The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
For more information about this award visit the Newbery Medal Web page.
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By Clare Vanderpool.
2011 Newbery Medal Winner
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
By by Jennifer L. Holm.
2011 Newbery Honor
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
By Margi Preus.
2011 Newbery Honor
In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.
By written by Joyce Sidman ; illustrated by Rick Allen.
2011 Newbery Honor
A collection of poems that celebrates the wonder, mystery, and danger of the night and describes the many things that hide in the dark.
By by Rita Williams-Garcia.
2011 Newbery Honor
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
