Newbery Medal Winners

"The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the American Library Association to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. Whether as an adult or a young reader, these are literature classics to immerse yourself." -Bookwormomaha.com Consistently updated list of Newbery Medal Winners.

Showing 1 - 20 of 21  There are a total of 90 valid entries on the list.
Book cover for "Freewater"
Star rating for Freewater
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world.
Book cover for "Ginger Pye"
Star rating for Ginger Pye
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
Description:
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.
Book cover for "The high king"
Star rating for The high king
Series:
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
In this final part of the chronicle of Prydain the forces of good and evil meet in an ultimate confrontation, which determines the fate of Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper who wanted to be a hero.
Book cover for "Hitty"
Star rating for Hitty
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Hitty, a doll carved from mountain ash in the nineteenth century writes the story of her eventful life from the security of an antique-shop window. Her career, begun in a quiet Maine village, is crowded with adventures, and she gives lively doll's-eye glimpses of the widely differing places and people that she encounters during her hundred years, and of the manners and modes of her times.
Book cover for "Johnny Tremain"
Star rating for Johnny Tremain
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
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.
Book cover for "Maniac Magee"
Star rating for Maniac Magee
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe and inspire everyone around him.
Book cover for "The matchlock gun"
Star rating for The matchlock gun
Average Rating:
2 stars
Description:
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.
Book cover for "M.C. Higgins, the great"
Star rating for M.C. Higgins, the great
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love. 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.
Book cover for "Miracles on Maple Hill"
Star rating for Miracles on Maple Hill
Description:
After her father returns from the war moody and tired, Marly's family decides to move from the city to Maple Hill Farm in the Pennsylvania countryside where they share many adventures which help restore their spirits and their bond with each other.
Book cover for "Miss Hickory"
Star rating for Miss Hickory
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
Description:
Miss Hickory's fight for survival in a deserted New Hampshire town with only animals for company--Crow, Bull Frog, and Ground Hog Miss Hickory, a country woman with an applewood twig body and a hickory nut head, survives a New Hampshire winter in the company of Crow, Bullfrog, and Groundhog.
Book cover for "Missing May"
Star rating for Missing May
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
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.
Book cover for "Onion John"
Star rating for Onion John
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
The friendship between Andy and the elderly Onion John, an immigrant handyman, becomes strained when Andy's father tries to change the old man's ways. His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
Book cover for "Rabbit hill"
Star rating for Rabbit hill
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers.
Book cover for "Roller skates"
Star rating for Roller skates
Average Rating:
2 stars
Description:
The discoveries and adventures of ten-year-old Lucinda, who spends a wonderful year exploring the New York City of the 1890's.
Book cover for "Smoky, the cowhorse"
Star rating for Smoky, the cowhorse
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
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.

16. Sounder

Book cover for "Sounder"
Star rating for Sounder
Average Rating:
2.7 stars
Description:
A young African-American boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die but become part of other things brings the youngster new hope. 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...
Book cover for "Thimble summer"
Star rating for Thimble summer
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
A few hours after Garnet Linden found a silver thimble in the dried-up river bed, the rains came to end the long drought on the Wisconsin farm.
Book cover for "The trumpeter of Krakow"
Star rating for The trumpeter of Krakow
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
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.
Book cover for "When you reach me"
Star rating for When you reach me
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
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. In the 1980s, as her mother prepares to be a contestant on a television game show, Miranda tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that...
Book cover for "The witch of Blackbird Pond"
Star rating for The witch of Blackbird Pond
Average Rating:
3.1 stars
Description:
Now an orphan, Kit Tyler travels from Barbados, where she grew up, to live with her strict Puritan uncle in Connecticut.