Newbery Winners, 1960-1989
| Year | Book Title | |
| 1989 | Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman | |
| 1988 | Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman | |
| 1987 | The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman | |
| 1986 | Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan | |
| 1985 | The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley | |
| 1984 | Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary | |
| 1983 | Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt |
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| 1982 | A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard | |
| 1981 | Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson | |
| 1980 | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830 – 1832 by Joan W. Blos | |
| 1979 | The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin | |
| 1978 | Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Crowell) | |
| 1977 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor | |
| 1976 | The Grey King by Susan Cooper | |
| 1975 | M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton | |
| 1974 | The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox | |
| 1973 | Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George | |
| 1972 | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien | |
| 1971 | Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars | |
| 1970 | Sounder by William H. Armstrong | |
| 1969 | The High King by Lloyd Alexander |
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| 1968 | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg | |
| 1967 | Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt | |
| 1966 | I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino | |
| 1965 | Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska | |
| 1964 | It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville | |
| 1963 | A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 1962 | The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare | |
| 1961 | Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell | |
| 1960 | Onion John by Joseph Krumgold | |






