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Here you'll find Newbery and Caldecott Award– and Honor–winning titles representing the best in children's literature. Click on a title to learn more about the book, or go to the teachers guide, when available.

Newbery Medal Books

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (2002)

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (2000)

Holes by Louis Sachar (1999)

The Giver by Lois Lowry (1994)

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (1990)

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (1974)

The High King by Lloyd Alexander (1969)

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (1963)

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (1961)

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (1959)

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (1950)

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (1944)

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (1933)

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (1923)

Newbery Honor Books

Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson (2007)
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm (2007)

Whittington by Alan Armstrong; illustrated by S.D. Schindler (2006)

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt  (2005)

Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff (2003)

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (2003)

Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (1998)

Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White (1997)

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (1996)

The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack; illustrated by J. Brian Pinkney (1993)

The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen (1990)

Shabanu by Suzanne Fisher Staples (1990)

On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer (1987)

Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes (1985)

The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (1984)

A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle (1981)

The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (1973)

The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (1972)

Sing Down The Moon by Scott O'Dell (1971)

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg (1969)

The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (1968)

The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell (1968)

The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander (1966)

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden (1961)

My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett (1949)

Caldecott Medal Books

Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman; illustrated by Stephen Gammell (1989)

Noah's Ark by Peter Spier (1978)

The Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown; illustrated by Leonard Weisgard (1947)

Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (1940)

Caldecott Honor Books

Time Flies by Eric Rohmann (1995)

Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold (1992)

Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia McKissack; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney (1989)

The Bremen Town Musicians by Ilse Plume (1981)

Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by Leo Lionni (1970)

Frederick by Leo Lionni (1968)

Swimmy by Leo Lionni (1964)

The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night by Peter Spier (1962)

Anatole and the Cat by Eve Titus; illustrated by Paul Galdone (1958)

Anatole by Eve Titus; illustrated by Paul Galdone (1957)

If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss (1951)

Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss (1950)

McElligot's Pool by Dr. Seuss (1948)