WHAT IS IT?

The Newbery Award has been presented annually since 1922 by the American Library Associa-tion to the ALA's choice of the most distin-guished American book for children.

                    2009 Winner
        The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman


2009 Newbery Honor Books
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
Savvy by Ingrid Law
After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

2008
Good Masters!  Sweet Ladies!  Voices from a Medieval Village
by Laura Amy Schlitz

2007
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

2006
Criss Cross
by Lynn Rae Perkins

2005
Kira-Kira
by Cynthia Kadohata

2004
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, A Princess, Some Soup and a Spool
by Kate Dicamillo

2003
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
by Avi

2002
A Single Shard
by Linda Sue Spark

2001
A Year Down Under
by Richard Peck

2000
Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis