2008-2009 Bluebonnet Nominees
The Bluebonnet is a statewide children's choice award program in which students in grades 3-6 vote for their favorite book from the master reading list if they have read at least five of them. Voting takes place in January and the winner is announced in early February. For more information or to see past winners, see the Texas Library Association site, The Texas Bluebonnet Award.

**2008 Bluebonnet Award Winner - Down Girl and Sit: On the Road by Lucy Nolan**

Title
Author
One-Handed Catch Mary Jane Auch
Atherton: the House of Power Patrick Carman
The Middle of Somewhere J.B. Cheaney
Tall Tales Karen Day
One Potato, Two Potato Cynthia DeFelice
Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings Douglas Florian
The Thing About Georgie Lisa Graff
Just Grace Charise Mericle Harper
Gabriel's Horses Alison Hart
Toys Go Out Emily Jenkins
What You Never Knew About Beds, Bedrooms, and Pajamas Patricia Lauber
Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor Emily Arnold McCully
How to Steal a Dog Barbara O'Connor
The Winner's Walk Nancy Ruth Patterson
Lawn Boy Gary Paulsen
The Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick
This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness Joyce Sidman
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon Catherine Thimmesh
Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom Tim Tingle
Way Down Deep Ruth White
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