美国纽伯瑞大奖(这里是中文介绍)儿童文学作品按Lexile阅读级别分类. (部分获金奖图书的中文介绍在这里) 在多数美国学校,纽伯瑞获奖书比传统的儿童经典更常见。有些进入了阅读课的书目,不少被列为初中必读书,更多出现在学校的/图书馆列出的暑期阅读(summer reading)书单上。 很多教师排斥“只限于传统经典”的文学课程,认为那样会降低青少年的阅读兴趣,他们认为,十几岁的青少年需要一种描述他们独特情感的文学作品,情节跟上时代,反映现实,青少年可以从与其同龄的主人公身上找到共鸣。 不过,是不是所有的纽奖作品都适合青少年阅读?这个一直都有争议。某些纽奖作品(尤其是上世纪60年代以后的纽奖作品)涉及自杀,杀婴,乱伦,自残,性/暴力等等阴暗的东西,所谓的“问题小说”,美式青少年伤痕文学。 有个作家妈妈写了本书专门讲这个问题。Viewer discretion is advised。 下面的是按Lexile阅读难度级别列出的纽奖Medal 和 Honor 书(作品截至2010年)。Lexile 的难度分级标准只有两个:词汇和句子长度。所以有的时候Lexile也不是很靠谱,不过可以做大致参考。 其中我用红色标注的是部分出现在下列一个或几个儿童文学推荐书单里的所谓经典:
| lexile # | Year | Award |
ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág | 220 | 1934 | Honor |
Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel | 330 | 1973 | Honor |
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss | 380 | 1973 | Honor |
Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes | 400 | 1985 | Honor |
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh | 490 | 1953 | Honor |
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton | 550 | 1983 | Honor |
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan | 560 | 1986 | Medal |
Doctor DeSoto by William Steig | 560 | 1983 | Honor |
Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly | 570 | 1994 | Honor |
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman | 570 | 1987 | Medal |
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham | 570 | 1956 | Medal |
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko | 600 | 2005 | Honor |
After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer | 600 | 1988 | Honor |
A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck | 610 | 2001 | Medal |
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo | 610 | 2001 | Honor |
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers | 610 | 1989 | Honor |
Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh | 610 | 1955 | Honor |
M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton | 620 | 1975 | Medal |
Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers | 640 | 1993 | Honor |
In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton | 640 | 1989 | Honor |
The Good Master by Kate Seredy | 640 | 1936 | Honor |
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff | 650 | 2003 | Honor |
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski | 650 | 1946 | Medal |
The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes | 650 | 1943 | Honor |
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer | 660 | 2003 | Honor |
Holes by Louis Sachar | 660 | 1999 | Medal |
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer | 660 | 1995 | Honor |
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting | 660 | 1923 | Medal |
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering | 670 | 2004 | Medal |
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine | 670 | 1998 | Honor |
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry | 670 | 1990 | Medal |
Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes | 680 | 2004 | Honor |
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg | 680 | 1968 | Honor |
The Family Under The Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson | 680 | 1959 | Honor |
Banner In The Sky by James Ullman | 680 | 1955 | Honor |
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White | 680 | 1953 | Honor |
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli | 690 | 1998 | Honor |
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson | 700 | 2007 | Honor |
The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis | 700 | 1976 | Honor |
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles | 700 | 1972 | Honor |
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg | 700 | 1968 | Medal |
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer | 710 | 2001 | Honor |
Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner | 710 | 1996 | Honor |
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt | 710 | 1983 | Medal |
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold | 710 | 1960 | Medal |
The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong | 710 | 1955 | Medal |
Shadrach by Meindert Dejong | 710 | 1954 | Honor |
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark | 710 | 1953 | Medal |
Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes | 710 | 1944 | Honor |
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott | 720 | 2006 | Honor |
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff | 720 | 1998 | Honor |
The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain | 720 | 1984 | Honor |
Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger | 720 | 1948 | Honor |
The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander | 720 | 1948 | Honor |
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder | 720 | 1938 | Honor |
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm | 730 | 2007 | Honor |
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer | 730 | 1997 | Honor |
Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep | 730 | 1994 | Honor |
The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack | 730 | 1993 | Honor |
The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton | 730 | 1972 | Honor |
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág | 730 | 1929 | Honor |
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata | 740 | 2005 | Medal |
Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis | 740 | 2000 | Honor |
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi | 740 | 1991 | Honor |
A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant | 740 | 1987 | Honor |
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska | 740 | 1965 | Medal |
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle | 740 | 1963 | Medal |
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead | 750 | 2010 | Medal |
After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson | 750 | 2009 | Honor |
A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin | 750 | 2003 | Honor |
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck | 750 | 1999 | Honor |
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer | 750 | 1987 | Honor |
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin | 750 | 1979 | Medal |
The Perilous Road by William O. Steele | 750 | 1959 | Honor |
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen | 750 | 1957 | Medal |
The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads | 750 | 1957 | Honor |
Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong | 750 | 1954 | Honor |
The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff | 750 | 1952 | Honor |
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry | 750 | 1948 | Honor |
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson | 760 | 2008 | Honor |
Whittington by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by S.D. Schindler | 760 | 2006 | Honor |
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen | 760 | 2003 | Honor |
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola | 760 | 2000 | Honor |
Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White | 760 | 1997 | Honor |
The Giver by Lois Lowry | 760 | 1994 | Medal |
Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt | 760 | 1971 | Honor |
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander | 760 | 1966 | Honor |
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare | 760 | 1962 | Medal |
Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright | 760 | 1958 | Honor |
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech | 770 | 1995 | Medal |
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare | 770 | 1984 | Honor |
A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt | 770 | 1984 | Honor |
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier | 770 | 1975 | Honor |
Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery | 770 | 1950 | Honor |
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy | 770 | 1940 | Honor |
Rules by Cynthia Lord | 780 | 2007 | Honor |
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi | 780 | 2003 | Medal |
Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin | 780 | 1975 | Honor |
The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden | 780 | 1961 | Honor |
Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay | 780 | 1959 | Honor |
And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold | 780 | 1954 | Medal |
The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh | 780 | 1945 | Honor |
Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman | 780 | 1926 | Medal |
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien | 790 | 1972 | Medal |
The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz | 790 | 1966 | Honor |
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder | 790 | 1941 | Honor |
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos | 800 | 2001 | Honor |
The Fledgling by Jane Langton | 800 | 1981 | Honor |
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson | 800 | 1979 | Honor |
Fog Magic by Julia Sauer | 800 | 1944 | Honor |
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski | 800 | 1942 | Honor |
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle | 810 | 1981 | Honor |
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson | 810 | 1978 | Medal |
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond | 810 | 1977 | Honor |
It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville | 810 | 1964 | Medal |
The Loner by Ester Wier | 810 | 1964 | Honor |
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George | 810 | 1960 | Honor |
Seabird by Holling C. Holling | 810 | 1949 | Honor |
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright | 810 | 1939 | Medal |
Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer | 810 | 1937 | Medal |
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin | 820 | 2010 | Honor |
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean | 820 | 2009 | Medal |
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins | 820 | 2006 | Medal |
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan | 820 | 2003 | Honor |
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli | 820 | 1991 | Medal |
Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle | 820 | 1990 | Honor |
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell | 820 | 1971 | Honor |
The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong | 820 | 1957 | Honor |
The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer | 820 | 1952 | Honor |
The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher | 820 | 1947 | Honor |
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder | 820 | 1940 | Honor |
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly | 830 | 2010 | Honor |
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, illus. by David Small | 830 | 2009 | Honor |
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech | 830 | 2001 | Honor |
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber | 830 | 1987 | Honor |
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal | 830 | 1982 | Honor |
Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars | 830 | 1971 | Medal |
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry | 830 | 1949 | Medal |
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry | 830 | 1941 | Medal |
Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary | 840 | 1978 | Honor |
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin | 840 | 1972 | Honor |
The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell | 840 | 1967 | Honor |
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes | 840 | 1944 | Medal |
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder | 840 | 1944 | Honor |
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer | 850 | 1969 | Honor |
Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer | 850 | 1967 | Honor |
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare | 850 | 1959 | Medal |
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder | 850 | 1942 | Honor |
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz | 860 | 1983 | Honor |
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary | 860 | 1982 | Honor |
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George | 860 | 1973 | Medal |
The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds | 860 | 1942 | Medal |
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg | 870 | 1997 | Medal |
Graven Images by Paul Fleischman | 870 | 1983 | Honor |
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep | 870 | 1976 | Honor |
Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey | 870 | 1947 | Medal |
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes | 870 | 1945 | Honor |
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson | 880 | 1981 | Medal |
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater | 880 | 1978 | Honor |
Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer | 880 | 1961 | Honor |
Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry | 880 | 1946 | Honor |
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale | 890 | 2006 | Honor |
Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson | 890 | 2002 | Honor |
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | 890 | 1992 | Medal |
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink | 890 | 1936 | Medal |
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis | 890 | 1933 | Medal |
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm | 900 | 2000 | Honor |
What Hearts by Bruce Brooks | 900 | 1993 | Honor |
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene | 900 | 1975 | Honor |
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder | 900 | 1972 | Honor |
Sounder by William H. Armstrong | 900 | 1970 | Medal |
The High King by Lloyd Alexander | 900 | 1969 | Medal |
Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson | 900 | 1951 | Honor |
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary | 910 | 1984 | Medal |
Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl | 910 | 1971 | Honor |
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith | 910 | 1958 | Medal |
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson | 910 | 1957 | Honor |
Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling | 910 | 1952 | Honor |
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater | 910 | 1939 | Honor |
Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum | 910 | 1935 | Honor |
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park | 920 | 2002 | Medal |
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner | 920 | 1997 | Honor |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor | 920 | 1977 | Medal |
Abel's Island by William Steig | 920 | 1977 | Honor |
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper | 920 | 1974 | Honor |
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder | 920 | 1973 | Honor |
The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell | 920 | 1966 | Honor |
Blue Willow by Doris Gates | 920 | 1941 | Honor |
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen | 930 | 1986 | Honor |
The Grey King by Susan Cooper | 930 | 1976 | Medal |
Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele | 930 | 1970 | Honor |
The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik | 930 | 1967 | Honor |
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw | 930 | 1962 | Honor |
Moorchild by Eloise McGraw | 940 | 1997 | Honor |
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick | 950 | 2010 | Honor |
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath | 950 | 2002 | Honor |
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis | 950 | 2000 | Medal |
The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall | 950 | 1960 | Honor |
Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong | 950 | 1959 | Honor |
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos | 960 | 1980 | Medal |
Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw | 960 | 1953 | Honor |
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples | 970 | 1990 | Honor |
The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox | 970 | 1974 | Medal |
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant | 980 | 1993 | Medal |
Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky | 980 | 1984 | Honor |
The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell | 980 | 1968 | Honor |
The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum | 980 | 1922 | Honor |
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt | 990 | 2008 | Honor |
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian | 990 | 1980 | Honor |
The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson | 990 | 1958 | Honor |
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes | 990 | 1952 | Medal |
My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett | 990 | 1949 | Honor |
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose | 1000 | 2010 | Honor |
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt | 1000 | 2005 | Honor |
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis | 1000 | 1996 | Honor |
One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox | 1000 | 1985 | Honor |
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell | 1000 | 1961 | Medal |
Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin | 1000 | 1949 | Honor |
The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth | 1000 | 1931 | Medal |
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan | 1010 | 2007 | Medal |
What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman | 1010 | 1996 | Honor |
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder | 1010 | 1968 | Honor |
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen | 1020 | 1988 | Honor |
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope | 1020 | 1975 | Honor |
The White Stag by Kate Seredy | 1020 | 1938 | Medal |
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley | 1030 | 1983 | Honor |
Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill | 1030 | 1950 | Honor |
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray | 1030 | 1943 | Medal |
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji | 1040 | 1928 | Medal |
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti | 1050 | 2006 | Honor |
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson | 1050 | 1945 | Medal |
Calico Bush by Rachel Field | 1060 | 1932 | Honor |
Savvy by Ingrid Law | 1070 | 2009 | Honor |
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis | 1070 | 2008 | Honor |
Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg | 1070 | 1986 | Honor |
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois | 1070 | 1948 | Medal |
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester | 1080 | 1969 | Honor |
Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke | 1080 | 1935 | Honor |
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates | 1090 | 1951 | Medal |
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman | 1100 | 1994 | Honor |
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino | 1100 | 1966 | Medal |
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt | 1100 | 1965 | Honor |
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman | 1110 | 1988 | Medal |
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli | 1110 | 1950 | Medal |
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley | 1120 | 1985 | Medal |
An American Plague by Jim Murphy | 1130 | 2004 | Honor |
The Great Fire by Jim Murphy | 1130 | 1996 | Honor |
Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt | 1130 | 1967 | Medal |
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North | 1140 | 1964 | Honor |
The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks | 1150 | 1985 | Honor |
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs | 1150 | 1934 | Medal |
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman | 1160 | 1992 | Honor |
Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs | 1160 | 1933 | Honor |
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman | 1170 | 1995 | Honor |
The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen | 1170 | 1990 | Honor |
The Voice that Challenged a Nation by Russell Freedman | 1180 | 2005 | Honor |
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field | 1180 | 1930 | Medal |
Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert | 1200 | 1972 | Honor |
The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly | 1200 | 1929 | Medal |
The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes | 1230 | 1924 | Medal |
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman | 1240 | 1996 | Medal |
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon | 1260 | 1922 | Medal |
The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz | 1310 | 1958 | Honor |
Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger | 1320 | 1925 | Medal |