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The Texas Bluebonnet Award Reading List

2008/09 list | 2007/08 list | 2006/07 list | past winners

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.

Past Award Winners

2007	Ghost Fever/Mal de Fantasma	Joe Hayes (Cinco Puntos Press) J FIC Hay Spa Eng
2006	Seadogs: An Epic Ocean Operetta	Lisa Wheeler, illustrated by Mark Siegel (New York: Richard Jackson/Atheneum) E FIC Whe
2005	Togo	Robert J. Blake (Philomel Books) E FIC Bla
2004	Shoeless Joe and Black Betsy	Phil Bildner, illustrated by C. F. Payne (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) E FIC Bil
2003	The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring	Ruth Sanderson (Little, Brown and Company) E 398.209 Sa
2002	Because of Winn-Dixie	Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press) J FIC Dic
2001	Cook-A-Doodle-Doo!	Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel (Harcourt Brace) E FIC Ste
2000	The Ghost of Fossil Glen	Cynthia DeFelice (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Y M Def
1999	Verdi	Janell Cannon (Harcourt Brace) E FIC Can
1998	Tornado	Betsy Byars (HarperCollins) J FIC Bya
1997	Math Curse	Jon Scieszka (Viking) J FIC Sci
1996	Time For Andrew: A Ghost Story	Mary Downing Hahn (Clarion Books) Y FIC Hah
1995	The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales	Jon Scieszka (Viking) E SS Sci
1994	Shiloh	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum) Y FIC Nay
1993	The Houdini Box	Brian Selznick (Knopf) J FIC Sel
1992	Snot Stew	Bill Wallace (Holiday House) J FIC Wal
1991	Aliens for Breakfast	Jonathan Etra & Stephanie Spinner (Random House) J FIC Etr
1990	There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom	Louis Sachar (Knopf) Y FIC Sac
1989	Wait 'Til Helen Comes	Mary Downing Hahn (Clarion Books) Y FIC Hah
1988	Christina's Ghost	Betty Ren Wright (Holiday House) J M Wri
1987	The Hot and Cold Summer	Johanna Hurwitz (Morrow) J FIC Hur
1986	The Dollhouse Murders	Betty Ren Wright (Holiday House) Y M Wri
1985	Skinnybones	Barbara Park (Knopf) J FIC Par
1984	Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade	Barthe DeClements (Viking Press) J FIC Dec
1983	A Dog Called Kitty	Bill Wallace (Holiday House) J FIC Wal
1982	Superfudge	Judy Blume (Dutton) J FIC Blu
1981	Ramona and Her Father	Beverly Cleary (Morrow) J FIC Cle

For more information about this award visit the Texas Bluebonnet Award Web page.

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