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A huge part of my thesis involves reading every winner of the Newbery Medal and tallying characters’ sexes and number of appearances. It’s possible that I have bitten off more than I can chew, but I’m still going for it. Track my progress here! A crossed-out line indicates that I have read AND tallied the book for my data.
| Year |
Author |
Title |
2008 |
Laura Amy Schlitz |
Good Master! Sweet Ladies! |
2007 |
Susan Patron |
The Higher Power of Lucky |
2006 |
Lynne Rae Perkins |
Criss Cross |
2005 |
Cynthia Kadohata |
Kira-Kira |
2004 |
Kate DiCamillo |
The Tale of Despereaux |
2003 |
Avi |
Crispin: The Cross of Lead |
2002 |
Linda Sue Park |
A Single Shard |
2001 |
Richard Peck |
A Year Down Yonder |
2000 |
Christopher Paul Curtis |
Bud, Not Buddy |
1999 |
Louis Sachar |
Holes |
1998 |
Karen Hesse |
Out of the Dust |
1997 |
E. L. Konigsburg |
The View from Saturday |
1996 |
Karen Cushman |
The Midwife’s Apprentice |
1995 |
Sharon Creech |
Walk Two Moons |
1994 |
Lois Lowry |
The Giver |
1993 |
Cynthia Rylant |
Missing May |
1992 |
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
Shiloh |
1991 |
Jerry Spinelli |
Maniac Magee |
1990 |
Lois Lowry |
Number the Stars |
1989 |
Paul Fleischman |
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices |
1988 |
Russell Freedman |
Lincoln: A Photobiography |
1987 |
Sid Fleischman |
The Whipping Boy |
1986 |
Patricia MacLachlan |
Sarah, Plain and Tall |
1985 |
Robin McKinley |
The Hero and the Crown |
1984 |
Beverly Cleary |
Dear Mr. Henshaw |
1983 |
Cynthia Voigt |
Dicey’s Song |
1982 |
Nancy Willard |
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn |
1981 |
Katherine Paterson |
Jacob Have I Loved |
1980 |
Joan W. Blos |
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal |
1979 |
Ellen Raskin |
The Westing Game |
1978 |
Katherine Paterson |
Bridge to Terabithia |
1977 |
Mildred Taylor |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
1976 |
Susan Cooper |
The Grey King |
1975 |
Virginia Hamilton |
M. C. Higgins, the Great |
1974 |
Paula Fox |
The Slave Dancer |
1973 |
Jean Craighead George |
Julie of the Wolves |
1972 |
Robert C. O’Brien |
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH |
1971 |
Betsy Byars |
Summer of the Swans |
1970 |
William H. Armstrong |
Sounder |
1969 |
Lloyd Alexander |
The High King |
1968 |
E. L. Konigsburg |
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
1967 |
Irene Hunt |
Up a Road Slowly |
1966 |
Elizabeth Borton de Treviño |
I, Juan de Pareja |
1965 |
Maia Wojciechowska |
Shadow of a Bull |
1964 |
Emily Cheney Neville |
It’s Like This, Cat |
1963 |
Madeleine L’Engle |
A Wrinkle in Time |
1962 |
Elizabeth George Speare |
The Bronze Bow |
1961 |
Scott O’Dell |
Island of the Blue Dolphins |
1960 |
Joseph Krumgold |
Onion John |
1959 |
Elizabeth George Speare |
The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
1958 |
Harold Keith |
Rifles for Watie |
1957 |
Virginia Sorensen |
Miracles on Maple Hill |
1956 |
Jean Lee Latham |
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch |
1955 |
Meindert DeJong |
The Wheel on the School |
1954 |
Joseph Krumgold |
…And Now Miguel |
1953 |
Ann Nolan Clark |
Secret of the Andes |
1952 |
Eleanor Estes |
Ginger Pye |
1951 |
Elizabeth Yates |
Amos Fortune, Free Man |
1950 |
Marguerite de Angeli |
The Door in the Wall |
1949 |
Marguerite Henry |
King of the Wind |
1948 |
William Pène du Bois |
The Twenty-One Balloons |
1947 |
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey |
Miss Hickory |
1946 |
Lois Lenski |
Strawberry Girl |
1945 |
Robert Lawson |
Rabbit Hill |
1944 |
Esther Forbes |
Johnny Tremain |
1943 |
Elizabeth Gray Vining |
Adam of the Road |
1942 |
Walter D. Edmonds |
The Matchlock Gun |
1941 |
Armstrong Sperry |
Call It Courage |
1940 |
James Daugherty |
Daniel Boone |
1939 |
Elizabeth Enright |
Thimble Summer |
1938 |
Kate Seredy |
The White Stag |
1937 |
Ruth Sawyer |
Roller Skates |
1936 |
Carol Ryrie Brink |
Caddie Woodlawn |
1935 |
Monica Shannon |
Dobry |
1934 |
Cornelia Meigs |
Invincible Louisa |
1933 |
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis |
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze |
1932 |
Laura Adams Armer |
Waterless Mountain |
1931 |
Elizabeth Coatsworth |
The Cat Who Went to Heaven |
1930 |
Rachel Field |
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years |
1929 |
Eric P. Kelly |
The Trumpeter of Krakow |
1928 |
Dhan Gopal Mukerji |
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon |
1927 |
Will James |
Smoky the Cow Horse |
1926 |
Arthur Bowie Chrisman |
Shen of the Sea |
1925 |
Charles Finger |
Tales from Silver Lands |
1924 |
Charles Hawes |
The Dark Frigate |
1923 |
Hugh Lofting |
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle |
1922 |
Hendrik Willem van Loon |
The Story of Mankind |
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