LibGuides: Bluebonnet Award Lists: 1988-1989

Bluebonnet Award Winner and Master List
1988-1989

Wait till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
Call Number: J-Fiction HA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0899194532
Publication Date: 1986-09-22
Molly and Michael dislike their spooky new stepsister Heather but realize that they must try to save her when she seems ready to follow a ghost child to her doom.
Wait till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn; Ellen Grafton (Read by)
Call Number: J-CD Fiction HA (Juvenile CD Audiobooks)
ISBN: 9781423381167
Publication Date: 2009-02-20
Wait till Helen Comes [E-Book] by Mary Downing Hahn
Call Number: J-Fiction HA Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780547346038
Publication Date: 2008-04-21

Behave Yourself, Bethany Brant by Patricia Beatty | Death of Iron Horse by Paul Goble | Dinosaurs by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Every Living Thing by Cynthia Rylant | Fox in a Trap by Jane Resh Thomas

Every Living Thing by Cynthia Rylant; S. D. Schindler (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction RY (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780027772005
Publication Date: 1985-10-01
Twelve stories in which animals change people's lives for the better.

Fox in a Trap by Thomas, Jane Resh ; Troy Howell (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juf F THO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780395544266
Publication Date: 1990-09-24
Daniel looks forward to helping his Uncle Peter set traps for the foxes that have been plaguing the family farm, until the discovery of a severed fox paw makes him seriously question what he and his uncle are doing.

General Butterfingers by John Reynolds Gardiner | Ghost Eye Tree by Bill Martin | Icebergs and Glaciers by Seymour Simon
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter | Magic Book by Willo Davis Roberts

General Butterfingers by John R. Gardiner; Catherine B. Smith (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction GA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780395418536
Publication Date: 1986-10-01
When three aging war heroes are forced out of their home by the wicked nephew of the now-deceased owner and former occupant of the home, eleven-year-old Walter determines not to let it happen.

Icebergs and Glaciers by Seymour Simon
Call Number: J-551.312 SIM (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780688061876
Publication Date: 1987-04-01
Discusses the formation, movement, and different types of glaciers and icebergs and describes their effect on the world around them.

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter; Catherine Stock (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction WA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780688066451
Publication Date: 1986-10-10
Suffering in a family full of females, ten-year-old Justin feels that cleaning and keeping house are women's work until he spends time on his beloved grandfather's ranch.

The Magic Book by Willo Davis Roberts
Call Number: J-Fiction RO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0689311206
Publication Date: 1986-05-01
When Alex and his friends try the spells in an old book, things don't happen quite as they'd thought, but they decide to try the bully spell on the school bully anyway.

Not-Just-Anybody Family by Betsy Byars | Pecos Bill by Steven Kellogg | Peter the Great by Diane Stanley
Racso and the Rats of NIMH by Jane Leslie Conly | Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky

The Not-Just-Anybody Family by Betsy Byars; Jacqueline Rogers (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction BY (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0385294433
Publication Date: 1986-03-01
With a young brother in the hospital, a grandfather in jail, and their mother traveling with a rodeo, Maggie and Vern try to settle family problems.

Pecos Bill : a tall tale by Laura Robb (Illustrator); Steven Kellogg
Call Number: Easy KE (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 068805871X
Publication Date: 1986-08-15
Incidents from the life of Pecos Bill, from his childhood among the coyotes to his unusual wedding day.

Racso and the Rats of NIMH by Jane Leslie Conly; Leonard Lubin (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction CO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0060213612
Publication Date: 1986-05-01
Timothy Frisby, a field mouse, teams up with the adventurous young rat Racso as together they try to prevent the destruction of a secret community of rats that can read and write.

Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky (Illustrator, Retold by); Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm K. Grimm; Brothers Grimm
Call Number: Easy XZ (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9780525442653
Publication Date: 1986-10-16
A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

Search for Grissi by Mary F. Shura | Stay Away from Simon by Carol Carrick | To Space and Back by Sally Ride
Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

The Search for Grissi by Mary Francis Shura; Ted Lewin (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction SH (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780396085843
Publication Date: 1985-01-01
Eleven-year-old Peter feels uncomfortable at home and school after his family moves to Brooklyn, until his search for his sister's missing cat opens up a new life for him.

Stay Away from Simon! by Carol Carrick; Donald Carrick (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction CA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0899193439
Publication Date: 1985-04-01
Lucy and her younger brother examine their feelings about a mentally handicapped boy they both fear when he follows them home one snowy day.

To Space and Back by Sally Ride; Susan Okie
Call Number: J-629.45 RID (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780688061593
Publication Date: 1986-10-10
Describes in text and photographs what it is like to be an astronaut on the space shuttle. Includes a glossary of terms.

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman; Peter Sís (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction FL (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780688062163
Publication Date: 1986-04-14
A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
The Whipping Boy [OverDrive E-Book] by Speer Morgan
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780547524139
Publication Date: 1994-05-11

Bluebonnet Award Lists

Wait till Helen Comes