And the Texas Bluebonnet Award goes to…

One Potato, Two Potato by Cynthia DeFelice.

The Texas Bluebonnet Award (TBA) reading program was created to encourage children to read more books, explore a variety of current books, develop powers of discrimination, and identify their favorite books. The program targets children in grades 3-6. For more information about the TBA and to see past winners and nominees for the next school year, click here.

Pulitzer prizes announced

The Pulitzer Prizes for letters were announced this week. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout won the Fiction Prize, the prize for history went to The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed and Jon Meacham's biography of Andrew Jackson American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House won the prize for biography (and is available in the library).

Click here for a complete list.

Book awards

The nomination lists for the Hugo Award (science fiction), the Orange Prize for Fiction (given to a female writer), and the Man Booker International Prize (given for an author's contribution to English-language fiction) are out. Check out some of these titles from the library (click the links for the full nomination lists and more information about the prizes).

Hugo nominees available in the library

• The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
• Zoe's Tale, John Scalzi

Orange Prize nominees available in the library

• A Mercy, Toni Morrison
• American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld

Man Booker nominees available in the library

• Evan S. Connell
• E.L. Doctorow
• Alice Munro
• V.S. Naipaul
• Joyce Carol Oates