LibGuides: Bluebonnet Award Lists: 2008-2009

Bluebonnet Award Winner and Master List
2008-2009

One Potato, Two Potato by DeFelice, Cynthia ; Andrea U'Ren (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy DEF (Easy fiction)
ISBN: 9780374356408
Publication Date: 2006-08-08
A very poor, humble couple live so simple a life they share everything, until the husband discovers a pot with magical powers buried under the very last potato in the garden.

Atherton by Patrick Carman | Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars by Douglas Florian
Crossing Bok Chitto by Tim TIngle
Gabriel's Horses by Alison Hart | How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor

Atherton : The House of Power by Patrick Carman
Call Number: J-Fiction CA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0316166707
Publication Date: 2007-04-03
Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals secrets about Atherton, the divided world on which he lives, even as changes threaten to shift the power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others.

Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars : space poems and paintings by Douglas Florian
Call Number: Easy FL (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 0152053727
Publication Date: 2007-04-01
A collection of twenty illustrated poems about space.

Crossing Bok Chitto : a Choctaw tale of friendship & freedom by Tim Tingle; Jeanne Rorex Bridges (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy TIN (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9780938317777
Publication Date: 2006-04-01
In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.

Gabriel's Horses (Racing to freedom trilogy #1) by Alison Hart
Call Number: J-Fiction HA v.1
ISBN: 1561453986
Publication Date: 2007-04-01
In Kentucky, during the Civil War, twelve-year-old slave Gabriel pursues his dream of becoming a jockey.

How to Steal a Dog by O'Connor, Barbara ; BookSource Staff (Compiled by)
Call Number: Juv F OCO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780606143585
Publication Date: 2009-04-27
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.

Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick | Just Grace by Charise Mericle Harper
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen | Marvelous Mattie by Emily Arnold McCully
Middle of Somewhere by J. B. Cheaney

The Invention of Hugo Cabret : a novel in words and pictures by Brian Selznick (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction SE (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780439813785
Publication Date: 2007-03-01
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret [CD] by Brian Selznick (Illustrator); Jeff Woodman (Read by); John Curless (Narrated by)
Call Number: J-CD Fiction SE (Juvenile Audiobook CD)
ISBN: 9780545003636
Publication Date: 2007-03-13

Just Grace by Charise Mericle Harper
Call Number: J-Fiction HA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780618646425
Publication Date: 2007-04-23
Misnamed by her teacher, seven-year-old Just Grace prides herself on being empathetic, but when she tries to help a neighbor feel better, her good intentions backfire.

Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
Call Number: J-Fiction PA (future: YA F PAU-G
ISBN: 9780385746861
Publication Date: 2007-06-12
Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.

Marvelous Mattie : how Margaret E. Night became an inventor by Emily Arnold McCully
Call Number: J-609 KNI (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780374348106
Publication Date: 2006-02-21
A biography of inventor Margaret E. Knight, most well-known for devising a paper-bag machine designed to cut and glue a square-bottomed bag.

The Middle of Somewhere by J. B. Cheaney
Call Number: J-Fiction CH (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780375837906
Publication Date: 2007-05-08
Twelve-year-old Ronnie loves organization, especially because her brother has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, but traveling with their grandfather who is investigating wind power in Kansas brings some pleasant, if chaotic, surprises.

One-Handed Catch by Mary Jane Auch | Tall Tales by Karen Day | Team Moon by Chaterine Thimmesh
The Thing About Georgie by Lisa Graff | This is Just to Say by Joyce Sidman

One-Handed Catch by Mary Jane Auch
Call Number: J-Fiction AU (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780805079005
Publication Date: 2006-09-19
After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth-grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities.

Tall Tales by Karen Day
Call Number: J-Fiction DA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0375837736
Publication Date: 2007-05-08
Sixth-grader Meg Summers and her family move to a new state every few years as her alcoholic father tries to get a fresh start, but when Meg finally makes a real friend, they all find the strength to try to change their destiny.

Team Moon : how 400,000 people landed Apollo 11 on the moon by Catherine Thimmesh
Call Number: Juv 629.45 THI (Juvenile nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780618507573
Publication Date: 2006-06-26
Culled from direct quotes from the people behind the scenes, NASA transcripts, national archives and NASA photos, the whole story of Apollo 11 and the first moon landing emerges.

The Thing about Georgie : a novel by Lisa Graff
Call Number: J-Fiction GR (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0060875909
Publication Date: 2007-01-30
Georgie's dwarfism causes problems, but he could always rely on his parents, his best friend, and classmate Jeanie the Meanie's teasing, until a surprising announcement, a new boy in school, and a class project shake things up.

This Is Just to Say : poems of apology and forgiveness by Joyce Sidman; Pamela Zagarenski (Illustrator)
Call Number: Easy SID (Easy Fiction)
ISBN: 9780618616800
Publication Date: 2007-04-09
A sixth grade class writes and assembles poems of apologies and unexpected responses.

Toys Go Out by Emily Jenkins | Way Down Deep by Ruth White
What You Never Knew About Beds, Bedrooms, & Pajamas by Patricia Lauber | The Winner's Walk by Nancy Ruth Patterson

Toys Go Out : being the adventures of a knowledgable stingray, a toughy little buffalo, and someone called Plastic by Emily Jenkins; Paul O. Zelinsky (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction JE (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0375936041
Publication Date: 2006-09-12
Relates the adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys.

Way down Deep by Ruth White
Call Number: J-Fiction WH (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780374382513
Publication Date: 2007-03-20
In the West Virginia town of Way Down Deep in the 1950s, a foundling called Ruby June is happily living with Miss Arbutus at the local boarding house when suddenly, after the arrival of a family of outsiders, the mystery of Ruby's past begins to unravel.

What You Never Knew about Beds, Bedrooms, and Pajamas by Patricia Lauber; John Manders (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-392.3 LAU (Juvenile Nonfiction)
ISBN: 9780689852114
Publication Date: 2006-11-28
Discusses the history of sleeping customs.

The Winner's Walk by Nancy Ruth Patterson; Thomas F. Yezerski (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction PA (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 0374384452
Publication Date: 2006-09-05
Nine-year-old Case Callahan feels driven to succeed, but his failed attempts at various competitions discourage him until he finds a stray dog.

Bluebonnet Award Lists

One Potato, Two Potato