You can help pick the best book in Texas! To participate just read or listen to five books from the current Bluebonnet Reading List and complete a quick book review to earn credit for each book. Choose 5 books you like best from the 20 nominees - or read them all. Complete your reviews by January 25th to earn an invitation to the Bluebonnet Voting Celebration - a special activity at school. We hope to see you there!
Be sure to complete a separate book review for each title you've read.
3rd Grade Book Review
4th Grade Book Review
5th Grade Book Review
The Texas Bluebonnet Award is a project of the Texas Library Association created to encourage a love of voluntary reading. Since 1981, students across the state have selected a top title from 20 nominees to win the Bluebonnet Award each year.
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Beginning August 25th: Click below to complete a Bluebonnet Reading Response:
Be sure to complete a separate book review for each title you've read.
3rd Grade Book Review
4th Grade Book Review
5th Grade Book Review
The Texas Bluebonnet Award is a project of the Texas Library Association created to encourage a love of voluntary reading. Since 1981, students across the state have selected a top title from 20 nominees to win the Bluebonnet Award each year.
Click here...
Bluebonnet Reading List: Summaries of the 2014-2015 titles.
Mackin Book Talk: Interactive descriptions of the current nominees.
Reading Tracking Sheet: Use this optional sheet to keep track as you read.
Teachers/Parents: Check out these great ideas for each teaching with each book on the TLA Bluebonnet Wiki.
Mackin Book Talk: Interactive descriptions of the current nominees.
Reading Tracking Sheet: Use this optional sheet to keep track as you read.
Teachers/Parents: Check out these great ideas for each teaching with each book on the TLA Bluebonnet Wiki.
Athlete vs. Mathlete by W.C.Mack Book Activities
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan Book Activities
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers Book Activities
Dead City by James Ponti Book Activities
The Expeditioners by S.S. Taylor Book Activities
Face Bug by J. Patrick Lewis Book Activities
Lester’s Dreadful Sweaters by K.G. Campbell Book Activities
The Lost Treasure of Tuckernuck by Emily Fairlie Book Activities
Monsieur Marceau by Leda Schubert Book Activities
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: One Dead Spy by Nathan Hale Book Activities
The Neptune Project by Polly Holyoke Book Activities
Odette’s Secrets by Maryann Macdonald Book Activities
Pickle: The (Formerly) Anonymous Prank Club of Fountain Point Middle School by Kim Baker Book Activities
Platypus Police Squad: The Frog who Croaked by Jarrett J. Krosoczka Book Activities
Rebel McKenzie by Candice Ransom Book Activities
RUMP: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin by Liesl Shurtliff Book Activities
Spy Camp by Stuart Gibbs Book Activities
Eligible voters are photographed for the library windows and recognized at assembly once a month. Come check the Purefoy Library Programs binder on the library counter to check your progress in the Bluebonnet Program and our other library activities.
Looking for a great read?
Try a past Bluebonnet Award Winner!
2014: Ten Rules You Absolutely Must Not Break if you Want to Survive the School Bus by John Grandits
2013: Postcards from Camp by Simms Taback
2012: The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger
2013: Postcards from Camp by Simms Taback
2012: The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger
2011: The Uglified Ducky by Willy Claflin
