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NWCCD Libraries

Kooi Library (Sheridan) & Daly Memorial Library (Gillette)

Children's Literature: Newbery 1963-1995

John Newbery Metal

The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

A Wrinkle in Time/1963

Up a Road Slowly/1967

Summer of the Swans/1971

M.C. Higgins the Great/1975

The Westing Game/1979

Dicey's Song/1983

The Whipping Boy/1987

Maniac Magee/1991

Walk Two Moons/1995

It's Like This, Cat/1964

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler/1968

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM/1972

The Grey King/1976

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal/1980

Dear Mr. Henshaw/1984

Lincoln: A Photobiography/1988

Shiloh/1992

Shadow of a Bull/1965

The High King/1969

Julie of the Wolves/1973

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry/1977

Jacob Have I Loved/1981

The Hero and the Crown/1985

Joyful Noise; Poems for Two Voices/1989

Missing May/1993

I, Juan de Pareja/1966

Sounder/1970

The Slave Dancer/1974

Bridge to Terabithia/1978

A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experience Travler/1982

Sarah, Plain and Tall/1986

Number the Stars/1990

The Giver/1994