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Newbery List
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. This is a complete list of Newbery medal and honor books from 1922 to present.
| 1989 | ||||||||
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| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | Paul Fleischman | Harper | |||||
| Honor Books | In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World |
Virginia Hamilton | Harcourt | |||||
| Scorpions | Walter Dean Myers | Harper | ||||||
| 1988 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Lincoln: A Photobiography | Russell Freedman | Clarion | |||||
| Honor Books | After The Rain | Norma Fox Mazer | Morrow | |||||
| Hatchet | Gary Paulsen | Bradbury | ||||||
| 1987 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | The Whipping Boy | Sid Fleischman | Greenwillow | |||||
| Honor Books | A Fine White Dust | Cynthia Rylant | Bradbury | |||||
| On My Honor | Marion Dane Bauer | Clarion | ||||||
| Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens |
Patricia Lauber | Bradbury | ||||||
| 1986 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Sarah, Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan | Harper | |||||
| Honor Books | Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun | Rhoda Blumberg | Lothrop | |||||
| Dogsong | Gary Paulsen | Bradbury | ||||||
| 1985 | ||||||||
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| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | The Hero and the Crown | Robin McKinley | Greenwillow | |||||
| Honor Books | Like Jake and Me | Mavis Jukes | Knopf | |||||
| The Moves Make the Man | Bruce Brooks | Harper | ||||||
| One-Eyed Cat | Paula Fox | Bradbury | ||||||
| 1984 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Dear Mr. Henshaw | Beverly Cleary | Morrow | |||||
| Honor Books | The Sign of the Beaver | Elizabeth George Speare | Houghton | |||||
| A Solitary Blue | Cynthia Voigt | Atheneum | ||||||
| Sugaring Time | Kathryn Lasky | Macmillan | ||||||
| Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery | Russell Freedman | Clarion Books | ||||||
| 1983 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Dicey's Song | Cynthia Voigt | Atheneum | |||||
| Honor Books | The Blue Sword | Robin McKinley | Greenwillow | |||||
| Doctor DeSoto | William Steig | Farrar | ||||||
| Graven Images | Paul Fleischman | Harper | ||||||
| Homesick: My Own Story | Jean Fritz | Putnam | ||||||
| Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush | Virginia Hamilton | Philomel | ||||||
| 1982 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers |
Nancy Willard | Harcourt | |||||
| Honor Books | Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | Beverly Cleary | Morrow | |||||
| Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 |
Aranka Siegal | Farrar | ||||||
| 1981 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Jacob Have I Loved | Katherine Paterson | Crowell | |||||
| Honor Books | The Fledgling | Jane Langton | Harper | |||||
| A Ring of Endless Light | Madeleine L'Engle | Farrar | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 |
Joan W. Blos | Scribner | |||||
| Honor Books | The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl |
David Kherdian | Greenwillow | |||||
