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2001 Newbery Award Winners

Medal Winner: A Year Down Under - - by Richard Peck (Dial Books for Young Readers)

Honor Books:

Previous Winners:

2000: Bud, Not Buddy - by Christopher Paul Curtis
1999: Holes - by Louis Sachar
1998: Out of the Dust - by Karen Hesse
1997: The View from Saturday - by E.L. Konigsburg
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice - by Karen Cushman
1995: Walk Two Moons - by Sharon Creech
1994: The Giver - by Lois Lowry
1993: Missing May - by Cynthia Rylant
1992: Shiloh - by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1991: Maniac Magee - by Jerry Spinelli
1990: Number the Stars - by Lois Lowry
1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices - by Paul Fleischman
1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography - by Russell Freedman
1987: The Whipping Boy - by Sid Fleischman
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall - by Patricia MacLachlan
1985: The Hero and the Crown - by Robin McKinley
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw - by Beverly Cleary
1983: Dicey's Song - by Cynthia Voigt
1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers - by Nancy Willard
1981: Jacob Have I Loved - by Katherine Paterson
1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 - by Joan W. Blos
1979: The Westing Game - by Ellen Raskin
1978: Bridge to Terabithia - by Katherine Paterson
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - by Mildred D. Taylor
1976: The Grey King - by Susan Cooper
1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great - by Virginia Hamilton
1974: The Slave Dancer - by Paula Fox
1973: Julie of the Wolves - by Jean Craighead George
1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - by Robert C. O'Brien
1971: Summer of the Swans - by Betsy Byars
1970: Sounder - by William H. Armstrong
1969: The High King - by Lloyd Alexander
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - by E. L. Konigsburg
1967: Up a Road Slowly - by Irene Hunt
1966: I, Juan de Pareja - by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
1965: Shadow of a Bull - by Maia Wojciechowska
1964: It's Like This, Cat - by Emily Neville
1963: A Wrinkle in Time - by Madeleine L'Engle
1962: The Bronze Bow - by Elizabeth George Speare
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins - by Scott O'Dell
1960: Onion John - by Joseph Krumgold
1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond - by Elizabeth George Speare
1958: Rifles for Watie - by Harold Keith
1957: Miracles on Maple Hill - by Virginia Sorenson
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch - by Jean Lee Latham
1955: The Wheel on the School - by Meindert DeJong
1954: ...And Now Miguel - by Joseph Krumgold
1953: Secret of the Andes - by Ann Nolan Clark
1952: Ginger Pye - by Eleanor Estes
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man - by Elizabeth Yates
1950: The Door in the Wall - by Marguerite de Angeli
1949: King of the Wind - by Marguerite Henry
1948: The Twenty-One Balloons - by William Pène du Bois
1947: Miss Hickory - by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
1946: Strawberry Girl - by Lois Lenski
1945: Rabbit Hill - by Robert Lawson
1944: Johnny Tremain - by Esther Forbes
1943: Adam of the Road - by Elizabeth Janet Gray
1942: The Matchlock Gun - by Walter Edmonds
1941: Call It Courage - by Armstrong Sperry
1940: Daniel Boone - by James Daugherty
1939: Thimble Summer - by Elizabeth Enright
1938: The White Stag - by Kate Seredy
1937: Roller Skates - by Ruth Sawyer
1936: Caddie Woodlawn - by Carol Ryrie Brink
1935: Dobry - by Monica Shannon
1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women - by Cornelia Meigs
1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze - by Elizabeth Lewis
1932: Waterless Mountain - by Laura Adams Armer
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven - by Elizabeth Coatsworth
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years - by Rachel Field
1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow - by Eric P. Kelly
1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon - by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse - by Will James
1926: Shen of the Sea - by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
1925: Tales from Silver Lands - by Charles Finger
1924: The Dark Frigate - by Charles Hawes
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle - by Hugh Lofting
1922: The Story of Mankind - by Hendrik Willem van Loon

For more information, visit the American Library Association Newbery Web Page.

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