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The TBA selection committee is responsible for selection of the books on each year's master list. Suggestions are solicited from librarians, teachers, parents, students and other interested persons. A new list of twenty books is released each year at the Texas Book Festival in October. In selecting titles, the committee considers student interests, relevant content, reputable reviews, and literary quality. Both fiction and nonfiction books are represented. The author must be a living U.S. citizen or an author who resides and publishes in the United States. Books considered for the master list must have been published in the United States. Only titles published within the three years prior to the master list release date are considered. Textbooks and new editions of existing titles are not eligible.
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updated 3/19
Texas Library Association
Bluebonnet Award
2017-2018 Resources
Best Man
Richard Peck
Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles
Philippe Cousteau and Deborah Hopkinson
Great Pet Escape (Pets on the Loose
Victoria Jamieson
Great Shelby Holmes
Elizabeth Eulberg
Key to Extraordinary
Natalie Lloyd
Last Kids on Earth
Max Brallier
Little Cat’s Luck
Marion Dane Bauer
Lola Levine: Drama Queen
Monica Brown
Magnificent Mya Tibbs: Spirit Week Showdown
Crystal Allen
Maybe a Fox
Kathi Appelt and Allison McGhee
Soar
Joan Bauer
Some Kind of Courage
Dan Gemeinhart
Storyteller
Evan Turk
Towers Falling
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Unidentified Suburban Object
Mike Jung
Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
Chris Barton