LibGuides: Bluebonnet Award Lists: 1984-1985

Bluebonnet Award Winner and Master List
1984-1985

Skinnybones by Barbara Park
Call Number: J-Fiction PA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0394949889
Publication Date: 2016-01-26
Alex's active sense of humor helps him get along with the school braggart, make the most of his athletic talents, and simply get by in a hectic world.

The Absolutely Perfect Horse by Marylois Dunn and Ardath Mayhar | Aldo Ice Cream by Johanna Hurwitz
Banjo by Robert Newton Peck | Brocaded Slipper and Other Vietnamese Tales by Lynette Vuong
Cat Walk by Mary Stolz

The Absolutely Perfect Horse : a novel of East Texas by Marylois Dunn; Ardath Mayhar
Call Number: J-Fiction DU (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 006021774X
Publication Date: 1983-03-01
The formerly noble, now downtrodden horse known as Dogmeat helps Annie and her family reassess their values.

Aldo Ice Cream by Johanna Hurwitz; John Wallner (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction HU (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780688003753
Publication Date: 1981-03-01
Nine-year-old Aldo discovers the pleasures of doing volunteer work to help the older citizens of the community and the satisfactions of earning his first money on his own for unselfish reasons.

The Brocaded Slipper and Other Vietnamese Tales by Lynette Vuong; Vo-Dinh Mai (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-398.21 VUO (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780201080889
Publication Date: 1982-03-01
CONTENTS: The brocaded slipper -- Little Finger of the watermelon patch -- -- The fairy grotto -- Master Frog -- The lampstand princess.

Cat Walk by Mary Stolz; Erik Blegvad (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction ST (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780060259754
Publication Date: 1983-04-01
Yearning to be more than just a barnyard rat catcher, a young cat in search of a name embarks on a journey that finally leads him to a special place he can call a home.

Diary of a Rabbit by Lilo Hess | Homesick : My Own Story by Jean Fritz
Legend of the Bluebonnet : An Old Tale of Texas by Tomie DePaola | Long Meg by Rosemary Minard

Homesick : my own story by Jean Fritz; Margot Tomes (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-FIction FR (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780399209338
Publication Date: 1982-10-08
The author's fictionalized version, though all the events are true, of her childhood in China in the 1920's.

Long Meg by Rosemary Minard; Philip Smith (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction MI (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780394948881
Publication Date: 1982-09-12
Meg, an innkeeper's daughter, as tall as the tallest man in Westminister, puts on her father's clothes and joins the British army setting out to invade France led by the King himself.

Mitzi and the Terrible Tyrannosaurus Rex by Barbara Williams | Money Room by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
A Penguin Year by Susan Bonners | Save Queen of Sheba by Louise Moeri
Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

Mitzi and the Terrible Tyrannosaurus Rex by Barbara Williams; Emily Arnold McCully (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction WI (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780525451051
Publication Date: 1982-04-01
Mitzi isn't sure she wants her mother to marry Walter, whose younger son is a three-year-old genius who thinks he is a dinosaur.

The Money Room by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Call Number: J-Fiction MC (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780689502088
Publication Date: 1981-07-01
Searching for a treasure their great-grandfather left in a "money room" on his farm in Oregon, two children realize that someone else is also searching.

Save Queen of Sheba by Louise Moeri
Call Number: J-Fiction MO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780525332022
Publication Date: 1981-06-18
After miraculously surviving a Sioux Indian raid on the trail to Oregon, a brother and sister set out with few provisions to find the rest of the settlers.

The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Call Number: J-Fiction SP (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780395338902
Publication Date: 1983-04-27
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
The Sign of the Beaver [CD] by Elizabeth George Speare; Greg Schaffert (Read by)
Call Number: J-CD Fiction SP (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9781400084975
Publication Date: 2004-04-27
The Sign of the Beaver [OverDrive E-Book] by Elizabeth George Speare
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780547348704
Publication Date: 1983-04-27

Skunks by Wyatt Blassingame | Stories from Blue Road by Emily Crofford
Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub by Jamie Gilson | The Trouble with Tuck by Theodore Taylor
Zucchini by Barbara Dana

Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub by Jamie Gilson; Linda Strauss Edwards (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction GI (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780688013042
Publication Date: 1982-09-01
The boys and girls in the fourth grade devise a contest to "sink their substitute teacher by making her cry.

The Trouble with Tuck by Theodore Taylor; Theodore Taylor
Call Number: J-Fiction TA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780385177757
Publication Date: 1981-10-20
A young girl trains her blind dog to follow and trust a seeing-eye companion dog.

Zucchini by Barbara Dana; Eileen Christelow (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction DA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780060213954
Publication Date: 1982-10-13
A painfully shy young boy befriends a homeless baby ferret and gets as much comfort as he gives.

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