Newbery Reading Program - Sorted by Year
This is the complete list of Newbery Medal Books. You can sort the list according to different criteria by clicking the hyperlink above each category. The Reading Level of each book is included to help choose appropriate books. Two systems were used, the Reading Level according to the Follett Book Company and the Reading Level according to Renaissance Learning's Accelerated Reader ATOS system.
| Year | Book Title | Follett Reading Level | Accel-erated Reader Reading Level | Author | Call # |
| 2008 | Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village | 5.9 | 5.6 | Laura Amy Schlitz | F SCH |
| 2007 | Higher Power of Lucky | 5.8 | 5.9 | Susan Patron | F PAT |
| 2006 | Criss Cross | 5.7 | 5.5 | Lynne Rae Perkins | F PER |
| 2005 | Kira - Kira | 4.9 | 4.7 | Cynthia Kadohata | F KAD |
| 2004 | Tale of Despereaux, The | 4.1 | 4.7 | Kate DiCamillo | F DIC |
| 2003 | Crispin: The Cross of Lead | 5.3 | 5 | Avi | F AVI |
| 2002 | Single Shard, A | 6.7 | 6.6 | Linda Sue Park | F PAR |
| 2001 | Year Down Yonder, A | 5.2 | 4.5 | Richard Peck | F PEC |
| 2000 | Bud, Not Buddy | 5.6 | 5 | Christopher Paul Curtis | F CUR |
| 1999 | Holes | 6.5 | 4.6 | Louis Sachar | F SAC |
| 1998 | Out of the Dust | 4.5 | 5.3 | Karen Hesse | F HES |
| 1997 | View From Saturday, The | 4.8 | 5.9 | E.L. Konigsburg | F KON |
| 1996 | Midwife's Apprentice, The | 6 | Karen Cushman | F CUS | |
| 1995 | Walk Two Moons | 6.6 | 4.9 | Sharon Creech | F CRE |
| 1994 | Giver, The | 6 | 5.7 | Lois Lowry | F LOW |
| 1993 | Missing May | 6.7 | 5.3 | Cynthia Rylant | F RYL |
| 1992 | Shiloh | 5 | 4.4 | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | F NAY |
| 1991 | Maniac McGee | 5.7 | 4.7 | Jerry Spinelli | F SPI |
| 1990 | Number the Stars | 4.9 | 4.5 | Lois Lowry | F LOW |
| 1989 | Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | 5.2 | Paul Fleischman | 811 FLE | |
| 1988 | Lincoln, A Photobiography | 7.4 | 7.7 | Russell Freedman | F FRE |
| 1987 | Whipping Boy, The | 4.8 | 3.9 | Sid Fleischman | F FLE |
| 1986 | Sarah, Plain and Tall | 4 | 3.4 | Patricia MacLachlan | F MAC |
| 1985 | Hero and the Crown, The | 6.9 | 7 | Robin McKinley | F MCK |
| 1984 | Dear Mr. Henshaw | 5 | 4.9 | Beverly Cleary | F CLE |
| 1983 | Dicey's Song | 5.2 | 5 | Cynthia Voigt | F VOI |
| 1982 | Visit to William Blake's Inn, A | 4.8 | 4.5 | Nancy Willard | F WIL |
| 1981 | Jacob Have I Loved | 5.8 | 5.7 | Katherine Paterson | F PAT |
| 1980 | Gathering of Days, A | 6 | 6.7 | Joan W. Blos | F BLO |
| 1979 | Westing Game, The | 7 | 5.3 | Ellen Raskin | F RAS |
| 1978 | Bridge to Terabithia | 6 | 4.6 | Katherine Paterson | F PAT |
| 1977 | Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry | 6.9 | 5.7 | Mildred D. Taylor | F TAY |
| 1976 | Grey King, The | 6.1 | 6.2 | Susan Cooper | F COO |
| 1975 | M.C. Higgins, the Great | 4.4 | Virginia Hamilton | F HAM | |
| 1974 | Slave Dancer, The | 6.4 | 6 | Paula Fox | F FOX |
| 1973 | Julie of the Wolves | 5.6 | 5.8 | Jean Craighead George | F CRA |
| 1972 | Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH | 5.4 | 5.1 | Robert C. O'Brien | F OBR |
| 1971 | Summer of the Swans | 5 | 4.9 | Betsy Byars | F BYA |
| 1970 | Sounder | 6.5 | 5.3 | William H. Armstrong | F ARM |
| 1969 | High King, The | 6.1 | 6.1 | Lloyd Alexander | F ALE |
| 1968 | From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | 5.6 | 4.7 | E.L. Konigsburg | F KON |
| 1967 | Up a Road Slowly | 6.9 | 6.6 | Irene Hunt | F HUN |
| 1966 | I, Juan de Pareja | 6.4 | 6.5 | Elizabeth Borton de Trevino | F TRE |
| 1965 | Shadow of a Bull | 5.2 | 5.2 | Maia Wojciechowska | F WOJ |
| 1964 | It's Like This, Cat | 6.1 | 4.7 | Emily Neville | F NEV |
| 1963 | Wrinkle in Time, A | 4.8 | 4.7 | Madeleine L'Engle | F LEN |
| 1962 | Bronze Bow | 6.5 | 5 | Elizabeth George Speare | F SPE |
| 1961 | Island of the Blue Dolphins | 5.5 | 5.4 | Scott O'Dell | F ODE |
| 1960 | Onion John | 5.1 | 4.5 | Joseph Krumgold | F KRU |
| 1959 | Witch of Blackbird Pond, The | 7.2 | 5.7 | Elizabeth George Speare | F SPE |
| 1958 | Rifles for Watie | 7.1 | 6.1 | Harold Keith | F KEI |
| 1957 | Miracles on Maple Hill | 4.9 | 4.9 | Virginia Sorenson | F SOR |
| 1956 | Carry on, Mr. Bowditch | 6.7 | 4.1 | Jean Lee Latham | F LAT |
| 1955 | Wheel on the School, The | 5.7 | 4.7 | Meindert DeJong | F DEJ |
| 1954 | And Now Miguel | 6.6 | 4.8 | Joseph Krumgold | F KRU |
| 1953 | Secret of the Andes | 5.5 | 4.7 | Ann Nolan Clark | F CLA |
| 1952 | Ginger Pye | 5.8 | 6 | Eleanor Estes | F EST |
| 1951 | Amos Fortune, Free Man | 5 | 6.5 | Elizabeth Yates | F YAT |
| 1950 | Door in the Wall, The | 6.5 | 6.2 | Marguerite de Angeli | F DEA |
| 1949 | King of the Wind | 5.5 | 5.4 | Marguerite Henry | F HEN |
| 1948 | Twenty-One Balloons, The | 6.7 | 6.8 | William Pene du Bois | F DUB |
| 1947 | Miss Hickory | 5.2 | 5.9 | Carolyn Sherwin Bailey | F BAI |
| 1946 | Strawberry Girl | 4.6 | 4.8 | Lois Lenski | F LEN |
| 1945 | Rabbit Hill | 6.4 | 6.4 | Robert Lawson | F LAW |
| 1944 | Johnny Tremain | 5.5 | 5.9 | Esther Forbes | F FOR |
| 1943 | Adam of the Road | 6.1 | 6.5 | Elizabeth Janet Gray | F GRA |
| 1942 | Matchlock Gun, The | 5.7 | 5.1 | Walter Edmonds | F EDM |
| 1941 | Call it Courage | 5.8 | 6.2 | Armstrong Sperry | 398.2 SPE |
| 1940 | Daniel Boone | 7.7 | James Daugherty | F DAU | |
| 1939 | Thimble Summer | 5.7 | 5.7 | Elizabeth Enright | F ENR |
| 1938 | White Stag, The | 5.8 | 6.6 | Kate Seredy | F SER |
| 1937 | Roller Skates | 6.7 | 6.3 | Ruth Sawyer | F SAW |
| 1936 | Caddie Woodlawn | 5.3 | 6 | Carol Ryrie Brink | F BRI |
| 1935 | Dobry | 6.2 | 5.6 | Monica Shannon | F SHA |
| 1934 | Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women | 6.5 | 8 | Cornelia Meigs | F MEI |
| 1933 | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | 6.7 | 6.4 | Elizabeth Lewis | F LEW |
| 1932 | Waterless Mountain | 6.3 | 5.6 | Laura Adams Armer | F ARM |
| 1931 | Cat Who Went to Heaven, The | 6.6 | 5.9 | Elizabeth Coatsworth | F COA |
| 1930 | Hitty: Her First Hundred Years | 7.1 | 7.1 | Rachel Field | F FIE |
| 1929 | Trumpeter of Krakow | 5.5 | 7.1 | Eric P. Kelly | F KEL |
| 1928 | Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon | 5.5 | 6.5 | Dhan Gopal Mukerji | F MUK |
| 1927 | Smoky, the Cowhorse | 6.6 | 6.5 | Will James | F JAM |
| 1926 | Shen of the Sea | 5 | 5.4 | Arthur Bowie Chrisman | 398.2 CHR |
| 1925 | Tales from Silver Lands | 6.1 | 6.2 | Charles Finger | F FIN |
| 1924 | Dark Frigate, The | 5.5 | 6.7 | Charles Hawes | F HAW |
| 1923 | Voyages of Dr. Dolittle, The | 5.9 | 5.7 | Hugh Lofting | F LOF |
| 1922 | Story of Mankind, The | 9.9 | Hendrik Willem van Loon | VAN |