1989-1980 Newbery Award Winning Books

1989

• Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman**
• In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
  by Virginia Hamilton*
• Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers*

1988

• Lincoln: a Photobiography by Russell Freedman**
• After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer*
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen*

1987

• The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman**
• A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant*
• On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer*
• Volcano: the Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber*

1986

• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan**
• Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg*
• Dogsong by Gary Paulsen*

1985

• The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley**
• Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes*
• The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks*
• One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox*

1984

• Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary**
• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare*
• A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt*
• Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky*
• The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain*

1983

• Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt**
• The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley*
• Doctor DeSoto by William Steig*
• Graven Images by Paul Fleischman*
• Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz*
• Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton*

1982

• A Visit to William Blake's In: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard**
• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary*
• Upon the Head of the Goat: a Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944
  by Aranka Siegal*

1981

• Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson**
• The Fledgling by Jane Langton*
• A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle*

1980

• A Gathering of Days: a New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832
  by Joan W. Blos**
• The Road from Home: the Story of an Armenian Girl
  by David Kherdian*

** award winner
* honor winner