# All-Time Best Newbery Medal Book, In Your Opinion? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 2, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-best-newbery-medal-book-in-your-opinion/778836 "2017-02-02T17:52:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-best-newbery-medal-book-in-your-opinion/778836/141 "2017-06-03T01:03:55Z")
For those wondering about _Secret of the Andes_, here’s a fun review: [http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/lection/131201.html](http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/lection/131201.html) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-best-newbery-medal-book-in-your-opinion/778836/142 "2017-06-03T01:27:51Z")
And since this thread was last active, I picked up a copy of _The Westing Game_. I did indeed enjoy it, and I didn’t get a feeling of deja-vu, so I apparently did miss it the first time around, but I’m not sure I’d call it the best of all of them. The omniscient narrator was a bit distracting, and it was a little too pat how everyone ended up _perfectly_ happily-ever-after at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Scott90604](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Scott90604](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott90604)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-best-newbery-medal-book-in-your-opinion/778836/143 "2017-07-10T18:11:28Z")
No love for Miracles on Maple Hill??? J/k. I’ve read every Newbery winner from 1922 to about 1999 or so, with a smattering of winners post-2000. I gotta tip my hat to the semi-obscure Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith, it’s such a well-done piece of work. Honorable mentions to Johnny Tremain, A Wrinkle in Time, The Hero and the Crown, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, The Witch of Blackbird Pond (gorgeous), The Bronze Bow, Jacob Have I Loved, The Slave Dancer, and Lincoln: A Photobiography. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-best-newbery-medal-book-in-your-opinion/778836/144 "2017-07-10T19:09:40Z")
The one I enjoyed most when I was an actual kid is “Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-best-newbery-medal-book-in-your-opinion/778836.md?page=7)