Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present

This website introduces Newbery Medal winning books since 1922.  You cannot only find the booklists but also brief description of each book.

http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal

Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-PresentWhat is Newbery Medal? Here's an introduction to it from Wikipedia:

The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The award is given to the author of "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." Named for John Newbery, an 18th-century English publisher of juvenile books, the Newbery was proposed by Frederic G. Melcher in 1921, making it the first children's book award in the world. The medal was designed by Rene Paul Chambellan and depicts an author giving his work (a book) to a boy and a girl to read.

The Newbery and the Caldecott Medal are considered the two most prestigious awards for children's literature in the United States. When the winner is announced each January, bookstores sell out, libraries order copies and teachers add the book to their lesson plans. Many bookstores and libraries have Newbery sections; popular television shows interview the winners; textbooks includes lists of Newbery winners, and many master's and doctoral theses are written about them.

Beside the one annual Medalist, the committee identifies a variable number of worthy runners-up as Newbery Honor Books. Though the Newbery Honor was initiated in 1971, specially cited runners-up for the Newbery Medal from previous years were retroactively named Newbery Honor books. As few as zero and as many as eight have been named, but from 1938 the number is one to five annual Honors. The Honor Books must be a subset of the runners-up on the final ballot, either the leading runners-up on that ballot or the leaders on one further ballot that excludes the winner.

Every book considered must be written by a US citizen or resident and must be published first or simultaneously in the US in English during the preceding year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal

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The follwoing is each year's medal winner since 2000.

Year	Title	Author
2013	The   One and Only Ivan	Katherine   Applegate
2012	Dead   End in Norvelt	Jack   Gantos
2011	Moon   over Menifest	Clare   Vanderpool
2010	When   You Reach Me	Rebecca   Stead
2009	The   Graveyard Book	Neil   Gaiman
2008	Good   Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village	Laura   Amy Schlitz
2007	The   Higher Power of Lucky	Susan   Patron
2006	Criss   Cross	Lynne   Rae Perkins
2005	Kira-Kira	Cynthia   Kadohata
2004	The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story   of the Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread	Kate DiCamillo
2003	Crispin: The Cross of Lead	Avi
2002	A Single Shard	Linda Sue Park
2001	A Year Down Yonder	Richard Peck
2000	Bud, Not Buddy	Christopher Paul Curtis