Bluebonnet Reading Program

3rd, 4th, and 5th Graders

 

The Bluebonnet Reading Program is sponsored by the Texas Library Association and our library each year.  Texas students are given a list of 20 outstanding  books, and get to vote for their favorite book  when  they hear or read at least 5 books from the list.  The program runs from October to January.

With almost 170,000 youngsters from 1700 libraries voting, Joe Hayes, author of Ghost Fever/Mal de Fantasma, has won the Texas Bluebonnet Award for 2006-07.  Hayes received 23,580 votes. 

This win marks the first time that the author of a dual language book has been so recognized. The subject, however, of children in peril, so prominent in Ghost Fever/Mal de Fantasma, also appears in the two runners up:  The SOS File (with 20,529 votes) and The Lightning Thief (with 19,574 votes).  Clearly adventure, a little danger, and fantastic adventure appealed to readers this year.

Many more children read some books on the list and didn’t vote (voting requires that they read five books), but with these voting numbers it’s documented that this program accounts for over 850,000 books read through the direct influence of Texas librarians.  That’s a record of which we all can be proud.

 

2006 - 2007  Bluebonnet Book

Winner

 is .  .  .

Ghost Fever!!!
This year, 160 of our 3rd-5th graders  met or passed their goal of reading 5 Bluebonnet books! They were invited to a "Voting Celebration ", and received a certificate, ribbon, and Texas- shaped tag for their AR necklace.

 SBE Voting Results

Spring Branch Ele. 143 total votes
The Big House 2
Encyclopedia Prehistorica - Dinosaurs 20
The Forging of the Blade 2
Ghost Fever 61
Giant Rat of Sumatra 1
Good Dog 16
The Lightening Thief 9
The Magician's Boy 2
Mosquite Bite 4
Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds 8
So B. It 3
Surviving Antarctica 3
The Toughest Cowboy 9
Wildfire! 3

 

 New Bluebonnet Books 

for 2007-08

click here

On Your Mark, Get Set, 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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