Lists and Suggestions for Kids

List: Newbery Medal Winners, 1990-Present

Keller, Tae, author.

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

Craft, Jerry.

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

Medina, Meg.

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

Kelly, Erin Entrada.

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

Barnhill, Kelly Regan.

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

de la Peña, Matt.

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

Alexander, Kwame.

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

DiCamillo, Kate.

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

Applegate, Katherine.

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

Gantos, Jack.

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

Vanderpool, Clare.

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

Stead, Rebecca.

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

Gaiman, Neil.

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

Schlitz, Laura Amy.

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

Patron, Susan.

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

Perkins, Lynne Rae.

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

Kadohata, Cynthia.

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

DiCamillo, Kate.

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

Avi.

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

Park, Linda Sue.

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

Peck, Richard.

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

Curtis, Christopher Paul.

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

Sachar, Louis.

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

Hesse, Karen.

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

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Cushman, Karen.

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

Creech, Sharon.

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

Lowry, Lois.

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

Rylant, Cynthia.

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

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.

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

Spinelli, Jerry.

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

Lowry, Lois.

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