Newbery Medal & Honor Books [1981~1990]

☆ Jacob Have I Loved : Katherine Paterson [1981] 

 

• The Fledgling : Jane Langton  
• A Ring of Endless Light : Madeleine L'Engle  

 

☆ A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers : Nancy Willard [1982] 

 

• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 : Beverly Cleary  
• Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 : Aranka Siegal  

 

☆ Dicey's Song : Cynthia Voigt [1983] 

 

• The Blue Sword : Robin McKinley  
• Doctor DeSoto : William Steig  
• Graven Images : Paul Fleischman  
• Homesick: My Own Story : Jean Fritz  
• Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush : Virginia Hamilton  

 

☆ Dear Mr. Henshaw : Beverly Cleary [1984] 

 

• The Sign of the Beaver : Elizabeth George Speare  
• A Solitary Blue : Cynthia Voigt  
• Sugaring Time : Kathryn Lasky  
• The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree : Bill Brittain  

 

☆ The Hero and the Crown : Robin McKinley [1985] 

 

• Like Jake and Me : Mavis Jukes  
• The Moves Make the Man : Bruce Brooks  
• One-Eyed Cat : Paula Fox  

 

☆ Sarah, Plain and Tall : Patricia MacLachlan [1986] 

 

• Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun : Rhoda Blumberg  
• Dogsong : Gary Paulsen  

 

☆ The Whipping Boy : Sid Fleischman [1987] 

 

• A Fine White Dust : Cynthia Rylant  
• On My Honor : Marion Dane Bauer  
• Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens : Patricia Lauber  

 

☆ Lincoln: A Photobiography : Russell Freedman [1988] 

 

• After The Rain : Norma Fox Mazer  
• Hatchet : Gary Paulsen  

 

☆ Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices : Paul Fleischman [1989] 

 

• In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World : Virginia Hamilton  
• Scorpions : Walter Dean Myers  

 

☆ Number the Stars : Lois Lowry [1990] 

 

• Afternoon of the Elves : Janet Taylor Lisle  
• Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind : Suzanne Fisher Staples  
• The Winter Room : Gary Paulsen