Newbery Honor

The following is a list of Newbery Honor books, in reverse chronological order:

RECENT WINNERS

2006

''Whittington'' by Alan Armstrong (Random House)

''Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow'' by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic Nonfiction, an imprint of Scholastic)

''Princess Academy'' by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury Children's Books)

''Show Way'' by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnam's Sons)

2005

'' Al Capone Does My Shirts '' by Gennifer Choldenko (G.P. Putnam's Sons/a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)

''The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights'' by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)

''Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy'' by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)

2004

''Olive's Ocean'' by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books)

''An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793'' by Jim Murphy (Clarion Books)

2003

'' The House Of The Scorpion '' by Nancy Farmer (Atheneum)

''Pictures of Hollis Woods'' by Patricia Reilly Giff (Random House/Wendy Lamb Books)

'' Hoot '' by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)

''A Corner of The Universe'' by Ann M. Martin (Scholastic)

''Surviving the Applewhites'' by Stephanie S. Tolan (HarperCollins)

2002

''Everything on a Waffle'' by Polly Horvath (Farrar Straus Giroux)

''Carver: A Life In Poems'' by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)

2001

''Hope Was Here'' by Joan Bauer (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

'' Because Of Winn-Dixie '' by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)

''Joey Pigza Loses Control'' by Jack Gantos (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)

''The Wanderer'' by Sharon Creech (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)

2000

''Getting Near to Baby'' by Audrey Couloumbis (Putnam)

''Our Only May Amelia'' by Jennifer L. Holm (HarperCollins)

''26 Fairmount Avenue'' by Tomie DePaola (Putnam)

THE 1990S

1999

''A Long Way from Chicago'' by Richard Peck (Dial)

1998

'' Ella Enchanted '' by Gail Carson Levine (HarperCollins)

''Lily's Crossing'' by Patricia Reilly Giff (Delacorte)

''Wringer'' by Jerry Spinelli (HarperCollins)

1997

''A Girl Named Disaster'' by Nancy Farmer (Richard Jackson/Orchard Books)

''Moorchild'' by Eloise McGraw (Margaret McElderry/Simon & Schuster)

''The Thief'' by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow/Morrow)

''Belle Prater's Boy'' by Ruth White (Farrar Straus Giroux)

1996

''What Jamie Saw'' by Carolyn Coman (Front Street)

''The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963'' by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)

''Yolonda's Genius'' by Carol Fenner (Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster)

''The Great Fire'' by Jim Murphy (Scholastic)

1995

''Catherine, Called Birdy'' by Karen Cushman (Clarion)

''The Ear, the Eye and the Arm'' by Nancy Farmer (Jackson/Orchard)

1994

''Crazy Lady'' by Jane Leslie Conly (HarperCollins)

''Dragon's Gate'' by Laurence Yep (HarperCollins)

''Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery'' by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books)

1993

''What Hearts'' by Bruce Brooks (A Laura Geringer Book, a HarperCollins imprint)

''The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural'' by Patricia McKissack (Knopf)

''Somewhere in the Darkness'' by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Hardcover)

1992

'''' by Avi (Jackson/Orchard)

''The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane'' by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)

1991

'' The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle '' by Avi (Jackson/Orchard)

1990

''Afternoon of the Elves'' by Janet Taylor Lisle (Jackson/Orchard)

''Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind'' by Suzanne Fisher Staples (Knopf)

''The Winter Room'' by Gary Paulsen (Jackson/Orchard)

THE 1980S

1989

''In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World'' by Virginia Hamilton (Harcourt)

''Scorpions'' by Walter Dean Myers (Harper)

1988

''After The Rain'' by Norma Fox Mazer (Morrow)

'' Hatchet '' by Gary Paulsen (Bradbury)

1987

''A Fine White Dust'' by Cynthia Rylant (Bradbury)

''On My Honor'' by Marion Dane Bauer (Clarion)

''Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens'' by Patricia Lauber (Bradbury)

1986

''Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun'' by Rhoda Blumberg (Lothrop)

''Dogsong'' by Gary Paulsen (Bradbury)

1985

''Like Jake and Me'' by Mavis Jukes (Knopf)

''The Moves Make the Man'' by Bruce Brooks (Harper)

''One-Eyed Cat'' by Paula Fox (Bradbury)

1984

''The Sign of the Beaver'' by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)

''A Solitary Blue'' by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)

''Sugaring Time'' by Kathryn Lasky (Macmillan)

''The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree'' by Bill Brittain (Harper)

1983

''Doctor DeSoto'' by William Steig (Farrar)

''Graven Images'' by Paul Fleischman (Harper)

''Homesick: My Own Story'' by Jean Fritz (Putnam)

''Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush'' by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)

1982

''Ramona Quimby, Age 8'' by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)

''Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944'' by Aranka Siegal (Farrar)

1981

'' The Fledgling'' by Jane Langton (Harper)

''A Ring of Endless Light'' by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)

1980

''The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl'' by David Kherdian (Greenwillow)

THE 1970S

1979

''The Great Gilly Hopkins'' by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)

1978

''Ramona and Her Father'' by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)

''Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey'' by Jamake Highwater (Lippincott)

1977

''Abel's Island'' by William Steig (Farrar)

''A String in the Harp'' by Nancy Bond (Atheneum)

1976

''The Hundred Penny Box'' by Sharon Bell Mathis (Viking)

''Dragonwings'' by Laurence Yep (Harper)

1975

''Figgs & Phantoms'' by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)

''My Brother Sam is Dead'' by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier (Four Winds)

'' The Perilous Gard '' by Elizabeth Marie Pope (Houghton)

''Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe'' by Bette Greene (Dial)

1974

''The Dark Is Rising'' by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)

1973

''Frog and Toad Together'' by Arnold Lobel (Harper)

''The Upstairs Room'' by Johanna Reiss (Crowell)

''The Witches of Worm'' by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)

1972

''Incident At Hawk's Hill'' by Allan W. Eckert (Little, Brown)

''The Planet of Junior Brown ''by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)

''The Tombs of Atuan'' by Ursula K. LeGuin (Atheneum)

''Annie and the Old One'' by Miska Miles (Little, Brown)

'' The Headless Cupid '' by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)

1971

''Knee Knock Rise'' by Natalie Babbitt (Farrar)

''Enchantress From the Stars'' by Sylvia Louise Engdahl (Atheneum)

''Sing Down the Moon'' by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)

1970

''Our Eddie'' by Sulamith Ish-Kishor (Pantheon)

''The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art'' by Janet Gaylord Moore (World)

''Journey Outside'' by Mary Q. Steele (Viking)

THE 1960S

1969

''To Be a Slave'' by Julius Lester (Dial)

''When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories'' by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar)

1968

''Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth'' by E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)

''The Black Pearl'' by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)

''The Fearsome Inn'' by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Scribner)

''The Egypt Game'' by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)

1967

'' The King's Fifth '' by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)

''Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories'' by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Harper)

''The Jazz Man'' by Mary Hays Weik (Atheneum)

1966

'' The Black Cauldron '' by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)

''The Animal Family'' by Randall Jarrell (Pantheon)

''The Noonday Friends'' by Mary Stolz (Harper)

1965

''Across Five Aprils'' by Irene Hunt (Follett)

1964

''Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era'' by Sterling North (Dutton)

''The Loner'' by Ester Wier (McKay)

1963

''Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland'' by Sorche Nic Leodhas , pseud. ( Leclaire Alger ) (Holt)

''Men of Athens'' by Olivia Coolidge (Houghton)

1962

''Frontier Living'' by Edwin Tunis (World)

''The Golden Goblet'' by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward)

''Belling The Tiger'' by Mary Stolz (Harper)

1961

''America Moves Forward: A History for Peter'' by Gerald W. Johnson (Morrow)

''Old Ramon'' by Jack Schaefer (Houghton)

''The Cricket In Times Square'' by George Selden , pseud. (George Thompson) (Farrar)

1960

''My Side of the Mountain'' by Jean Craighead George (Dutton)

''America Is Born: A History for Peter'' by Gerald W. Johnson (Morrow)

'' The Gammage Cup '' by Carol Kendall (Harcourt)

THE 1950S

1959

''The Family Under The Bridge'' by Natalie Savage Carlson (Harper)

''Along Came A Dog'' by Meindert DeJong (Harper)

''Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa'' by Francis Kalnay (Harcourt)

''The Perilous Road'' by William O. Steele (Harcourt)

1958

''The Horsecatcher'' by Mari Sandoz (Westminster)

''Gone-Away Lake'' by Elizabeth Enright (Harcourt)

''The Great Wheel'' by Robert Lawson (Viking)

''Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle'' by Leo Gurko (Crowell)

1957

'' Old Yeller '' by Fred Gipson (Harper)

''The House of Sixty Fathers'' by Meindert DeJong (Harper)

''Mr. Justice Holmes'' by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)

''The Corn Grows Ripe'' by Dorothy Rhoads (Viking)

''Black Fox of Lorne'' by Marguerite De Angeli (Doubleday)

1956

''The Secret River'' by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

''The Golden Name Day'' by Jennie Lindquist (Harper)

''Men, Microscopes, and Living Things'' by Katherine Shippen (Viking)

1955

''Courage of Sarah Noble'' by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)

''Banner In The Sky'' by James Ullman (Lippincott)

1954

''All Alone'' by Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking)

''Shadrach'' by Meindert DeJong (Harper)

''Hurry Home, Candy'' by Meindert DeJong (Harper)

''Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot'' by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)

''Magic Maize'' by Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton)

1953

'' Charlotte's Web '' by E. B. White (Harper)

''Moccasin Trail'' by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward)

''Red Sails to Capri'' by Ann Weil (Viking)

''The Bears on Hemlock Mountain'' by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)

''Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1'' by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)

1952

''Americans Before Columbus'' by Elizabeth Baity (Viking)

''Minn of the Mississippi'' by Holling C. Holling (Houghton)

''The Defender'' by Nicholas Kalashnikoff (Scribner)

''The Light at Tern Rock'' by Julia Sauer (Viking)

''The Apple and the Arrow'' by Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton)

1951

''Better Known as Johnny Appleseed'' by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott)

''Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword'' by Jeanette Eaton (Morrow)

''Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People'' by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)

''The Story of Appleby Capple'' by Anne Parrish (Harper)

1950

''Tree of Freedom'' by Rebecca Caudill (Viking)

''The Blue Cat of Castle Town'' by Catherine Coblentz (Longmans)

''Kildee House'' by Rutherford Montgomery (Doubleday)

''George Washington'' by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)

''Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin'' by Walter & Marion Havighurst (Winston)

THE 1940S

1949

''Seabird'' by Holling C. Holling (Houghton)

''Daughter of the Mountain'' by Louise Rankin (Viking)

''My Father's Dragon'' by Ruth S. Gannett (Random House)

''Story of the Negro'' by Arna Bontemps (Knopf)

1948

''Pancakes-Paris'' by Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking)

''Li Lun, Lad of Courage'' by Carolyn Treffinger (Abingdon)

''The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot'' by Catherine Besterman (Bobbs-Merrill)

''The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories'' by Harold Courlander (Holt)

''Misty of Chincoteague'' by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)

1947

''Wonderful Year'' by Nancy Barnes (Messner)

''Big Tree'' by Mary & Conrad Buff (Viking)

''The Heavenly Tenants'' by William Maxwell (Harper)

''The Avion My Uncle Flew'' by Cyrus Fisher , pseud. ( Darwin L. Teilhet ) (Appleton)

''The Hidden Treasure of Glaston'' by Eleanor Jewett (Viking)

1946

''Justin Morgan Had a Horse'' by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)

''The Moved-Outers'' by Florence Crannell Means (Houghton)

''Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear'' by Christine Weston (Scribner)

''New Found World'' by Katherine Shippen (Viking)

1945

''The Hundred Dresses'' by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)

''The Silver Pencil'' by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)

''Abraham Lincoln's World'' by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)

''Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams'' by Jeanetter Eaton (Harcourt)

1944

''These Happy Golden Years'' by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)

''Fog Magic'' by Julia Sauer (Viking)

''Rufus M.'' by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)

''Mountain Born'' by Elizabeth Yates (Coward)

1943

''The Middle Moffat'' by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)

''Have You Seen Tom Thumb?'' by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott)

1942

''Little Town on the Prairie'' by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)

''George Washington's World'' by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)

''Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison'' by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)

''Down Ryton Water'' by Eva Roe Gaggin (Viking)

1941

''Blue Willow'' by Doris Gates (Viking)

''Young Mac of Fort Vancouver'' by Mary Jane Carr (Crowell)

''The Long Winter'' by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)

''Nansen'' by Anna Gertrude Hall (Viking)

1940

''The Singing Tree'' by Kate Seredy (Viking)

''Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz'' by Mabel Robinson (Random House)

''By the Shores of Silver Lake'' by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)

''Boy with a Pack'' by Stephen W. Meader (Harcourt)

THE 1930S

1939

''Nino'' by Valenti Angelo (Viking)

'' Mr. Popper's Penguins '' by Richard & Florence Atwater (Little, Brown)

''Hello the Boat!'' by Phyllis Crawford (Holt)

''Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot'' by Jeanette Eaton (Harcourt)

''Penn'' by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)

1938

''Pecos Bill'' by James Cloyd Bowman (Little, Brown)

''Bright Island'' by Mabel Robinson (Random House)

''On the Banks of Plum Creek'' by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)

1937

''Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book'' by Lois Lenski (Stokes)

''Whistler's Van'' by Idwal Jones (Viking)

''The Golden Basket'' by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)

''Winterbound'' by Margery Bianco (Viking)

''The Codfish Musket'' by Agnes Hewes (Doubleday)

''Audubon'' by Constance Rourke (Harcourt)

1936

''Honk, the Moose'' by Phil Stong (Dodd)

''The Good Master'' by Kate Seredy (Viking)

''Young Walter Scott'' by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)

''All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud'' by Armstrong Sperry (Winston)

1935

''Pageant of Chinese History'' by Elizabeth Seeger (Longmans)

''Davy Crockett'' by Constance Rourke (Harcourt)

''Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic'' by Hilda Von Stockum (Harper)

1934

''The Forgotten Daughter'' by Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday)

''Swords of Steel'' by Elsie Singmaster (Houghton)

''ABC Bunny'' by Wanda Gág (Coward)

''Winged Girl of Knossos'' by Erik Berry , pseud. ( Allena Best ) (Appleton)

''New Land'' by Sarah Schmidt (McBride)

''Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside'' by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)

''Glory of the Seas'' by Agnes Hewes (Knopf)

''Apprentice of Florence'' by Ann Kyle (Houghton)

1933

''Swift Rivers'' by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)

''The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War'' by Hildegarde Swift (Harcourt)

''Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia'' by Nora Burglon (Doubleday)

1932

''The Fairy Circus'' by Dorothy P. Lathrop (Macmillan)

''Calico Bush'' by Rachel Field (Macmillan)

''Boy of the South Seas'' by Eunice Tietjens (Coward-McCann)

''Out of the Flame'' by Eloise Lownsbery (Longmans)

''Jane's Island'' by Marjorie Allee (Houghton)

''Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy'' by Mary Gould Davis (Harcourt)

1931

''Floating Island'' by Anne Parrish (Harper)

''The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princes''s by Alida Malkus (Harcourt)

''Queer Person'' by Ralph Hubbard (Doubleday)

''Mountains are Free'' by Julie Davis Adams (Dutton)

''Spice and the Devil's Cave'' by Agnes Hewes (Knopf)

''Meggy MacIntosh'' by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Doubleday)

''Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes'' by Herbert Best (Doubleday)

''Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer'' by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen (Little, Brown)

1930

''A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland'' by Jeanette Eaton (Harper)

''Pran of Albania'' by Elizabeth Miller (Doubleday)

''Jumping-Off Place'' by Marion Hurd McNeely (Longmans)

''The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales'' by Ella Young (Longmans)

''Vaino'' by Julia Davis Adams (Dutton)

''Little Blacknose'' by Hildegarde Swift (Harcourt)

THE 1920S

1929

''Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo'' by John Bennett (Longmans)

''Millions of Cats'' by Wanda Gág (Coward)

''The Boy Who Was'' by Grace Hallock (Dutton)

''Clearing Weather'' by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)

''Runaway Papoose'' by Grace Moon (Doubleday)

''Tod of the Fens'' by Elinor Whitney (Macmillan)

1928

''The Wonder Smith and His Son'' by Ella Young (Longmans)

''Downright Dencey'' by Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday)

1927
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1926

''The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery'' by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)

1925

''Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story'' by Annie Carroll Moore (Putnam)

''The Dream Coach'' by Anne Parrish (Macmillan)

1924
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1923
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1922

''The Great Quest'' by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)

''Cedric the Forester'' by Bernard Marshall (Appleton)

''The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure'' by William Bowen (Macmillan)

''The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles'' by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)

''The Windy Hill'' by Cornelia Meigs (Macmillan)

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