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The Newbery Medal recognizes the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. Named after John Newbery, the famous 18th century British publisher and bookseller, the award is presented annually by the Association of Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.

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1959
Medalist: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Honor: The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
Along Came a Dog by Meindert Dejong
Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay
The Perilous Road by William O. Steele

1958
Medalist: Rifles For Watie by Harold Keith
Honor: The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz
Goneaway Lake by Elizabeth Enright
The Greaat Wheel by Robert Lawson
Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko

1957
Medalist: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson
Honor: Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert Dejong
Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson
The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads
Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli

1956
Medalist: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
Honor: The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Golden Name Day by Jennie Linquist
Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen

1955
Medalist: The Wheel on the School by Meindert Dejong
Honor: The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Banner In The Sky by James Ullman

1954
Medalist: And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
Honor: All Alone by Claire Hutchet Bishop
Shadrach by Meindert Dejong
Hurry Home Candyby Meindert Dejong
Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
Magic Maize by Mary and Conrad Buff

1953
Medalist: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
Honor: Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Moccasin Trail by Eloise McGraw
Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil
The Bears On Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
Birthdays of Freedom Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster

1952
Medalist: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
Honor: Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity
Minn of The Mississippi by Holling C Holling
The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
The Light At Tern Rock by Julia Sauer
The Apple and the Arrow by Mary and Conrad Buff

1951
Medalist: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
Honor: Better Known As Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt
Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton
Abraham Lincoln, Friend Of the People by Clara Ingram Judson
Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish

1950
Medalist: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
Honor: Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz
Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery
George Washington by Genevieve Foster
Song of the Pines by Walter and Marion Havighurst



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