Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Newbery Medal Winners, 1990-Present
When You Trap a Tiger
Keller, Tae, author.
When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger an...
New Kid
Craft, Jerry.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing ...
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Medina, Meg.
Also available in Overdrive. Merci Suárez begins the sixth grade and knows things will change, but ...
Hello, Universe
Kelly, Erin Entrada.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Virgil feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports family. ...
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Barnhill, Kelly Regan.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. "An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch,...
Last Stop on Market Street
de la Peña, Matt.
Also available in Hoopla. A young boy, CJ, rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learn...
The Crossover
Alexander, Kwame.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wres...
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
DiCamillo, Kate.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cle...
The One and Only Ivan
Applegate, Katherine.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-o...
Dead End in Norvelt
Gantos, Jack.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-o...
Moon Over Manifest
Vanderpool, Clare.
Also available in Overdrive. Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the...
When You Reach Me
Stead, Rebecca.
Also available in Overdrive. As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game ...
The Graveyard Book
Gaiman, Neil.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wand...
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village
Schlitz, Laura Amy.
Also available in Hoopla and RB Digital. A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters...
The Higher Power of Lucky
Patron, Susan.
Also available in Overdrive. Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to Franc...
Criss Cross
Perkins, Lynne Rae.
Also available in Hoopla. Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feeling...
Kira-Kira
Kadohata, Cynthia.
Also available in Overdrive. Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters g...
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
DiCamillo, Kate.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusua...
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Avi.
Also in Overdrive and RB Digital. Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in f...
A Single Shard
Park, Linda Sue.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, live...
A Year Down Yonder
Peck, Richard.
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving C...
Bud, Not Buddy
Curtis, Christopher Paul.
Also available in Overdrive. Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during t...
Holes
Sachar, Louis.
Also available in Overdrive. As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attrib...
Out of the Dust
Hesse, Karen.
Also available in Overdrive. In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships...
The View From Saturday
Konigsburg, E. L.
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention ...
The Midwife's Apprentice
Cushman, Karen.
Also available in Overdrive, Hoopla, and RB Digital. In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl ...
Walk Two Moons
Creech, Sharon.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sa...
The Giver
Lowry, Lois.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jon...
Missing May
Rylant, Cynthia.
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob lea...
Shiloh
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Vir...
Maniac Magee: A Novel
Spinelli, Jerry.
Also available in Overdrive. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parent...
Number the Stars
Lowry, Lois.
Also available in Overdrive. In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemari...