2009-2000 Newbery Award Winning Books

2009

• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman**
• The Underneath by Kathi Appelt*
• The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
  by Margarita Engle*
• Savvy by Ingrid Law*
• After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson*

2008

• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medival Village
  by Laura Amy Schlitz**
• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis*
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt*
• Feathers 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*

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*

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*

2004

• The Tale of Despereaux 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*

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*

2002

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

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*

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 dePaola*

** award winner
* honor winner