AwayLake
Author: Elizabeth Enright
The Great Wheel
Author: Robert Lawson
Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle
Author: Leo Gurko
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1957 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Old Yeller
Author: Fred Gipson
The House of Sixty Fathers
Author: Meindert DeJong
Mr. Justice Holmes
Author: Clara Ingram Judson
The Corn Grows Ripe
Author: Dorothy Rhoads
Black Fox of Lorne
Author: Marguerite de Angeli
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1956
Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The SecretRiver
Author: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Golden Name Day
Author: Jennie Lindquist
Men, Microscopes, and Living Things
Author: Katherine Shippen
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1955 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Courage of Sarah Noble
Author: Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
Banner In The Sky
Author: James Ullman (Lippincott)
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1954 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
All Alone
Author: Claire Huchet Bishop
Shadrach
Author: Meindert Dejong
Hurry Home, Candy
Author: Meindert Dejong
Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot
Author: Clara Ingram Judson
Magic Maize
Author: Mary & Conrad Buff
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1953 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Charlotte's Web
Author: E. B. White
Moccasin Trail
Author: Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Red Sails to Capri
Author: Ann Weil
The Bears on HemlockMountain
Author: Alice Dalgliesh
Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1
Author: Genevieve Foster
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1952 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Americans Before Columbus
Author: Elizabeth Baity
Minn of the Mississippi
Author: Holling C. Holling
The Defender
Author: Nicholas Kalashnikoff
The Light at Tern Rock
Author: Julia Sauer
The Apple and the Arrow
Author: Mary & Conrad Buff
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1951 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Better Known as Johnny Appleseed
Author: Mabel Leigh Hunt
Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword
Author: Jeanette Eaton
Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People
Author: Clara Ingram Judson
The Story of Appleby Capple
Author: Anne Parrish
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1950 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Tree of Freedom
Author: Rebecca Caudill
The Blue Cat of CastleTown
Author: Catherine Coblentz
Kildee House
Author: Rutherford Montgomery
George Washington
Author: Genevieve Foster
Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin
Author: Walter and Marion Havighurst
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1949 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Seabird
Author: Holling C. Holling
Daughter of the Mountains
Author: Louise Rankin
My Father's Dragon
Author: Ruth S. Gannett
Story of the Negro
Author: Arna Bontemps
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1948 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Pancakes-Paris
Author: Claire Huchet Bishop)
Li Lun, Lad of Courage
Author: Carolyn Treffinger
The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot
Author: Catherine Besterman
The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories
Author: Harold Courlander
Misty of Chincoteague
Author: Marguerite Henry
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1947 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Wonderful Year
Author: Nancy Barnes
Big Tree
Author: Mary & Conrad Buff
The Heavenly Tenants
Author: William Maxwell
The Avion My Uncle Flew
Author: Cyrus Fisher
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston
Author: Eleanor Jewett
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1946 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
Author: kynghidongduong.vn Marguerite Henry
The Moved-Outers
Author: Florence Crannell Means
Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear
Author: Christine Weston
New Found World
Author: Katherine Shippen
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1945 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Hundred Dresses
Author: Eleanor Estes
The Silver Pencil
Author: Alice Dalgliesh
Abraham Lincoln's World
Author: Genevieve Foster
Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams
Author: Jeanetter Eaton
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1944 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
These Happy Golden Years
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fog Magic
Author: Julia Sauer
Rufus M.
Author: Eleanor Estes
Mountain Born
Author: Elizabeth Yates
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1943 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Middle Moffat
Author: Eleanor Estes
Have You Seen Tom Thumb?
Author: Mabel Leigh Hunt
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1942 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Little Town on the Prairie
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
George Washington's World
Author: Genevieve Foster
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary JemisonAuthor: Lois Lenski
Down Ryton Water
Author: Eva Roe Gaggin
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1941 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Blue Willow
Author: Doris Gates
Young Mac of FortVancouver
Author: Mary Jane Carr
The Long Winter
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nansen
Author: Anna Gertrude Hall
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1940 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Singing Tree
Author: Kate Seredy
Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz
Author: Mabel Robinson
By the Shores of SilverLake
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Boy with a Pack
Author: Stephen W. Meader
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1939 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Nino
Author: Valenti Angelo
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Author: Richard and FlorenceAtwater
Hello the Boat!
Author: Phyllis Crawford
Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot
Author: Jeanette Eaton
Penn
Author: Elizabeth Janet Gray
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1938 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Pecos Bill
Author: James Cloyd Bowman
BrightIsland
Author: Mabel Robinson
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
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1937 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Phebe Fairchild: Her Book
Author: Lois Lenski
Whistler's Van
Author: Idwal Jones
The Golden Basket
Author: Ludwig Bemelmans
Winterbound
Author: Margery Bianco
The Codfish Musket
Author: Agnes Hewes
Audubon
Author: Constance Rourke
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1936 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Honk, the Moose
Author: Phil Stong
The Good Master
Author: Kate Seredy
Young Walter Scott
Author: Elizabeth Janet Gray
All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud
Author: Armstrong Sperry
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1935 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Pageant of Chinese History
Author: Elizabeth Seeger
Davy Crockett
Author: Constance Rourke
Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic
Author: Hilda Von Stockum
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1934 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Forgotten Daughter
Author: Caroline Snedeker
Swords of Steel
Author: Elsie Singmaster
ABC BunnyAuthor: Wanda Gág
Winged Girl of Knossos
Author: Erik Berry
New Land
Author: Sarah Schmidt
Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside
Author: Padraic Colum
Glory of the Seas
Author: Agnes Hewes
Apprentice of Florence
Author: Ann Kyle
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1933
Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Swift Rivers
Author: Cornelia Meigs
The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War
Author: Hildegarde Swift
Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia
Author: Nora Burglon
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1932 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Fairy Circus
Author: Dorothy P. Lathrop
Calico Bush
Author: Rachel Field
Boy of the South Seas
Author: Eunice Tietjens
Out of the Flame
Author: Eloise Lownsbery
Jane's Island
Author: Marjorie Allee
Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy
Author: Mary Gould Davis
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1931 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Floating Island
Author: Anne Parrish
The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess
Author: Alida Malkus
Queer Person
Author: Ralph Hubbard
Mountains are Free
Author: Julie Davis Adams
Spice and the Devil's Cave
Author: Agnes Hewes
Meggy MacIntosh
Author: Elizabeth Janet Gray
Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes
Author: Herbert Best
Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer
Author: Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen
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1930 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland
Author: Jeanette Eaton
Pran of Albania
Author: Elizabeth Miller
Jumping-Off Place
Author: Marion Hurd McNeely
The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales
Author: Ella Young
Vaino
Author: Julia Davis Adams
Little Blacknose
Author: Hildegarde Swift
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1929 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo
Author: John Bennett
Millions of Cats
Author: Wanda Gág
The Boy Who Was
Author: Grace Hallock
Clearing Weather
Author: Cornelia Meigs
Runaway Papoose
Author: Grace Moon
Tod of the Fens
Author: Elinor Whitney
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1928 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Wonder Smith and His Son
Author: Ella Young
Downright Dencey
Author: Caroline Snedeker
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1927 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
No known Newbery books of recognition.
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1926 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery
Author: Padraic Colum
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1925 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story
Author: Annie Carroll Moore
The Dream Coach
Author: Anne Parrish
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1924 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
No known Newbery books of recognition.
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1923
Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
No known Newbery books of recognition.
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1922 Newbery Books of Honorary Recognition:
The Great Quest
Author: Charles Hawes
Cedric the Forester
Author: Bernard Marshall
The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure
Author: William Bowen
The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
Author: Padraic Colum
The Windy Hill
Author: Cornelia Meigs
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sendingLiBerryLady
2 years ago
As a parent of 3 teens, a former 4-8th grade ELA teacher, and a current 6-8th grade Library Media Specialist, I have to reply that although this list was a good idea, placing a singular grade level for each book was not. You are pigeon-holing each book when in reality, each book should at the very least, be given a range of grades and age-level-readers. Plus, many of the grades you placed for each book are far too low - especially for the book, The Giver, since it contains content that in my long experiences teaching with it, is often disturbing to 7th and 8th graders! While the vocabulary level of many of these books is read-able by the elementary grade levels you listed, the content/themes and literary devices used in most are higher middle grades-high school ability/interest level, instead. Again, this list was a good idea, but you really should adjust it to include a range of appropriate grades since parents or new educators who come across your list may take this to mean that "only" students in that grade should read it or that "all" students in that one grade should read it.
yolo yolo
6 years ago
old yeller is cool!!!
AUTHORarizonataylor
6 years ago from Arizona
Wendy,
Thank you for your input. The ratings are based on input given from hundreds of teachers and thousands of students.
I have considered changing my rating system to stars or some other symbol. Perhaps it's time for a change.
Thank you.
Wendy
6 years ago
Not sure where you came up with ratings. I did not care for Dead End in Norvelt and certainly wouldn't have rated it higher than titles like The Wheel in the School or Maniac Magee, but the ratings would be easier to see if they were something besides exclamation points. They are hard to see.
smallbird8
8 years ago
I have a goal to read all of the newbery award winners and this site is extremely helpful! Thank You!
AUTHORarizonataylor
9 years ago from Arizona
Hi,
Hatchet is a great book. It is on my fifth grade list. Unfortunately, it didn't win the Newbery Award, but I heartily recommend it.
Thank you. I appreciate your input. Without input these lists will never improve.
Silver Poet
9 years ago from the computer of a midwestern American writer
Recommended title: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.
AUTHORarizonataylor
9 years ago from Arizona
I'm so glad you like the site. There are a lot of great Newbery books to read. I just finished Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH with my class. It's the first time I've ever read that book, and I really recommend it.
Best wishes. I'm glad you've been enjoying the site.
Debra Allen
9 years ago from West By God
I love the Newberry Award books. My children are all grown now but I have most of the books in the Wrinkle in Time books and I also have the full set of The Tales of Narnia. I don't think the Narnia was Newberry Award, not sure.
I saw some of these as movies. I have always loved children's books even though I never read any of them as a child growing up--or I don't remember reading them. I read them while my children were growing up. Thanks for the hub. I will come back and see what more books I can read.
I just took a look at the links below this comment box and YES I have/had a gifted child. She is expecting her second child and her first wil be two in a couple of weeks. He seems to be gifted too. We shall see.
Barbara
9 years ago from Stepping past clutter
What a gift to teachers. Thank you for taking the time to figure this out!
AUTHORarizonataylor
9 years ago from Arizona
Thank you so much! I made the list, because I couldn't find one either. I'm glad it's helpful. You made my day.
Pragmatic Mom
9 years ago
This is what I've been waiting for FOREVER! Finding the Newbery Awards linked to Grade/Age appropriateness. Bless you! I started a blog just for this issue and now I will link your post to my blog with credit and link to your blog, of course. THANK YOU!
