Literature for Children and Young Adults: Caldecott & Newbery Medal Winners

(Caldecott Medal 2024)
The first picture book written and illustrated by award-winning creator Vashti Harrison traces a child's journey to self-love and shows the power of words to both hurt and heal. With spare text and exquisite illustrations, this emotional exploration of being big in a world that prizes small is a tender portrayal of how you can stand out and feel invisible at the same time.

(Caldecott Medal 2023)
It's summer in the city, and this hot dog has had enough! Enough of sizzling sidewalks, enough of wailing sirens, enough of people's feet right in his face. When he plops down in the middle of a crosswalk, his owner endeavors to get him the breath of fresh air he needs. She hails a taxi, hops a train, and ferries out to the beach. Here, a pup can run! With fluid art and lyrical text that have the soothing effect of waves on sand, Doug Salati shows us how to find calm and carry it back with us so we can appreciate the small joys in a day.

(Caldecott Medal Winner 2022)
(2022 Asian/Pacific American Award for Picture Book)
Gathering watercress by the side of the road brings a girl closer to her family's Chinese Heritage.

(Caldecott Medal 2021)
Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption.

(Caldecott Medal 2020)
(Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award 2020)
Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the unspeakable trauma of slavery, the faith and fire of the civil rights movement, and the grit, passion, and perseverance of some of the world's greatest heroes.

(Caldecott Medal 2019)
"Explores the life of one lighthouse as it beams its message out to sea through shifting seasons, changeable weather, and the tenure of its final keeper."-- Provided by publisher.

(Caldecott Medal 2018)
When a wolf cub and little girl are lost in a snowstorm they must find their way home.

(Caldecott Medal 2017)
(Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award 2017)
Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers to the powerful message that art doesn't always have to be neat or clean--and definitely not inside the lines--to be beautiful.

(Caldecott Medal 2016)
A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.

(Caldecott Medal 2015)
An imaginary friend waits a long time to be imagined by a child and given a special name, and finally does the unimaginable--he sets out on a quest to find his perfect match in the real world.

(Caldecott Medal 2014, Sibert Honor Book 2014).
Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.

(Caldecott Medal 2013).
A little fish thinks he can get away with stealing a hat.

(Caldecott Medal 2012).
A wordless picture book showing the fun a dog has with her ball, and what happens when it is lost. This story is about what it is like to lose something special, and find a friend.

(Caldecott Medal 2011).
Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day, he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests.

(Caldecott Medal 2010).
In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable set in the African Serengeti, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when she rescues the King of the Jungle.

(Caldecott Medal 2009).
Illustrations and easy-to-read text explore the light that makes a house in the night a home filled with light.

(Caldecott Medal 2008)
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
The E-resource is an audiobook

(Caldecott Medal 2007)
When a young boy discovers a camera on the beach and develops the film, he finds with his microscope many layers of pictures within the photographs.

(Caldecott Medal 2006)
Looking through the kitchen window, a little girl and her doting grandparents watch stars, play games, and, most importantly, say hello and goodbye.

(Caldecott Medal 2005)
When Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it.

(Caldecott Medal 2004)
A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.

(Caldecott Medal 2003)
Something always seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around, but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he is his good friend.

(Caldecott Medal 2002)
The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.

(Caldecott Medal 2001)
Presents an assortment of facts about the qualifications and characteristics of U.S. presidents, from George Washington to Bill Clinton.
The E-resource is audio only.

(Caldecott Medal 2000).
A very old overcoat is recycled numerous times into a variety of garments.

(Caldecott Medal 1999)
A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

(Caldecott Medal 1998).
A retelling of the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Includes a note on the origins of the story.

(Caldecott Medal 1997)
A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague.

(Caldecott Medal 1995)
Daniel and his mother look out of their window at the smoky night below. There are looters on the street, fires in the distance. Daniel clutches his cat, Jasmine. But later, when they're forced to leave the apartment building, Jasmine can't be found. Mrs. Kim's cat is missing too. Where are they? They can't be with each other. Those cats don't get along ... This story is about cats and people who couldn't get along.

(Caldecott Medal 1994)

A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.

(Caldecott Medal 1993)
Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.

(Caldecott Medal 1992)
Frogs rise on their lily pads, float through the air, and explore nearby houses while their inhabitants sleep.

(Caldecott Medal 1991)
Four brief "stories" about parents, trains, and cows, or is it really all one story? The author recommends careful inspection of words and pictures to both minimize and enhance confusion.

(Caldecott Medal 1990)
Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother.

(Caldecott Medal 1989)
Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudeville entertainer.

(Caldecott Medal 1988)
On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.

(Caldecott Medal 1987)
Al, a janitor, and his faithful dog, Eddie, live in a single room on the West Side. They eat together, they work together, they do everything together. So what's the problem?

(Caldecott Medal 1986)
A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.

(Caldecott Medal 1985)
Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.

(Caldecott Medal 1984)
A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Blériot XI, which crossed the English Channel in thirty-seven minutes in the early 1900s.

Shadow lives in the forest... It goes forth at night to prowl around the fires. It even likes to mingle with the dancers... Shadow... It waves with the grasses, curls up at the foot of trees...But in the African experience Shadow is much more. The village storytellers and shamans of an Africa that is passing into memory called forth for the poet Blaise Cendrars an eerie image, shifting between the beliefs of the present and the spirits of the past. Shadow... It does not cry out, it has no voice... It can cast a spell over you... It follows man everywhere, even to war...Marcia Brown's stunning illustrations in collage, inspired by her travels in Africa, evoke the atmosphere and drama of a life now haunted, now enchanted by Shadow.

(Caldecott Medal 1982)
Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game.

(Caldecott Medal 1981)
Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.

(Caldecott Medal 1980)
Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.

(Caldecott Medal 1979).
Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free.
The E-Resource is an audiobook.

(Caldecott Medal 1978)
Retells in pictures how a pair of every manner of creature climbed on board Noah's ark and thereby survived the Flood.

(Caldecott Medal 1977)
Explains some traditions and customs of 26 African tribes beginning with letters from A to Z.

(Caldecott Medal 1976)
A retelling of a traditional West African tale that reveals how the mosquito developed its annoying habit.

(Caldecott Medal 1975)
An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.

(Caldecott Medal 1974)
The spinning and knitting the devil agrees to do for her win Duffy the Squire's name and a carefree life until it comes time for her to guess the devil's name.

(Caldecott Medal 1973)
While chasing a rice dumpling, a little lady is captured by wicked creatures from whom she escapes with the means of becoming the richest woman in Japan.

(Caldecott Medal 1972)
After the old woman cuts off his tail when he steals her milk, the fox must go through a long series of transactions before she will sew it back on again.

(Caldecott Medal 1971)
Many African stories are called "Spider stories". This book is about how that came to be.

(Caldecott Medal 1970)
In a moment of fright Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn him into a rock but then can not hold the pebble to wish himself back to normal again.

(Caldecott Medal 1969)
When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and meets some unusual companions on the way.

(Caldecott Medal 1968)
A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off.

(Caldecott Medal 1967)
Relates the experiences of a little girl as she learns to tell the difference between make believe and real life.

(Caldecott Medal 1966)
In this Scottish folk song, a generous family always has room for another person and invites in everyone who passes by.

(Caldecott Medal 1965)
A well-mannered little boy, frequently invited to visit the king and queen, always asks to bring a friend--and the friends are always wild animals--and always well-behaved.

(Caldecott Medal 1964)
A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king.

(Caldecott Medal 1963)
The adventures of Peter, a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.

(Caldecott Medal 1962)
As it changes from mouse, to cat, to dog, to tiger, a hermit's pet also becomes increasingly vain.

(Caldecott Medal 1960)
An old woman who was too busy to travel with the Wise Men to find the Child now searches endlessly for Him each Christmas season.

(Caldecott Medal 1960)
Ceci anxiously awaits her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party, and the opportunity to select a piñata for it.

(Caldecott Medal 1959)
A sly fox tries to outwit a proud rooster through the use of flattery.

(Caldecott Medal 1958)
Follows the activities of two children spending their summer vacation on an island off the coast of Maine.

(Caldecott Medal 1957)
Briefly describes the value of a tree.

(Caldecott Medal 1956)
Illustrates the well-known American folk song about the courtship and marriage of the frog and the mouse.

(Caldecott Medal 1955)
In her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper.

(Caldecott Medal 1954)
A hound rescues a schoolgirl from the Seine, becomes a beloved school pet, is chased away by the trustees, and returns with a surprise.

(Caldecott Medal 1953)
Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble.

(Caldecott Medal 1952)
Two dogs who have found a bone can't decide who should eat it.

(Caldecott Medal 1951)
Katy's Easter morning discovery renews the tradition of the Easter egg tree.

(Caldecott Medal 1950)
Sad when the swallows leave for the winter, young Juan prepares to welcome them back to the old California Mission at Capistrano on St. Joseph's Day the next spring.

(Caldecott Medal 1949)
Despite their elaborate preparations for the winter, the animals and birds are delighted by a surprise banquet after a big snow.

(Caldecott Medal 1948)
At the first snowfall of the year, all the grown-ups do their usual things when a snowstorm comes, while the children are filled with wonder.

(Caldecott Medal 1947)
Depicts the changes that occur on a small island as the seasons come and go, as day changes to night, and as a storm approaches.

(Caldecott Medal 1946)
A collection of traditional American nursery rhymes, finger games, skipping rhymes, jingles, and counting-out rhymes.

(Caldecott Medal 1945)
An illustrated bedtime prayer which gives thanks for the many aspects of a child's world.

(Caldecott Medal 1944)
Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's one wish.

(Caldecott Medal 1943)
A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.

(Caldecott Medal 1942).
Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring.

(Caldecott Medal 1941)
Relates the story of the author's grandparents and parents, who, though not famous, helped build the United States.

(Caldecott Medal 1940)
Text and illustrations present the life of the boy born on the Kentucky frontier who became the sixteenth president of the United States.

(Caldecott Medal 1939)
After spending an eventful day at the fair held on New Year's Eve, Mei Li arrives home just in time to greet the Kitchen God.

(Caldecott Medal 1938)
The Old and New Testaments of the King James Version are the sources for the thirty-one stories about animals; the illustrations include the flora of biblical lands and portray the animals with reverence.

(2024 Newbery Medal)
Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea. His job is to be the Eyes--to see everything that happens within the park and report back to the park's elders, three ancient Bison. His friends--a seagull, a raccoon, a squirrel, and a pelican--work with him as the Assistant Eyes, observing the humans and other animals who share the park and making sure the Equilibrium is in balance.
But changes are afoot. More humans, including Trouble Travelers, arrive in the park. A new building, containing mysterious and hypnotic rectangles, goes up. And then there are the goats--an actual boatload of goats--who appear, along with a shocking revelation that changes Johannes's view of the world.
A story about friendship, beauty, liberation, and running very, very fast, The Eyes & the Impossible will make readers of all ages see the world around them in a wholly new way.

(2023 Newbery Medal)
(2023 Coretta Scott King Author Award)
Award-winning author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children's escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom.

(Newbery Medal 2022)
(2022 Belpré Children's Author Award)
Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard - or purged them altogether. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again?

(Newbery Medal 2021)
(2021 Asian/Pacific American Award for Children's Literature)
A hopeful, heartwarming story of a girl discovering her family's past and present when she makes a deal with a magical tiger from her grandmother's stories, the Korean version of "Once upon a time . . ."

(Newbery Medal 2020)
(Coretta Scott King Author Award 2020)
Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and not really fitting into either one.

(Newbery Medal 2019)
Merci Suárez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different

(Newbery Medal 2018)
Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully's prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him.

(Newbery Medal 2017)
“Moonlight is magic. Ask anyone you like.” Barnhill’s story is also pure magic, distinguished by careful development of a complex plot and indelible evocation of unique characters. Love, heartbreak, hope, sorrow, and wonder all shine in exquisite, lyrical prose.

(Newbery Medal 2016)
A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.

(Newbery Medal 2015).
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.

(Newbery Medal 2014)
Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.

(Newbery Medal 2013)
When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.

(Newbery Medal 2012).
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.

(Newbery Medal 2011)
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.

(Newbery Medal 2010)
Four mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever.

(Newbery Medal 2009)
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.

(Newbery Medal 2008)
A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.

(Newbery Medal 2007)
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.

(Newbery Medal 2006)
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.

(Newbery Medal 2005)
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.

(Newbery Medal 2004).
The adventures of Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.

(Newbery Medal 2003)
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.

(Newbery Medal 2002)
Tree-ear, a 13-year-old orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch'ulp'o, a potters' village famed for delicate celadon ware. He has become fascinated with the potter's craft; he wants nothing more than to watch master potter Min at work, and he dreams of making a pot of his own someday. When Min takes Tree-ear on as his helper, Tree-ear is elated — until he finds obstacles in his path.

(Newbery Medal 2001)
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her

(Newbery Medal 2000)
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

(Newbery Medal 1999)
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

(Newbery Medal 1998)
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

(Newbery Medal 1997)
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.

(Newbery Medal 1996)
In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.

(Newbery Medal 1995)
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.

(Newbery Medal 1994)
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

(Newbery Medal 1993)
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.

(Newbery Medal 1992)
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
The E-resource is audio only.

(Newbery Medal 1991)
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.

(Newbery Award 1990)
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

(Newbery Medal 1989)
Written to be read aloud by two voices-sometimes alternating, sometimes simultaneous-here is a collection of irresistible poems that celebrate the insect world, from the short life of the mayfly to the love song of the book louse.

(Newbery Medal 1988)
Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President

(Newbery Medal 1987)
A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.

(Newbery Medal 1986)
When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.

(Newbery Medal 1985)
Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the Blue Sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.

(Newbery Medal 1984)
In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.

(newbery Medal 1983)
Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.
The E-resource is an audiobook

(Newbery Medal 1982)
A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests who arrive at William Blake's inn. Inspired by William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, this delightful collection of poetry for children brings to life Blake's imaginary inn and its unusual guests.

(Newbery Medal 1981)
Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity.

(Newbery Medal 1980)
The book is written in the form of a journal kept by Catherine Hall, a young girl living in a rural village in New England with her widower father and younger sister. The journal details her daily life between the years of 1830 and 1832.

(Newbery Medal 1979)
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.

(Newbery Medal 1978)
In this poignant, beautifully rendered novel, Katherine Paterson weaves a powerful story of friendship and courage.

(Newbery Medal 1977)
A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.

(Newbery Medal 1976)
In this fourth book of The Dark Is Rising sequence, Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers.

(Newbery Medal 1975)
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.

(Newbery Medal 1974)
Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.

(Newbery Medal 1973)
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

(Newbery Medal 1972)
Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma.

(Newbery Medal 1971)
A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her developmentally disabled brother gets lost.

(Newbery Medal 1970)
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 through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.

(Newbery Medal 1969)
In this fifth and final chronicle of Prydain the forces of good and evil meet in ultimate confrontation.

(Newbery Medal 1968)
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
The E-resource is an audiobook

(Newbery Medal 1967)
A seven-year-old orphan goes to live with her aunt, where she learns new values as she grows to young womanhood. There are many happy memories and sad times too; jealousy of her sister, death of a schoolmate, and disappointment of first love.

(Newbery Medal 1966)
The slave of the 17th century Spanish painter Velazquez becomes a painter in his own right.

(Newbery Medal 1965)
Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor.

(Newbery Medal 1964)
Dave lives with his father and his asthmatic mother and her attacks worsen when Dave and his father have their frequent arguments. Dave's refuge after a clash with his father is with Kate, an elderly neighbor whose apartment is filled with the stray cats she loves. Dave adopts one of the cats, names it "Cat" and takes him home. "Cat" brings both joy and adventure into Dave's life.

(Newbery Medal 1963)
Meg and Charles Wallace set out with their friend Calvin in a search for their father. His top secret job as a physicist for the government has taken him away and the children search through time and space to find him.

(Newbery Medal 1962)
When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate.

(Newbery Medal 1961)
Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast.

(Newbery Medal 1960)
His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.

(Newbery Award 1959)
Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself is accused of witchcraft!

(Newbery Medal 1968)
Jeff Bussey, a young farmer, joins the Union volunteers, and becomes a scout and soldier in the West to see the Civil War from both sides and lives to tell about it.

(Newbery Award 1957)
Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill.

(Newbery Medal 1956)
After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator," also known as the "Sailors' Bible."

(Newbery Medal 1955)
When the storks no longer come to the little Dutch fishing village of Shora to nest, Lina devises a plan to bring them back.

(Newbery Medal 1954)
Depicts the story of Miguel who has a wish to go to the mountains in the summer with the shepherds and tend to the flocks of sheep.

(Newbery Medal 1953)
An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.

(Newbery Medal 1952)
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.

(Newbery Medal 1951)
When Amos Fortune was only fifteen years old, he was captured by slave traders and brought to Massachusetts, where he was sold at auction. Although his freedom had been taken, Amos never lost his dinity and courage. For 45 years, Amos worked as a slave and dreamed of freedom. And, at age 60, he finally began to see those dreams come true.
Eresource is an Audiobook only.

(Newbery Medal 1950)
A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.

(Newbery Medal 1949)
Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the thoroughbred breed and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life.

(Newbery Medal 1948)
Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic.

(Newbery Award 1947)
Relates the adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut for a head.

(Newbery Medal 1946)
In 1945, in Florida, ten-year-old Birdie Boyer and her family struggle to make their new farm prosper despite heat, droughts, cold snaps, and rowdy neighbors.

(Newbery Medal 1945)
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. The small creatures of a Connecticut countryside-each with a distinct personality-create a warm and humorous story. Although they are happy that a new family is moving into the empty farmhouse, the animals on Rabbit Hill fear the newcomers may bring traps and guns.

(Newbery Medal 1944)
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.

(Newbery Medal 1943)
In thirteenth-century England an eleven-year-old boy roams the countryside as he searches for his father and his stolen dog.

(Newbery Medal 1942)
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.

(Newbery Medal 1941)
Based on a Polynesian legend, this is the story of a youth who overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe.
The E-resource is an audiobook

(Newbery Medal 1939)
The adventures of Garnet and Citronella on a farm during the summer, including finding a silver thimble that brings good luck to their families.

(Newbery Medal 1938)
Retells the legendary story of the Huns and Magyars' long migration from Asia to Europe where they hope to find a permanent home.

(Newbery Medal 1937)
The discoveries and adventures of ten-year old Lucinda, who spends a wonderful year exploring the New York City of the 1890's.

(Newbery Medal 1936)
A young tomboy joins her mischievous brothers in a series of frontier adventures causing their pioneer parents much concern.
The E-resource is an audiobook

(Newbery Medal 1935)
A Bulgarian peasant boy must convince his mother that he is destined to be a sculptor, not a farmer.

(Newbery Medal 1934)
Presents the life of Louisa May Alcott, who was able through the success of her writings to achieve one thing that was very important to her--to be able to take care of all her family.

(Newbery Medal 1933)
In the 1920's a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune.

(Newbery Medal 1932)
Younger Brother, a Navaho Indian boy, undergoes eight years of training in the ancient religion of his people and the practical knowledge of material existence.

(Newbery Medal 1931)
In ancient Japan a struggling artist is angered when his housekeeper brings home a tiny white cat he can barely afford to feed.

(Newbery Medal 1930)
Tells the adventures on land and sea of a doll named Hitty and her owner, Phoebe Preble.

(Newbery Medal 1929)
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.

(Newbery Medal 1928)
The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield.

(Newbery Medal 1927)
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.

(Newbery Medal 1926)
Sixteen original stories reflecting the spirit of Chinese life and thought.

(Newbery Medal 1925)
Presents a series of stories about animals, magic, witches, giants, and other beings from Central and South America.

(Newbery Medal 1924)
A young man dares not return to England after his ship is taken over by pirates and he becomes a member of their crew.

(Newbery Medal 1923)
Presents the story of the good doctor who learned the language of animals, and made adventurous voyages.

(Newbery Medal 1922)
Chronicles the history of man and civilization from primitive beginnings to the current day.