Bluebonnet Award Book Program
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The Texas Bluebonnet Award Book program is a reading program for 3rd and 4th graders in which they must read a minimum of 5 books from a list of 20 titles.  Each year a new and exciting list of titles is given to students to choose from.  List of titles is below.

2007-8 Bluebonnet Award Book List 

Firegirl / Abbott                                                            The Blue Ghost / Bauer

The Greatest Skating Race / Borden                               The Misadventure of Maude March / Couloumbis

Chicken Boy / Dowell                                                      Who Stole Halloween? / Freeman

Double Identity / Haddix                                               Weedflower / Kadohata

The Ghost's Grave / Kehret                                            Year of the Dog / Grace

Outside and Inside Mummies / Markle                            Hubert Invents the wheel / Montgomery

Roxie and the Hooligans / Naylor                                   Down Girl and Sit: On the Road / Nolan

Pompeii:  Lost and Found / Osborne                                Ballet of the Elephants / Schubert

Leven Thumps and Gateway to Foo / Obert                     Bella at Midnight / Stanley

George Crum and the Saratoga Chip / Taylor                  The Earth Dragon Awakes / Yep

All of these books are available at Glen Loch, as well as at the public library or at local book stores (purchasing books is completely optional).

Glen Loch's Bluebonnet program begins October 9, 2007 and is completed January 18, 2008.  In order to receive credit for reading a Bluebonnet book, each student must pass an AR test.  Prizes are awarded to students who read a minimum of either 10 or 18 of the twenty books.   The ten book level prize is a hand painted tin (painted by librarian Mrs. Lawrence) filled with popcorn.  The eighteen book level prize is a hand stenciled t-shirt (also painted by Mrs. Lawrence).  Prizes are awarded on our voting day.

One hundred eighty two Glen Loch students voted on Friday, January 25 and selected the following books as their favorite titles:

    #1  Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo by Skye           50 votes

    #2  Down Girl and Sit: On the Road by Nolan                    28 votes  

    #3  The Blue Ghost by Bauer                                            17 votes

The official state Bluebonnet Award Book winner is Down Girl and Sit with 19,248 votes. 

Prizes were awarded to 48 students who read at least ten books and to 14 students who read 18 of the 20 titles!  Congratulations to these amazing readers!