Newbery Award | Pikes Peak Library District

2026 Winner

All the Blues in the Sky

by Renée Watson

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2025 Winner

First State of Being

by Erin Entrada Kelly

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2024 Winner

The Eyes & the Impossible

by Dave Eggers

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2023 Winner

Freewater

by Amina Luqman-Dawson

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2022 Winner

The Last Cuentista

by Donna Barba Higuera

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2021 Winner

When You Trap a Tiger

by Tae Keller

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2020 Winner

New Kid

by Jerry Craft

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2019 Winner

Merci Suárez Changes Gears

by Meg Medina

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2018 Winner

Hello Universe

by Erin Entrada Kelly

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2017 Winner

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

by Kelly Barnhill

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2016 Winner

Last Stop on Market Street

by Matt de la Peña; Illustrated by Christian Robinson

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2015 Winner

The Crossover

by Kwame Alexander

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2014 Winner

Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

by Kate DiCamillo

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2013 Winner

The one and only Ivan

by Katherine Applegate

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2012 Winner

Dead End in Norvelt

by Jack Gantos

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2011 Winner

Moon over Manifest

by Clare Vanderpool

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2010 Winner

When You Reach Me

by Rebecca Stead

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2009 Winner

The Graveyard Book

by Neil Gaiman

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2008 Winner

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village

by Laura Amy Schlitz; Illustrated by Robert Byrd

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2007 Winner

The Higher Power of Lucky

by Susan Patron

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2006 Winner

Criss Cross

by Lynne Rae Perkins

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2005 Winner

Kira-Kira

by Cynthia Kadohata

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2004 Winner

The Tale of Despereaux

by Kate DiCamillo

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2003 Winner

Crispin: The Cross of Lead

by Avi

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2002 Winner

A Single Shard

by Linda Sue Park

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2001 Winner

A Year Down Yonder

by Richard Peck

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2000 Winner

Bud, Not Buddy

by Christopher Paul Curtis

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2019 Winner

Holes

by Louis Sachar

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1998 Winner

Out of the Dust

by Karen Hesse

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1997 Winner

The View from Saturday

by E. L. Konigsburg

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1996 Winner

The Midwife’s Apprentice

by Karen Cushman

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1995 Winner

Walk Two Moons

by Sharon Creech

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1994 Winner

The Giver

by Sharon Creech

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1993 Winner

Missing May

by Cythnia Ryland

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1992 Winner

Shiloh

by Cythnia Ryland

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1991 Winner

Maniac Magee

by Jerry Spinelli

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1990 Winner

Number the Stars

by Lois Lowry

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1989 Winner

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

by Paul Fleischman

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1988 Winner

Lincoln: A Photobiography

by Russell Freedman

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1987 Winner

The Whipping Boy

by Sid Fleischman

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1986 Winner

Sarah, Plain and Tall

by Patricia MacLachlanYolen

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1985 Winner

The Hero and the Crown

by Robin McKinley

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1984 Winner

Dear Mr. Henshaw

by Beverly Cleary

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1983 Winner

Dicey's Song

by Cynthia Voigt

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1982 Winner

A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers

by Nancy Willard; Illustrated by Alice Provensen

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1981 Winner

Jacob Have I Loved

by Katherine Paterson

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A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal Book Cover

1980 Winner

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832

by Joan W. Blos

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1979 Winner

The Westing Game

by Ellen Raskin

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1978 Winner

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

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1977 Winner

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

by Mildred D. Taylor

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1976 Winner

The Grey King

by Susan Cooper

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1975 Winner

M.C. Higgins, the Great

by Virginia Hamilton

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1974 Winner

The Slave Dancer

by Paula Fox

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1973 Winner

Julie of the Wolves

by Jean Craighead George

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1972 Winner

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

by Robert C. O'Brien

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1971 Winner

Summer of the Swans

by Betsy Byars

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1970 Winner

Sounder

by William H. Armstrong

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1969 Winner

The High King

by Lloyd Alexander

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1968 Winner

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E. L. Konigsburg

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1967 Winner

Up a Road Slowly

by Irene Hunt

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1966 Winner

I, Juan de Pareja

by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

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1965 Winner

Shadow of a Bull

by Maia Wojciechowska

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1964 Winner

It's Like This, Cat

by Emily Neville

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1963 Winner

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

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1962 Winner

The Bronze Bow

by Elizabeth George Speare

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1961 Winner

Island of the Blue Dolphins

by Scott O'Dell

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1960 Winner

Onion John

by Joseph Krumgold

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1959 Winner

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

by Elizabeth George Speare

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1958 Winner

Rifles for Watie

by Harold Keith

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1957 Winner

Miracle on Maple Hill

by Virginia Sorenson

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1956 Winner

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

by Jean Lee Latham

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1955 Winner

The Wheel on the School

by Meindert DeJong

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