The Highland Park Elementary School
Austin, Texas
Beth Finkle's Fourth Grade Class


My Language Arts class has created reviews and given their recommendations for several of the books on the Bluebonnet Award List. They have given a brief synopsis of the book and their recommendation on whether or not the book should be the Bluebonnet winner. In addition to reading and reviewing the books on the list, their complete assignment was to read two Bluebonnet Books, write recommendations for them and design a bookmark for each book they chose. The students had to choose one novel and one informational or picture book from the list for their reports. They are presently working on completing at least five books each, so that they will all be eligible to vote in January. Several students are making the attempt to read all twenty books before they vote in January.

Beth Finkle
bfinkle@hipark.austin.isd.tenet.edu


Blooming Bluebonnet Book Reviews
AuthorBook TitleReviewed By:
Ancona, George THE PINATA MAKER
EL PINATERO
Megan S.
Bunting, Eve SMOKY NIGHT Not Reviewed
Byars, Betsy THE DARK STAIRS Not Reviewed
Clavert, Patricia BIGGER Arthur G.
Facklam, Margery THE BIG BUG BOOK Not Reviewed
Hahn, Mary Downing TIME FOR ANDREW:
A GHOST STORY
Kelly C.
Hodges, Margaret, Retel THE HERO OF BREMEN Not Reviewed
Hopkinson, Deborah SWEET CLARA AND
THE FREEDOM QUILT
Kyle H.
Irwin, Hadley JIM-DANDY Gilbert L.
Isaacson, Philip M. A SHORT WALK
AROUND THE PYRAMIDS
AND THROUGH THE WORLD
OF ART
Kate W.
Klause, Annette Curtis ALIEN SECRETS Tyler W.
MacLachlan, Patricia SKYLARK Ashley L.
Mayer, Marianna BABA YAGA AND
VASILISA THE BRAVE
Omid K.
Mitchell, Margaree King UNCLE JED'S
BARBERSHOP
Jennifer N.
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds THE FACE
IN THE BESSLEDORF
FUNERAL PARLOR
Avaire P.
Quattlebaum, Mary JACKSON JONES
AND THE PUDDLE
OF THORNS
Cole J.
Robinson, Barbara THE BEST
SCHOOL YEAR EVER
Kayla H.
Seidler, Tor THE WAINSCOTT WEASEL Cade J.
Van Allsburg, Chris THE SWEETEST FIG Not Reviewed
Wilcox, Charlotte MUMMIES
& THEIR MYSTERIES
Matt E.


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