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Texas Bluebonnet Nominees2024-2025
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Odder
by Katherine Applegate
"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her"
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Daybreak at Raven Island by Fleur BradleyWhile on a seventh grade class field trip to Raven Island prison, three students stumble upon a dead body, miss the last ferry back home and must spend the night in a place where they must work together to survive. Simultaneous eBook.
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Something like home
by Andrea Beatriz Arango
Desperate to return home while staying with her aunt, Laura finds a puppy and decides that if she can train the puppy to become a therapy dog, she might be allowed to visit her parents?—?and then maybe things will go back to the way they should be. Simultaneous eBook.
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The Cursed Moon
by Angela Cervantes
"Rafael Fuentes isn't easily scared. He loves writing ghost stories, reading scary books, and entertaining his friends with terrifying tales he creates on the spot. Rafa has come up against enough real-life scary situations that fictional hauntings seem like no big deal. Rafa's incarcerated mom is being released from jail soon, and will be coming to live with him, his sister, and their grandparents. For the first time in a while, Rafa feels a pit of fear growing in his stomach. To take his mind off his mom's return, Rafa spends an evening crafting the scariest ghost story he's ever told. As an eerie blood moon hangs in the sky, Rafa tells a group of friends about The Caretaker. The Caretaker is an evil ghost who lures unsuspecting kids into the neighborhood pond...and they don't ever come out. Rafa is really proud of his latest creation, until strange things start to happen around him. With a sinking feeling, Rafa realizes the Caretaker is real. Rafa has brought the ghost to life--and only he can stop him"
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Shermy & Shake, The Not-So-Nice Neighbor
by Kirby Larson
Shermy finds his plans for a quiet, relaxing summer upended by the arrival of Shake, who moves in next door, and as they are forced to spend more and more time together, these polar opposites must learn how to get along.
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New Dragon City
by Mari Mancusi
"Three years after the world was decimated by dragons, Noah follows his heart to find out if peace between humans and dragons is possible when a chance encounter with a young dragon forces him to question everything he thought he knew.
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The Fire, The Water, and Maudie McGinn
by Sally J. Pla
Follows thirteen-year-old neurodivergent Maudie during an eventful summer in California with her father, where she struggles with whether to share a terrible secret about life with her mom and stepdad
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How To Stay Invisible
by Maggie Rudd
Abandoned by his parents, Raymond makes his home in a cramped hollow tree in the woods near his school, keeping it a secret until his survival depends not only on his wilderness skills but on the people and animals he chooses to trust.
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The Ghost of Spruce Point
by Nancy Tandon
To save his family's beloved Maine motel, 12-year-old Parker and his best friend Frankie must break a curse amid spooky things that are happening, leading them to seek help from a year-rounder with supernatural abilities. Simultaneous eBook.
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The Guardian Test
by Christina Soontornvat
Accepted to the Guardian Academy on Lotus Island, a place where kids transform into magical creatures sworn to protect the natural world, young Plum finds herself struggling and might be forced to leave school if she cannot embrace her inner animal soon. .
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A Rover's Story
by Jasmine Warga
"Built to explore Mars, Resilience, aka Res, learns new things from the NASA scientists and begins to develop human-like feelings, especially when he arrives on the planet, where he is tested in ways that go beyond space exploration.
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Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made A Sweet Treat Better
by Glenda Armand
Spotlighting a little-known visionary, this inspiring picture book biography tells the story of African American entrepreneur Augustus Jackson, aka“the father of ice cream,” who, in the 1800s, created this frozen treat during his time as a White House cook.
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Caves
by Nell Cross Beckerman
"Urging children to explore one of nature's most curious ecosystems, this eye-opening book uses powerful, poetic text to guide readers through different caves around the world while nonfiction text allows for deeper understanding.
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Two Tribes
by Emily Bowen Cohen
"Mia is still getting used to living with her mom and stepfather, and to the new role their Jewish identity plays in their home. Feeling out of place at home and at her Jewish day school, Mia finds herself thinking more and more about her Muscogee father, who lives with his new family in Oklahoma. Her mother doesn't want to talk about him, but Mia can't help but feel like she's missing a part of herself without him in her life. Soon, Mia makes a plan to use the gifts from her bat mitzvah to take a bus toOklahoma--without telling her mom--to visit her dad and find the connection to her Muscogee side she knows is just as important as her Jewish side"
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Ketanji : Justice Jackson's Journey To The U.S. Supreme Court
by Kekla Magoon
"This inspiring picture book biography traces the life of Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is making history as the first Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court Justice, showing her incredible achievements as she fights for justice and equality.
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You are Here: Connecting Flights
by Ellen Oh
Twelve award-winning Asian American authors explore contemporary East and Southeast Asian American identity through interconnected stories set in a Chicago airport where an incident at a TSA security checkpoint sets in motion a chain of events that affects the lives of 12 young Asian Americans. .
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