Tales for Two Centuries

Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List^SM
 for 1999-2000

Children's literature provides powerful learning and entertainment opportunities that are catalysts to creativity and research.  The Texas Bluebonnet Book Master List^SM was selected by the Texas Bluebonnet Award^SM Committee of the Texas Library Association.  The list includes a variety of genres and subjects while focusing on characters that inspire young people with their integrity, courage, perserverance, generosity, compassion, and loyalty.
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Click on the name of the book to find summaries and great Internet connections for student research:

I WAS A THIRD GRADE SCIENCE PROJECT by Mary Jane Auch
AKIAK by Robert Blake
TALES FROM THE HOMEPLACE by  Burandt and Dale
THE GHOST OF FOSSIL GLEN by Cynthia DeFelice
INSECTLOPEDIA   by Douglas Florian
HONUS AND ME by Dan Gutman
KENNEDY ASSASSINATED! A Reporter's Story by Wilborn Hampton
WATER BUFFALO DAYS   by Quang Nhuong Huynh
TURN OF THE CENTURYby Ellen Jackson
THE GREAT TURKEY WALK by Kathleen Karr
MARVEN OF THE GREAT NORTH WOODS  by Kathryn Lasky
TOMAS AND THE LIBRARY LADY by Pat Mora
MY LIFE IN DOG YEARS by Gary Paulsen
A WEAVE OF WORDS by Robert D. San Souci
ROPE BURN by Jan Siebold
LOVE FROM YOUR FRIEND, HANNAH   by Mindy Warshaw Skolsky
GIB RIDES HOMEby Ziopha Keatley Snyder
RUMPELSTILTSKIN'S DAUGHTERby Diane Stanley
IN DADDY'S ARMS I AM TALL   by Javaka Steptoe
OLD PEOPLE, FROGS, AND ALBERT by Nancy Hope Wilson

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