Bluestem Award
The Bluestem Award is a readers' choice award for Illinois students in 4th and 5th grade. Any students who hear or read four or more of the books below will be allowed to vote for their favorite book in the spring of 2015. Even if students don't want to read that many of the books, this is still a great list of recommended reading!
Chained by Lynne Kelly
A Dog Called Homeless by Sarah Lean Dogs on Duty: Soldiers' Best Friends on the Battlefield and Beyond by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent Drita, My Homegirl by Jenny Lombard The Dunderheads by Paul Fleischman Frindle by Andrew Clements Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins If You Lived Here: Houses of the World by Giles Laroche Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute by Jarrett J. Krosoczka Niagara Falls, or Does It? by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate Rich: A Dyamonde Daniel Book by Nikki Grimes Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi The Truth about Poop by Susan E. Goodman Wild River by P. J. Petersen Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick |
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