The Bluestem Award 2011

Illinois' Grades 3-5 Readers' Choice Award

Not quite ready for Monarch List and Rebecca Caudill titles!

The Bluestem Award is designed for students in grades 3-5; named in honor of Big Bluestem which is the state prairie grass. The titles includes classics and current titles, as well as books that have appeared on Monarch and Rebecca Caudill lists.

First Place

Hachiko Waits
by Leslea Newman

Second Place

BFG
by Roald Dahl

Third Place

How to Steal a Dog
by Barbara O’Connor

 

Master List 2012

The world according to Humphrey
by Birney, Betty G.

All stations! distress! : April 15, 1912, the day the Titanic sank
by Brown, Don

The Fairy-tale detectives
by Buckley, Michael

Extra credit
by Clements, Andrew

The Secret Science Alliance and the copycat crook
by Davis, Eleanor

14 cows for America
by Deedy, Carmen Agra

 Just Grace
by Harper, Charise Mericle

Bunnicula : a rabbit-tale of mystery
by Howe, Deborah, and James Howe

Dying to meet you
by Klise, Kate

Swindle
by Korman, Gordon

Flight of the phoenix
by La Fevers, R. L. (Robin L.)

Rules
by Lord, Cynthia

Animal heroes : true rescue stories
by Markle, Sandra

Passage to freedom : the Sugihara story
by Mochizuki, Ken

 Faith, hope, and Ivy June
by Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

 Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal
by Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux

Riding freedom
by Ryan, Pam Muñoz

Sideways stories from Wayside School
by Sachar, Louis

 Knucklehead : tall tales & mostly true stories of growing up Scieszka
by Scieszka, Jon

Adventures in cartooning
by Sturm, James, Andrew Arnold and Alexis Frederick-Frost