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The John Newbery Medal. Award Winning Books. Newbery Beginnings. The Newbery medal was created in 1922 by the American Library association. The medal is awarded to the best book for children published in America the previous year. Newbery Medal Design.
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The John Newbery Medal Award Winning Books
Newbery Beginnings • The Newbery medal was created in 1922 by the American Library association. • The medal is awarded to the best book for children published in America the previous year.
Newbery books are judged on these points: • theme • accuracy, clarity, organization • plot development • character development • setting (time and place) • style
Who Won the Newbery this Year? Go to ALA’s Newbery website to see the most recent winners.
2010 Winner • Moon Over Manifestby Clare Vanderpool • Tells of Abilene, whose father has sent her off to live with an old friend for the summer while he works the railroad. Instead Abilene decides to jump off the train in Manifest Kansas, to learn about her father's childhood - and uncovers some old memories and family secrets that lead to new revelations about her past.
2010 Honor Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm Sassy eleven-year-old Turtle finds her life turned on end when she is sent to live with her aunt in Depression-era Key West. With vivid details, witty dialogue and outrageous escapades, Jennifer Holm successfully explores the meaning of family and home… and lost treasures found.
2010 Honor Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus Shipwrecks, whaling, a search for home and a delightful exploration of cultures create a swashbuckling adventure. This historical novel is based on the true story of Manjiro (later John Mung), the young fisherman believed to be the first Japanese person to visit America, who against all odds, becomes a samurai.
2010 Honor Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman Welcoming her readers into the “wild, enchanted park” that is the night, Joyce Sidman has elegantly crafted twelve poems rich in content and varied in format. Companion prose pieces about nocturnal flora and fauna are as tuneful and graceful as the poems. This collection is “a feast of sound and spark.”
2010 Honor One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia The voices of sisters Delphine, Vonetta and Fern sing in three-part harmony in this wonderfully nuanced, humorous novel set in 1968 Oakland, Calif. One crazy summer, the three girls find adventure when they are sent to meet their estranged poet-mother Cecile, who prints flyers for the Black Panthers.
2010 Winner • When You Reach Meby 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 Honor • The Evolution of Calpurnia Tateby Jacqueline Kelly • In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
2010 Honor • Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin • Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River.
2009 Winner • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman • Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
2009 Honor • The Underneath by Kathi Appelt • An old hound that has been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack and two kittens born underneath the house endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their quest to be reunited and free.
2009 Honor • Savvy by Ingrid Law • Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
2008 Winner Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz 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.
2008 Honor Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
2007 Winner 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 Honor Rules by Cynthia Lord Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic
2006 Winner Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins 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.
2006 Honor Princess Academy by Shannon Hale While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.
2006 Honor Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti The tale of a generation of young people who devoted their energy and passion to the Hitler Youth organization and left an indelible mark on world history.
2006 Honor Whittington by Alan Armstrong Whittington, a feline descendant of Dick Whittington’s famous cat of English folklore, appears at a rundown barnyard plagued by rats and restores harmony while retelling his ancestor’s story.
2005 Winner 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.
2005 Honor Book Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
2004 Winner The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo The adventures of Despereaux 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.
2004 Honor Book Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
2003 Winner Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi "Asta's son" is all he's ever been called because he and his mother are but poor peasants in fourteenth-century medieval England. Then this thirteen-year-old boy, who thought he had little to lose, soon finds himself with even less--no home, family, or possessions. Accused of a crime he did not commit, he has been declared a "wolf's head." That means he may be killed on sight, by anyone. If he wishes to remain alive, he must flee his tiny village. All the boy takes with him is a newly revealed name--Crispin--and his mother's cross of lead.
2003 Honor Book Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
2003 Honor Book Hoot by Carl Hiaasen Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
2002 Winner 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 Honor Book Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.
2001 Winner 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.
2001 Honor Book Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
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