Newbery Medal checklist
Every Newbery Medal book on our site, newest first. Print it and tick off the ones you have read.
| Read | Year | Title | By | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | All the Blues in the Sky | Renée Watson | Winner | |
| 2026 | A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez | María Dolores Águila | Honor | |
| 2026 | The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli | Karina Yan Glaser | Honor | |
| 2026 | The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story | Daniel Nayeri | Honor | |
| 2026 | The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest | Aubrey Hartman | Honor | |
| 2025 | The First State of Being | Erin Entrada Kelly | Winner | |
| 2025 | Across So Many Seas | Ruth Behar | Honor | |
| 2025 | Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All | Chanel Miller | Honor | |
| 2025 | One Big Open Sky | Lesa Cline-Ransome | Honor | |
| 2025 | The Wrong Way Home | Kate O'Shaughnessy | Honor | |
| 2024 | The Eyes and the Impossible | Dave Eggers | Winner | |
| 2024 | Eagle Drums | Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson | Honor | |
| 2024 | Elf Dog and Owl Head | M.T. Anderson | Honor | |
| 2024 | Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir | Pedro Martín | Honor | |
| 2024 | Simon Sort of Says | Erin Bow | Honor | |
| 2024 | The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams | Daniel Nayeri | Honor | |
| 2023 | Freewater | Amina Luqman-Dawson | Winner | |
| 2023 | Iveliz Explains It All | Andrea Beatriz Arango | Honor | |
| 2023 | Maizy Chen's Last Chance | Lisa Yee | Honor | |
| 2023 | The Last Mapmaker | Christina Soontornvat | Honor | |
| 2022 | The Last Cuentista | Donna Barba Higuera | Winner | |
| 2022 | A Snake Falls to Earth | Darcie Little Badger | Honor | |
| 2022 | Red, White, and Whole | Rajani LaRocca | Honor | |
| 2022 | Too Bright to See | Kyle Lukoff | Honor | |
| 2022 | Watercress | Andrea Wang | Honor | |
| 2021 | When You Trap a Tiger | Tae Keller | Winner | |
| 2021 | A Wish in the Dark | Christina Soontornvat | Honor | |
| 2021 | All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team | Christina Soontornvat | Honor | |
| 2021 | Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom | Carole Boston Weatherford | Honor | |
| 2021 | Fighting Words | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | Honor | |
| 2021 | We Dream of Space | Erin Entrada Kelly | Honor | |
| 2020 | New Kid | Jerry Craft | Winner | |
| 2020 | Genesis Begins Again | Alicia D. Williams | Honor | |
| 2020 | Other Words for Home | Jasmine Warga | Honor | |
| 2020 | Scary Stories for Young Foxes | Christian McKay Heidicker | Honor | |
| 2020 | The Undefeated | Kwame Alexander | Honor | |
| 2019 | Merci Suárez Changes Gears | Meg Medina | Winner | |
| 2019 | The Book of Boy | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | Honor | |
| 2019 | The Night Diary | Veera Hiranandani | Honor | |
| 2018 | Hello, Universe | Erin Entrada Kelly | Winner | |
| 2018 | Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut | Derrick Barnes | Honor | |
| 2018 | Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds | Honor | |
| 2018 | Piecing Me Together | Renée Watson | Honor | |
| 2017 | The Girl Who Drank the Moon | Kelly Barnhill | Winner | |
| 2017 | Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan | Ashley Bryan | Honor | |
| 2017 | The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog | Adam Gidwitz | Honor | |
| 2017 | Wolf Hollow | Lauren Wolk | Honor | |
| 2016 | Last Stop on Market Street | Matt de la Peña | Winner | |
| 2016 | Echo | Pam Muñoz Ryan | Honor | |
| 2016 | Roller Girl | Victoria Jamieson | Honor | |
| 2016 | The War That Saved My Life | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | Honor | |
| 2015 | The Crossover | Kwame Alexander | Winner | |
| 2015 | Brown Girl Dreaming | Jacqueline Woodson | Honor | |
| 2015 | El Deafo | Cece Bell | Honor | |
| 2014 | Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures | Kate DiCamillo | Winner | |
| 2014 | Doll Bones | Holly Black | Honor | |
| 2014 | One Came Home | Amy Timberlake | Honor | |
| 2014 | Paperboy | Vince Vawter | Honor | |
| 2014 | The Year of Billy Miller | Kevin Henkes | Honor | |
| 2013 | The One and Only Ivan | Katherine Applegate | Winner | |
| 2013 | Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon | Steve Sheinkin | Honor | |
| 2013 | Splendors and Glooms | Laura Amy Schlitz | Honor | |
| 2013 | Three Times Lucky | Sheila Turnage | Honor | |
| 2012 | Dead End in Norvelt | Jack Gantos | Winner | |
| 2012 | Breaking Stalin's Nose | Eugene Yelchin | Honor | |
| 2012 | Inside Out & Back Again | Thanhha Lai | Honor | |
| 2011 | Moon Over Manifest | Clare Vanderpool | Winner | |
| 2011 | Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night | Joyce Sidman | Honor | |
| 2011 | Heart of a Samurai | Margi Preus | Honor | |
| 2011 | One Crazy Summer | Rita Williams-Garcia | Honor | |
| 2011 | Turtle in Paradise | Jennifer L. Holm | Honor | |
| 2010 | When You Reach Me | Rebecca Stead | Winner | |
| 2010 | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | Phillip Hoose | Honor | |
| 2010 | The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate | Jacqueline Kelly | Honor | |
| 2010 | The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg | Rodman Philbrick | Honor | |
| 2010 | Where the Mountain Meets the Moon | Grace Lin | Honor | |
| 2009 | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | Winner | |
| 2009 | After Tupac and D Foster | Jacqueline Woodson | Honor | |
| 2009 | Savvy | Ingrid Law | Honor | |
| 2009 | The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom | Margarita Engle | Honor | |
| 2009 | The Underneath | Kathi Appelt | Honor | |
| 2008 | Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village | Laura Amy Schlitz | Winner | |
| 2008 | Elijah of Buxton | Christopher Paul Curtis | Honor | |
| 2008 | Feathers | Jacqueline Woodson | Honor | |
| 2008 | The Wednesday Wars | Gary D. Schmidt | Honor | |
| 2007 | The Higher Power of Lucky | Susan Patron | Winner | |
| 2007 | Hattie Big Sky | Kirby Larson | Honor | |
| 2007 | Penny from Heaven | Jennifer L. Holm | Honor | |
| 2007 | Rules | Cynthia Lord | Honor | |
| 2006 | Criss Cross | Lynne Rae Perkins | Winner | |
| 2006 | Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Honor | |
| 2006 | Princess Academy | Shannon Hale | Honor | |
| 2006 | Show Way | Jacqueline Woodson | Honor | |
| 2006 | Whittington | Alan Armstrong | Honor | |
| 2005 | Kira-Kira | Cynthia Kadohata | Winner | |
| 2005 | Al Capone Does My Shirts | Gennifer Choldenko | Honor | |
| 2005 | Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy | Gary D. Schmidt | Honor | |
| 2005 | The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights | Russell Freedman | Honor | |
| 2004 | The Tale of Despereaux | Kate DiCamillo | Winner | |
| 2004 | An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | Jim Murphy | Honor | |
| 2004 | Olive's Ocean | Kevin Henkes | Honor | |
| 2003 | Crispin: The Cross of Lead | Avi | Winner | |
| 2003 | A Corner of the Universe | Ann M. Martin | Honor | |
| 2003 | Hoot | Carl Hiaasen | Honor | |
| 2003 | Pictures of Hollis Woods | Patricia Reilly Giff | Honor | |
| 2003 | Surviving the Applewhites | Stephanie S. Tolan | Honor | |
| 2003 | The House of the Scorpion | Nancy Farmer | Honor | |
| 2002 | A Single Shard | Linda Sue Park | Winner | |
| 2002 | Carver: A Life in Poems | Marilyn Nelson | Honor | |
| 2002 | Everything on a Waffle | Polly Horvath | Honor | |
| 2001 | A Year Down Yonder | Richard Peck | Winner | |
| 2001 | Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo | Honor | |
| 2001 | Hope Was Here | Joan Bauer | Honor | |
| 2001 | Joey Pigza Loses Control | Jack Gantos | Honor | |
| 2001 | The Wanderer | Sharon Creech | Honor | |
| 2000 | Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis | Winner | |
| 2000 | 26 Fairmount Avenue | Tomie dePaola | Honor | |
| 2000 | Getting Near to Baby | Audrey Couloumbis | Honor | |
| 2000 | Our Only May Amelia | Jennifer L. Holm | Honor | |
| 1999 | Holes | Louis Sachar | Winner | |
| 1999 | A Long Way from Chicago | Richard Peck | Honor | |
| 1998 | Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse | Winner | |
| 1998 | Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine | Honor | |
| 1998 | Lily's Crossing | Patricia Reilly Giff | Honor | |
| 1998 | Wringer | Jerry Spinelli | Honor | |
| 1997 | The View from Saturday | E. L. Konigsburg | Winner | |
| 1997 | A Girl Named Disaster | Nancy Farmer | Honor | |
| 1997 | Belle Prater's Boy | Ruth White | Honor | |
| 1997 | The Moorchild | Eloise Jarvis McGraw | Honor | |
| 1997 | The Thief | Megan Whalen Turner | Honor | |
| 1996 | The Midwife's Apprentice | Karen Cushman | Winner | |
| 1996 | The Great Fire | Jim Murphy | Honor | |
| 1996 | The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 | Christopher Paul Curtis | Honor | |
| 1996 | What Jamie Saw | Carolyn Coman | Honor | |
| 1996 | Yolonda's Genius | Carol Fenner | Honor | |
| 1995 | Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech | Winner | |
| 1995 | Catherine, Called Birdy | Karen Cushman | Honor | |
| 1995 | The Ear, the Eye and the Arm | Nancy Farmer | Honor | |
| 1994 | The Giver | Lois Lowry | Winner | |
| 1994 | Crazy Lady! | Jane Leslie Conly | Honor | |
| 1994 | Dragon's Gate | Laurence Yep | Honor | |
| 1994 | Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery | Russell Freedman | Honor | |
| 1993 | Missing May | Cynthia Rylant | Winner | |
| 1993 | Somewhere in the Darkness | Walter Dean Myers | Honor | |
| 1993 | The Dark-Thirty | Patricia McKissack | Honor | |
| 1993 | What Hearts | Bruce Brooks | Honor | |
| 1992 | Shiloh | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Winner | |
| 1992 | Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel | Avi | Honor | |
| 1992 | The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane | Russell Freedman | Honor | |
| 1991 | Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli | Winner | |
| 1991 | The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi | Honor | |
| 1990 | Number the Stars | Lois Lowry | Winner | |
| 1990 | Afternoon of the Elves | Janet Taylor Lisle | Honor | |
| 1990 | Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind | Suzanne Fisher Staples | Honor | |
| 1990 | The Winter Room | Gary Paulsen | Honor | |
| 1989 | Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | Paul Fleischman | Winner | |
| 1989 | In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World | Virginia Hamilton | Honor | |
| 1989 | Scorpions | Walter Dean Myers | Honor | |
| 1988 | Lincoln: A Photobiography | Russell Freedman | Winner | |
| 1988 | After the Rain | Norma Fox Mazer | Honor | |
| 1988 | Hatchet | Gary Paulsen | Honor | |
| 1987 | The Whipping Boy | Sid Fleischman | Winner | |
| 1987 | A Fine White Dust | Cynthia Rylant | Honor | |
| 1987 | On My Honor | Marion Dane Bauer | Honor | |
| 1987 | Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens | Patricia Lauber | Honor | |
| 1986 | Sarah, Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan | Winner | |
| 1986 | Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun | Rhoda Blumberg | Honor | |
| 1986 | Dogsong | Gary Paulsen | Honor | |
| 1985 | The Hero and the Crown | Robin McKinley | Winner | |
| 1985 | Like Jake and Me | Mavis Jukes | Honor | |
| 1985 | One-Eyed Cat | Paula Fox | Honor | |
| 1985 | The Moves Make the Man | Bruce Brooks | Honor | |
| 1984 | Dear Mr. Henshaw | Beverly Cleary | Winner | |
| 1984 | A Solitary Blue | Cynthia Voigt | Honor | |
| 1984 | Sugaring Time | Kathryn Lasky | Honor | |
| 1984 | The Sign of the Beaver | Elizabeth George Speare | Honor | |
| 1984 | The Wish Giver | Bill Brittain | Honor | |
| 1983 | Dicey's Song | Cynthia Voigt | Winner | |
| 1983 | Doctor De Soto | William Steig | Honor | |
| 1983 | Graven Images | Paul Fleischman | Honor | |
| 1983 | Homesick: My Own Story | Jean Fritz | Honor | |
| 1983 | Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush | Virginia Hamilton | Honor | |
| 1983 | The Blue Sword | Robin McKinley | Honor | |
| 1982 | A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers | Nancy Willard | Winner | |
| 1982 | Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | Beverly Cleary | Honor | |
| 1982 | Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939–1944 | Aranka Siegal | Honor | |
| 1981 | Jacob Have I Loved | Katherine Paterson | Winner | |
| 1981 | A Ring of Endless Light | Madeleine L'Engle | Honor | |
| 1981 | The Fledgling | Jane Langton | Honor | |
| 1980 | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal | Joan Blos | Winner | |
| 1980 | The Road from Home | David Kherdian | Honor | |
| 1979 | The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin | Winner | |
| 1979 | The Great Gilly Hopkins | Katherine Paterson | Honor | |
| 1978 | Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | Winner | |
| 1978 | Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey | Jamake Highwater | Honor | |
| 1978 | Ramona and Her Father | Beverly Cleary | Honor | |
| 1977 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor | Winner | |
| 1977 | A String in the Harp | Nancy Bond | Honor | |
| 1977 | Abel's Island | William Steig | Honor | |
| 1976 | The Grey King | Susan Cooper | Winner | |
| 1976 | Dragonwings | Laurence Yep | Honor | |
| 1976 | The Hundred Penny Box | Sharon Bell Mathis | Honor | |
| 1975 | M. C. Higgins, the Great | Virginia Hamilton | Winner | |
| 1975 | Figgs & Phantoms | Ellen Raskin | Honor | |
| 1975 | My Brother Sam Is Dead | James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier | Honor | |
| 1975 | Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe | Bette Greene | Honor | |
| 1975 | The Perilous Gard | Elizabeth Marie Pope | Honor | |
| 1974 | The Slave Dancer | Paula Fox | Winner | |
| 1974 | The Dark Is Rising | Susan Cooper | Honor | |
| 1973 | Julie of the Wolves | Jean Craighead George | Winner | |
| 1973 | Frog and Toad Together | Arnold Lobel | Honor | |
| 1973 | The Upstairs Room | Johanna Reiss | Honor | |
| 1973 | The Witches of Worm | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | Honor | |
| 1972 | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O'Brien | Winner | |
| 1972 | Annie and the Old One | Miska Miles | Honor | |
| 1972 | Incident at Hawk's Hill | Allan W. Eckert | Honor | |
| 1972 | The Headless Cupid | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | Honor | |
| 1972 | The Planet of Junior Brown | Virginia Hamilton | Honor | |
| 1972 | The Tombs of Atuan | Ursula K. Le Guin | Honor | |
| 1971 | Summer of the Swans | Betsy Byars | Winner | |
| 1971 | Enchantress from the Stars | Sylvia Engdahl | Honor | |
| 1971 | Kneeknock Rise | Natalie Babbitt | Honor | |
| 1971 | Sing Down the Moon | Scott O'Dell | Honor | |
| 1970 | Sounder | William H. Armstrong | Winner | |
| 1970 | Journey Outside | Mary Q. Steele | Honor | |
| 1970 | Our Eddie | Sulamith Ish-kishor | Honor | |
| 1970 | The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art | Janet Gaylord Moore | Honor | |
| 1969 | The High King | Lloyd Alexander | Winner | |
| 1969 | To Be a Slave | Julius Lester | Honor | |
| 1969 | When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Honor | |
| 1968 | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | E. L. Konigsburg | Winner | |
| 1968 | Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth | E. L. Konigsburg | Honor | |
| 1968 | The Black Pearl | Scott O'Dell | Honor | |
| 1968 | The Egypt Game | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | Honor | |
| 1968 | The Fearsome Inn | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Honor | |
| 1967 | Up a Road Slowly | Irene Hunt | Winner | |
| 1967 | The Jazz Man | Mary Hays Weik | Honor | |
| 1967 | The King's Fifth | Scott O'Dell | Honor | |
| 1967 | Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Honor | |
| 1966 | I, Juan de Pareja | Elizabeth Borton de Treviño | Winner | |
| 1966 | The Animal Family | Randall Jarrell | Honor | |
| 1966 | The Black Cauldron | Lloyd Alexander | Honor | |
| 1966 | The Noonday Friends | Mary Stolz | Honor | |
| 1965 | Shadow of a Bull | Maia Wojciechowska | Winner | |
| 1965 | Across Five Aprils | Irene Hunt | Honor | |
| 1964 | It's Like This, Cat | Emily Cheney Neville | Winner | |
| 1964 | Rascal | Sterling North | Honor | |
| 1964 | The Loner | Ester Wier | Honor | |
| 1963 | A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle | Winner | |
| 1963 | Men of Athens | Olivia Coolidge | Honor | |
| 1963 | Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland | Sorche Nic Leodhas | Honor | |
| 1962 | The Bronze Bow | Elizabeth George Speare | Winner | |
| 1962 | Belling The Tiger | Mary Stolz | Honor | |
| 1962 | Frontier Living | Edwin Tunis | Honor | |
| 1962 | The Golden Goblet | Eloise Jarvis McGraw | Honor | |
| 1961 | Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell | Winner | |
| 1961 | America Moves Forward: A History for Peter | Gerald W. Johnson | Honor | |
| 1961 | Old Ramon | Jack Schaefer | Honor | |
| 1961 | The Cricket in Times Square | George Selden | Honor | |
| 1960 | Onion John | Joseph Krumgold | Winner | |
| 1960 | America Is Born: A History for Peter | Gerald W. Johnson | Honor | |
| 1960 | My Side of the Mountain | Jean Craighead George | Honor | |
| 1960 | The Gammage Cup | Carol Kendall | Honor | |
| 1959 | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare | Winner | |
| 1959 | Along Came a Dog | Meindert De Jong | Honor | |
| 1959 | Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa | Francis Kalnay | Honor | |
| 1959 | The Family Under the Bridge | Natalie Savage Carlson | Honor | |
| 1959 | The Perilous Road | William O. Steele | Honor | |
| 1958 | Rifles for Watie | Harold Keith | Winner | |
| 1958 | Gone-Away Lake | Elizabeth Enright | Honor | |
| 1958 | The Great Wheel | Robert Lawson | Honor | |
| 1958 | The Horsecatcher | Mari Sandoz | Honor | |
| 1958 | Tom Paine: Freedom's Apostle | Leo Gurko | Honor | |
| 1957 | Miracles on Maple Hill | Virginia Sorensen | Winner | |
| 1957 | Black Fox of Lorne | Marguerite de Angeli | Honor | |
| 1957 | Mr. Justice Holmes | Clara Ingram Judson | Honor | |
| 1957 | Old Yeller | Fred Gipson | Honor | |
| 1957 | The Corn Grows Ripe | Dorothy Rhoads | Honor | |
| 1957 | The House of Sixty Fathers | Meindert De Jong | Honor | |
| 1956 | Carry On, Mr. Bowditch | Jean Lee Latham | Winner | |
| 1956 | Men, Microscopes, and Living Things | Katherine Shippen | Honor | |
| 1956 | The Golden Name Day | Jennie Lindquist | Honor | |
| 1956 | The Secret River | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | Honor | |
| 1955 | The Wheel on the School | Meindert De Jong | Winner | |
| 1955 | Banner in the Sky | James Ullman | Honor | |
| 1955 | The Courage of Sarah Noble | Alice Dalgliesh | Honor | |
| 1954 | ...And Now Miguel | Joseph Krumgold | Winner | |
| 1954 | All Alone | Claire Huchet Bishop | Honor | |
| 1954 | Hurry Home, Candy | Meindert De Jong | Honor | |
| 1954 | Magic Maize | Mary & Conrad Buff | Honor | |
| 1954 | Shadrach | Meindert De Jong | Honor | |
| 1954 | Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot | Clara Ingram Judson | Honor | |
| 1953 | Secret of the Andes | Ann Nolan Clark | Winner | |
| 1953 | Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 | Genevieve Foster | Honor | |
| 1953 | Charlotte's Web | E. B. White | Honor | |
| 1953 | Moccasin Trail | Eloise Jarvis McGraw | Honor | |
| 1953 | Red Sails to Capri | Ann Weil | Honor | |
| 1953 | The Bears on Hemlock Mountain | Alice Dalgliesh | Honor | |
| 1952 | Ginger Pye | Eleanor Estes | Winner | |
| 1952 | Americans Before Columbus | Elizabeth Baity | Honor | |
| 1952 | Minn of the Mississippi | Holling C. Holling | Honor | |
| 1952 | The Apple and the Arrow | Mary & Conrad Buff | Honor | |
| 1952 | The Defender | Nicholas Kalashnikoff | Honor | |
| 1952 | The Light at Tern Rock | Julia Sauer | Honor | |
| 1951 | Amos Fortune, Free Man | Elizabeth Yates | Winner | |
| 1951 | Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People | Clara Ingram Judson | Honor | |
| 1951 | Better Known as Johnny Appleseed | Mabel Leigh Hunt | Honor | |
| 1951 | Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword | Jeanette Eaton | Honor | |
| 1951 | The Story of Appleby Capple | Anne Parrish | Honor | |
| 1950 | The Door in the Wall | Marguerite de Angeli | Winner | |
| 1950 | George Washington | Genevieve Foster | Honor | |
| 1950 | Kildee House | Rutherford George Montgomery | Honor | |
| 1950 | Song of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin | Walter & Marion Havighurst | Honor | |
| 1950 | The Blue Cat of Castle Town | Catherine Coblentz | Honor | |
| 1950 | Tree of Freedom | Rebecca Caudill | Honor | |
| 1949 | King of the Wind | Marguerite Henry | Winner | |
| 1949 | Daughter of the Mountains | Louise Rankin | Honor | |
| 1949 | My Father's Dragon | Ruth S. Gannett | Honor | |
| 1949 | Seabird | Holling C. Holling | Honor | |
| 1948 | The Twenty-One Balloons | William Pène du Bois | Winner | |
| 1948 | Li Lun, Lad of Courage | Carolyn Treffinger | Honor | |
| 1948 | Misty of Chincoteague | Marguerite Henry | Honor | |
| 1948 | Pancakes-Paris | Claire Huchet Bishop | Honor | |
| 1948 | The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories | Harold Courlander | Honor | |
| 1948 | The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot | Catherine Besterman | Honor | |
| 1947 | Miss Hickory | Carolyn Sherwin Bailey | Winner | |
| 1947 | Big Tree | Mary & Conrad Buff | Honor | |
| 1947 | The Avion My Uncle Flew | Cyrus Fisher | Honor | |
| 1947 | The Heavenly Tenants | William Maxwell | Honor | |
| 1947 | The Hidden Treasure of Glaston | Eleanore M. Jewett | Honor | |
| 1947 | The Wonderful Year | Nancy Barnes | Honor | |
| 1946 | Strawberry Girl | Lois Lenski | Winner | |
| 1946 | Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear | Christine Weston | Honor | |
| 1946 | Justin Morgan Had a Horse | Marguerite Henry | Honor | |
| 1946 | New Found World | Katherine Shippen | Honor | |
| 1946 | The Moved-Outers | Florence Crannell Means | Honor | |
| 1945 | Rabbit Hill | Robert Lawson | Winner | |
| 1945 | Abraham Lincoln's World | Genevieve Foster | Honor | |
| 1945 | Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams | Jeanette Eaton | Honor | |
| 1945 | The Hundred Dresses | Eleanor Estes | Honor | |
| 1945 | The Silver Pencil | Alice Dalgliesh | Honor | |
| 1944 | Johnny Tremain | Esther Forbes | Winner | |
| 1944 | Fog Magic | Julia Sauer | Honor | |
| 1944 | Mountain Born | Elizabeth Yates | Honor | |
| 1944 | Rufus M. | Eleanor Estes | Honor | |
| 1944 | These Happy Golden Years | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Honor | |
| 1943 | Adam of the Road | Elizabeth Gray Vining | Winner | |
| 1943 | Have You Seen Tom Thumb? | Mabel Leigh Hunt | Honor | |
| 1943 | The Middle Moffat | Eleanor Estes | Honor | |
| 1942 | The Matchlock Gun | Walter D. Edmonds | Winner | |
| 1942 | Down Ryton Water | Eva Roe Gaggin | Honor | |
| 1942 | George Washington's World | Genevieve Foster | Honor | |
| 1942 | Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison | Lois Lenski | Honor | |
| 1942 | Little Town on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Honor | |
| 1941 | Call It Courage | Armstrong Sperry | Winner | |
| 1941 | Blue Willow | Doris Gates | Honor | |
| 1941 | Nansen | Anna Gertrude Hall | Honor | |
| 1941 | The Long Winter | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Honor | |
| 1941 | Young Mac of Fort Vancouver | Mary Jane Carr | Honor | |
| 1940 | Daniel Boone | James Daugherty | Winner | |
| 1940 | Boy with a Pack | Stephen W. Meader | Honor | |
| 1940 | By the Shores of Silver Lake | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Honor | |
| 1940 | Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz | Mabel Robinson | Honor | |
| 1940 | The Singing Tree | Kate Seredy | Honor | |
| 1939 | Thimble Summer | Elizabeth Enright | Winner | |
| 1939 | Hello the Boat! | Phyllis Crawford | Honor | |
| 1939 | Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot | Jeanette Eaton | Honor | |
| 1939 | Mr. Popper's Penguins | Richard and Florence Atwater | Honor | |
| 1939 | Nino | Valenti Angelo | Honor | |
| 1939 | Penn | Elizabeth Gray Vining | Honor | |
| 1938 | The White Stag | Kate Seredy | Winner | |
| 1938 | Bright Island | Mabel Robinson | Honor | |
| 1938 | On the Banks of Plum Creek | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Honor | |
| 1938 | Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time | James Cloyd Bowman | Honor | |
| 1937 | Roller Skates | Ruth Sawyer | Winner | |
| 1937 | Audubon | Constance Rourke | Honor | |
| 1937 | Phebe Fairchild: Her Book | Lois Lenski | Honor | |
| 1937 | The Codfish Musket | Agnes Hewes | Honor | |
| 1937 | The Golden Basket | Ludwig Bemelmans | Honor | |
| 1937 | Whistler's Van | Idwal Jones | Honor | |
| 1937 | Winterbound | Margery Williams | Honor | |
| 1936 | Caddie Woodlawn | Carol Ryrie Brink | Winner | |
| 1936 | All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud | Armstrong Sperry | Honor | |
| 1936 | Honk, the Moose | Phil Stong | Honor | |
| 1936 | The Good Master | Kate Seredy | Honor | |
| 1936 | Young Walter Scott | Elizabeth Gray Vining | Honor | |
| 1935 | Dobry | Monica Shannon | Winner | |
| 1935 | A Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic | Hilda van Stockum | Honor | |
| 1935 | Davy Crockett | Constance Rourke | Honor | |
| 1935 | Pageant of Chinese History | Elizabeth Seeger | Honor | |
| 1934 | Invincible Louisa | Cornelia Meigs | Winner | |
| 1934 | Apprentice of Florence | Anne Dempster Kyle | Honor | |
| 1934 | Glory of the Seas | Agnes Hewes | Honor | |
| 1934 | New Land: A Novel for Boys and Girls | Sarah Lindsay Schmidt | Honor | |
| 1934 | Swords of Steel | Elsie Singmaster | Honor | |
| 1934 | The ABC Bunny | Wanda Gág | Honor | |
| 1934 | The Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside | Padraic Colum | Honor | |
| 1934 | The Forgotten Daughter | Caroline Snedeker | Honor | |
| 1934 | Winged Girl of Knossos | Erick Berry | Honor | |
| 1933 | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | Elizabeth Foreman Lewis | Winner | |
| 1933 | Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia | Nora Burglon | Honor | |
| 1933 | Swift Rivers | Cornelia Meigs | Honor | |
| 1933 | The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War | Hildegarde Swift | Honor | |
| 1932 | Waterless Mountain | Laura Adams Armer | Winner | |
| 1932 | Boy of the South Seas | Eunice Tietjens | Honor | |
| 1932 | Calico Bush | Rachel Field | Honor | |
| 1932 | Jane's Island | Marjorie Hill Allee | Honor | |
| 1932 | Out of the Flame | Eloise Lownsbery | Honor | |
| 1932 | The Fairy Circus | Dorothy P. Lathrop | Honor | |
| 1932 | Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy | Mary Gould Davis | Honor | |
| 1931 | The Cat Who Went to Heaven | Elizabeth Coatsworth | Winner | |
| 1931 | Floating Island | Anne Parrish | Honor | |
| 1931 | Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes | Herbert Best | Honor | |
| 1931 | Meggy MacIntosh | Elizabeth Gray Vining | Honor | |
| 1931 | Mountains Are Free | Julia Davis Adams | Honor | |
| 1931 | Ood-le-uk the Wanderer | Alice Alison Lide and Margaret Alison Johansen | Honor | |
| 1931 | Queer Person | Ralph Hubbard | Honor | |
| 1931 | Spice and the Devil's Cave | Agnes Hewes | Honor | |
| 1931 | The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess | Alida Malkus | Honor | |
| 1930 | Hitty, Her First Hundred Years | Rachel Field | Winner | |
| 1930 | A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland | Jeanette Eaton | Honor | |
| 1930 | Little Blacknose: The Story of a Pioneer | Hildegarde Swift | Honor | |
| 1930 | Pran of Albania | Elizabeth Cleveland Miller | Honor | |
| 1930 | The Jumping-Off Place | Marian Hurd McNeely | Honor | |
| 1930 | The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales | Ella Young | Honor | |
| 1930 | Vaino: A Boy of New Finland | Julia Davis Adams | Honor | |
| 1929 | The Trumpeter of Krakow | Eric P. Kelly | Winner | |
| 1929 | Clearing Weather | Cornelia Meigs | Honor | |
| 1929 | Millions of Cats | Wanda Gág | Honor | |
| 1929 | The Boy Who Was | Grace Hallock | Honor | |
| 1929 | Tod of the Fens | Elinor Whitney Field | Honor | |
| 1928 | Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon | Dhan Gopal Mukerji | Winner | |
| 1928 | Downright Dencey | Caroline Snedeker | Honor | |
| 1928 | The Wonder Smith and His Son | Ella Young | Honor | |
| 1927 | Smoky the Cowhorse | Will James | Winner | |
| 1926 | Shen of the Sea | Arthur Bowie Chrisman | Winner | |
| 1926 | The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery | Padraic Colum | Honor | |
| 1925 | Tales from Silver Lands | Charles Finger | Winner | |
| 1925 | Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story | Anne Carroll Moore | Honor | |
| 1925 | The Dream Coach | Anne Parrish & Dillwyn Parrish | Honor | |
| 1924 | The Dark Frigate | Charles Boardman Hawes | Winner | |
| 1923 | The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle | Hugh Lofting | Winner | |
| 1922 | The Story of Mankind | Hendrik Willem van Loon | Winner | |
| 1922 | Cedric the Forester | Bernard Marshall | Honor | |
| 1922 | The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles | Padraic Colum | Honor | |
| 1922 | The Great Quest | Charles Boardman Hawes | Honor | |
| 1922 | The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure | William Bowen | Honor | |
| 1922 | The Windy Hill | Cornelia Meigs | Honor |
The Gold Shelf: thegoldshelf.com/awards/newbery/