1989 Nominees
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• Anastasia at Your Service by Lois Lowry
• Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days by Stephen Manes
• The BFG by Roald Dahl
• The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop
• Cat Walk by Mary Stolz
• Daphne's Story by Mary Downing Hahn
• Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
• The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright (Winner)
• Illyrian Adventure by Lloyd Alexander
• Judge Benjamin: Superdog Secret by Judith McInerney
• New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky
• The Not-Just-Anybody-Family by Betsy Byars
• Prairie Songs by Pamela Conrad
• Racso and the Rats of NIMH by Jane Conly
• The Return of the Indian by Lynne Reid Banks
• So Far From the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Watkins
• Streams to the River, River to the Sea by Scott O'Dell
• To Space and Back by Sally Ride
• The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
• With You and Without You by Ann Martin