Newbery Medal
2012 Newbery Medal winner.
In Dead End in Norvelt is a witty and wise bit of autobiography from Young Teen fiction phenom Jack Gantos. The novel finds the narrator casting a quirky look back at his youth, when a mischievous act that earned him a summer indoors led to a life-changing experience working with a savvy senior citizen.
Newbery Medal Winners
Dead End in Norvelt , by Jack Gantos
Moon Over Manifest , by Clare Vanderpool
When You Reach Me , by Rebecca Stead
The Graveyard Book , by Neil Gaiman
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village , by Laura Amy Schlitz
The Higher Power of Lucky , by Susan Patron
Criss Cross , by Lynne Rae Perkins
Kira-Kira , by Cynthia Kadohata
The Tale of Despereaux , by Kate DiCamillo
Crispin: The Cross of Lead , by Avi
A Single Shard , by Linda Sue Park
A Year Down Yonder , by Richard Peck
Bud, Not Buddy , by Christopher Paul Curtis
Holes , by Louis Sachar
Out of the Dust , by Karen Hesse
The View From Saturday , by E.L. Konigsburg
The Midwife's Apprentice , by Karen Cushman
Walk Two Moons , by Sharon Creech
The Giver , by Lois Lowry
Missing May , by Cynthia Rylant
Shiloh , by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Maniac Magee , by Jerry Spinelli
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Joyful Noise , by Paul Fleischman
Lincoln: a Photobiography , by Russell Freedman
The Whipping Boy , by Sid Fleischman
Sarah, Plain and Tall , by Patricia MacLachlan
The Hero and the Crown , by Robin McKinley
Dear Mr. Henshaw , by Beverly Cleary
Dicey's Song , by Cynthia Voigt
A Visit To William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard
Jacob Have I Loved , by Katherine Paterson
A Gathering Of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-32 , by Joan Blos
The Westing Game , by Ellen Raskin
Bridge to Terabithia , by Katherine Paterson
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry , by Mildred Taylor
The Grey King , by Susan Cooper
M.C. Higgins, The Great , by Virginia Hamilton
The Slave Dancer , by Paula Fox
Julie of the Wolves , by Jean Craighead George
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH , by Robert C. O'Brien
Summer of the Swans , by Betsy, byars
Sounder , by William H. Armstrong
The High King , by Lloyd Alexander
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler , by E. L. Konigsburg
Up a Road Slowly , by Irene Hunt
I, Juan de Pareja , by Elizabeth Borten de Trevino
Shadow of a Bull , by Maia Wojciechowska
It's Like This, Cat , by Emily Cheney Neville
A Wrinkle in Time , by Madeleine L'Engle
The Bronze Bow , by Elizabeth George Speare
Island of the Blue Dolphins , by Scott O'Dell
Onion John , by Joseph Krumgold
The Witch of Blackbird Pond , by Elizabeth George Speare
Rifles for Watie , by Harold Keith
Miracles on Maple Hill , by Virginia Sorenson
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch , by Jean Lee Latham
The Wheel on the School , by Meindert Dejong
And Now Miguel , by Joseph Krumgold
Secret of the Andes , by Ann Nolan Clark
Ginger Pye , by Eleanor Estes
Amos Fortune, Free Man , by Elizabeth Yates
The Door In The Wall , by Marguerite de Angeli
King of the Wind , by Marguerite Henry
The Twenty-One Balloons , by William Pene du Boish
Miss Hickory , by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Strawberry Girl , by Lois Lenski
Rabbit Hill , by Robert Lawson
Johnny Tremain , by Esther Forbes
Adam of the Road , by Elizabeth Janet Gray
The Matchlock Gun , by Walter D. Edmonds
Call It Courage , by Armstrong Sperry
Daniel Boone , by James Daugherty
Thimble Summer , by Elizabeth Enright
The White Stag , by Kate Seredy
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