Newbery Award & Honor Winners: 1985 Winner & Honorees

Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.

Alex feels that he does not have much in common with his stepfather Jake until a fuzzy spider brings them together.

A black boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a precarious friendship.

An eleven-year-old shoots a stray cat with his new air rifle, subsequently suffers from guilt, and eventually assumes responsibility for it.