Newbery Medal Winners

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Winners

	Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos 3.65 avg rating — 3,241 ratings Newbery Medal (2012)	My rating:
	Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool 4.03 avg rating — 6,079 ratings Newbery Medal (2011)	My rating:
	When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead 4.06 avg rating — 17,179 ratings Newbery Medal (2010)	My rating:
	The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 74,318 ratings Newbery Medal (2009)	My rating:
	Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz 3.67 avg rating — 2,210 ratings Newbery Medal (2008)	My rating:
	The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron 3.51 avg rating — 4,331 ratings Newbery Medal (2007)	My rating:
	Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins 3.22 avg rating — 3,218 ratings Newbery Medal (2006)	My rating:
	Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata 3.83 avg rating — 6,590 ratings Newbery Medal (2005)	My rating:
	The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo 3.96 avg rating — 38,826 ratings Newbery Medal (2004)	My rating:
	Crispin: The Cross of Lead (Crispin, #1) by Avi 3.56 avg rating — 7,190 ratings Newbery Medal (2003)	My rating:
	A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park 3.86 avg rating — 8,807 ratings Newbery Medal (2002)	My rating:
	A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck 4.04 avg rating — 8,621 ratings Newbery Medal (2001)	My rating:
	Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis 3.81 avg rating — 20,112 ratings Newbery Medal (2000)	My rating:
	Holes (Holes, #1) by Louis Sachar 3.90 avg rating — 152,168 ratings Newbery Medal (1999)	My rating:
	Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse 3.72 avg rating — 18,662 ratings Newbery Medal (1998)	My rating:
	The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg 3.76 avg rating — 12,342 ratings Newbery Medal (1997)	My rating:
	The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman 3.64 avg rating — 12,513 ratings Newbery Medal (1996)	My rating:
	Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech 3.93 avg rating — 40,381 ratings Newbery Medal (1995)	My rating:
	The Giver (The Giver, #1) by Lois Lowry 4.11 avg rating — 323,566 ratings Newbery Medal (1994)	My rating:
	Missing May by Cynthia Rylant 3.72 avg rating — 3,229 ratings Newbery Medal (1993)	My rating:
	Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 3.76 avg rating — 16,891 ratings Newbery Medal (1992)	My rating:
	Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli 3.84 avg rating — 32,628 ratings Newbery Medal (1991)	My rating:
	Number the Stars by Lois Lowry 4.06 avg rating — 104,015 ratings Newbery Medal (1990)	My rating:
	Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman 3.94 avg rating — 2,282 ratings Newbery Medal (1989)	My rating:
	Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman 3.96 avg rating — 2,081 ratings Newbery Medal (1988)	My rating:
	The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman 3.47 avg rating — 6,934 ratings Newbery Medal (1987)	My rating:
	Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan 3.61 avg rating — 22,494 ratings Newbery Medal (1986)	My rating:
	The Hero and the Crown (Damar, #2) by Robin McKinley 4.21 avg rating — 15,772 ratings Newbery Medal (1985)	My rating:
	Dear Mr. Henshaw (Leigh Botts, #1) by Beverly Cleary 3.59 avg rating — 10,170 ratings Newbery Medal (1984)	My rating:
	Dicey's Song (Tillerman Cycle, #2) by Cynthia Voigt 3.85 avg rating — 5,914 ratings Newbery Medal (1983)	My rating: