Newbery Medal
The Newbery Medal was first offered in 1921 by Frederic G. Melcher as an incentive for better quality in children’s books. Named after John Newbery, the famous 18th century publisher and seller of children’s books, it is now donated annually by the Melcher family to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children published during the preceding year. Awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to children, the American Library Association.
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2013
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When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
2012
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In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
Honor Books
2011
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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 some things about his past. Over the summer she pieces together his story. Having heard stories about Manifest, Abilene is disappointed to find that it's just a dried-up, worn-out old town. But her disappointment quickly turns to excitement when she discovers a hidden cigar box full of mementos, including some old letters that mention a spy known as the Rattler. These mysterious letters send Abilene and her new friends, Lettie and Ruthanne, on an honest-to-goodness spy hunt, even though they are warned to "Leave Well Enough Alone."
2010
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As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s 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.
2009
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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.
2008
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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.
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2007
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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.
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2006
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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.
2005
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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.
2004
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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.
2003
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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. Lexile Level: 780
2002
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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.
Honor Books
2001
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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.
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2000
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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.
Honor Books
- 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie De Paola
- Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
- Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
1999
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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.
Honor Books
1998
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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.
Honor Books
1997
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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.
Honor Books
1996
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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.
Honor Books
- The Great Fire by Jim Murphy
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
- What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
- Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner
1995
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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. Lexile Level: 770
Honor Books
1994
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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. Lexile Level: 760
Honor Books
1993
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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.
Honor Books
- Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
- The Dark-Thirty : Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. McKissack
- What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
1992
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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.
1991
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After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
Honor Books
1990
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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.
Honor Books
- Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
- Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
- The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen
1989
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A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects.
Honor Books
- In The Beginning : Creation Stories from Around the World by Virgina Hamilton
- Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
1988
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Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.
Honor Books
- After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
1987
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A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
Honor Books
- A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
- On My Honor by Marion D. Bauer
- Volcano : The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber
1986
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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.
Honor Books
- Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
- Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
1985
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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.
Honor Books
- Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
- One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox
- The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
1984
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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.
Honor Books
- A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
- Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
- The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
- The Wish Giver : Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain
1983
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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.
Honor Books
- Doctor DeSoto by William Steig
- Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
- Homesick : My Own Story by Jean Fritz
- Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virgina Hamilton
- The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
1982
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A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests who arrive at William Blake's inn.
Honor Books
- Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
- Upon the Head of the Goat : A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal
1981
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Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity.
Honor Books
1980
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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.
Honor Books
- The Road from Home : The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian
1979
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The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
Honor Books
1978
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The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
Honor Books
- Anpao : An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater
- Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
1977
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A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
Honor Books
- A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond
- Abel's Island by William Steig
1976
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In this fourth book of The Dark Is Rising sequence, Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers.
Honor Books
- Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
- The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
1975
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As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.
Honor Books
- Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin
- My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier
- Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene
- The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
1974
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Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
Honor Books
1973
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While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
Honor Books
1972
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Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.
Honor Books
- Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
- Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
- The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- The Planet of Junior Brown by Virgina Hamilton
- The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
1971
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A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally retarded brother gets lost.
Honor Books
- Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
- Kneeknock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
- Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
1970
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Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
Honor Books
- Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele
- Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
- The Many Ways of Seeing : An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore
1969
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Taran, Assistant Pig-keeper, and Prince Gwydion prepare for a fierce battle with Arawn-Death-Lord when he acquires the sword of Dyrnwyn, the most powerful weapon in the kingdom of Prydain.
Honor Books
- To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
- When Schlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
1968
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Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself. Lexile Level: 700
Honor Books
1967
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After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen.
Honor Books
- The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik
- The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell
- Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
1966
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The slave of the 17th century Spanish painter Velazquez becomes a painter in his own right.
Honor Books
- The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
- The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
- The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz
1965
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Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor.
Honor Books
1964
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My father is always talking about how a dog can be very educational for a boy. This is one reason I got a cat. Dave Mitchell and his father yell at each other a lot, and whenever the fighting starts, Dave's mother gets an asthma attack. That's when Dave storms out of the house. Then Dave meets Tom, a strange boy who helps him rescue Cat. It isn't long before Cat introduces Dave to Mary, a wonderful girl from Coney Island. Slowly Dave comes to see the complexities in people's lives and to understand himself and his family a little better.
Honor Books
- Rascal : A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North
- The Loner by Ester Wier
1963
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Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
Honor Books
- Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge
- Thistle and Thyme : Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas
1962
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When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate.
Honor Books
- Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz
- Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis
- The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
1961
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Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind.
Honor Books
- America Moves Forward : A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
- Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer
- The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
1960
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His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
Honor Books
- America is Born : A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
- My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
- The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall
1959
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In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
Honor Books
- Along Came a Dog by Meindert Dejong
- Chucaro : Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay
- The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
- The Perilous Road by William O. Steele
1958
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The story of Jeff Bussey, a farm boy living in 1861, who joins the Union army and goes on an important mission to discover how Stand Watie and his Confederate Cherokee Rebels are receiving repeating rifles from northern manufacturers.
Honor Books
- Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
- The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson
- The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz
- Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko
1957
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Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill.
Honor Books
- Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli
- Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson
- Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
- The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads
- The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert De Jong
1956
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A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.
Honor Books
- Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen
- The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist
- The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1955
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Six students in a tiny Dutch sea town engage practically the whole population in an effort to attract storks to nest on the town's roofs again.
Honor Books
- Banner in the Sky by James Ullman
- Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
1954
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Depicts the story of Miguel who has a wish to go to the mountains in the summer with the shepherds and tend to the flocks of sheep.
Honor Books
- All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop
- Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert De Jong
- Magic Maize by Mary Buff
- Shadrach by Meindert De Jong
- Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
1953
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An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.
Honor Books
- Birthdays of Freedom from early Egypt to the fall of Rome by Genevieve Foster
- Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
- Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
- Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil
- The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
1952
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The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
Honor Books
- Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity
- Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling
- The Apple and the Arrow by Mary Buff
- The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
- The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer
1951
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John Newbery medal for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
Honor Books
- Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson
- Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt
- Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton
- The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish
1950
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A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.
Honor Books
- George Washington by Genevieve Foster
- Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery
- Song of the Pines : A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter Havighurst
- The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz
- Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
1949
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Follows the adventures of an Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed, and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life.
Honor Books
- Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin
- My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
- Seabird by Holling C. Holling
- Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps
1948
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Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic.
Honor Books
- Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger
- Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
- Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop
- The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander
- The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman
1947
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Relates the adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut for a head.
Honor Books
- Big Tree by Mary Buff
- The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher
- The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
- The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett
- Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
1946
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Set in a little-known backwoods region of Florida, Strawberry Girl is the first of the Lenski regional books and the winner of the Newbery award.
Honor Books
- Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston
- Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
- New Found World by Katherine Shippen
- The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means
1945
Winner
Delightful tale of what happens when the animals of Rabbit Hill learn that new folks are moving into the big, empty house.
Honor Books
- Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster
- Lone Journey : The Life of Roger Williams by jeanetter Eaton
- The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
- The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
1944
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After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
Honor Books
- Fog Magic by Julia Sauer
- Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates
- Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
- These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1943
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The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick.
Honor Books
- Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt
- The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
1942
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In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy.
Honor Books
- Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin
- George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster
- Indian Captive : The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
- Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1941
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Based on a Polynesian legend, this is the story of a youth who overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe.
Honor Books
- Blue Willow by Doris Gates
- Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall
- The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr
1940
Winner
Tells the story of the life of the rugged frontiersman and pioneer leader who helped settle Kentucky.
Honor Books
- Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader
- By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Runner of the Mountain Tops : The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson
- The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
1939
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The adventures of Garnet and Citronella on a farm during the summer, including finding a silver thimble that brings good luck to their families.
Honor Books
- Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford
- Leader By Destiny : George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton
- Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
- Nino by Valenti Angelo
- Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray
1938
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Retells the legendary story of the Huns' and Magyars' long migration from Asia to Europe where they hope to find a permanent home.
Honor Books
- Bright Island by Mabel Robinson
- On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman
1937
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Liberated for a year from her parents' restrictions, ten-year-old Lucinda discovers true freedom in the care of her temporary guardians as she roller skates around the streets of turn-of-the-century New York.
Honor Books
- Audubon by Constance Rourke
- Phebe Fairchild : Her Book by Lois Lenski
- The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes
- The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans
- Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones
- Winterbound by Margery Bianco
1936
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The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
Honor Books
- All Sail Set : A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry
- Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong
- The Good Master by Kate Seredy
- Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray
1935
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Despite parental disapproval, a young Bulgarian boy dedicates himself to his dream of becoming a sculptor. Only his grandfather understands and encourages him.
Honor Books
- Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
- Day On Skates : The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Van Stockum
- Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
1934
Winner
Presents the life of Louisa May Alcott, who was able through the success of her writings to achieve one thing that was very important to her--to be able to take care of all her family.
Honor Books
- ABC Bunny by Wanda Gag
- Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle
- Big Tree of Bunlahy : Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum
- Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes
- New Land by Sarah Schmidt
- Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
- The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
- Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry
1933
Winner
In the 1920's, a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune.
Honor Books
- Children of the Soil : A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon
- Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
- The Railroad to Freedom : A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift
1932
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Younger Brother, a Navaho Indian boy, feels a vocation to become a medicine man. He undergoes eight years of training in the ancient religion of his people and the practical knowledge of living on the desert land that is his tribe's homeland.
Honor Books
- Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens
- Calico Bush by Rachel Field
- Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee
- Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery
- The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop
- Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis
1931
Winner
This is the story of a little cat who came to the home of a poor Japanese artist and, by humility and devotion, brought him good fortune.
Honor Books
- Floating Island by Anne Parrish
- Garram the Hunter : A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best
- Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray
- Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams
- Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide
- Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard
- Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes
- The Dark Star of Itza : The Story of a Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus
1930
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Hitty, a doll of real character carved from a block of mountain ash, tells a story of the different places and people that she encounters during her first hundred years.
Honor Books
- A Daughter of the Seine : The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton
- Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely
- Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift
- Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller
- The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young
- Vaino by Julia Davis Adams
1929
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A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy's memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father.
Honor Books
- Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
- Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
- Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett
- Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon
- The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock
- Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney
1928
Winner
The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield.
Honor Books
- Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker
- The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young
1927
Winner
The experiences of a mouse-colored horse from his birth in the wild, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age.
Honor Books
1926
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Sixteen original stories reflecting the spirit of Chinese life and thought.
Honor Books
- The Voyagers : Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum
1925
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Presents a series of stories about animals, magic, witches, giants, and other beings from Central and South America.
Honor Books
- Nicholas : A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
- The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish
1924
Winner
In seventeenth-century England, orphaned Philip Marsham, forced to flee London after a terrible accident, finds himself in an even more difficult situation when his ship is taken over by pirates and he is forced to become a member of their crew.
Honor Books
1923
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When his colleague Long Arrow disappears, Dr. Dolittle sets off with his assistant, Tommy Stubbins, his dog, Jip, and Polynesia the parrot on an adventurous voyage over tropical seas to floating Spidermonkey Island.
Honor Books
1922
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Chronicles the history of man and civilization from primitive beginnings to the current day.
Honor Books
- Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall
- The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
- The Great Quest by Charles Hawes
- The Old Tobacco Shop : A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen
- The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs
