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Texas Bluebonnet Reading Program
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   This reading program is for students in grades 3-6.  A committee made up of school and public librarians select 20 books that have been published within the past 2 years for students to read from August to January.  In mid-January, students in grades 3-6 across the state of Texas get a chance to vote for their favorite book that they have read.  Once all of the tallies are in, one of the twenty nominated books will be the Texas Bluebonnet Award book for 2012-2013.
   The requirements for students to vote for their favorite book are that students must read 5 of the twenty books and record it in the Bluebonnet binder in the library.  I encourage students to read as many of these books as they can.  Many students read all twenty!
 
    This year's winner was The Strange Case of Origami Yoda  by Tom Angleberger.

 

 

Visit the Texas Bluebonnet website to see the twenty nominated books for the
Texas Bluebonnet Award 2012-2013 as well as past nominees and winners or look below and click on the title to learn about each book.
 
 
 
2012 2013 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List

Aliens on Vacation, The Intergalactic Bed and Breakfast by Clete Barrett Smith
Benjamin Franklinstein Lives! by Larry David Tuxbury and Matthew McElligott
Cheshire Cheese Cat, a Dickens of a Tale by Carmen Agra Deedy
Clever Jack Takes the Cake by Candace Fleming
EllRay Jakes is Not a Chicken by Sally Warner
Escape Under the Forever Sky by Eve Yohalem
Hamster Magic by Lynne Jonell
Hero by Mike Lupica
Hot Diggity Dog: The History of the Hot Dog by Adrienne Sylver
Just Being Audrey by Margaret Cardillo
Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie by Julie Sternberg
Misty Gordon and the Mystery of the Ghost Pirates by Kim Kennedy
Play, Louis, Play: The True Story of a Boy and His Horn by Muriel Harris Weinstein
Postcards from Camp by Simms Taback
Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey
Scarum Fair by Jessica Swaim
Thunder Birds by Jim Arnosky
Under the Mambo Moon by Julia Durango

-Wonder Struck by Brian Selznick
Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke

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