LibGuides: Bluebonnet Award Lists: 1992-1993

Bluebonnet Award Winner and Master List
1992-1993

The Houdini Box by Brian Selznick (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy SEL (Easy Fiction)

ISBN: 9780679914297

Publication Date: 1991-03-20

A chance encounter with Harry Houdini leaves a small boy in possession of a mysterious box--one that might hold the secrets to the greatest magic tricks ever performed.

Aida by Leontyne Price | Big Cats by Seymour Simon | The Buck Stops Here : Presidents of the United States by Alice Provensen
Class President by Johanna Hurwitz | Family Pictures / Caudros de Familia by Carmen Lomas Garza

Aïda by Leontyne Price; Leo Dillon (Illustrator); Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-782.1 PRI (Juvenile Nonfiction)

ISBN: 9780152004057

Publication Date: 1990-10-22

Retells the story of Verdi's opera in which the love of the enslaved Ethiopian princess for an Egyptian general brings tragedy to all involved.

Class President by Johanna Hurwitz; Sheila Hamanaka (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction HU (Juvenile Fiction)

ISBN: 0688091148

Publication Date: 1990-04-25

Julio hides his own leadership ambitions to help another candidate in the election for class president.

Family Pictures = Caudros de Familia by Carmen Lomas Garza (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy LO (Easy Fiction)

ISBN: 0892390506

Publication Date: 1990-05-01

The author describes growing up in a Hispanic community in Texas.

Flight : Journey of Charles Lindbergh by Robert Burleigh
Good Queen Bess : Story of Elizabeth I of England by Diane Stanley & Peter Vennamen | Littlejim by Gloria Houston
The Magic School Buss Lost in the Solar System by Joanna Cole | Monkey Island by Paula Fox

Flight : the Journey of Charles Lindbergh by Robert Burleigh; Mike Wimmer (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy BU (Easy Fiction)

ISBN: 9780399222726

Publication Date: 1991-09-18

Describes how Charles Lindbergh achieved the remarkable feat of flying nonstop and solo from New York to Paris in 1927.

Littlejim by Gloria M. Houston; Thomas B. Allen (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction HO (Juvenile Fiction)

ISBN: 0399222200

Publication Date: 1990-11-01

Twelve-year-old Littlejim, a bookish boy living in a rural North Carolina community in the early years of the twentieth century, hopes to win a newspaper essay contest and thus gain the respect of his stern father.

The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System by Joanna Cole; Bruce Degen (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy Co (Easy Fiction)

ISBN: 9780590414289

Publication Date: 1990-10-01

On a special field trip in the magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle's class goes into outer space and visits each planet in the solar system.

Monkey Island by Paula Fox
Call Number: J-Fiction FO (Juvenile Fiction)

ISBN: 0531059626

Publication Date: 1991-09-01

Forced to live on the streets of New York after his mother disappears from their hotel room, eleven-year-old Clay is befriended by two men who help him survive.

My Daniel by Pam Conrad | Rats on the Roof and Other Stories by James Marshall | Shrek! by William Steig
Strider by Beverly Cleary | Tale of the Mandarin Ducks by Katherine Paterson

Shrek! by William Steig (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy STE (Easy Fiction)

ISBN: 9780374368777

Publication Date: 1990-10-17

Shrek, an ugly young man, goes in search of an even uglier princess to love and wed.

The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks by Katherine Paterson; Leo Dillon (Illustrator); Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy PAT (Easy Fiction)

ISBN: 9780525672838

Publication Date: 1990-09-26

A pair of mandarin ducks, separated by a cruel lord who wishes to possess the drake for his colorful beauty, reward a compassionate couple who risk their lives to reunite the ducks.

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi | Turtle in July by Marilyn Singer
Urban Roosts : Where Birds Nest in the City by Barbara Bash
The Wright Brothers : How they Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Ruth E. Murray (Illustrator); Avi
Call Number: J-Fiction AV

ISBN: 9780531058930

Publication Date: 1990-09-01

As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious.

Turtle in July by Marilyn Singer; Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-811.54 SIN (Juvenile Nonfiction)

ISBN: 9780027828818

Publication Date: 1989-09-01

An illustrated collection about the activities of particular animals in each month of the year.

The Wright Brothers : how they invented the airplane by Russell Freedman
Call Number: Juv B WRI (Juvenile biography)

ISBN: 97808234

Publication Date: 1991

Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.

Bluebonnet Award Lists

The Houdini Box