Newbery season approaches
Once upon a time I thought I would read all the Newbery books. Now I know that I won't, nor am I really interested in doing so. But I looked at the list to see how many of them I've read.
NEWBERY WINNERS
2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! - Enjoyable, inventive, and informative.
2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron - I liked it okay, but didn't love it.
2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins - Slow, self-conscious, and not very compelling. I prefer Perkins' Pictures from My Vacation which is more successful in drawing out subtle emotions.
2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata - Based on what other librarains have told me, I have no desire to read this.
*2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo - I put it off because it looks too cutesy and just not my thing, but I should get around to reading this.
2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi - Read a couple of pages.
2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park - Loved it.
2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck - Old-fashioned sort of story I would have enjoyed a lot in 4th grade.
2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis - Funny and charming. Loved it.
1999: Holes by Louis Sachar - Entertaining and appealing.
1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg - I love E.L. Konigsburg, and I was sad that I didn't love this more. Maybe I should give it another try.
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman - Historical fiction about midwifery is not my thing.
*1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry - I resisted for a long time because of the terrible cover. Of course it turned out to be fantastic.
1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant - I'd like to get around to reading this, but it's nowhere near the top of my list.
1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Not really interested.
*1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley - First time I read that kind of fantasy, and it turned out to be pretty good.
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary - I was such a Beverly Cleary fan as a kid, but I always hated this one.
1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt - I really don't remember anything about this, except that I read it.
1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin - Loved it. I booktalk it regularly.
*1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson - Um, saw the movie on PBS when I was a kid, so I never read the book.
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper
1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien - Loved it as a kid, and I still remember enough that I can booktalk it regularly.
1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong
1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander - I've never read any of these but probably should.
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg Loved it as a kid, less as an adult (maybe because I remembered it too well?). Trying this with the 4th-5th grade book club.
1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Loved it, tried to read the second book, and couldn't. Rare instance of scifi appealing to people who hate scifi.
1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold - I was surprised to learn this won a Newbery.
1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare - Found this incredibly boring when I had to read it in 5th grade. Maybe I should give it another try.
1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
*1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen - Want to check this out for 4th-5th grade book club.
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark - The book that robbed the Newbery from Charlotte's Web!
1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois - Underread book that is super fun. I'm planning to bring it back by booktalking it more.
1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy
1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon
1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James
1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
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NEWBERY HONOR BOOKS
2008: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis - Loved it.
2008: The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt -Loved it.
2008: Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
2007: Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
2007: Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
2007: Rules by Cynthia Lord - Loved it, but seems to be underread.
2006: Whittington by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by S.D. Schindler
2006: Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
2006: Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
2006: Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott
2005: Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko - Local interest
2005: The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
2005: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
2004: Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
2004: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
*2003: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
*2003: Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
*2003: Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
2003: A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin
*2003: Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
2002: Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath - That Polly Horvath dreams up quirky characters.
2002: Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson
2001: Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
2001: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo - Loved it.
2001: Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
2001: The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
2000: Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis
2000: Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
2000: 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola
1999: A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
1998: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine - Listened to most of it on CD but never finished it.
1998: Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
1998: Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
1997: A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
1997: Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
1997: The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
1997: Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
1996: What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
1996: The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis - Kind of funny, and then it hurts you in the end.
1996: Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner
1996: The Great Fire by Jim Murphy
1995: Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
1995: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer - started, never finished
1994: Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
1994: Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
1994: Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman
1993: What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
1993: The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack
1993: Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
1992: Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi
1992: The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman
*1991: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
1990: Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle - I just read a new book by her and did not like it. So I'm not interested in picking up this one.
1990: Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
1990: The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen
1989: In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
1989: Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
1988: After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
1988: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
1987: A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
1987: On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
1987: Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber
1986: Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
1986: Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
1985: Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
1985: The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
1985: One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox - Didn't really like it
1984: The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
1984: A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
1984: Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
1984: The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain - Entertaining, but wouldn't have struck me as Newbery material.
1983: The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
1983: Doctor DeSoto by William Steig
1983: Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
1983: Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
1983: Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
1982: Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary - Oh, how I loved the Ramona books.
1982: Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal
1981: The Fledgling by Jane Langton
1981: A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle
1980: The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian
*1979: The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
1978: Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
*1974: The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
1973: Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel - Those Frog and Toad books are still great.
1971: Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
1971: Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
1971: Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
1968: Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg - My favorite book in 3rd-4th grade
1968: The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1965: Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
1961: The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden
1960: My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
1957: Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
1953: Charlotte's Web
1950: Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst
*1949: My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
1945: The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
1944: These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1943: The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes - I loved the Moffats.
1942: Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1942: Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
1941: The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1940: The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
1940: By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1939: Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
1938: On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
NEWBERY WINNERS
2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! - Enjoyable, inventive, and informative.
2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron - I liked it okay, but didn't love it.
2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins - Slow, self-conscious, and not very compelling. I prefer Perkins' Pictures from My Vacation which is more successful in drawing out subtle emotions.
2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata - Based on what other librarains have told me, I have no desire to read this.
*2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo - I put it off because it looks too cutesy and just not my thing, but I should get around to reading this.
2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi - Read a couple of pages.
2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park - Loved it.
2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck - Old-fashioned sort of story I would have enjoyed a lot in 4th grade.
2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis - Funny and charming. Loved it.
1999: Holes by Louis Sachar - Entertaining and appealing.
1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg - I love E.L. Konigsburg, and I was sad that I didn't love this more. Maybe I should give it another try.
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman - Historical fiction about midwifery is not my thing.
*1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry - I resisted for a long time because of the terrible cover. Of course it turned out to be fantastic.
1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant - I'd like to get around to reading this, but it's nowhere near the top of my list.
1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Not really interested.
*1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley - First time I read that kind of fantasy, and it turned out to be pretty good.
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary - I was such a Beverly Cleary fan as a kid, but I always hated this one.
1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt - I really don't remember anything about this, except that I read it.
1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin - Loved it. I booktalk it regularly.
*1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson - Um, saw the movie on PBS when I was a kid, so I never read the book.
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper
1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien - Loved it as a kid, and I still remember enough that I can booktalk it regularly.
1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong
1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander - I've never read any of these but probably should.
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg Loved it as a kid, less as an adult (maybe because I remembered it too well?). Trying this with the 4th-5th grade book club.
1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Loved it, tried to read the second book, and couldn't. Rare instance of scifi appealing to people who hate scifi.
1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold - I was surprised to learn this won a Newbery.
1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare - Found this incredibly boring when I had to read it in 5th grade. Maybe I should give it another try.
1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
*1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen - Want to check this out for 4th-5th grade book club.
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark - The book that robbed the Newbery from Charlotte's Web!
1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois - Underread book that is super fun. I'm planning to bring it back by booktalking it more.
1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy
1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon
1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James
1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
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NEWBERY HONOR BOOKS
2008: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis - Loved it.
2008: The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt -Loved it.
2008: Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
2007: Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
2007: Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
2007: Rules by Cynthia Lord - Loved it, but seems to be underread.
2006: Whittington by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by S.D. Schindler
2006: Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
2006: Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
2006: Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott
2005: Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko - Local interest
2005: The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
2005: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
2004: Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
2004: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
*2003: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
*2003: Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
*2003: Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
2003: A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin
*2003: Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
2002: Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath - That Polly Horvath dreams up quirky characters.
2002: Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson
2001: Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
2001: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo - Loved it.
2001: Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
2001: The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
2000: Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis
2000: Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
2000: 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola
1999: A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
1998: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine - Listened to most of it on CD but never finished it.
1998: Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
1998: Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
1997: A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
1997: Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
1997: The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
1997: Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
1996: What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
1996: The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis - Kind of funny, and then it hurts you in the end.
1996: Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner
1996: The Great Fire by Jim Murphy
1995: Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
1995: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer - started, never finished
1994: Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
1994: Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
1994: Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman
1993: What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
1993: The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack
1993: Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
1992: Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi
1992: The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman
*1991: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
1990: Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle - I just read a new book by her and did not like it. So I'm not interested in picking up this one.
1990: Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
1990: The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen
1989: In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
1989: Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
1988: After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
1988: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
1987: A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
1987: On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
1987: Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber
1986: Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
1986: Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
1985: Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
1985: The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
1985: One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox - Didn't really like it
1984: The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
1984: A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
1984: Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
1984: The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain - Entertaining, but wouldn't have struck me as Newbery material.
1983: The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
1983: Doctor DeSoto by William Steig
1983: Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
1983: Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
1983: Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
1982: Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary - Oh, how I loved the Ramona books.
1982: Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal
1981: The Fledgling by Jane Langton
1981: A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle
1980: The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian
*1979: The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
1978: Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
*1974: The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
1973: Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel - Those Frog and Toad books are still great.
1971: Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
1971: Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
1971: Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
1968: Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg - My favorite book in 3rd-4th grade
1968: The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1965: Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
1961: The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden
1960: My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
1957: Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
1953: Charlotte's Web
1950: Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst
*1949: My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
1945: The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
1944: These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1943: The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes - I loved the Moffats.
1942: Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1942: Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
1941: The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1940: The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
1940: By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1939: Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
1938: On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder