Parents of Tweens (9-14) discussion

There are a lot more of these than Newbery Medal Books, so I am going to post these in installments. I have frozen the topic until all the book are posted.


2000-Present


2016

The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan

2015

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
El Deafo by Cece Bell

2014

Paperboy by Vince Vawter
Doll Bones by Holly Black
The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes
One Came Home by Amy Timberlake

2013

Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage

2012

Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin

2011

Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman

2010

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
The Mostly True Adventures Of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice by Philip Hoose

2009

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
Savvy by Ingrid Law
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt

2008

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis

2007

Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson

2006

Whittington by Alan Armstrong
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson

2005

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman

2004

Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy

2003

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan

2002

Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

2001

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos

2000

Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola

1990's



1999

A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

1998

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff

1997

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
The Moorchild by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer

1996

The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner
What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
The Great Fire by Jim Murphy

1995

Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

1994

Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
Crazy Lady! by Jane Leslie Conly
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman

1993

Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. McKissack
What Hearts by Bruce Brooks

1992

Nothing But the Truth by Avi
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman

1991

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

1990

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen
Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle

1980's



1989

Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton

1988

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer

1987

On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber

1986

Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
Commodore Perry in the Land of Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg

1985

One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox
The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes

1984

The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain
Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky

1983

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
Graven Images: 3 Stories by Paul Fleischman
Doctor De Soto by William Steig

1982

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal

1981

A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle
The Fledgling by Jane Langton

1980

The Road from Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope by David Kherdian

1970's



1979

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

1978

Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater

1977

Abel's Island by William Steig
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond

1976

Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis

1975

My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe. by Bette Greene
Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin

1974

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

1973

Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1972

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
Annie and the Old One by Patricia Miles Martin

1971

Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Engdahl
Kneeknock Rise by Natalie Babbitt

1970

Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele
Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore

1960's



1969

To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1968

The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth by E.L. Konigsburg
The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1967

The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik

1966

The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz

1965

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

1964

Rascal by Sterling North
The Loner by Ester Wier

1963

Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas
Men Of Athens by Olivia E. Coolidge

1962

The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Frontier Living: An Illustrated Guide to Pioneer Life in America by Edwin Tunis
Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz

1961

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer
America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by G.W. Johnson

1960

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall
America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald White Johnson

1950's



1959

The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
The Perilous Road by William O. Steele
Along Came a Dog by Meindert DeJong
Chúcaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay

1958

Gone-Away Lake Elizabeth Enright
The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson
The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz
Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko

1957

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong
The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads
Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli
Mr Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson

1956

Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Binney Shippen
The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Golden Name Day by Jennie D. Lindquist

1955

The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman

1954

Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert DeJong
Shadrach by Meindert DeJong
All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop
Theodore Roosevelt: Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
Magic Maize by Mary Buff

1953

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil
The Bears On Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
Birthdays of Freedom: From Early Egypt to the Fall of Rome by Genevieve Foster

1952

The Light at Tern Rock by Julia L. Sauer
The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Chesley Baity
The Apple and the Arrow by Mary Buff
Minn of the Mississippi by Holling Clancy Holling

1951

Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt
Gandhi, Fighter Without A Sword by Jeanette Eaton
The Story Of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish
Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson

1950

Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery
The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Cate Coblentz
Song of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter Havighurst
Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
George Washington by Genevieve Foster

1940's



1949

My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Daughter of the Mountains by Louise S. Rankin
Seabird by Holling Clancy Holling
Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps

1948

Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger
The Cow-Tail Switch: And Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander
The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot, the Shoe King's Son by Catherine Besterman
Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop

1947

The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanore M. Jewett
The Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher
Big Tree by Mary Buff
The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell

1946

Justin Morgan Had A Horse by Marguerite Henry
The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means
Bhimsa, The Dancing Bear by Christine Weston
New Found World by Katherine Binney Shippen

1945

The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanette Eaton
Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster

1944

These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates
Fog Magic by Julia L. Sauer

1943

The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt

1942

Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin
George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster

1941

The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Blue Willow by Doris Gates
Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall
Young Mac Of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr

1940

By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
Runner Of The Mountain Tops: The Life Of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Louise Robinson
Boy With a Pack by Stephen W. Meader

1930's



1939

Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
Nino by Valenti Angelo
Penn by Elizabeth Gray Vining
Hello, the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford
Leader by Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton

1938

On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Bright Island by Mabel Louise Robinson
Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time by James Cloyd Bowman

1937

Winterbound by Margery Williams Bianco
The Codfish Musket by Agnes Danforth Hewes
Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones
Audubon by Constance Rourke
Phebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski
The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans

1936

The Good Master by Kate Seredy
All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry
Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Gray Vining
Honk the Moose by Phil Stong

1935

The Pageant Of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
A Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda van Stockum

1934

The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Dale Snedeker
The Winged Girl Of Knossos by Erick Berry
Swords of Steel: The Story of a Gettysburg Boy by Elsie Singmaster
New Land: A Novel for Boys and Girls by Sarah Lindsay Schmidt
Glory of the Seas by Agnes Danforth Hewes
The ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág
The Big Tree Of Bunlahy: Stories Of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum

1933

Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift
Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon

1932

Calico Bush by Rachel Field
The Truce Of The Wolf And Other Tales Of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis
Jane's Island by Marjorie Hill Allee
Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens
Out Of The Flame by Eloise Lownsbery
The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop

1931

Meggy MacIntosh: A Highland Girl in the Carolina Colony by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide
Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Danforth Hewes
Floating Island by Anne Parrish
Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best
Mountains Are Free by Julia Davis Adams
The Dark Star Of Itza: The Story Of A Pagan Princess by Alida Sims Malkus
Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard

1930

The Jumping-Off Place by Marian Hurd McNeely
The Tangle-Coated Horse: Celtic Tales from Long Ago by Ella Young
A Daughter Of The Seine: The Life Of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton
Pran Of Albania by Elizabeth Cleveland Miller
Little Blacknose: The Story of a Pioneer by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift
Vaino: A Boy Of New Finland by Julia Davis Adams

1920's



1929

Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
Tod Of The Fens by Elinor Whitney
The Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon
The Boy Who Was by Grace T. Hallock
The Pigtail Of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág

1928

Downright Dencey by Caroline Dale Snedeker
The Wonder Smith and His Son: Tales from the World's Golden Childhood by Ella Young

1926

The Voyagers: Being Legends And Romances Of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum

1925

The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish
Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Anne Carroll Moore

1922

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs
Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall
The Great Quest by Charles Boardman Hawes
The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account Of What Befell A Little Boy In Search Of Adventure by William Bowen