Vote in February 2012

Bluestem AwardBooks

True - HistoryWW2

Nazi’s vs. Jews

How can the Sugihara family help when they are Japanese?

Big country/Small country

9/11

Maasai - Kenya Africa

Kimeli tells the elders that he will offer his cow to the people of America.

Graphic NovelPictures and talking bubbles.

Eager knight

Magic Elf

Gum chewing dragon

Want to draw your own story?

GraphicNovel

Middle School

Julian Calendar tries to act stupid but he’s really smart.

Finds 2 other super smart kids who act bad.

Form the secret science alliance

Create inventions and solve a crime!

Fantasy

Humphrey enjoys being the classroom pet

Loves the teacher Ms. Mac

Likes weekends too when he visits students at their homes

Fantasy

1928

Nathaniel Fludd’s parents lost at Sea.

Goes to Aunt Phil A Fludd

talking Dodo bird

Gremlins

Phoenix bird in Arabia

Adventure - Mythological characters

Humorous

Funniest! Silliest!

Impossible!

30 stories of the different kids in the class.

Mean teacher - turns kids into apples

Fiction - HistoricalCharlotte Parkhurst - only girl in an orphanage

Runs away because

Understands and loves horses

Works for a stable ( disguises as a boy)

Wants to drive a stage coach

Realistic

Griffin finds a very valuable baseball card.

Tries to sell it but is told it’s worthless so he sells it cheap

He later finds out it is worth a million!

How can he out swindle the swindler?

MysteryJ. B. Grumply -an author, write ghost stories, but doesn’t actually believe in them

Ghastly, IL

Seymore Hope - age 11 - left by parents

Olive C. Spence - the ghost! always wanted to publish a book

True - biography

Jon Scieszka grew up with 5 brothers

Super funny :) LOL

When he babysat his baby brother - what did he do to make money from his friends??

True

The unsinkable ship

April 15, 1912

An iceberg

Captain Smith

Telegraph operators

lifeboats/rescues/death

TrueA mother gorilla rescues a toddler

Pet cat saved family from carbon monoxide poisoning

A cow saved a woman from drowning

Dog protected mountain climbers after they fell down a clift.

MysteryHarold is the dog who is telling this story

His family went to the theater to see the movie Dracula

They bring home a rabbit that looks like Dracula

Chester the cat is sure that Bunnicula is a vampire bunny - fangs, drinks.....

RealisticCatherine has a brother who just doesn’t understand anything important

She makes rules for him

OK to hug mom, not store clerk

No toys in the fish tank

New neighbors!

Realistic3rd grade, 4 Graces in class, so the teacher calls her....

Her French renter leaves for awhile

Try to cheer up neighbor by sending postcards (from her cat)

Then something happens to the cat.

Sammy Stringer - did he take it?

Another Country

Abby - 6th grader, Illinois

failing - one last chance to pass

Sadeed - 11 years old.

Afghanistan - mountains, war

forced pen-pals

True - biography

The wild west

Outlaws / gun fights

Great Courage

Accurate shooter

His great intelligence outwitted the criminals

Fantasy

Gotta know your fairy tales!

2 real children, missing parents, move to live with Grandmother

fractured fairy tale

magical mystery

3 pigs are the policemen

Realistic

Ivy June lives in a very poor mining town. - no toilets, showers, no washing machines

Chosen to stay with a family in a wealthy city.

Catherine comes back to stay with Ivy June.

Family tragedies - Catherine’s Mom and Ivy June’s grandfather