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Newbery Medal

2010 Newbery Medal Winner:

  When you reach me by Rebecca Stead

2009: The graveyard book by Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Dave McKean

2008: Good masters! Sweet Ladies! : voices from a medieval village by Laura Amy Schlitz with illustrations by Robert Byrd

2007: The higher power of Lucky by Susan Patron with illustrations by Matt Phelan

2006: Criss cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

2004: The tale of Despereaux : being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread by Kate DiCamillo with illustrations by Timothy Basil Ering

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

For more information about the Newbery Medal, including past winners and honor books, visit the ALSC site.