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2010 Beehive Award Winners

The Children's Literature Association of Utah announced the 2010 winners of the Beehive Book Awards, chosen by votes of children and youth in Utah. The winners in the five categories are:

Elementary Fiction: The Magic Thief written by Sarah Prineas
Young Adult Fiction: The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins
Picture Book: When Dinosaurs Came with Everything written by Elise Broach and illustrated by David Small
Informational Book: How Big Is It? written by Ben Hillman
Poetry: Oh, Theodore! Guinea Pig Poems written by Susan Katz, illustrated by Stacey Schuett

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2011 Beehive Book Award Nominees

The Children's Literature Association of Utah announced their 2011 nominees for the Beehive Book Awards on Friday at the Utah Educational Library Media Association conference. Here are the nominees:

2011 Beehive Children's Fiction Award Nominees

11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass (Scholastic)
The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones by Helen Hemphill (Front Street)
Binky the Space Cat by Ashley Spires (Kids Can Press)
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (Henry Holt)
Extra Credit by Andrew Clements (Atheneum/Simon & Shuster)
The Leanin' Dog by K. A. Nuzum (Joanna Cotler Books)
Me and the Pumpkin Queen by Marlane Kennedy (Greenwillow)
Mudville by Kurtis Scaletta (Alfred A. Knopf/Yearling Books)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Little, Brown)
The Year the Swallows Came Early by Kathryn Fitzmaurice (Bowen Press/HarperCollins)

2011 Young Adult Book Nominees

Along for the Ride by Sara Dessen (Viking Children's Books)
Brooklyn Nine: a Novel in Nine Innings by Alan Gratz (Dial / Puffin)
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams (St. Martins Griffin)
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson (Simon & Schuster / Atheneum)
The Compound by S.A. Bodeen (Feiwel & Friends / Squarefish)
*The Devil's Paintbox by Victoria McKernan (Alfred A. Knopf)
*Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman (Viking / Firebird)
Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith (Putnam / Speak)
Musician's Daughter by Susanne Dunlap (Bloomsbury)
My Fair Godmother by Janette Rallison (Walker & Co.)
Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George (Bloomsbury)
Project Sweet Life by Brent Hartinger (HarperTeen)

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2011 Picture Book Nominees

The Apple-Pip Princess by Jane Ray (Candlewick Press)
Birds by Kevin Henkes; illustrated by Laura Dronzek (Greenwillow)
That Book Woman by Heather Henson; illustrated by David Small (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Chicken Cheeks by Michael Ian Black; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes (Simon & Schuster)
The Circus Ship by Chris Van Dusen (Candlewick Press)
Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal; illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld (Chronicle Books)
Higher! Higher! by Leslie Patricelli (Candlewick Press)
Just What Mama Needs by Sharlee Glenn (Harcourt)
Most Loved in All the World by Tonya Hegamin; illustrated by Cozbi A. Cabrera (Houghton Mifflin)
Tsunami by Kimiko Kajikawa; illustrated by Ed Young (Philomel)

2011 Informational Book Nominees

14 Cows for America by Carmen Deedy and Thomas Gonzalez (Peachtree Publishers)
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone (Candlewick Press)
The Boy Who Invented TV: the Story of Philo Farnsworth by Kathleen Krull and Greg Couch (Alfred A. Knopf)
Darwin by Alice McGinty and Mary Azarian (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children)
Down, Down, Down: a Journey to the Bottom of the Sea by Steve Jenkins (Houghton Mifflin)
George Washington Carver by Tonya Bolden (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
Life in the Wild: George Shaller's Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts by Pamela S. Turner (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Mermaid Queen: the Spectacular True Story of Annette Kellerman, Who Swam Her Way to Fame, Fortune & Swimsuit History by Shana Corey (Scholastic)
Nic Bishop Frogs by Nic Bishop (Scholastic)
You Never Heard of Sandy Kofax? by Jonah Winter and Andre Carriho (Schwartz and Wade)

2011 Poetry Nominees

Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face by Jack Prelutsky (Greenwillow)
The Bill Martin Jr. Big Book of Poetry edited by Bill Martin Jr. (Simon & Schuster)
Button Up: Wrinkled Rhymes by Alice Schertle (Harcourt)
Dinothesaurus: Prehistoric Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian
Far From You by Lisa Schroeder (Simon Pulse)
A Fuzzy-Fast Blur: Poems about Pets by Laura Salas (Capstone Press)
Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing by Gary Soto (Harcourt)
Truckery Rhymes by Jon Scieszka (Simon & Schuster)
The Underwear Salesman: Jobs for Better or Verse by J. Patrick Lewis (Ginee Seo Books)
Whiff of Pine, Hint of Skunk by Deborah Ruddell (Margaret K. McElderry)

2010 Morris YA Debut Award Finalists

In 2009 the American Library Association inaugurated a new award for young adult literature, the William C. Morris YA Debut Award. The Morris Award honors a debut book written for teens by a previously unpublished author. Its aim is to "celebrate impressive new voices in young adult literature" through awarding books by new authors based on the quality of the writing and/or illustrations, as well as "proven or potential appeal to a wide range of teen readers."

A shortlist for the 2010 award was released mid-December. The 2010 finalists are:

Ash by Malinda Lo (Little, Brown; 9780316040099)
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (Little, Brown; 9780316042673)
The Everafter by Amy Huntley (Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins; 9780061776793)
Flash Burnout by L.K. Madigan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 9780547194899)
hold still by Nina LaCour (Dutton / Penguin Group; 9780525421559)

The winner of the 2010 Morris Award, chosen from these finalists, will be announced on Monday, January 18, 2010, along with all other winners of the ALA's Youth Media Awards, including the Newbery and Caldecott Medals.

Descriptions of the 2010 Finalists
2010 Morris Award Finalists Customizable Bookmark

Interested in Checking These Out? All five of these titles are available in Kindle format, and we currently have available copies of Beautiful Creatures and The Everafter. Also, a hard copy of hold still is currently available as a review book.

(The recipient of the 2009 Morris Award, given last January, was A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce. Last year's finalists can be seen by clicking here.)

2009 Teens Top Ten

From Aug. 24 - Sept. 18, YALSA conducted an online poll for teens to vote for their favorite book of the past year. The results of this vote were announced as part of Teen Read Week, via a webcast hosted by World Wrestling personalities. This year's winners are:

2009 Teens Top Ten

Paper Towns by John Green
Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
Indentical by Ellen Hopkins
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Wake by Lisa McMann
Untamed by P.C. and Kristen Cast
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Visit the Teens Top Ten web site to find a link to the webcast, lists of winners from previous years, customizable bookmarks that promote the nominees and winners, and other resources. Also, watch the site in the future to find out the nominees and voting times for 2010, as this could be a great reading promotion to use in the library next school year, if you haven't already been using it.

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