The American Library Association created the Newbery Medal in 1922 making it the first children's book award in the world. It is awarded annually to the author of the "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." Each year a selection of books are desingated as Honor Books; that list is avaiable at the library.
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Winner 2010)
Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice by Phillip Hoose (Honor Book 2010)
Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (Honor Book 2010)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Honor Book 2010)
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick (Honor Book 2010)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Winner 2009)
The Underneath or The Underneath (book on cd) by Kathi Appelt (Honor Book 2009)
Savvy or Savvy (book on cd) by Ingrid Law (Honor Book 2009)
After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson (Honor Book 2009)
The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle (Honor Book 2009)
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! : Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Winner 2008)
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Curtis Paul (Honor Book 2008)
Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (Honor Book 2008)
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson (Honor Book 2008)
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron (2007)
Penny From Heaven by Jennifer Holm (Honor Book 2007)
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson (Honor Book 2007)
Rules by Cynthia Lord (Honor Book 2007)
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (2006)
kira-kira by Cynthia Kadohata (2005)
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (2004)
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (2003)
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (2002)
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (2001)
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (2000)
Holes by Louis Sachar (1999)
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (1998)
The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (1997)
The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman (1996)
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (1995)
The Giver by Lois Lowry (1994)
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (1993)
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1992)
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (1991)
Number The Stars by Lois Lowry (1990)
Joyful Noise : Poems For Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (1989)
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (1988)
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (1987)
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (1986)
The Hero and The Crown by Robin McKinley (1985)
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (1984)
Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt (1983)
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn by Nancy Willard (1982)
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (1981)
A Gathering of Days by Joan Blos (1980)
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (1979)
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (1978)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Theodore Taylor (1977)
The Grey King by Susan Cooper (1976)
M. C. Higgins, The Great by Virginia Hamilton (1975)
Slave Dancer by Norma Fox (1974)
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (1973)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (1972)
Summer Of The Swans by Betsy Byars (1971)
Sounder by William H. Armstrong (1970)
The High King by Lloyd Alexander (1969)
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (1968)
Up a Road Slowy by Irene Hunt (1967)
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (1966)
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (1965)
It’s Like This Cat by Emily Neville (1964)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (1963)
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (1962)
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (1961)
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (1960)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (1959)
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (1958)
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Soresen (1957)
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Latham (1956)
The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (1955)
…And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (1954)
Secret of the Andes by Ann Clark (1953)
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (1952)
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (1951)
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli(1950)
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (1949)
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene Du Bois (1948)
Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (1947)
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (1946)
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (1945)
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (1944)
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (1943)
The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (1942)
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (1941)
Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (1940)
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (1939)
The White Stag by Kate Seredy (1938)
Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (1937)
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (1936)
Dobry by Monica Shannon (1935)
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (1934)
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (1933)
Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (1932)
The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (1931)
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (1930)
The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (1929)
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1928)
Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (1927)
Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (1926)
Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (1925)
The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (1924)
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (1923)
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (1922)