2014 Newbery Medal Reading Challenge

I have been wanting to read all of the Newbery winners for quite some time.  I think the first time I contemplated this was in sixth or seventh grade (meaning more than a decade ago).  I have finally decided that I am going to complete this goal.  I am going to focus on the winners (not the honor books) from 1922-2014.  I am also going to do my best to review each of the winners as well.  My next goal upon completion is to keep up with future winners so as to never be behind again.  Want to join me?  I’d love the company!

Source

2013 Medal Winner: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (HarperCollins Children's Books)

2012 Medal Winner: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos (Farrar Straus Giroux)

2011 Medal Winner: Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool  (Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books)

2010 Medal Winner:  When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books)

2009 Medal Winner: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean (HarperCollins)

2008 Medal Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)

2007   The Higher Power of Lucky by  Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)

2006   Criss Cross by  Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)

2005   Kira-Kira by  Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
2004   The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering, (Candlewick Press)
2003   Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)
2002     A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
2001    A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck (Dial)
2000    Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)

1999    Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)
1998    Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
1997  The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)

1996    The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
1995     Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)
1994   The Giver by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1993  Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)

1992  Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)
1991  Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)
1990  Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1989  Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
1988  Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
1987  The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
1986  Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)
1985  The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
1984  Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
1983  Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
1982  A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)

1981  Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1980  A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)   

1979  The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)

1978  Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1977  Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)

1976  The Grey King by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)

1975  M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)

1974  The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (Bradbury)

1973  Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Harper)

1972  Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum)

1971  Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (Viking)

1970  Sounder by William H. Armstrong (Harper)

1969  The High King by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)

1968  From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)

1967  Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (Follett)

1966  I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar)

1965  Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum)

1964  It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (Harper)

1963  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)

1962  The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)

1961  Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)

1960  Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)

1959  The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)

1958  Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (Crowell)

1957  Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen (Harcourt)

1956  Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (Houghton)

1955  The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (Harper)

1954  ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)

1953  Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)

1952  Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)

1951  Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (Dutton)

1950  The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)

1949  King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)

1948  The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (Viking)

1947  Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking)

1946  Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)

1945  Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (Viking)

1944  Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Houghton)

1943  Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)

1942  The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (Dodd)

1941  Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan)

1940  Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (Viking)   

1939  Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart)

1938  The White Stag by Kate Seredy (Viking)

1937  Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (Viking)

1936  Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Macmillan)

1935  Dobry by Monica Shannon (Viking)

1934  Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)

1933  Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (Winston)

1932  Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)
1931  The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (Macmillan)
1930  Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (Macmillan)   

1929  The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (Macmillan)

1928  Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton)

1927  Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (Scribner)

1926  Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton)

1925  Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (Doubleday)
1924  The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)
1923  The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (Stokes)
1922  The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Liveright)