Recommended Readings for Free Reading

Here is a list of Newbery Medal winner books to read for free reading time:

1. The Giver by Lois Lowry (1994)
   
2. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (1998)
   
3. Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (1988)
   
4. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (1990) 
   
5. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (1989) (the book is at its best when read out loud by two people.)
   
6. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (1963)
   
7. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (1978)
   
8. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (1977)
   
9. The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg (1997)
   
10. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (2010)
    
11. The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (1996)
    
12. Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (1986)
    
13. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (2008)
    
14. A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (2002)
    
15. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo (2004)
    
16. Sounder by William Armstrong (1970)
    
17. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (1979)
    
18. Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (2005)
    
19. Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (1983)
    
20. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (1972)
    
21. Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (1965)
    
22. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (1968)
    
23. M.C. Higgins, The Great by Virginia Hamilton (1975)
    
24. A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (2001)
    
25. The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (1962)
    
26. Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (2003)
    
27. The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (1987)
    
28. Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (1993)
    
29. Holes by Louis Sachar (1999)
    
30. The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (1948)
    
31. Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (1960)
    
32. Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray (1943)
    
33. King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (1949)
    
34. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-32 by Joan Blos
    
35. The White Stag by Kate Seredy (1938)
    
36. Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (2000)
    
37. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (1991)
38. Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (1984)
    
39. Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (1944)
    
40. The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (1974)
    
41. Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Mukerji (1928)
    
42. Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (1941)
    
43. Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (1981)
    
44. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (1923)
    
45. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon (1922)
    
46. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (1959)
    
47. Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (1953)
    
48. The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (1985)
    
49. Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (1926)
    
50. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (2009)
    
51. Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1992)
    
52. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (1973)
    
53. Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (2011)
    
54. I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (1966)
    
55. Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (1958)
56. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (1995)
    
57. Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (1927)
    
58. Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (2006)
    
59. The High King by Lloyd Alexander (1969)
    
60. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (1961)
    
61. The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (1955)
    
62. Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Brink (1936)
    
63. Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (1933)
    
64. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (1956)
    
65. The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (1950)
66. The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron (2007)
67. The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric Philbrook Kelly (1929)
    
68. Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (1932)
    
69. Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (1947)
    
70. The Grey King by Susan Cooper (1976)
    
71. Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Joseph Finger (1925)
    
72. A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (1982)
    
73. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (1930)
    
74. It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville (1964)
    
75. Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen (1957)
    
76. Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (1967) 
    
77. ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (1954)
    
78. Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (1945)
    
79. Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (1937)
    
80. The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (1971)
    
81. Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (1934)
    
82. The Matchlock Gun by Walter Dumaux Edmonds (1942)
    
83. Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (1952)
    
84. The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (1931)
    
85. Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (1946)
    
86. Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (1939)
    
87. The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (1924)
    
88. Dobry by Monica Shannon (1935)
    
89. Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (1940)
    
90. Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (1951)