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Reading the Newberys

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It has been one of my long-time goals to read all of the Newbery Award winners. This is the place where I will keep track of which books I've read, so that I can someday accomplish that goal! I know I read some of these books when I was a kid, but I'm only going to mark as read those books that I have read since January 2014.

1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
   - The Great Quest by Charles Hawes
   - Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall
   - The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen
   - The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
   - The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs

1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
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1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
   - Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
   - The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish

1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
   - The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum

1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James

1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
   - The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young
   - Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker

1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
   - Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett
   - Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
   - The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock
   - Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
   - Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon
   - Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney

1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
   - A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton
   - Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller
   - Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely
   - The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young
   - Vaino by Julia Davis Adams
   - Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift

1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
   - Floating Island by Anne Parrish
   - The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of a Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus
   - Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard
   - Mountains Are Free by Julie Davis Adams
   - Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes
   - Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray
   - Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best
   - Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen

1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
   - The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop
   - Calico Bush by Rachel Field
   - Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens
   - Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery
   - Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee
   - Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis

1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
   - Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
   - The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift
   - Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon

1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
   - The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
   - Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
   - ABC Bunny by Wanda Gag
   - Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry
   - New Land by Sarah Schmidt
   - Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum
   - Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes
   - Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle

1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon
   - Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
   - Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
   - Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum

1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
   - Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong
   - The Good Master by Kate Seredy
   - Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray
   - All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry

1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
   - Phebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski
   - Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones
   - The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans
   - Winterbound by Margery Bianco
   - The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes
   - Audubon by Constance Rourke

1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy
   - Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman
   - Bright Island by Mabel Robinson
   - On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
   - Nino by Valenti Angelo
   - Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
   - Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford
   - Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton
   - Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray

1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
   - The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
   - Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson
   - By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
   - Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader

1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
   - Blue Willow by Doris Gates
   - Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr
   - The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
   - Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall

1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
   - Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
   - George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster
   - Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
   - Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin

1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
   - The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
   - Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt

1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
   - These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
   - Fog Magic by Julia Sauer
   - Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
   - Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates

1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
   - The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
   - The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
   - Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster
   - Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanette Eaton

1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
   - Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
   - The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means
   - Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston
   - New Found World by Katherine Shippen

1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
   - Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
   - Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff
   - The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
   - The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher
   - The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett

1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois
   - Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop
   - Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger
   - The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman
   - The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander
   - Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
   - Seabird by Holling C. Holling
   - Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin
   - My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
   - Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps

1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
   - Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
   - The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz
   - Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery
   - George Washington by Genevieve Foster
   - Song of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst

1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
   - Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt
   - Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton
   - Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson
   - The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish

1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
   - Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity
   - Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling
   - The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
   - The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer
   - The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff

1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
   - Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
   - Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
   - Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil
   - The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
   - Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster

1954: . . . And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
   - All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop
   - Shadrach by Meindert Dejong
   - Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong
   - Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
   - Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff

1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
   - Courage of Sarah Nobel by Alice Dalgliesh
   - Banner in the Sky by James Ullman

1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
   - The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
   - The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist
   - Men, Microscope, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen

1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
   - Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
   - The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong
   - Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson
   - The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads
   - Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli

1958: Rifles by Watie by Harold Keith
   - The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz
   - Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
   - The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson
   - Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko

1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
   - The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
   - Along Came a Dog by Meindert DeJon
   - Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay
   - The Perilous Road by William O. Steele

1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
   - My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
   - America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
   - The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall

1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
   - America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
   - Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer
   - The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
   - Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis
   - The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
   - Belling the Tiger by Mary Stolz

1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
   - Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas
   - Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge

1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
   - Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North
   - The Loner by Ester Wier

1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
   - Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
   - The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
   - The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
   - The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz

1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
   - The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell
   - Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
   - The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik

1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
   - Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E.L. Konigsburg
   - The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
   - The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer
   - The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander
   - To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
   - When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong
   - Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
   - The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore
   - Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele

1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
   - Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
   - Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
   - Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell

1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
   - Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
   - The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
   - The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
   - Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
   - The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
   - Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
   - The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
   - The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
   - The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

1975: M.C. Higgins the Great by Virginia Hamilton
   - Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin
   - My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
   - The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
   - Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene

1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper
   - The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
   - Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
   - Abel's Island by William Steig
   - A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond

1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
   - Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
   - Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater

1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
   - The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
   - The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian

1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
   - The Fledgling by Jane Langton
   - A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle

1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Williard
   - Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
   - Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal

1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
   - The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
   - Doctor DeSoto by William Steig
   - Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
   - Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
   - Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
   - The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
   - A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
   - Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
   - The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain

1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
   - Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
   - The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
   - One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox

1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
   - Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
   - Dogsong by Gary Paulsen

1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
   - A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
   - On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
   - Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber

1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
   - After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
   - Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
   - In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
   - Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers

1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
   - Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
   - Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
   - The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen

1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
   - The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
   - Nothing But The Truth: A Documentary Novel by Avi
   - The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman

1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
   - What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
   - The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack
   - Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers

1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry
   - Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
   - Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
   - Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman

1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
   - Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
   - The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
   - What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
   - The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
   - Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner
   - The Great Fire by Jim Murphy

1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
   - A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
   - Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
   - The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
   - Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
   - Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
   - Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
   - Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

1999: Holes by Louis Sachar
   - A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
   - Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
   - Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
   - 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie de Paola

2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
   - Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
   - Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
   - Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
   - The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
   - Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
   - Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
   - The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
   - Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
   - Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
   - A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin
   - Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan

2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo
   - Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
   - An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy

2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
   - Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
   - The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
   - Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
   - Whittington by Alan Armstrong
   - Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
   - Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
   - Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson

2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
   - Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
   - Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
   - Rules by Cynthia Lord

2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
   - Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
   - The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
   - Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
   - The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
   - The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
   - Savvy by Ingrid Law
   - After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

2010: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
   - Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip M. Hoose
   - The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
   - Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
   - The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick

2011: Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
   - Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
   - Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
   - Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman
   - One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

2012: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
   - Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
   - Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin

2013: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
   - Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
   - Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
   - Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage

2014: Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
   - Doll Bones by Holly Black
   - The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes
   - One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
   - Paperboy by Vince Vawter

2015: The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
   - El Deafo by Cece Bell
   - Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

2016: Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
   - The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
   - Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
   - Echo by Pam Muñ​oz Ryan

2017: The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
   - Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
   - The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz
   - Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

2018: Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
   - Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
   - Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
   - Crown by Derrick Barnes

2019: Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
   - The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
​   - The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock