Newbery List by AR Level
AR LEVEL 2.0 -2.9
AR LEVEL 3.0 -3.9
AR LEVEL 4.0-4.9
AR LEVEL 5.0-5.9
- El Deafo by Cece Bell (2.7)
- Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes (2.9)
- Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel (2.9)
- The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss (2.9)
AR LEVEL 3.0 -3.9
- The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (3.6)
- Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage (3.9)
- Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm (3.7)
- Rules by Cynthia Lord (3.9)
- Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson (3.8)
- Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (3.5)
- Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (3.9)
- Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly (3.7)
- Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi (3.6)
- After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer (3.7)
- The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (3.9)
- Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (3.4)
- Doctor DeSoto by William Steig (3.6)
- Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz (3.9)
- Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton (3.8)
- The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis (3.9)
AR LEVEL 4.0-4.9
- Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (4.9)
- It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (4.7)
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (4.7)
- Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz (4.9)
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (4.7)
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (4.3)
- Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo (4.3)
- The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes (4.2)
- One Came Home by Amy Timberlake (4.8)
- Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai (4.8)
- Breaking Stalin's Nose (4.6)
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (4.6)
- When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (4.5)
- After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson (4.7)
- Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson (4.4)
- Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm (4.0)
- Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson (4.4)
- Whittington by Alan Armstrong (4.9)
- Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (4.7)
- The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo (4.7)
- Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes (4.7)
- Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff (4.4)
- A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin (4.5)
- Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (4.6)
- Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (4.6)
- Wringer by Jerry Spinelli (4.5)
- A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck (4.5)
- Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos (4.9)
- Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm (4.8)
- 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola (4.4)
- Holes by Louis Sachar (4.6)
- Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White (4.4)
- Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner (4.8)
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (4.9)
- The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer (4.7)
- The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack (4.6)
- Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers (4.4)
- Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (4.4)
- Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (4.7)
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (4.5)
- A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant (4.2)
- On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer (4.7)
- The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain (4.4)
- A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers (4.5)
- The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson (4.6)
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (4.6)
- M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (4.4)
- The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden (4.7)
- Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (4.4)
- Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (4.9)
AR LEVEL 5.0-5.9
- Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz (5.1)
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (5.3)
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (5.4)
- Doll Bones by Holly Black (5.4)
- Paperboy by Vince Vawter (5.1)
- Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos (5.7)
- Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (5.3)
- Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus (5.4)
- The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (5.3)
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (5.5)
- The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick (5.6)
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (5.1)
- The Underneath by Kathi Appelt (5.2)
- Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (5.4)
- The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (5.9)
- The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron (5.9)
- Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (5.5)
- Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (5.9)
- Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (5.0)
- The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (5.1)
- Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (5.2)
- Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan (5.2)
- Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath (5.8)
- Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer (5.1)
- The Wanderer by Sharon Creech (5.2)
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (5.0)
- Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis (5.1)
- A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck (5.0)
- The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (5.9)
- A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer (5.1)
- Moorchild by Eloise McGraw (5.5)
- What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman (5.4)
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (5.0)
- The Giver by Lois Lowry (5.7)
- Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep (5.3)
- Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (5.3)
- The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (5.3)
- Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle (5.0)
- Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples (5.9)
- The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen (5.0)
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (5.7)
- Dogsong by Gary Paulsen (5.2)
- The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks (5.4)
- One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox (5.4)
- A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt (5.3)
- Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky (5.8)
- Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (5.0)
- Graven Images by Paul Fleischman (5.5)
- Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary (5.6)
- Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal (5.5)
- Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (5.7)
- The Fledgling by Jane Langton (5.0)
- A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle (5.2)
- The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian (5.7)
- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (5.3)
- Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary (5.2)
- Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater (5.7)
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (5.7)
- Abel's Island by William Steig (5.9)
- A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond (5.2)
- Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (5.3)
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (5.1)
- Sounder by William H. Armstrong (5.3)
- Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater (5.6)
- The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (5.9)