Award Books

Plum Creek supports the Texas Library Associations picks of the 2x2 Book List and the Texas Bluebonnet Book List, as well as the Texas Mockingbird Book List which is sponsored by the Abiliene ISD Libraries.  You will find information and links to each of these lists below...

 The Texas 2x2's are chosen for kids age 2 to grade 2.  You can find the list of these books by clicking here  http://www.txla.org/groups/crt/2X2list09.htm

The Mockingbird Award is a book list for grades K-2.  You can find the list for these books at http://www.abileneisd.org/mockingbird/index_filehttp://www.abileneisd.org/mockingbird/index_files/page0003.htms/page0002.htm

The 2010 nominees are:

http://www.abileneisd.org/mockingbird/index_files/page0002.htm

The 20 nominated Texas Bluebonnet Books are chosen each year by the Texas Library Association for grades 3-6.  Students across the state are asked to read, or hear read, 5 of the books and choose their favorite in January.  You can check out the list by clicking here http://www.txla.org/groups/tba/nominees.html

as well as visiting the interactive Book Talk website by clicking here.

Checkout the Caldecott Medal site- this award is given every year to the children's book with the best illustrations.

http://staging.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal.cfm

The Newberry Award winning book is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children each year.  Find the current and past winners by visiting http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal.cfm

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