John Newbery Medal
Presented by: Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association
For: The most distinguished contribution to American literature for children
| Winner | The First State of Being | Erin Entrada Kelly |
| Nominee | Elf Dog and Owl Head | M. T. Anderson |
| Nominee | The Last Mapmaker | Christina Soontornvat |
| Winner | The Last Cuentista | Donna Barba Higuera |
| Nominee | Too Bright to See | Kyle Lukoff |
| Nominee | A Snake Falls to Earth | Darcie Little Badger |
| Winner | When You Trap a Tiger | Tae Keller |
| Nominee | A Wish in the Dark | Christina Soontornvat |
| Nominee | Scary Stories for Young Foxes | Christian McKay Heidicker |
| Nominee | Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds |
| Winner | The Girl Who Drank the Moon | Kelly Barnhill |
| Nominee | The Inquisitor's Tale or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog | Adam Gidwitz |
| Winner | Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures | Kate DiCamillo |
| Nominee | Doll Bones | Holly Black |
| Nominee | Splendors and Glooms | Laura Amy Schlitz |
| Winner | When You Reach Me | Rebecca Stead |
| Nominee | Where the Mountain Meets the Moon | Grace Lin |
| Winner | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman |
| Nominee | Savvy | Ingrid Law |
| Nominee | Princess Academy | Shannon Hale |
| Nominee | The House of the Scorpion | Nancy Farmer |
| Winner | Holes | Louis Sachar |
| Nominee | Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine |
| Nominee | A Girl Named Disaster | Nancy Farmer |
| Nominee | The Moorchild | Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
| Nominee | The Thief | Megan Whalen Turner |
| Nominee | The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm | Nancy Farmer |
| Winner | The Giver | Lois Lowry |
| Nominee | The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural | Patricia C. McKissack |
| Nominee | Afternoon of the Elves | Janet Taylor Lisle |
| Nominee | In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World | Virginia Hamilton |
| Winner | The Hero and the Crown | Robin McKinley |
| Nominee | The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree | Bill Brittain |
| Nominee | The Blue Sword | Robin McKinley |
| Nominee | Graven Images: Three Stories | Paul Fleischman |
| Nominee | Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush | Virginia Hamilton |
| Nominee | The Fledgling | Jane Langton |
| Nominee | A Ring of Endless Light | Madeleine L'Engle |
| Winner | Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson |
| Nominee | Abel's Island | William Steig |
| Nominee | A String in the Harp | Nancy Bond |
| Winner | The Grey King | Susan Cooper |
| Nominee | The Perilous Gard | Elizabeth Marie Pope |
| Nominee | The Dark Is Rising | Susan Cooper |
| Nominee | The Witches of Worm | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| Nominee | Frog and Toad Together | Arnold Lobel |
| Winner | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O'Brien |
| Nominee | The Tombs of Atuan | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Nominee | The Headless Cupid | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| Nominee | Enchantress from the Stars | Sylvia Louise Engdahl |
| Winner | The High King | Lloyd Alexander |
| Nominee | When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Nominee | The Fearsome Inn | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Nominee | The Egypt Game | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| Nominee | The Black Pearl | Scott O'Dell |
| Nominee | Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Nominee | The Black Cauldron | Lloyd Alexander |
| Winner | A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle |
| Nominee | The Cricket in Times Square | George Selden |
| Nominee | The Gammage Cup | Carol Kendall |
| Nominee | Men, Microscopes and Living Things | Katherine B. Shippen |
| Nominee | The Secret River | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| Nominee | Charlotte's Web | E. B. White |
| Nominee | The Blue Cat of Castle Town | Catherine Cate Coblentz |
| Nominee | My Father's Dragon | Ruth Stiles Gannett |
| Winner | The Twenty-One Balloons | William Pène du Bois |
| Nominee | The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories | Harold Courlander+George Herzog |
| Winner | Miss Hickory | Carolyn Sherwin Bailey |
| Nominee | The Hundred Dresses | Eleanor Estes |
| Nominee | Fog Magic | Julia L. Sauer |
| Winner | The White Stag | Kate Seredy |
| Nominee | The Fairy Circus | Dorothy P. Lathrop |
| Nominee | The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of a Pagan Princess | Alida S. Malkus |
| Nominee | Floating Island | Anne Parrish |
| Winner | Hitty, Her First Hundred Years | Rachel Field |
| Nominee | The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales: Episodes from the Fionn Saga | Ella Young |
| Nominee | The Wonder-Smith and His Son: A Tale from the Golden Childhood of the World | Ella Young |
| Winner | Shen of the Sea | Arthur Bowie Chrisman |
| Winner | Tales From Silver Lands | Charles J. Finger |
| Nominee | The Dream Coach | Anne Parrish+Dillwyn Parrish |
| Nominee | Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story | Anne Carroll Moore |
| Winner | The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle | Hugh Lofting |
| Nominee | The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles | Padraic Colum |
| Nominee | The Old Tobacco Shop | William Bowen |