Texas Bluebonnet List

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Nominees for the 2009-2010 school year * This program is only found in Texas. Every year a group of librarians and teachers get together and carefully select 20 books they think kids will like and give the list to librarians around the state. * Kids 3rd through 6th grades are given the opportunity to read at least 5 of the 20 books by January in order to vote for their favorite. The votes are sent in to the Texas Library Association and the winner is announced in February. The author is honored at the annual TLA conference in April. * The more bluebonnet books you read, the better you can vote. Mrs. G. has a favorite but won't tell anyone until voting is over. *The books are located at the beginning of the non-fiction section. To find out more information please visit the official Bluebonnet website. http://www.txla.org/groups/tba/masters/TBA%202010-11.pdf Home of the Brave Applegate, Katherine Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin as well as in his fifth-grade classroom. He longs for his missing mother but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner. All Stations! Distress! April 15, 1912: The Day the Titanic Sank Brown, Don This book presents an account of the deadly voyage of the "Titanic" in April 1912, when about 2,200 passengers and crew, rich and poor alike, fought to survive. Umbrella Summer Graff, Lisa After her brother Jared dies, ten-year-old Annie worries about the hidden dangers of everything, from bug bites to bicycle riding, until she is befriended by a new neighbor who is grieving her own loss. Dying to Meet You Klise, Kate In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author I.B. Grumply gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer. Book #1       14 Cows for America       Deedy, Carmen Agra      This book presents an illustrated tale of a gift of fourtee      n          cows given by the Maasai people of Kenya to the U.S. as a            gesture of comfort and friendship in the wake of the attacks          of September 11, 2001. The coauthor is Wilson Kimeli                      Naiyomah.