# South Dakota Prairie Bud, Bloom & Pasque Awards reading list

**30** books referenced by South Dakota Prairie Bud, Bloom & Pasque Awards, a reading-program curriculum framework spanning applicable K-12 grade levels.

South Dakota's Children's Book Awards are three student-choice awards run by the South Dakota Library Association with the South Dakota State Library: the Prairie Bud (PreK-grade 1), the Prairie Bloom (grades 2-3) and the Prairie Pasque (grades 4-5). A committee of South Dakota educators and librarians nominates ten titles per award each year; students read from the masterlists, give each book a star rating, and the highest-rated titles win. This list is the SDLA's 2024-2025 nominations, the most recent official masterlist published as a document.

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**Primary source:** https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.sdlibraryassociation.org/resource/resmgr/awards/childrens/2023-24/2024-2025_nominations.pdf (cdn.ymaws.com/www.sdlibraryassociation.org/resource/resmgr/awards/childrens/2023-24/2024-2025_nominations.pdf)
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## South Dakota Prairie Bud, Bloom & Pasque Awards reading list

- [A Duet for Home](https://readinglist.school/book/a-duet-for-home) by Karina Yan Glaser _(Grades 4–5)_
- [A Seed Grows](https://readinglist.school/book/a-seed-grows) by Antoinette Portis _(Grades K–1)_
- [Abuelita and Me](https://readinglist.school/book/abuelita-and-me) by Leonarda Carranza _(Grades K–1)_
- [Action!: How Movies Began](https://readinglist.school/book/action-how-movies-began) by Meghan McCarthy _(Grades 2–3)_
- [Bathe the Cat](https://readinglist.school/book/bathe-the-cat) by Alice B. McGinty _(Grades K–1)_
- [Beautiful You, Beautiful Me](https://readinglist.school/book/beautiful-you-beautiful-me) by Tasha Spillett-Sumner _(Grades K–1)_
- [Because of You, John Lewis](https://readinglist.school/book/because-of-you-john-lewis) by Andrea Davis Pinkney _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky](https://readinglist.school/book/blue) by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond _(Grades 2–3)_
- [Building an Orchestra of Hope: How Favio Chavez Taught Children to Make Music from Trash](https://readinglist.school/book/building-an-orchestra-of-hope) by Carmen Oliver _(Grades K–1)_
- [Concrete: From the Ground Up](https://readinglist.school/book/concrete-from-the-ground-up) by Larissa Theule _(Grades 2–3)_
- [Cornbread & Poppy](https://readinglist.school/book/cornbread-and-poppy) by Matthew Cordell _(Grades 2–3)_
- [Cress Watercress](https://readinglist.school/book/cress-watercress) by Gregory Maguire _(Grades 4–5)_
- [Endlessly Ever After: Pick YOUR Path to Countless Fairy Tale Endings!](https://readinglist.school/book/endlessly-ever-after) by Laurel Snyder _(Grades K–1)_
- [Forever Home: A Dog and Boy Love Story](https://readinglist.school/book/forever-home-a-dog-and-boy-love-story) by Henry Cole _(Grades K–1)_
- [Growing an Artist: The Story of a Landscaper and His Son](https://readinglist.school/book/growing-an-artist) by John Parra _(Grades 2–3)_
- [High Score](https://readinglist.school/book/high-score) by Destiny Howell _(Grades 4–5)_
- [Little Monarchs](https://readinglist.school/book/little-monarchs) by Jonathan Case _(Grades 4–5)_
- [Lou](https://readinglist.school/book/lou) by Breanna Carzoo _(Grades K–1)_
- [Lumberjackula](https://readinglist.school/book/lumberjackula) by Mat Heagerty _(Grades 4–5)_
- [People Are Wild](https://readinglist.school/book/people-are-wild) by Margaux Meganck _(Grades K–1)_
- [Powwow Day](https://readinglist.school/book/powwow-day) by Traci Sorell _(Grades K–1)_
- [Roll for Initiative](https://readinglist.school/book/roll-for-initiative) by Jaime Formato _(Grades 4–8)_
- [Sir Ladybug](https://readinglist.school/book/sir-ladybug) by Corey R. Tabor _(Grades 2–3)_
- [Symphony for a Broken Orchestra: How Philadelphia Collected Sounds to Save Music](https://readinglist.school/book/symphony-for-a-broken-orchestra-how-philadelphia-collected-sounds-to-save-music) by Amy Ignatow _(Grades 2–3)_
- [The Marvellers](https://readinglist.school/book/the-marvellers) by Dhonielle Clayton _(Grades 4–5)_
- [The Ogress and the Orphans](https://readinglist.school/book/the-ogress-and-the-orphans) by Kelly Barnhill _(Grades 4–5)_
- [The Puffin Keeper](https://readinglist.school/book/the-puffin-keeper) by Michael Morpurgo _(Grades 2–3)_
- [The Real Dada Mother Goose: A Treasury of Complete Nonsense](https://readinglist.school/book/the-real-dada-mother-goose) by Jon Scieszka _(Grades 4–5)_
- [Voices of the People](https://readinglist.school/book/voices-of-the-people) by Joseph Bruchac _(Grades 4–5)_
- [Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home](https://readinglist.school/book/where-butterflies-fill-the-sky) by Zahra Marwan _(Grades 2–3)_

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