LibGuides: Bluebonnet Award Lists: 1997-1998

Bluebonnet Award Winner and Master List
1997-1998

Tornado by Betsy Byars; Doron Ben-Ami (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction By (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0060264497
Publication Date: 1996-06-01
As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy.

Earthquake Terror by Peg Kehret | The Gentleman Outlaw and Me -- Eli by Mary Hahn Downing
Hope by Louann Gaeddert | Junebug by Alice Mead | Later, Gator by Laurence Yep

Earthquake Terror by Peg Kehret
Call Number: J-Fiction KE (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0525652264
Publication Date: 1996-02-01
When an earthquake hits an island in California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan must find a way to keep himself alive.

The Gentleman Outlaw and Me--Eli by Mary Downing Hahn
Call Number: J-Fiction HA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 039573083X
Publication Date: 1996-04-05
In 1887 twelve-year-old Eliza, disguised as a boy and traveling toward Colorado in search of her missing father, falls in with a Gentleman Outlaw and joins him in his illegal schemes.

Hope by LouAnn Bigge Gaeddert
Call Number: J-Fiction GA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0689801289
Publication Date: 1995-10-30
In 1851 orphans Hope and John are placed in a community of Shakers, where they encounter a way of life that is strange yet comfortable.

Junebug by Alice Mead; Alice Weber James
Call Number: J-Fiction ME (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0374339643
Publication Date: 1995-09-27
Reeve McClain, Jr., also known as Junebug, knows that at the age of ten he might be forced to join a gang in his housing project, but dreams of becoming a ship's captain and sailing away.

Later, Gator by Laurence Yep
Call Number: J-Fiction YE (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780786800599
Publication Date: 1995-05-08
Teddy finds that his imagination has gotten him into trouble once more, when he buys his younger brother, Bobby, an alligator for his birthday.

Leah's Pony by Elizabeth Friedrich | Leonardo Da Vinci by Diane Stanley
On the Bus with Joanna Cole by Joanna Cole | Poppy by Avi

Leah's Pony by Elizabeth Friedrich; Michael Garland (Illustrator); Boyds Mills Press Staff
Call Number: Easy FR (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 1563971895
Publication Date: 1996-02-01
Amid the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, Leah's father is faced with the loss of the family farm and puts his stock and equipment up for auction, but Leah comes up with the money by selling her beloved pony.

Leonardo Da Vinci by Diane Stanley
Call Number: J-709.2 LEO (Juvenile Non-Fiction)
ISBN: 9780688104375
Publication Date: 1996
A biography of the Italian Renaissance artist and inventor who, at about age thirty, began writing his famous notebooks, which contain the outpourings of his amazing mind.

On the Bus with Joanna Cole by Joanna Cole; Wendy Saul
Call Number: J-813.54 COL (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780435081317
Publication Date: 1996-05-06
The author discusses her life, how she came to be a writer, where she gets her ideas from, and what is involved in producing a book.

Poppy by Brian Floca (Illustrator); Avi
Call Number: J-Fiction AV (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780531094839
Publication Date: 1995-09-01
Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.

Shiloh Season by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Sweet Corn by James Stevenson
There's an Owl in the Shower by Jean Craighead George | 13th Floor by Sid Fleischman | Train to Somewhere by Eve Bunting

Shiloh Season by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Call Number: J-Fiction NA S2 (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780689806476
Publication Date: 1996-09-01
When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal.
Shiloh Season [CD] by Michael Moriarty (Read by); Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Call Number: J-CD Fiction NA (Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780739381045
Publication Date: 2009-06-23

The 13th Floor by Sid Fleischman; Peter Sís (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction FL (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0688142168
Publication Date: 1995-10-31
When his older sister disappears, twelve-year-old Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative.

Train to Somewhere by Eve Bunting; Ronald Himler (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy BU (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 0395713250
Publication Date: 1996-02-23
In the late 1800s, Marianne travels westward on the Orphan Train in hopes of being placed with a caring family.

Utterly Yours Booker Jones by Betsy Duffey | Watch Out for Clever Women by Joe Hayes
When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing by Virginia Hamilton
When Willard Met Babe Ruth by Donald Hall | Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Krull

Utterly Yours, Booker Jones by Betsy Duffey
Call Number: J-Fiction DU (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0670860077
Publication Date: 1995-09-01
Middle school student and aspiring author Booker Jones is evicted from his bedroom when his grandfather moves in, creating problems both at home and at school.

Watch Out for Clever Women! (¡Cuidado Con las Mujeres Astutas!) by Joe Hayes; Vicki Trego Hill (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-398.2 HAY (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780938317203
Publication Date: 1996-07-01
A collection of five Hispanic folktales. Bilingual

When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing by Virginia Hamilton; Barry Moser (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juv 398.24 HAM (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780590473729
Publication Date: 1996-03-01
A collection of stories, featuring sparrows, jays, buzzards, and bats, based on African American tales by Martha Young.

Wilma Unlimited : how Wilma Rudolph became the world's fastest woman by Kathleen Krull; David Diaz (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy KR (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 0152012672
Publication Date: 1996-04-01
A biography of the African American woman who overcame polio to become the first woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics.

Bluebonnet Award Lists

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