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Bluebonnet Award Lists

The Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List is one of the most prestigious children’s literature lists in the country. Students, parents, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and authors eagerly await the yearly release.

Bluebonnet Award Winner and Master List
1980-1981

Alan Mendelsoh, Boy from Mars by Daniel Pinkwater
Aldo Applesauce by Johanna Hurwitz
And This is Laura by Ellen Conford
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Eddie's Menagerie by Carolyn Haywood
Ghost Poems by Daisy Wallace
Humbug Mountain by Sid Fleischman
I and Sproggy by Constance Green
Kid Power by Susan B. Pfeffer
Magic Grandfather by Jay Williams
Maria Looney and Remarkable Robot by Jerome Beatty
Mariah Delany Lending Library Disaster by Sheila Greenwald
The Pinballs by Betsy Byars
Sacajawea by Olive Burt
A Secret Friend by Marilyn Sachs
Sport by Louise Fitzhugh
Tonweya and the Eagles and Other Lakota Indian Tales by Rosebud Yellow Robe
Trig by Robert Newton Peck
Whalewatch! by June Behrens