2011 Medal Winner: Moon over Manifest written by Clare Vanderpool ( Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc.)
2010 Medal Winner: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books)
2009 Medal Winner: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean (HarperCollins)
2008 Medal Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz(Candlewick)
2007 Medal Winner: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)
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2006 Medal Winner: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)
2005 Medal Winner: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata(Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
2002 Medal Winner: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
2001 Medal Winner: A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck (Dial)
2000 Medal Winner: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
1999 Medal Winner: Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)
1998 Medal Winner: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
1997 Medal Winner: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
1996 Medal Winner: The Midwife's Apprenticeby Karen Cushman (Clarion)
1995 Medal Winner: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)
1994 Medal Winner: The Giver by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1993 Medal Winner: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)
1992 Medal Winner: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)
1991 Medal Winner: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)
1990 Medal Winner: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1989 Medal Winner: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (Harper)1988 Medal Winner: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
1987 Medal Winner: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
1986 Medal Winner: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)
1985 Medal Winner: The Hero and the Crownby Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
1983 Medal Winner: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
1982 Medal Winner: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)
1981 Medal Winner: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1980 Medal Winner: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)
1979 Medal Winner: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)Honor Book:
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No, they are not even close to being Newbery quality.
Sounder by William H. Armstrong won the 1970 Newbery Award.
This link will take you to the ALA (American Library Association)'s list of Newbery Winners from 1922-Present.
Sylvia Malamud has written: 'Reviews of the Newbery award winners, 1955-1965' -- subject(s): Newbery Medal
Winners of a Newbery Award don't actually receive a monetary award; the "prize" comes in the form of national recognition and greatly increased royalty checks, as books that have received the Newbery Award sell in greater numbers after receiving the award than they did before.
All Newbery contenders must be published in the US.
Newbery Medal was created in 1922.
The runners-up to the Newbery Medal are called Newbery Honor recipients.
This link will take you to the American Library Association's site, with a list of the Newbery Medal and Honor books in alphabetical order by title.
Rene Paul Chambellan designed the Newbery Medal in 1921.
The Newbery Award is named after John Newbery.
The Newbery Medal was first awarded in 1922.