The Carnegie Medal is essentially the equivalent to the British Newbery. It's not a list we've explored thoroughly, but there are a number of titles here we like and carry.
2019 The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
2018 Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean illustrated by Jane Milloy
2017 Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
2016 One by Sarah Crossan
2015 Buffalo Soldier by Tanya Landman
2014 The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks
2013 Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner
2012 A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness illustrated by Jim Kay (E)
2011 Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
2010 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman with two illustrators (E)
2009 Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
2008 Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve
2007 Just in Case by Meg Rosoff
2006 The award date is the year of publication before 2006, the year of presentation after 2006.
2005 Tamar by Mal Peet
2004 Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
2003* A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly
2002 Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
2001 The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
2000 The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo
1999 Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
1998* Skellig by David Almond illustrated by Adam Fisher
1997 River Boy by Tim Bowler
1996* Junk by Melvin Burgess
1995* Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
1994 Whispers in the Graveyard by Theresa Breslin
1993 Stone Cold by Robert Swindells
1992 Flour Babies by Anne Fine
1991 Dear Nobody by Berlie Doherty
1990 Wolf by Gillian Cross
1989 Goggle-Eyes by Anne Fine
1988 A Pack of Lies by Geraldine McCaughrean
1987 The Ghost Drum by Susan Price
1986 Granny Was a Buffer Girl by Berlie Doherty
1985* Storm by Kevin Crossley-Holland, illustrated by Alan Marks
1984 The Changeover by Margaret Mahy
1983 Handles by Jan Mark
1982 The Haunting by Margaret Mahy
1981 The Scarecrows by Robert Westall
1980 City of Gold and other stories from the Old Testament by Peter Dickinson illustrated by Michael Foreman
1979 Tulku by Peter Dickinson
1978 The Exeter Blitz by David Rees
1977 The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler by Gene Kemp
1976 Thunder and Lightnings by Jan Mark
1975* The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall
1974 The Stronghold by Mollie Hunter
1973 The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively
1972 Watership Down by Richard Adams (E)
1971 Josh by Ivan Southall
1970 The God Beneath the Sea by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen illustrated by Charles Keeping
1969 The Edge of the Cloud by K. M. Peyton
1968 The Moon in the Cloud by Rosemary Harris
1967* The Owl Service by Alan Garner
1966—Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1965 The Grange at High Force by Philip Turner
1964 Nordy Bank by Sheena Porter
1963 Time of Trial by Hester Burton
1962 The Twelve and the Genii by Pauline Clarke
1961 A Stranger at Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston (E)
1960 The Making of Man by Ian Wolfran Cornwall illustrated by Marjorie Maitland Howard
1959 The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff (E)
1958* Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
1957 A Grass Rope by William Mayne
1956 The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis (E)
1955 The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon
1954 Knight Crusader by Ronald Welch (Felton Ronald Oliver)
1953 A Valley Grows Up by Edward Osmond illustrated by the author
1952* The Borrowers by Mary Norton (E)
1951 The Wool-Pack by Cynthia Harnett illustrated by the author
1950 The Lark on the Wing by Elfrida Vipont
1949 The Story of Your Home by Agnes Allen illustrated by Agnes and Jack Allen
1948 Sea Change by Richard Armstrong
1947 Collected Stories for Children by Walter de la Mare
1946 The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge (E)
1945—Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1944 The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater
1943—Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1942 The Little Grey Men by BB (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford) illustrated by the author (E)
1941 We Couldn't Leave Dinah by Mary Treadgold
1940 Visitors from London by Kitty Barne
1939 The Radium Woman by Eleanor Doorly
1938 The Circus Is Coming by Noel Streatfeild (also published as Circus Shoes)
1937* The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett
1936 Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome (E)
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