Newbery Honor Books

2007 Honor Books:

• Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm,
• Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
• Rules by Cynthia Lord 
  

2006 Honor Books:

• Whittington by Alan Armstrong
• Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti 
• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale 
• Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott 

2005 Honor Books:

• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko 
• The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights” by Russell Freedman 
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt  

2004 Honor Books:

• Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes 
• An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy 

2003 Honor Books:

• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer 
• Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff 
• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen 
• A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin 
• Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan 

2002 Honor Books:

• Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath 
• Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson 

2001 Honor Books:

• Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer 
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo 
• Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos 
• The Wanderer by Sharon Creech 

2000 Honor Books:

• Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis 
• Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm 
• 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola 

1999 Honor Book:

• A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck 

1998 Honor Books:

• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine 
• Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff 
• Wringer by Jerry Spinelli 

1997 Honor Books:

• A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
• Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
• The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
• Belle Prater’s Boy by Ruth White 

1996 Honor Books:

• What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman 
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis 
• Yolonda’s Genius by Carol Fenner 
• The Great Fire by Jim Murphy 

1995 Honor Books:

• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman 
• The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer 

1994 Honor Books:

• Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly 
• Dragon’s Gate by Laurence Yep 
• Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman 

1993 Honor Books:

• What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
• The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack 
• Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers

1992 Honor Books:

• Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi 
• The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman 

1991 Honor Book:

• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi 

1990 Honor Books:

• Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle 
• Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples 
• The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen 

1989 Honor Books:

• In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton 
• Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers 

1988 Honor Books:

• After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer 
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen 

1987 Honor Books:

• A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant 
• On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer 
• Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber 

1986 Honor Books:

• Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
• Dogsong by Gary Paulsen 

1985 Honor Books:

• Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes 
• The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks 
• One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox 

1984 Honor Books:

• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare 
• A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt 
• Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky 
• The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain 

1983 Honor Books:

• The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley 
• Doctor DeSoto by William Steig 
• Graven Images by Paul Fleischman 
• Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz 
• Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton 

1982 Honor Books:

• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary 
• Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal 

1981 Honor Books:

• The Fledgling by Jane Langton 
• A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L’Engle 

1980 Honor Book:

• The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian 

1979 Honor Book:

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  • The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson 

1978 Honor Books:

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  • Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary 
  • Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater 

1977 Honor Books:

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  • Abel’s Island by William Steig 
  • A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond 

1976 Honor Books:

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  • The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis 
  • Dragonwings by Laurence Yep 

1975 Honor Books:

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  • Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin 
  • My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier 
  • The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope 
  • Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene 

1974 Honor Book:

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  • The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

1973 Honor Books:

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  • Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel 
  • The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss 
  • The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder 

1972 Honor Books:

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  • Incident At Hawk’s Hill by Allan W. Eckert 
  • The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton 
  • The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin 
  • Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles 
  • The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder 

1971 Honor Books:

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  • Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt 
  • Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl 
  • Sing Down the Moon by Scott O’Dell 

1970 Honor Books:

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  • Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor 
  • The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore
  • Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele 

1969 Honor Books:

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  • To Be a Slave by Julius Lester 
  • When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer 

1968 Honor Books:

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  • Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg 
  • The Black Pearl by Scott O’Dell 
  • The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer 
  • The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder 

1967 Honor Books:

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  • The King’s Fifth by Scott O’Dell 
  • Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer 
  • The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik 

1966 Honor Books:

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  • The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander 
  • The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
  • The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz 

1965 Honor Book:

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  • Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt 

1964 Honor Books:

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  • Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North 
  • The Loner by Ester Wier (McKay)

1963 Honor Books:

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  • Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud.
  • Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge 

1962 Honor Books:

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  • Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis
  • The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
  • Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz 

1961 Honor Books:

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  • America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson 
  • Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer 
  • The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden, pseud.

1960 Honor Books:

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  • My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George 
  • America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson 
  • The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall 

1959 Honor Books:

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  • The Family Under The Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson 
  • Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong 
  • Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay 
  • The Perilous Road by William O. Steele 

1958 Honor Books:

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  • The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz
  • Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright 
  • The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson 
  • Tom Paine, Freedom’s Apostle by Leo Gurko

1957 Honor Books:

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  • Old Yeller by Fred Gipson 
  • The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong 
  • Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson 
  • The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads 
  • Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli 

1956 Honor Books:

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  • The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 
  • The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist 
  • Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen 

1955 Honor Books:

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  • Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh 
  • Banner In The Sky by James Ullman

1954 Honor Books:

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  • All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop 
  • Shadrach by Meindert Dejong 
  • Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong 
  • Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson 
  • Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff 

1953 Honor Books:

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  • Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White 
  • Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw 
  • Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil 
  • The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh 
  • Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster 

1952 Honor Books:

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  • Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity 
  • Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling 
  • The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff 
  • The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer 
  • The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff 

1951 Honor Books:

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  • Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt 
  • Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton 
  • Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson 
  • The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish 

1950 Honor Books:

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  • Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill 
  • The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz 
  • Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery 
  • George Washington by Genevieve Foster 
  • Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst 

1949 Honor Books:

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  • Seabird by Holling C. Holling 
  • Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin 
  • My Father’s Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett 
  • Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps 

1948 Honor Books:

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  • Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop 
  • Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger 
  • The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman
  • The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander 
  • Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry 

1947 Honor Books:

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  • Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
  • Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff 
  • The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell 
  • The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud.
  • The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett 

1946 Honor Books:

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  • Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
  • The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means 
  • Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston 
  • New Found World by Katherine Shippen 

1945 Honor Books:

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  • The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes 
  • The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh 
  • Abraham Lincoln’s World by Genevieve Foster 
  • Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton 

1944 Honor Books:

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  • These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder 
  • Fog Magic by Julia Sauer 
  • Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes 
  • Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates

1943 Honor Books:

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  • The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes 
  • Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt 

1942 Honor Books:

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  • Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder 
  • George Washington’s World by Genevieve Foster 
  • Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski 
  • Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin 

1941 Honor Books:

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  • Blue Willow by Doris Gates 
  • Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr 
  • The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder 
  • Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall 

1940 Honor Books:

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  • The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy 
  • Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson 
  • By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder 
  • Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader 

1939 Honor Books:

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  • Nino by Valenti Angelo 
  • Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater 
  • Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford 
  • Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton 
  • Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray 

1938 Honor Books:

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  • Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman 
  • Bright Island by Mabel Robinson 
  • On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder 

1937 Honor Books:

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  • Phebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski
  • Whistler’s Van by Idwal Jones 
  • The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans 
  • Winterbound by Margery Bianco 
  • The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes 
  • Audubon by Constance Rourke 

1936 Honor Books:

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  • Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong
  • The Good Master by Kate Seredy 
  • Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray 
  • All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry 

1935 Honor Books:

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  • Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger 
  • Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke 
  • Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum 

1934 Honor Books:

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  • The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker 
  • Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster 
  • ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág 
  • Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud.
  • New Land by Sarah Schmidt (McBride)
  • Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum 
  • Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes 
  • Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle 

1933 Honor Books:

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  • Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs 
  • The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift 
  • Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon 

1932 Honor Books:

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  • The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop 
  • Calico Bush by Rachel Field 
  • Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens
  • Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery 
  • Jane’s Island by Marjorie Allee 
  • Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis 

1931 Honor Books:

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  • Floating Island by Anne Parrish 
  • The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus 
  • Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard 
  • Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams 
  • Spice and the Devil’s Cave by Agnes Hewes 
  • Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray 
  • Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best 
  • Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen 

1930 Honor Books:

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  • A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton 
  • Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller 
  • Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely 
  • The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young 
  • Vaino by Julia Davis Adams 
  • Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift 

1929 Honor Books:

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  • Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett 
  • Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
  • The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock 
  • Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs 
  • Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon 
  • Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney 

1928 Honor Books:

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  • The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young 
  • Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker 

1927 Honor Books:

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  • [None recorded]

1926 Honor Book:

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  • The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum 

1925 Honor Books:

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  • Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore 
  • The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish 

1924 Honor Books:

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  • [None recorded]

1923 Honor Books:

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  • [None recorded]

1922 Honor Books:

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  • The Great Quest by Charles Hawes 
  • Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall 
  • The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen 
  • The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum 
  • The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs 

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