The Texas Bluebonnet Award reading program encourages Texas children to read more books, explore a variety of current books, develop powers of discrimination, and identify their favorite books. The award process provides librarians, teachers, parents, and writers with insight into young students' reading preferences. It further affords an opportunity to honor and encourage imaginative authors who create books with high appeal to children.
| The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy |
Jeanne Birdsall. (New York: Knopf) J FIC BIR |
| The SOS File |
Betsy Byars, Betsy Duffey, and Laurie Myers, illustrated by Arthur Howard. (New York: Henry Holt) J FIC BVA |
| The Big House |
Carolyn Coman, illustrated by Rob Shepperson. (Ashville, NC: Front Street) J FIC COM |
| The Magician’s Boy |
Susan Cooper, illustrated by Serena Riglietti. (New York: McElderry Books) J FIC COO |
| The Giant Rat of Sumatra or Pirates Galore |
Sid Fleischman. (New York: Greenwillow) J FIC FLE |
| The Toughest Cowboy |
John Frank, illustrated by Zachary Pullen. (New York: Simon & Schuster) E FIC FRA |
| Good Dog |
Maya Gottfried, illustrated by Robert Rahway Zakanitch. (New York: Knopf) E 811.6 GO |
| Ghost Fever/Mal de Fantasma |
Joe Hayes, illustrated by Mona Pennypacker. (El Paso: Cinco Puntos) J FIC HAY SPA ENG |
| Wildfire! |
Elizabeth Starr Hill, illustrated by Rob Shepperson. (New York: Farrar) J FIC HIL |
| In Your Face: The Facts About Your Features |
Donna M. Jackson. (New York: Viking) J 611.92 JA |
| Sure As Sunrise: Stories of Bruh Rabbit & His Walkin’ Talkin’ Friends |
Alice McGill, illustrated by Don Tate. (New York: Houghton Mifflin) J 398.208 MA |
| Project Mulberry |
Linda Sue Park. (New York: Clarion) J FIC PAR |
| The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & The Olympians, Book 1) |
Rick Riordan. (New York: Hyperion) Y FIC RIO |
| Mosquito Bite |
Alexandra Siy & Dennis Kunkel. (Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge) J 595.772 SI |
| So B. It: A Novel |
Sarah Weeks. (New York: HarperCollins) Y FIC WEE |
| Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 |
Andrea White. (New York: Eos. Library) Y FIC WHI |
| Each Little Bird That Sings |
Deborah Wiles. (New York: Gulliver/Harcourt) J FIC WIL |
| Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story |
Paula Yoo. (New York: Lee & Low) E 921 LE |
