List of Beehive Nominess for 2012-13

Come in and vote by April 17th on your favorite Beehive Nominee for 2012-13

Children’s Fiction Books

A Dog’s Way Home by Bobbie Pyron
Edgar Allan’s Official Crime Investigation Notebook by Mary Amato
The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens
The Familiars by Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson
Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst; illustrated by Lane Smiths
True (. . . Sort Of) by Katherine Hannigan
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann
With a Name Like Love by Tess Hilmo

Picture Book
Art & Max by David Wiesner
Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake by Michael Kaplan; illustrated by Stephane Jorisch
Blackout by John Rocco
Children Make Terrible Pets by Peter Brown
Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow by Susan A. Shea; illustrated by Tom Slaughter
Doodleday by Ross Collins
Earth to Clunk by Pam Smallcomb; illustrated by Joe Berger
Hooray for Amanda & Her Alligator by Mo Willems
Me and My Dragon by David Biedrzycki
Press Here by Herve Tullet

Informational Books
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming
Arlington: The Story of Our Nation’s Cemetery by Chris Demarest
The Bat Scientists, Scientists in the Field series, by Mary Kay Carson
A Butterfly is Patient by Dianna Hutts Aston
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London by Andrea Warren
For the Love of Music: The Remarkable Story of Maria Anna Mozart by Elizabeth Rusch
Just Being Audrey by Margaret Cardillo
Lafayette and the American Revolution by Russell Freedman
Pop! The Invention of Bubble Gum by Meghan McCarthy
Tom Thumb: The Remarkable True Story of a Man in Miniature by George Sullivan

Poetry Books
Around the World on Eighty Legs by Amy Gibson
Better Together by Sheryl Shapiro and Simon Shapiro
Dear Hot Dog by Mordicai Gerstein
Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems by Kristine O’Connell George
GUYKU: A Year of Haiku for Boys by Bob Raczka
I Am the Book by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes by Salley Mavor
Switching on the Moon: A Very First Book of Bedtime Poems compiled by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters; illustrated by G. Brian Karas
Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku by Lee Wardlaw
The Year of Goodbyes: A True Story of Friendship, Family and Farewells by Debbie Levy

Young Adult Fiction Book
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Septys *
Blood Red Road (Dustlands, book 1) by Moira Young *
Death Cloud (Sherlock Holmes: The Legend Begins, book 1) by Andrew Lane
The False Princess by Ellis O’Neal
The Last Thing I Remember (Homelanders, book 1) by Thomas Nelson *
Okay For Now by Gary Schmidt
Ruby Red (Ruby Red, book 1) by Kerstin Gier
The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
Sean Griswold’s Head by Lindsey Leavitt
Ten Miles Past Normal by Frances O’Roark Dowell
Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore *
Variant (Variant, book 1) by Robison Wells
*mature readers

Beehive Book Nominees 2012-2013

On display at the library, are the Beehive Book Nominees for the year 2012-13.

Now is your chance to come into the library and vote on these books and let us know which ones you have enjoyed. Voting ends on April 17th. There are five categories:  Children's Fiction, Picture Books, Information Books, Poetry and Young Adult.

The Beehive Awards are sponsored by a group called the "Children's Literature Association of Utah". This group was created to encourage our children to read. If you would like to know more about this association, here is a link to their website.

http://www.clau.org/index.html

The Kitchen House

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

At age 7, Lavinia is a 7 year old orphan from Ireland, who becomes an indentured servant on a plantation in sourthern Virginia in 1791. Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, works in the kitchen house and becomes the caregiver for Lavinia. Both Belle and Lavinia work along side the slaves on the plantation and they all develop a strong family bond.

Grissom is able to creat a story that is very compelling with characters that are very realistic. She paints a very vivid picture of the time period and the many terrible acts that were committed. The characters in her book were able to find joy in the simple things in life, even through the many sorrows and trials that they faced.

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These is my Words

These is my Words, The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, by Nancy E. Turner.

This was one of those books that I could not put down, and when I finished it, I was sad that it was over and wished I had not read it so fast. I was immediately drawn into the story and into Sarah's head. The story is written in a way that really brings the characters to life and makes you cry when they cry and celebrate when they celebrate.

Sarah Prine's story begins on a wagon trail going to Arizona with her family. In diary format, the book follows the story of her life over the course of twenty years, from 1881-1901. We see her struggles on the wagon trail, loss of family, tyring to settle a new land, marry, have children and try and make a better life for herself and her family.

Definitely one my favorites list! This is one of those books you really need to try!