Lists and Suggestions for Kids

List: Newbery Medal Winners, 1990-Present

Higuera, Donna Barba, author.

"A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. ... More

Keller, Tae, author.

When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger an... More

Craft, Jerry.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing ... More

Medina, Meg.

Also available in Overdrive. Merci Suárez begins the sixth grade and knows things will change, but ... More

Kelly, Erin Entrada.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Virgil feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports family. ... More

Barnhill, Kelly Regan.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. "An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch,... More

de la Peña, Matt.

Also available in Hoopla. A young boy, CJ, rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learn... More

Alexander, Kwame.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wres... More

DiCamillo, Kate.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cle... More

Applegate, Katherine.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-o... More

Gantos, Jack.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-o... More

Vanderpool, Clare.

Also available in Overdrive. Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the... More

Stead, Rebecca.

Also available in Overdrive. As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game ... More

Gaiman, Neil.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wand... More

Schlitz, Laura Amy.

Also available in Hoopla and RB Digital. A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters... More

Patron, Susan.

Also available in Overdrive. Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to Franc... More

Perkins, Lynne Rae.

Also available in Hoopla. Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feeling... More

Kadohata, Cynthia.

Also available in Overdrive. Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters g... More

DiCamillo, Kate.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusua... More

Avi.

Also in Overdrive and RB Digital. Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in f... More

Park, Linda Sue.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, live... More

Peck, Richard.

In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving C... More

Curtis, Christopher Paul.

Also available in Overdrive. Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during t... More

Sachar, Louis.

Also available in Overdrive. As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attrib... More

Hesse, Karen.

Also available in Overdrive. In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships... More

Konigsburg, E. L.

Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention ... More

Cushman, Karen.

Also available in Overdrive, Hoopla, and RB Digital. In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl ... More

Creech, Sharon.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sa... More

Lowry, Lois.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jon... More

Rylant, Cynthia.

After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob lea... More

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Vir... More

Spinelli, Jerry.

Also available in Overdrive. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parent... More

Lowry, Lois.

Also available in Overdrive. In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemari... More