LibGuides: Bluebonnet Award Lists: 1994-1995

Bluebonnet Award Winner and Master List
1994-1995

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka; Lane Smith (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy SCI (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9780670844876
Publication Date: 1992-10-01
Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales.

Almost Famous by David Getz | Baby by Patricia MacLachlan | Beauty and the Beast by Nancy WIllard
Cowboy Country by Ann Herbert Scott

Almost Famous by David Getz
Call Number: J-Fiction GE (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0805019405
Publication Date: 1993-01-01
Ten-year-old Maxine is determined to become a famous inventor so she can take care of her younger brother's heart condition, and she convinces a troubled classmate to help her.

Baby by Patricia Maclachlan
Call Number: J-Fiction MA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0385311338
Publication Date: 1993-09-01
Taking care of a baby left with them at the end of the tourist season helps a family come to terms with the death of their own infant son.

Beauty and the Beast by Nancy Willard; Barry Moser (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-398.2 WIL (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780152060527
Publication Date: 1992-09-01
Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful young woman releases a handsome young man from the spell which has made him into an ugly beast.

Cowboy Country by Ann Herbert Scott; Ted Lewin (Photographer)
Call Number: Easy SCO (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9780395575611
Publication Date: 1993-08-15
An "old buckaroo" tells how he became a cowboy, what the work was like in the past, and how this life has changed.

Devil's Bridge by Cynthia DeFelice | Dragons are Singing Tonight by Jack Prelutsky | Fortune-Tellers by Lloyd Alexander
Grand Escape by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Grandaddy and Janetta by Helen V. Griffith

Devil's Bridge by Cynthia C. DeFelice
Call Number: J-Fiction DE (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0027264653
Publication Date: 1992-09-30
Twelve-year-old Ben must cope with the loss of his father, who died the year before, and his mother's overprotectiveness when he enters the annual Striped Bass Derby on Martha's Vineyard.

The Dragons Are Singing Tonight by Jack Prelutsky; Peter Sis (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy XPR (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9780688096458
Publication Date: 1993-09-15
A collection of poems about dragons, including "A Dragon is in My Computer.".

The Fortune-Tellers by Lloyd Alexander
Call Number: Easy AL (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9780525448495
Publication Date: 1992-09-30
A carpenter in the West African country of Cameroon goes to a fortune teller and finds the predictions about his future coming true in an unusual way.

The Grand Escape by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor; Alan Daniel (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction NA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0689317220
Publication Date: 1993-04-30
After years of being strictly house cats, Marco and Polo escape into the wonderful but dangerous outside world and are sent on three challenging adventures by a group of cats known as the Club of Mysteries.

Jim Ugly by Sid Fleischman | Lives of Musicians by Kathleen Krull | The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland
Original Freddie Ackerman by Hadley Irwin | The Real McCoy by Wendy Towle

Jim Ugly by Sid Fleischman; Marcia Sewall (Illustrator); Jos. A. Smith (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction FL (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0688108865
Publication Date: 1992-04-14
The adventures of twelve-year-old Jake and Jim Ugly, his father's part-mongrel, part-wolf dog, as they travel through the Old West trying to find out what really happened to Jake's actor father.

Lives of the Musicians : good times, bad times (and what the neighbors thought) by Kathleen Krull; Kathryn Hewitt (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-780 KRU (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780152480103
Publication Date: 1993-04-30
The lives of twenty composers and musicians, ranging from Vivaldi to Gershwin, are profiled in this humorous and informative collection.

The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland; Tatsuro Kiuchi (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy GA (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 0152494650
Publication Date: 1993-04-30
A young Vietnamese girl saves a lotus seed and carries it with her everywhere to remember a brave emperor and the homeland that she has to flee.

The Original Freddie Ackerman by Hadley Irwin; James Hosten (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction IR (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0689505620
Publication Date: 1992-10-31
Twelve-year-old Trevor refuses to spend another summer with his extended family, so he is sent to Maine to stay with two eccentric great-aunts.

The Real McCoy : the life of an African-American inventor by Wendy Towle; Wil Clay (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-609 MCC (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780590435963
Publication Date: 1993-01-01
A biography of the Canadian-born black American who studied engineering in Scotland and patented over fifty inventions despite the obstacles he faced because of his race.

Shadows of Night by Barbara Bash | The Skirt by Gary Soto | Snakes by Simon Seymour
Wanted...Mud Blossom by Betsy Byars | Yang Youngest and His Terrible Ear by Lensey Namioka

Shadows of Night : the hidden world of the little brown bat by Barbara Bash (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-599.4 BAS (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780871565624
Publication Date: 1993-04-01
Describes the life cycle, physical characteristics, and habits of the little brown bat, one of the most widespread bats in North America.

The Skirt by Gary Soto; Eric Velasquez (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction SO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0385306652
Publication Date: 1992-09-01
When Miata leaves on the school bus the skirt that she is to wear in a dance performance, she needs all her wits to get it back without her parents' finding out that she has lost something yet again.

Snakes by Seymour Simon
Call Number: Easy SIM (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9780060225292
Publication Date: 1992-05-01
Describes, in text and photographs, the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various species of snakes.

Wanted... Mud Blossom by Betsy Byars; Jacqueline Rogers (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction BY (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780385304283
Publication Date: 1991-08-01
Convinced that Mud is responsible for the disappearance of the school hamster that he was taking care of for the weekend, Junior Blossom is determined that the dog should be tried for his "crime.".

Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear by Lensey Namioka; Kees De Kiefte (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction NA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0316597015
Publication Date: 1992-05-01
Recently arrived in Seattle from China, musically untalented Yingtao is faced with giving a violin performance to attract new students for his father.

Bluebonnet Award Lists

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales