Kentucky Bluegrass Award 2017-18: Kentucky Bluegrass 3-5

Follows the heroic adventures of Greg the police dog, who, after being injured on the job at the side of his police officer companion, makes history through a life-saving surgery that transforms him into Dog Man.

Tells Malala Yousafzai's harrowing story of standing up for girls' education against the Taliban, being shot in the head, and surviving to continue the fight.

Catrina is already unhappy that she and her family have to move to Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who is sick with cystic fibrosis. But Cat becomes even more upset when she learns that the town is inhabited by ghosts--and that Maya insists on meeting one.

Twelve-year old orphan Emma Casey lives by a haunted graveyard in her Tennessee town, giving tours, and helping her brother and Granny Blue with the family bakery, and waiting for the destiny dream of her ancestors, but when it comes it shows her only a key, and she finds that she must solve a ghostly mystery that has haunted her town for generations.

Fifth-grader Timminy, who is small for his age and new in town, is not eager to start middle school, but he gets a great consolation prize in Maxi, a big, deaf, lovable dog.

Follows the efforts of twelve-year-old Reena, who has recently moved to rural Maine, to adjust to a new environment while unexpectedly bonding with an ornery cow.

After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back.

Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.

Eleven-year-old Ruby Danes has a real best friend for the first time ever, but agonizes over whether or not to tell her a secret she has never shared with anyone, that her mother has been in prison since Ruby was five, and over whether to express her anger to her mother.

Bowser is a mutt, just adopted by eleven-year-old Birdie Gaux and her grandmother, but when they all get home to Grammy's bait and tackle shop in the bayou they discover that their prize stuffed marlin has been stolen--so Bowser decides to investigate, and things quickly become complicated and dangerous.