Bluestem+Award+2012

Illinois' Grades 3-5 Readers' Choice Award
 * Bluestem Book Award **

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 * The Bluestem Award**:The Illinois State Library Media Association sponsors this award. The award is designed for students in grades 3-5 who are ready for longer titles than found on the Monarch list, but not quite ready for the sophistication of some of the Rebecca Caudill titles. Named in honor of Big Bluestem which is the state prairie grass, the award may include both timeless classics and current titles, as well as books that may have appeared on previous Monarch and Rebecca Caudill award lists.=====

**2012 Nominees**

14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy and Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah

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

All Stations! Distress! April 15, 1912: The Day the Titanic Sank. by Don Brown

Animal Heroes: True Rescue Stories by Sandra Markle

Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Bunnicula: a Rabbit Tale of Mystery by James Howe



Dying to Meet You: 43 Cemetery Road, Book 1 by Kate Klise

@Extra Credit by Andrew Clements



Faith, Hope, & Ivy June by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

@Flight of the Phoenix by R. L. Lafevers

Just Grace by Charise Mericle Harper

Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka by John Scieszka

Passage to Freedom: the Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki

@Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan illustrated by Brian Selznick

@Rules by Cynthia Lord

The 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 Michael Buckley

Swindle by Gordon Korman

The World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney