1979-1970 Newbery Award Winning Books

1979

• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin**
• The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson*

1978

• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson**
• Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary*
• Anpoa: an American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater*

1977

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor**
• Abel's Island by William Steig*
• A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond*

1976

• The Grey King by Susan Cooper**
• The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis*
• Dragonwings by Laurence Yep*

1975

• M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton**
• Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin*
• My Brother Sam is Dead
  by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier*
• The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope*
• Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene*

1974

• The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox**
• The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper*

1973

• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George**
• Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel*
• The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss*
• The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder*

1972

• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien**
• Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert*
• The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton*
• The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin*
• Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles*
• The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder*

1971

• Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars**
• Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt*
• Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl*
• Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell*

1970

• Sounder by William H. Armstrong**
• Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor*
• The any Ways of Seeing: an Introduction to the Pleasures of Art
  by Janet Gaylord Moore*
• Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele*

** award winner
* honor winner