The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Services to Children, The American Library Association.

The Newbery Medal is an annual award given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American children's literature published in the preceding year. The award was established and endowed in 1921 by Fredric G. Melcher. He named it for John Newbery, an English publisher and bookseller.

•  1998 - Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
• 1997 - The View From Saturday by Konigsburg
• 1996 - The Midwife's Apprentice by Cushman
• 1995 - Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
• 1994 - The Giver by Lois Lowry
• 1993 - Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
• 1994 - 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 by Nancy Willard
• 1981 - Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
• 1980 - Gathering of Days 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 - 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 C. Byars
• 1970 - Sounder by Will 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 Paraja by Elizabeth Trevino