2015 Kentucky Bluegrass Award

Awards List

Grades 3-5

Giants Beware!
(Winner)
Jorge Aguirre

Grades 6-8

Steelheart
(Winner)
Brandon Sanderson

Grades 9-12

Boy Nobody // I Am the Weapon
(Winner)
Allen Zadoff

Grades K-2

Trouper
(Winner)
Meg Kearney

Grades 3-5

Giants Beware!
(Nominee)
Jorge Aguirre

The Water Castle
(Nominee)
Megan Frazer Blakemore

A Tangle of Knots
(Nominee)
Lisa Graff

Gone Fishing
(Nominee)
Tamera Will Wissinger

The Matchbox Diary
(Nominee)
Paul Fleischman

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
(Nominee)
Stephan Pastis

White Fur Flying
(Nominee)
Patricia MacLachlan

The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
(Nominee)
Kathi Appelt

Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
(Nominee)
Kate DiCamillo

Fortunately, the Milk
(Nominee)
Neil Gaiman

Grades 6-8

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin
(Nominee)
Liesl Shurtliff

Soldier Dog
(Nominee)
Sam Angus

Doll Bones
(Nominee)
Holly Black

Paperboy
(Nominee)
Vince Vawter

Sure Signs of Crazy
(Nominee)
Karen Harrington

Counting by 7s
(Nominee)
Holly Goldberg Sloan

The Great Trouble
(Nominee)
Deborah Hopkinson

Steelheart
(Nominee)
Brandon Sanderson

Foul Trouble
(Nominee)
John Feinstein

Grades 9-12

The Tragedy Paper
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Laban

If You Find Me
(Nominee)
Emily Murdoch (1)

The 5th Wave
(Nominee)
Rick Yancey

The Rithmatist
(Nominee)
Brandon Sanderson

Boy Nobody // I Am the Weapon
(Nominee)
Allen Zadoff

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
(Nominee)
April Genevieve Tucholke

The Beginning of Everything
(Nominee)
Robyn Schneider

How to Love
(Nominee)
Katie Cotugno

The Impossible Knife of Memory
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

Grades K-2

A Good Trade
(Nominee)
Alma Fullerton

Ribbit!
(Nominee)
Rodrigo Folgueira

The Watermelon Seed
(Nominee)
Greg Pizzoli

Make Tree Magic
(Nominee)
Christie Matheson

This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

The Invisible Boy
(Nominee)
Trudy Ludwig

Trouper
(Nominee)
Meg Kearney

Hi, Koo!
(Nominee)
Jon J. Muth

Award Categories

Children's Literature

Grades 3-5

Grades 4-8

Grades 6-8

Grades 9-12

Grades K-2

Grades K-3

Preschool

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