Search Your Library for Bluebonnet Titles
Below is the 2008-09 master list for the annual Texas Bluebonnet Award. These books are selected by the Texas Bluebonnet Award committee, a unit of the Texas Library Association. For more details on this project, go to the Texas Bluebonnet Award home page.
Auch, Mary Jane. One-Handed-Catch. New York: Henry Holt, 2006.
Carman, Patrick. Atherton: the House of Power. New York: Little Brown, 2007.
Cheaney, J.B. The Middle of Somewhere. New York: Knopf, 2007.
Day, Karen. Tall Tales. New York: Wendy Lamb, 2007.
DeFelice, Cynthia. One Potato, Two Potato. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Florian, Douglas. Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings Orlando, Harcourt, 2007.
Graff, Lisa. The Thing About Georgia. New York: Laura Geringer, 2006.
Harper, Charise Mericle. Just Grace. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Hart, Alison. Gabriel's Horses. Atlanta: Peachtree, 2007.
Jenkins, Emily. Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic. New York: Schwarts & Wade, 2006.
Lauber, Patricia. What You Never Knew About Beds, Bedrooms, and Pajamas. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
McCully, Emily Arnold. Marvellous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2006.
O'Connor, Barbara. How to Steal a Dog.New York: Francis Foster, 2007.
Patterson, Nancy Ruth. The Winner's Walk. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2006.
Paulsen, Gary. Lawn Boy. New York: Wendy Lamb, 2007.
Selznick, Brian. The Invention of Hugo Cabret: a Novel in Words and Pictures. New York: Scholastic, 2007.
Sidman, Joyce. This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Thimmesh, Catherine. Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Tingle, Tim. Crossing Bok Chitto: a Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos, 2006.
White, Ruth. Way Down Deep. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2007.