Newbery Winners From The Nineteen Eighties
My choices for best novels (of those I've read) are Hatchet and Sarah, Plain and Tall.
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Contents of this lens:
1989 Newbery Medal Winner
1989 Newbery Honor Books
1988 Newbery Medal Winner
1988 Newbery Honor Books
1987 Newbery Medal Winner
1987 Newbery Honor Books
1986 Newbery Medal Winner
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Set on a rural early-America farm, a mail-order bride arrives to help two children and their father. This is one of my favorite Newbery Medal books. It is short but very, very sweet. Even though I'd already seen the made-for-tv movie, I was deeply moved by the little boy's need for a mother. This should be part of every American child's education.
1986 Newbery Honor Books
1985 Newbery Medal Winner
1985 Newbery Honor Books
1984 Newbery Medal Winner
1984 Newbery Honor Books
1983 Newbery Medal Winner
Dicey's Song (The Tillerman Series #2)
This is the second book in the Tillerman Series. In the first book Dicey, the oldest of four lost siblings, guides her brothers and sister toward the safety of a relative's home after their mother fails to return to them where they're parked at a shopping center in a strange town. This second book shows how Dicey adjusts to life with her grandmother after her long perilous journey.
1983 Newbery Honor Books
1982 Newbery Medal Winner
1982 Newbery Honor Books
1981 Newbery Medal Winner
1981 Newbery Honor Books
1980 Newbery Medal Winner
1980 Newbery Honor Book
About the Lensmaster
Lensmaster Linda Jo Martin writes children's novels, so has spent many years reading books from the Newbery list. From the 1980-1989 selections she's read A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832, Jacob I Have Loved, Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Dicey's Song, The Sign of the Beaver, Sarah Plain and Tall, On My Honor, and Hatchet.Linda maintains a writer's blog: Perspectives on Writing.
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