Newbery Medal Winners!

1) All the blues in the sky

Author

Watson, Renée

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2026 Newbery Medal Winner. NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children: Honor Book (2026).

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Sage's thirteenth birthday was supposed to be about movies and treats, staying up late with her best friend and watching the sunrise together. Instead, it was the day her best friend died. Without the person she had to hold her secrets and dream with, Sage is lost. In a counseling group with other girls who have lost someone close to them, she learns that not all losses are the same, and healing isn't predictable. There is sadness, loneliness, anxiety,...

2) The first state of being

Author

Kelly, Erin Entrada

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2025 Newbery Medal Winner

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When Ridge, a time-traveling teenager from the future, gets trapped in 1999, he befriends Michael, a lonely twelve-year-old boy, changing the course of their lives forever.

3) The eyes & the impossible

Author

Eggers, Dave

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2024 Newbery Medal Winner

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Free dog Johannes' job is to observe everything that happens in his urban park and report back to the park's three bison elders, but changes are afoot, including more humans, a new building, a boatload of goats, and a shocking revelation that changes his view of the world.

4) Freewater

Author

Luqman-Dawson, Amina

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2023 Newbery Medal Winner

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After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world.

5) The last cuentista

Author

Higuera, Donna Barba

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2022 Newbery Medal Winner

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"A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person...

6) When you trap a tiger

Author

Keller, Tae

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2021 Newbery Medal Winner

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"When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives. The tiger offers Lily a deal- if Lily will open her grandmother's star jars and return what she stole, the tiger will heal her grandmother. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice . . . and the courage to face a tiger. Tae Keller,...

7) When You Trap a Tiger: (Newbery Medal Winner)

Author

Keller, Tae

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2021 Newbery Medal Winner

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WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL • WINNER OF THE ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST KIDS BOOK OF ALL TIME • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST MIDDLE GRADE BOOK OF THE CENTURY

Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on a quest to unlock the power of stories and...

8) New kid

Author

Craft, Jerry

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2020 Newbery Medal Winner

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"Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and...

9) New Kid

Author

Craft, Jerry

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2020 Newbery Medal Winner

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2020 Audie Awards® Finalist—Middle Grade

Winner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature, and an Audie Award finalist!

An original full-cast audio adaptation of the graphic novel from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft, performed by the author with Jesus Del Orden, Nile Bullock, Robin Miles, Guy

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10) Merci Suárez changes gears

Author

Medina, Meg

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2019 Newbery Medal Winner

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Merci Suárez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don't have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be...

11) Hello universe

Author

Kelly, Erin Entrada

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2018 Newbery Medal Winner

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Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully's prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him.

12) The girl who drank the moon

Author

Barnhill, Kelly Regan

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2017 Newbery Medal Winner

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Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, Fyrian. Xan rescues the abandoned children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies...

13) The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Author

Barnhill, Kelly

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2017 Newbery Medal Winner

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Winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal ★ A New York Times Bestseller ★ An Entertainment Weekly Best Middle Grade Book of 2016 ★ A New York Public Library Best Book ★ A Chicago Public Library Best Book ★ An Amazon Top 20 Best Book ★ A Publishers Weekly Best Book ★ A

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14) Last stop on Market Street

Author

de la Peña, Matt

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2016 Newbery Medal Winner

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A young boy, CJ, rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.

15) Last stop on Market Street

Author

de la Peña, Matt

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2016 Newbery Medal Winner

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A young boy, CJ, rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.

16) Last Stop on Market Street (Read Along)

Author

Powell, Arnell

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2016 Newbery Medal Winner

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Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn't he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to get off in the dirty part of town? Each question is met with an encouraging answer from grandma, who helps him see the beauty-and fun-in their routine and the world around them. This energetic ride through a bustling city highlights...

17) Last Stop on Market Street

Author

Media, LLC, Dreamscape

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2016 Newbery Medal Winner

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18) The crossover

Author

Alexander, Kwame

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2015 Newbery Medal Winner

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Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.

19) Flora & Ulysses: the illuminated adventures

Author

DiCamillo, Kate

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2014 Newbery Medal Winner

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Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.

20) Flora & Ulysses

Author

DiCamillo, Kate

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2014 Newbery Medal Winner

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"She is a natural-born cynic! He is an unassuming squirrel! Together, Fora & Ulysses will conquer villains, defend the defenseless, and protect the weak, or something"--Container.

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