Newbery Medal Winner 2005
The Newbery Medal is awarded each year to authors of the most distinguished children’s books in the United States. This year’s winner is Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata.

Shy Katie hates her new town, where her only friend is her cool older sister, Lynn. What happens when one of them gets really sick?

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There have been 84 Newbery Medal winners from 1922 to 2005. See the various authors and titles below:
  Year Book Title  
  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  
  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  
  1969 The High King by Lloyd Alexander  
  1968 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg  
  1967 Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt  
  1966 I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino  
  1965 Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska  
  1964 It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville  
  1963 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle  
  1962 The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare  
  1961 Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell  
  1960 Onion John by Joseph Krumgold  
  1959 The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare  
  1958 Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith  
  1957 Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson  
  1956 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham  
  1955 The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong  
  1954 ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold  
  1953 Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark  
  1952 Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes  
  1951 Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates  
  1950 The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli  
  1949 King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry  
  1948 The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois  
  1947 Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey  
  1946 Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski  
  1945 Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson  
  1944 Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes  
  1943 Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray  
  1942 The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds  
  1941 Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry  
  1940 Daniel Boone by James Daugherty  
  1939 Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright  
  1938 The White Stag by Kate Seredy  
  1937 Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer  
  1936 Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink  
  1935 Dobry by Monica Shannon  
  1934 Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of  Little Women by Cornelia Meigs  
  1933 Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis  
  1932 Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer  
  1931 The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth  
  1930 Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field  
  1929 The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly  
  1928 Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji  
  1927 Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James  
  1926 Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman  
  1925 Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger  
  1924 The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes  
  1923 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting  
  1922 The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon  
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