Texas Bluebonnet Reading List
2009-2010

See & hear the books
A new interactive web-site

The Texas Bluebonnet Award (TBA) reading program was established in 1979 to encourage 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.

All school and public libraries are encouraged to participate in Texas Bluebonnet Award. A school librarian may promote the program to students in 3rd through 6th grades. Participating students must read a minimum of five books from the current master list before they may vote for their favorite title. Teachers and parents are encouraged to read some of the books aloud. The author of the book receiving the most votes statewide is declared the winner of the Texas Bluebonnet Award. At the TLA annual conference, ten children, selected randomly, who participated in the reading and voting present the author with the Bluebonnet Award.

Below is a list of this years nominees, reviews of their books & reader advisory's or go to their web page at http://www.txla.org/groups/tba/nominees.html.

Birdsall, Jeanne. 2008. The Penderwicks on Gardam Street. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Birney, Betty G. 2008. Surprises According to Humphrey. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Bishop, Nic. 2008. Nic Bishop Frogs. New York: Scholastic Nonfiction.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Deedy, Carmen Agra. 2007. Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale. Illustrated by Michael Austin. Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Deedy, Carmen Agra. 2007. Martina una cucarachita muy linda:Un Cuento Cubano. Illustrated by Michael Austin.

Feldman, Jody. 2008. The Gollywhopper Games. New York: Greenwillow Books.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Flaherty, A.W. 2007. The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster: A Tale of Picky Eating. Illustrated by Scott Magoon. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Holt, Kimberly Willis. 2007. Piper Reed: Navy Brat. New York: Henry Holt and Company.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Kerley, Barbara. 2008. What To Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! Illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham. New York: Scholastic Press.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Law, Ingrid. 2008. Savvy. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Look, Lenore. 2008. Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things. New York: Swartz & Wade Books.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Lupica, Mike. 2007. Two-Minute Drill. New York: Philomel Books.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Mora, Pat. 2007. ¡Yum! ¡MmMm! ¡Qué Rico!: America’s Sproutings. Illustrated by Rafael Lόpez. New York: Lee & Low Books Inc.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Neff, Henry H. 2007. The Hound of Rowan. New York: Random House Books.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Nelson, Kadir. 2008. We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball. New York: Jump At the Sun, Hyperion.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Rappaport, Doreen. 2008. Lady Liberty: A Biography. Illustrated by Matt Tavares. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Schulman, Janet. 2008. Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City. Illustrated by Meilo So. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Speck, Katie. 2007. Maybelle in the Soup. New York: Henry Holt and Company.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Spinelli, Eileen. 2007. Where I Live. Illustrated by Matt Phelan. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Stevens, Janet and Susan Stevens Crummel. 2008. Help Me, Mr. Mutt! New York: Harcourt, Inc.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY

Wolf, Joan M. 2007. Someone Named Eva. New York: Clarion. Hardcover.  REVIEWS  ADVISORY