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Texas Bluebonnet Reading List 2020

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The Bluebonnet reading list is near and dear to my heart. When my kids were each in 5th-grade, they participated in the Battle of the Bluebonnets. This is a competition where each school in the district have kids competing in a trivia competition. There are two questions each for each of the twenty books on the list. To show my support, I also read each of the books from the list.    The Bluebonnet Reading List consists of a mixture of non-fiction, chapter books, picture books, poetry, and graphic novels geared at kids from 3rd to 6th grade. I think that they are a great mixture of books for kids.  A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation  by Barry Wittenstein. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney ( Neal Porter Books / Holiday House Publishing, Inc., 2019) Much has been written about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1963 March on Washington. But there's little on his legendary speech and how he came to write it. Martin Luther King, Jr. was once asked if