LibGuides: Bluebonnet Award Lists: 1987-1988

Bluebonnet Award Winner and Master List
1987-1988

Christina's Ghost by Betty Ren Wright
Call Number: J-Fiction WR (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780823405817
Publication Date: 1985-10-01
Christina's summer in a spooky, isolated Victorian house with her grumpy uncle turns into a ghostly adventure.
Christina's Ghost [E-Book] by Betty Ren Wright
Call Number: J-Fiction WR Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780823426836
Publication Date: 2014

Agony of Alice by Phyllis Naylor | Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth WInthrop
Charlotte Cheetham : Master of Disaster by Barbara W. Holmes | Come Sing, Jimmy Jo by Katerine Paterson
Commander the Gander by David McKelvey

The Agony of Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Call Number: J-Fiction NA A1 (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780689311437
Publication Date: 1985-09-01
11 year-old, motherless Alice decides she needs a gorgeous role model who does everything right; when she is placed in homely Mrs. Plotkin's class she is disappointed.

Charlotte Cheetham : master of disaster by Barbara W. Holmes; John Himmelman (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction HO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0060225874
Publication Date: 1985-11-01
A fifth grader who simple can not keep from telling lies, Charlotte, in her desperation to be included by a group of girls in her class, tells her most outlandish tale ever.

Come Sing, Jimmy Jo by Katherine Paterson
Call Number: Juv F PAT (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780525671671
Publication Date: 1985-04-30
When his family becomes a successful country music group and makes him a featured singer, eleven-year-old James has to deal with big changes in all aspects of his life, even his name.

Commander the Gander by David McKelvey; William O. Asklin (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction MC (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780931722318
Publication Date: 1984-01-01
The author recounts his experiences raising Commander the hybrid goose he rescued from the Brownsville, Texas Zoo

Cracker Jackson by Betsy Byars | Gavriel and Jemal : Two Boys of Jerusalem by Brent Ashabranner
Invisible Lissa by Natalie Honeycutt | Koko's Kitten by Francine Paterson | Large As Life Nightime Animals by Joanna Cole

Gavriel and Jemal : two boys of Jerusalem by Brent K. Ashabranner
Call Number: J-956.94 ASH (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780396084556
Publication Date: 1988-07-01
Explores the lives of a Jewish boy and a Palestinian boy growing up in Jerusalem.

Invisible Lissa by Natalie Honeycutt; Jenny Rutherford (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction HO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0027443604
Publication Date: 1985-04-01
Lissa badly wants to get into Debra's exclusive fifth-grade lunch club, until she finds out what it is really like.

Koko's Kitten by Francine Patterson; Ronald H. Cohn (Photographer)
Call Number: Easy PAT (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9780590338110
Publication Date: 1985-10-01
The real life experience of Koko, a gorilla in California who uses sign language, with a young kitten whom she loved and grieved over when it died.

Make Way for Sam Houston by Jean Fritz | Oh, Honestly, Angela! by Nancy K. Robinson
Polar Express by Christ Van Allsburg | Raid by G. Clifton WIsle

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
Call Number: Easy VAN (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9780395389492
Publication Date: 1985-10-28
A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.

Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges | Stories to Solve by George Shannon
Story of Jumping Mouse by John Steptoe | Switcharound by Loois Lowry | This Is My Trunk by Steven Michael Harris

Saint George and the Dragon : a golden legend by Margaret Hodges; Trina Schart Hyman
Call Number: Easy HO (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316367899
Publication Date: 1984-10-30
Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.

The Story of Jumping Mouse by John Steptoe (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy STE Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9780688019020
Publication Date: 1984-03-13
The gifts of Magic Frog and his own hopeful and unselfish spirit bring Jumping Mouse finally to the Far-Off Land where no mouse goes hungry.

This is My Trunk by Steven Michael Harris
Call Number: J-791.3 HAR (Juvenile Nonfiction)
Publication Date: 1985
An examination of a clown preparing for a performance reveals the inside story of clown life backstage at the circus.

Bluebonnet Award Lists

Christina's Ghost