First Grade
          Biscuit   I Can Read Books series by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
          Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park

     Second Grade
          Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne

     Third Grade
          Bailey School Kids (series) by Debbie Dadey and
          Marcia Thornton Jones

     Fourth Grade
          Jake Drake (series) by Andrew Clements
          Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar

     Fifth Grade
          Redwall (series) by Brain Jacques
          The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

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Classics

     First, Second, and Third Grade
          Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
          Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
          The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant by Jean De Brunhoff
          The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco
          Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

     Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade
          The Borrowers by Mary Norton
          Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
          Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
          The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
          Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
          A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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Award Winners

     Texas Bluebonnet Award Winners
          2004 - Shoeless Joe & Black Betsy by Phil Bildner
          2003 - The Gold Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring by Ruth Sanderson
          2002 - Because of Winn Dixie by Katie DiCamillo
          2001 - Cook-A-Doodle-Doo! by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel
          2000 - The Ghost of Fossil Glen by Cynthia DeFelice
          1999 - Verdi by Janell Cannon

          For a complete list of past award winners, visit
          Texas Bluebonnet Award Past Winners

     Newbery Award Winners
          2005 - Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
          2004 - The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
          2003 - Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
          2002 - A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
          2001 - A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
          2000 - Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
          1999 - Holes by Louis Sachar

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          Newbery Award Past Winners

     Caldecott Award Winners
          2005 - Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
          2004 - The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
          2003 - My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
          2002 - The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
          2001 - So You Want to be President? by Judit St. George and David Small
          2000 - Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback
          1999 - Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and Mary Azarian

          For a complete list of past award winners, visit
          Caldecott Award Past Winners


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