Newbery Medal — Complete Winners List

20 years of winners · American Library Association · Since 1922 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2025	The First State of Being	Erin Entrada Kelly	Greenwillow Books
2024	The Eyes and the Impossible	Dave Eggers	McSweeney's McMullens
2023	Freewater	Amina Luqman-Dawson	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
2022	The Last Cuentista	Donna Barba Higuera	Levine Querido
2021	When You Trap a Tiger	Tae Keller	Random House
2020	New Kid	Jerry Craft	HarperCollins
2019	Merci Suárez Changes Gears	Meg Medina	Candlewick Press
2018	Hello, Universe	Erin Entrada Kelly	Greenwillow Books
2017	The Girl Who Drank the Moon	Kelly Barnhill	Algonquin Young Readers
2016	Last Stop on Market Street	Matt de la Peña	G.P. Putnam's Sons
2015	The Crossover	Kwame Alexander	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2014	Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures	Kate DiCamillo	Candlewick Press
2013	The One and Only Ivan	Katherine Applegate	HarperCollins
2012	Dead End in Norvelt	Jack Gantos	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2011	Moon Over Manifest	Clare Vanderpool	Delacorte Press
2010	When You Reach Me	Rebecca Stead	Wendy Lamb Books
2009	The Graveyard Book	Neil Gaiman	HarperCollins
2008	Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village	Laura Amy Schlitz	Candlewick Press
2007	The Higher Power of Lucky	Susan Patron	Atheneum Books
2006	Criss Cross	Lynne Rae Perkins	Greenwillow Books