Bluestem Book

Award

This award is named in honor of Big Bluestem, which is the Illinois prairie grass.  The award is designed for students in grades 3-5 and may include both classics and current titles, as well as books that have appeared on Monarch and Rebecca Caudill lists.   Students must read, or have read to them, four of the 20 nominated books in order to vote in February.   In L.C.S.

these books will only be offerd to grades 4-5.  Grade 3 will read the Monarch books.

2011-2012 Bluestem List

14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy

Adventures in Cartooning by James Sturm

All Stations! Distress  by Don Brown

Animals Heroes: True Rescue Stories by Sandra Markle

Bad News for Outlaws by Vaunda Nelson

Bunnicula: a Rabbit Tale of Mystery

by James Howe

Dying to Meet You   by Kate Klise

Extra Credit by Andrew Clements

Faith, Hope and Ivy June by Phyllis Naylor

Flight of the Phoenix by R.L. LaFevers

Knucklehead:...Growing up Scieszka by Jon Scieszka

Passage to Freedom: the Sughihara Story

by Ken Mochizuki

Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan

Rules by Cynthia Lord

Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook 

by Eleanor Davis

Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar

Sisters Grimm: The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Micheal Buckley

Swindle by Gordon Korman

World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney

Just Grace by Charise Harper