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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