Directed Reading in Children/Young Adult, Newbery Books Past, Present and Future
Prior Medal and Honor Winners
Sci-Fi
When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead, Random House Children’s Books, 2010 (Medal)
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, Nancy Farmer, Jackson/Orchard, 1995 (Honor)
The Giver, Lois Lowry, Houghton, 1994 Medal)
Historical fiction
One Crazy Summer, Rita Williams-Garcia, HarperCollins, 2010 (Honor)
Catherine Called Birdy, Karen Cushman, Clarion, 1995 (Honor)
Strawberry Girl, Lois Lenski, Lippincott, 1946 (Medal)
Realistic fiction
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg, Atheneum, 1968 (Medal)
My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George, Dutton, 1960 (Honor)
Roller Skates, Ruth Sawyer, Viking, 1937 (Medal)
Fantasy
The Voyages of Dr Doolittle, Hugh Lofting, 1923 (Honor)
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, HarperCollins, 2009 (Medal)
Holes, Louis Sacher, Frances Foster, 1999 (Medal)
Creative Non-fiction
Upon the Head of a Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944, Arnaka Siegal, Farrar, 1982 (Honor)
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham, Houghton, 1956
An American Plague, The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, Jim Murphy, Clarion, 2004 (Honor)
Poetry
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, Laura Amy Schlitz, Candlewick, 2008 (Medal)
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse, Scholastic, 1998 (Medal)
Picture story books
Millions of Cats, Wanda Gag, Coward-McCann, 1929 (Honor)
Dr. DeSoto, William Steig, Farrar, 1983 (Honor)
The Hundred Dresses, Eleanor Estes, Harcourt, 1945 (Honor)
Contenders for 2012 Awards
(More to come. There will be about 10 altogether.)
The Friendship Doll, Kirby Larson, Delacorte Books for Young Readers, May 2011
Inside Out and Back Again, Thanhha Lai, Harper Collins, February 2011
Small Persons with Wings, Ellen Booraem, Dial, January 2011
Okay for Now, Gary Schmidt, Clarion, April 2011
