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Newbery Medal winners
Order these Newbery Medal books by the year each won. You place all 41 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
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How to play the Newbery Medal winners timeline
Every card is a Newbery Medal book, with its author under the title, and the goal is to order them by the year each won. One winner starts on the timeline with its year in view. New cards go into whichever gap you pick. Get the spot right and the year shows; pick wrong and the book still lands in its true place, taking one of three lives.
This is the oldest American prize for children's books, and the list stretches from winners that are now mostly forgotten through mid-century classics to modern favorites. Many early winners are history, travel and adventure stories that few people read today. The well-known books are spread out, so the obscure ones in between are where you'll lose lives.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 41 cards you might be dealt, with 13 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- The Story of Mankind Hendrik Willem van Loon
- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting
- Shen of the Sea Arthur Bowie Chrisman
- Hitty, Her First Hundred Years Rachel Field
- Waterless Mountain Laura Adams Armer
- The White Stag Kate Seredy
- Call It Courage Armstrong Sperry
- The Twenty-One Balloons William Pene du Bois
- King of the Wind Marguerite Henry
- Secret of the Andes Ann Nolan Clark
- Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Jean Lee Latham
- Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O'Dell
- A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E.L. Konigsburg
- Sounder William H. Armstrong
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Robert C. O'Brien
- M.C. Higgins, the Great Virginia Hamilton
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor
- The Westing Game Ellen Raskin
- Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Paterson
- Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan
- Number the Stars Lois Lowry
- The Giver Lois Lowry
- The Midwife's Apprentice Karen Cushman
- Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis
- The Tale of Despereaux Kate DiCamillo
- The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman
- When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead
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