Newbery Award Winners:
| Newbery Medal Books 1970-2006 | Author | Year |
| Criss Cross | Lynne Rae Perkins | 2006 |
| Kira Kira | Cynthia Kadohata | 2005 |
| The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread | Kate DiCamillo | 2004 |
| Crispin: The Cross of Lead | Avi | 2003 |
| A Single Shard | Linda Sue Park | 2002 |
| A Year Down Yonder | Richard Peck | 2001 |
| Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul | 2000 |
| Holes | Louis Sachar | 1999 |
| Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse | 1998 |
| The Midwife's Apprentice | Karen Cushman | 1996 |
| Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech | 1995 |
| The Giver | Lois Lowry | 1994 |
| Missing May | Cynthia Rylant | 1993 |
| Shiloh | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | 1992 |
| Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli | 1991 |
| Number the Stars | Lois Lowry | 1990 |
| Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | Paul Fleischman | 1989 |
| Lincoln: A Photobiography | Russell Freedman | 1988 |
| The Whipping Boy | Sid Fleischman | 1987 |
| Sarah, Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan | 1986 |
| The Hero and the Crown | Robin McKinley | 1985 |
| Dear Mr. Henshaw | Beverly Cleary | 1984 |
| Dicey's Song | Cynthia Voigt | 1983 |
| A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers | Nancy Willard | 1982 |
| Jacob Have I Loved | Katherine Paterson | 1981 |
| A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal | Joan W. Blox | 1980 |
| The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin | 1979 |
| Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | 1978 |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor | 1977 |
| The Grey King | Susan Cooper | 1976 |
| M. C. Higgins, The Great | Virginia Hamilton | 1975 |
| The Slave Dancer | Paula Fox | 1974 |
| Julie of the Wolves | Jean Craighead George | 1973 |
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O'Brien | 1972 |
| Summer of the Swans | Betsy Byars | 1971 |
| Sounder | William H. Armstrong | 1970 |