• The Bluebonnet Award is a project of the Texas Library Association and is co-sponsored by the Children's Roundtable and the Texas Association of School Librarians, both of the Texas Library Association, from suggestions from librarians, teachers, parents, students, and others. 

     
    Third, fourth, and fifth graders who read 5 or more of the Bluebonnet books are eligible to vote for their favorite book in January 2023. 
     
      
    Click  for the Texas Library Association Bluebonnet Award information page.
     
    Below is the 2022-2023 Bluebonnet Award List:
     
    1.  Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston, illustrated by Godwin Akpan.
    2.  Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna by Alda P. Dobbs.
    3.  Bartali’s Bicycle: The True Story of Gino Bartali, Italy’s Secret Hero by Megan Hoyt, illustrated by Iacopo Bruno. 
    4.  Becoming Muhammad Ali: A Novel by James Patterson & Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile.
    5.  Billy Miller Makes a Wish by Kevin Henkes. 
    6.  The Hungry Place by Jessie Haas. 
    7.  J.D. and the Great Barber Battle by J. Dillard, illustrated by Akeem S. Roberts.
    8.  The Lion of Mars by Jennifer Holm. 
    9.  Long Lost by Jacqueline West. 
    10.  Memoirs of a Tortoise by Devin Scillian, illustrated by Tim Bowers. 
    11.  Nightingale by Deva Fagan 
    12.  No Place for Monsters by Kory Merritt 
    13.  Once Upon a Camel by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by Eric Rohmann.
    14.  The One Thing You’d Save by Linda Sue Park, illustrated by Robert Sae-Heng. 
    15.  Rock by Rock: The Fantastical Garden of Nek Chand by Jennifer Bradbury, illustrated by Sam Boughton. 
    16.  Stella by McCall Hoyle.
    17.  Swish! The Slam-Dunking, Alley-Ooping, High-Flying Harlem Globetrotters by Suzanne Slade, illustrated by Don Tate.
    18.  Twins by Varian Johnson and Shannon Wright. 
    19.  Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Floyd Cooper.
    20.  Willodeen by Katherine Applegate, illustrated by Charles Santoso.