Newbery Award
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
2011
Winner - Moon Over Manifest
Honor
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman
Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
2010
Winner - When You Reach Me
Honor
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip M Hoose
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
2009
Winner - The Graveyard Book
Honor
After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
Savvy by Ingrid Law
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
2008
Honor
Elijah Of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt