About the Beehive Book Award
Founded in 1980, the Beehive Book Awards are the only children's choice award for literature in the state of Utah!
Each year the Children's Literature Association of Utah (CLAU), a volunteer organization of individuals who have a personal or professional interest in children's literature, sponsors the Beehive Book Awards to help motivate young people to read. Children vote from a short list of nominees in the following categories: Children's Fiction (chapter books), Picture Books, Informational Books, Poetry, Graphic Novels, and Young Adult Fiction. The title with the highest percentage of votes from the children in each category wins the award!(-http://www.claubeehive.org/about-the-beehive-book-awards.html)
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Bea and the New Deal Horse by L.M. Elliot
The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby by G. Z. Schmidt
Finally Seen by Kelly Yang
How to stay Invisible by Maggie C. Rudd
Iceberg by Jennifer A. Niesen
Just Gus by McCall Holye
The Labor of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt
The Story of Gumluck the Wizard by Adam Rex
The Superteacher Project by Gordon Korman
The Unforgettable Logan Foster by Shawn Peters
POETRY
Animals in Pants by Suzy Levinson
Counting Dog Years by Betsy Franco
Good Different by Meg Eden Kuyatt
We Are Branches by Joyce Sidman
Zap! Clap! Boom! The Story of a Thunderstorm by Laura Puride Salas
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega
Gnome and Rat by Lauren Stohler
Mexikid by Pedro Martin
Saving Sunshine by Saadia Faruqi
Squire & Knight by Scott Chantler
INFORMATIONAL
American Murderer: The Parasite that Haunted the South by Gail Jarrow
Astonishing and Extinct Professions: 89 Jobs You Will Never Do by Markus Rottmann
Darwin's Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular by Polly Owen
Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider by Jessica Lanan
Meet the Bears by Kate Peridot
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyuo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge
Sisters in Science: Marie Curie, Bronia Dluska, and the Atomic Power of Sisterhood by Linda Elovitz Marshall
The Story of the Saxophone by Lesa Cline-Ransome
The Witness Trees: Historic Moments and the Trees Who Watched Them Happen by Ryan G. Van Cleave
Wombats Are Pretty Weird: A (Not So) Serious Guide by Abi Cushman
PICTURE BOOKS
Flat Cat by Tara Lazar
Frank & Bert by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros
One Chicken Nugget by Tadgh Bentley
Our Pool by Lucy Ruth Cummins
Peng's Vase by Angus Yuen-Killick
Rick the Rock of Room 214 by Julie Falatko
That's My Sweater by Jessica von Innerebner
Very Good Hats by Emma Straub
Walter Finds His Voice: The Story of a Shy Crocodile by Ann Him Ha
Yetis Are the Worst by Alex Willan
