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.
 | 2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz |
| 2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron |
| 2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins |
| 2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata |
| 2004: The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo |
| 2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi |
| 2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park |
| 2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck |
| 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 |
