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Newbery Honor Books, 1922-2009

In the beginning, when the Newbery Medal winners were chosen, committees usually cited other books worthy of attention. The books were referred to as runners-up. The name of the Newbery and Caldecott runners-up books was changed in 1971 to "honor books" and was made retroactive to include all previous runners-up winners. At the same time, it was approved to place silver facsimile seals on the honor books.

For a list of medal winners, go to Newbery Medal Winners.

Click on the linked titles for call number, location and availability in Western Libraries.
 

YEAR TITLE AUTHOR
2009 The Underneath Kathi Appelt / David Small, illustrator
The Surrender Tree : Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom Margarita Engle
Savvy Ingrid Law
After Tupac & D Foster Jacqueline Woodson
2008 Elijah of Buxton Christopher Paul Curtis
The Wednesday Wars Gary D. Schmidt
Feathers Jacqueline Woodson
2007 Penny From Heaven Jennifer L. Holm
Hattie Big Sky Kirby Larson
Rules Cynthia Lord
2006 Whittington Alan Armstrong
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Princess Academy Shannon Hale
Show Way Jacqueline Woodson
2005 Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Gary D. Schmidt
The Voice that Changed a Nation:
Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
Russell Freedman
Al Capone Does my Shirts Gennifer Choldenko
2004 Olive's Ocean Kevin Henkes
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying
Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Jim Murphy
2003 The House of the Scorpion Nancy Farmer
Pictures of Hollis Woods Patricia Reilly Giff
Hoot Carl Hiaasen
A Corner of the Universe Ann M. Martin
Surviving the Applewhites Stephanie S. Tolan
2002 Everything on a Waffle Polly Horvath
Carver: A Life in Poems Marilyn Nelson
2001 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo
Hope Was Here Joan Bauer
Joey Pigza Loses Control Jack Gantos
The Wanderer Sharon Creech
2000 Getting Near to Baby Audrey Couloumbis
Our Only May Amelia Jennifer L. Holm
26 Fairmount Avenue Tomie dePaola
1999 A Long Way from Chicago Richard Peck
1998 Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine
Lily's Crossing Patricia Reilly Giff
Wringer Jerry Spinelli
1997 A Girl Named Disaster Nancy Farmer
Moorchild Eloise McGraw
The Thief Megan Whalen Turner
Belle Prater's Boy Ruth White
1996 What Jamie Saw Carolyn Coman
The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 Christopher Paul Curtis
Yolonda's Genius Carol Fenner
The Great Fire Jim Murphy
1995 Catherine, Called Birdy Karen Cushman
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm Nancy Farmer
1994 Crazy Lady Jane Leslie Conly
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery Russell Freedman
Dragon's Gate Laurence Yep
1993 What Hearts Bruce Brooks
The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural Patricia C. McKissack
Somewhere in the Darkness Walter Dean Myers
1992 Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel Avi
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane Russell Freedman
1991 The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Avi.
1990 Afternoon of the Elves Janet Taylor Lisle
The Winter Room Gary Paulsen
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind Suzanne Fisher Staples
1989 In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World Virginia Hamilton
Scorpions Walter Dean Myers
1988 After the Rain Norma Fox Mazer
Hatchet Gary Paulsen
1987 On My Honor Marion Dane Bauer
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens Patricia Lauber
A Fine White Dust Cynthia Rylant
1986 Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun Rhoda Blumberg
Dogsong Gary Paulsen
1985 The Moves Make the Man Bruce Brooks
One-Eyed Cat Paula Fox
Like Jake and Me Mavis Jukes
1984 The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree Bill Brittain
Sugaring Time Kathryn Lasky
The Sign of the Beaver Elizabeth George Speare
A Solitary Blue Cynthia Voigt
1983 Graven Images: 3 Stories Paul Fleischman
Homesick: My Own Story Jean Fritz
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush Virginia Hamilton
The Blue Sword Robin McKinley
Doctor De Soto William Steig
1982 Ramona Quimby, Age 8 Beverly Cleary
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 Aranka Siegal
1981 The Fledgling Jane Langton
A Ring of Endless Light Madeleine L'Engle
1980 The Road From Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl David Kherdian
1979 The Great Gilly Hopkins Katherine Paterson
1978 Ramona and Her Father Beverly Cleary
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey Jamake Highwater
1977 A String in the Harp Nancy Bond
Abel's Island William Steig
1976 The Hundred Penny Box Sharon Bell Mathis
Dragonwings Laurence Yep
1975 My Brother Sam Is Dead James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe Bette Greene
The Perilous Gard Elizabeth Marie Pope
Figgs & Phantoms Ellen Raskin
1974 The Dark Is Rising (1975 edition) Susan Cooper
1973 Frog and Toad Together Arnold Lobel
The Upstairs Room Johanna Reiss
The Witches of Worm Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1972 Incident at Hawk's Hill Allan W. Eckert
The Planet of Junior Brown Virginia Hamilton
The Tombs of Atuan Ursula K. LeGuin
Annie and the Old One Miska Miles
The Headless Cupid (1972 edition) Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1971 Kneeknock Rise Natalie Babbitt
Enchantress from the Stars Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Sing Down the Moon Scott O'Dell
1970 Our Eddie Sulamith Ish-Kishor
The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art Janet Gaylord Moore
Journey Outside Mary Q. Steele
1969 To Be a Slave Julius Lester
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer
1968 Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth E. L. Konigsburg
The Black Pearl Scott O'Dell
The Fearsome Inn Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Egypt Game Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1967 The King's Fifth Scott O'Dell
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Jazz Man Mary Hays Weik
1966 The Black Cauldron Lloyd Alexander
The Animal Family Randall Jarrell
The Noonday Friends Mary Stolz
1965 Across Five Aprils Irene Hunt
1964 Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era Sterling North
The Loner Ester Wier
1963 Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. (Leclaire Alger)
Men of Athens Olivia Coolidge
1962 Frontier Living Edwin Tunis
The Golden Goblet Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Belling the Tiger Mary Stolz
1961 America Moves Forward Gerald W. Johnson
Old Ramon Jack Schaefer
The Cricket in Times Square George Selden. pseud. (George Thompson)
1960 My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George
America Is Born: A History for Peter Gerald W. Johnson
The Gammage Cup Carol Kendall
1959 The Family Under the Bridge Natalie S. Carlson
Along Came a Dog Meindert DeJong
Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa Francis Kalnay
The Perilous Road William O. Steele
1958 Gone-Away Lake Elizabeth Enright
Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle Leo Gurko
The Great Wheel Robert Lawson
The Horsecatcher Mari Sandoz
1957 Black Fox of Lorne Marguerite de Angeli
The House of Sixty Fathers Meindert DeJong
Old Yeller Fred Gipson
Mr. Justice Holmes Clara Ingram Judson
The Corn Grows Ripe Dorothy Rhoads
1956 The Golden Name Day Jennie Lindquist
The Secret River Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Men, Microscopes, and Living things Katherine Shippen
1955 Courage of Sarah Noble Alice Dalgliesh
Banner in the Sky James Ullman
1954 All Alone Claire Huchet Bishop
Magic Maize Mary and Conrad Buff
Hurry Home, Candy Meindert DeJong
Shadrach Meindert DeJong
Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot Clara Ingram Judson
1953 The Bears on Hemlock Mountain Alice Dalgliesh
Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 (1957 edition) Genevieve Foster
Moccasin Trail Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Red Sails to Capri Ann Weil
Charlotte's Web E.B. White
1952 Americans Before Columbus Elizabeth Baity
The Apple and the Arrow Mary and Conrad Buff
Minn of the Mississippi Holling C. Holling
The Defender Nicholas Kalashnikoff
The Light at Tern Rock Julia L. Sauer
1951 Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword Jeanette Eaton
Better Known as Johnny Appleseed Mabel Leigh Hunt
Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People Clara Ingram Judson
The Story of Appleby Capple Anne Parrish
1950 Tree of Freedom Rebecca Caudill
The Blue Cat of Castle Town Catherine Coblentz
George Washington Genevieve Foster
Song of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin Walter and Marion Havighurst
Kildee House Rutherford Montgomery
1949 Story of the Negro Arna Bontemps
  My Father's Dragon Ruth S. Gannett
  Seabird Holling C. Holling
  Daughter of the Mountain Louise Rankin
1948 The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot Catherine Besterman
Pancakes-Paris Claire Huchet Bishop
The Cow-tail Switch, and Other West African Stories Harold Courlander
Li Lun, Lad of Courage Carolyn Treffinger
Misty of Chincoteague Marguerite Henry
1947 The Wonderful Year Nancy Barnes
Big Tree Mary and Conrad Buff
The Avion My Uncle Flew Cyrus Fisher, pseud (Darwin L. Teilhet)
The Heavenly Tenants (1992 edition) William Maxwell
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston Eleanore Jewett
1946 Justin Morgan Had a Horse Marguerite Henry
The Moved-Outers Florence Crannell Means
New Found World Katherine Shippen
Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear Christine Weston
1945 The Silver Pencil Alice Dalgliesh
Lone Journey:The Life of Roger Williams Jeanette Eaton
The Hundred Dresses Eleanor Estes
Abraham Lincoln's World Genevieve Foster
1944 Rufus M. Eleanor Estes
Fog Magic Julia Sauer
These Happy Golden Years Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mountain Born Elizabeth Yates
1943 The Middle Moffat Eleanor Estes
"Have You Seen Tom Thumb?" Mabel Leigh Hunt
1942 George Washington's World Genevieve Foster
Down Ryton Water Eva Roe Gaggin
Indian Captive:The Story of Mary Jemison Los Lenski
Little Town on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder
1941 Young Mac of Fort Vancouver Mary Jane Carr
Blue Willow Doris Gates
Nansen Anna Gertrude Hall
The Long Winter Laura Ingalls Wilder
1940 Boy With a Pack Stephen W. Meader
Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz Mabel Robinson
The Singing Tree Kate Seredy
By the the Shores of Silver Lake Laura Ingalls Wilder
1939 Nino Valenti Angelo
Mr. Popper's Penguins Richard and Florence Atwater
"Hello the Boat!" Phyllis Crawford
Leader by Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot Jeanette Eaton
Penn Elizabeth Janet (Gray) Vining
1938 Pecos Bill, the Greatest Cowboy of all Time James Cloyed Bowman
Bright Island Mabel Robinson
On the Banks of Plum Creek Laura Ingalls Wilder
1937 The Golden Basket Ludwig Bemelmans
Winterbound Margery Bianco
The Codfish Musket Agnes Hewes
1937 Whistler's Van Idwal Jones
Phebe Fairchild: Her Book Lois Lenski
Audubon Constance Rourke
1936 Young Walter Scott Elizabeth Janet Gray
The Good Master Kate Seredy
All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud Armstrong Sperry
Honk, the Moose Phil Stong
1935 Davy Crockett Constance Rourke
The Pageant of Chinese History (1947 edition) Elizabeth Seeger
A Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic Hilda Van Stockum
1934 The Winged Girl of Knossos Erick Berry, pseud. (Allena Best)
The Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside Padraic Colum
The ABC Bunny Wanda Gag
Glory of the Seas Agnes Hewes
The Apprentice of Florence Anne Kyle
New Land Sarah Schmidt
Swords of Steel Elsie Singmaster
The Forgotten Daughter Caroline Snedeker
1933 Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia Nora Burglon
Swift Rivers Cornelia Meigs
The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War Hildegarde Swift
1932 Jane's Island Marjorie Allee
Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy Mary Gould Davis
Calico Bush Rachel Field
The Fairy Circus Dorothy P. Lathrop
Out of the Flame Eloise Lownsbery
Boy of the South Seas Eunice Tietjens
1931 Mountains Are Free Julia Davis Adams
Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes Herbert Best
Meggy MacIntosh Elizabeth Janet Gray
Spice and the Devil's Cave Agnes Hewes
Queer Person Ralph Hubbard
Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer Alice Lide and Margaret Johansen
The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of a Pagan Princess Alida Malkus
Floating Island Anne Parrish
1930 Vaino Julia Davis Adams
A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland Jeanette Eaton
The Jumping-Off Place Marian Hurd McNeely
Pran of Albania Elizabeth Miller
  Little Blacknose Hildegarde Swift
The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales Ella Young
1929 The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo John Bennett
Millions of Cats Wanda Gag
The Boy Who Was Grace Hallock
Clearing Weather Cornelia Meigs
Runaway Papoose Grace Moon
Tod of the Fens Elinor Whitney
1928 Downright Dencey Caroline Snedeker
The Wonder Smith and His Son Ella Young
1927 (None recorded)
1926 The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery Padraic Colum
1925 Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story Annie Carroll Moore
The Dream Coach Anne Parrish
1924 (None recorded)
1923 (None recorded)
1922 The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure William Bowen
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived before Achilles Padraic Colum
The Great Quest Charles Hawes
Cedric the Forester Bernard Marshall
The Windy Hill Cornelia Meigs

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