LibGuides: Bluebonnet Award Lists: 1983-1984

Bluebonnet Award Winner and Master List
1983-1984

Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade by Barthe DeClements
Call Number: J-Fiction DE (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 1557360723
Publication Date: 1987-10-01
A fifth grade class, repelled by the overweight new student who has serious home problems, finally learns to accept her.

Amazing Memoria of Harvey Bean by Molly Cone | Anastasia Again by Lois Lowry
Angie's First Case by Donald Sobol | Book of the Pig by Jack Denton Scott | Do Bananas Chew Gum? by Jamie Gilson

Anastasia Again! by Lowry Lois; Diane deGroat (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction LO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0395311470
Publication Date: 1981-10-26
Twelve-year-old Anastasia is horrified at her family's decision to move from their city apartment to a house in the suburbs.

The Book of the Pig by Jack D. Scott; Ozzie Sweet (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-636.4 SCO (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780399207181
Publication Date: 1981-05-01
Discusses the characteristics and habits of pigs, their relatives, their history, and their helpfulness to man.

Do Bananas Chew Gum? by Jamie Gilson
Call Number: J-Fiction GI (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0688419607
Publication Date: 1980-09-01
Able to read and write at only a second grade level, sixth-grader Sam Mott considers himself dumb until he is prompted to cooperate with those who think something can be done about his problem.

Finder by John Chambers | The Girl With the Silver Eyes by Willo D. Roberts
Give Us a Great Big Smile Rosey Cole by Sheila Greenwald | Here Come the Robots by Joyce Milton
A Lion to Guard Us by Clye R. Bulla

The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts
Call Number: J-Fiction RO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780689307867
Publication Date: 1980-07-01
A 10-year-old girl, who has always looked different from other children, discovers that she not only has unusual powers but that there are others like her.

McGoogan Moves the Mighty Rock by Dick Gackenbach | Pearson : A Harbor Seal Pup by Susan Meyers
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary | Rodeo : Great American Sport by Murray Tinkleman
Roquefort Gang by Sandy Clifford

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Ramona Quimby #6) by Beverly Cleary; Alan Tiegreen (Illustrator); Tracy Dockray (Illustrator); Jacqueline Rogers (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juv F CLE Q6 (Juvenile fiction)
ISBN: 9780688004774
Publication Date: 1981
Mr. Quimby's going to college, Mrs. Quimby's going to work. Now that Ramona is eight, she can go to a new school with a new teacher and ride the bus all by herself. But after school she has to stay with Grandmother Kemp and be nice to that bratty little Willa Jean until Beezus, who's tempermental enough to ruin anyone's day, comes to take her home. Life isn't as easy for Ramona as it used to be. All the Quimbys have to adjust, and Ramona gets her chance to prove that she's "big enough for her family to depend on."
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 [CD] (Ramona Quimby #6) by Beverly Cleary; Stockard Channing (Read by)
Call Number: J-CD Fiction CL (Juvenile Audiobook CD)
ISBN: 9780061774171
Publication Date: 2010-10-05

The Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron | Weird Henry Berg by Sarah Sargent | Westmark by Lloyd Alexander
Winter of the Wolf by G. Clifton Wisler

The Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron; Ann Strugnell
Call Number: J-Fiction CA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0394843010
Publication Date: 1981-03-12
Relates episodes in seven-year-old Julian's life which include getting into trouble with his younger brother Huey, planting a garden, what he did to try to grow taller, losing a tooth, and finding a new friend.

Weird Henry Berg by Sarah Sargent
Call Number: J-Fiction SA
ISBN: 9780517541371
Publication Date: 1980-08-01
Henry is determined to keep his unusual pet lizard despite his mother's objections and the claims of a strange lady that his pet is really a baby dragon.

Westmark (Westmark trilogy #1) by Lloyd Alexander
Call Number: YA F ALE-L W1
ISBN: 9780525423355
Publication Date: 1981-05-12
A boy fleeing from criminal charges falls in with a charlatan, his dwarf attendant, and an urchin girl, travels with them about the kingdom of Westmark, and ultimately arrives at the palace where the king is grieving over the loss of his daughter.

Bluebonnet Award Lists

Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade