Beehive Awards for Teen Literature

Riders of the Silver Rim	Thoene, Brock & Bodie	F Thoene
Joshua Roberts goes West to seek his fortune, but he finds trouble instead. **1994 Beehive Nominee**
Iron Ring	Alexander, Lloyd	YA F Alexande
Driven by his sense of dharma, or honor, young King Tamar sets off on a perilous journey, with a significance greater than he can imagine, during which he meets talking animals, villainous and noble kings, demons, and the love of his life. **2000 Beehive Nominee**
Skellig	Almond, David	YA F Almond
Unhappy about his sister's illness and the chaos of moving into an old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel. **2002 Beehive Nominee**
Chains: Seeds of America	Anderson, Laurie Halse	YA F Anderson
When Isabel’s former owner ends up sending her to live with a cruel loyalist family at the start of the Revolutionary War, she begins spying on them to help the rebels win the war. **2011 Beehive Nominee**
Fever, 1793	Anderson, Laurie Halse	YA F Anderson
Yellow fever is sweeping through Philadelphia, and for young Mattie, the epidemic begins with the sudden death of a friend. **2003 Beehive Nominee**
The Rhyming Season	Averett, Edward	YA F Averett
A senior basketball-player shoulders the hopes of a dying mill town and her bereaved family when she and an eccentric English teacher-coach try to lead their team to state basketball history. **2008 Beehive Nominee**
Nothing but the Truth	Avi	YA F Avi
A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story. **1995 Beehive Nominee**
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle	Avi	YA F Avi
As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious. **1994 Beehive WINNER**
The Merlin Effect	Barron, T. A.	YA F Barron
When she joins her father and several others investigating a strange whirlpool and possible sunken treasure ship off the coast of Baja California, thirteen-year-old Kate is drawn into a centuries-old conflict between Merlin and the evil Vagar. **1998 Beehive WINNER**
Thwonk	Bauer, Joan	YA F Bauer
A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love. **1998 Beehive Nominee**
Squashed	Bauer, Joan	YA F Bauer
As a sixteen-year-old pursues her two goals--growing the biggest pumpkin in Iowa and losing twenty pounds herself--she strengthens her relationship with her father and meets a young man with interests similar to her own. **1996 Beehive Nominee**
Hope was Here	Bauer, Joan	YA F Bauer
Hope is a waitress from Brooklyn who moves to Wisconsin with her aunt Addie. Hope and Addie find a new life in Wisconsin as well as a cause when the diner's owner takes on the mayor in an upcoming election. **2003 Beehive Nominee**
Rules of the Road	Bauer, Joan	YA F Bauer
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire. Along the way, Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father. **2000 Beehive Award** **Golden Kite Award**
Angie	Bezzant, Pat	YA F Bezzant
Sixteen-year-old Angie, a bright, pretty teenager with a learning disability, feels that her handicap makes her different from the other kids at school, until Steven, a neighbor and the cutest guy in school, begins to pay attention to her. **1997 Beehive Nominee**
Tangerine	Bloor, Edward	YA F Bloor
Paul Fisher is supposed to be legally blind, although he can see well enough to play soccer. When his family moves to Tangerine, Florida, Paul doesn't expect life to be much different. His brother Erik's football dream will dominate his parents' attention. **2000 Beehive Nominee**
The Compound	Bodeen, S. A.	YA F Bodeen
15-yr-old Eli spends 6 years in an underground compound his father built to protect them from the nuclear holocaust, but what will happen if the entire thing was all a monstrous hoax? **2011 Beehive Nominee**
Shift	Bradbury, Jennifer	YA F Bradbury
Best friends Chris and Win go on a cross-country bicycle trek the summer after graduation and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened. **2010 Beehive Nominee**
For Freedom: the Story of a French Spy	Bradley, Kimberly	YA F Bradley
Despite the horrors of World War II, a French teenager pursues her dream of becoming an opera singer, which takes her to places where she gains information about what the Nazis are doing, information the French Resistance needs. **2005 Beehive Nominee**
Hot Lunch	Bradley, Alex	YA F Bradley
When Molly and Cassie are assigned to work in the kitchen as a punishment for their food fight, they realize that the only way they are going to be released from the duty is to cooperate and learn to cook. Includes some recipes. **2009 Beehive Nominee**
Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature	Brande, Robin	YA F Brande
Mena is at odds with her conservative family and friends when she stands up for a teacher who refuses to include "Intelligent Design" in lessons on evolution. **2010 Beehive Nominee**
Pieces of Georgia	Bryant, Jennifer	YA F Bryant
In journal entries to her mother, a gifted artist who died suddenly, thirteen-year-old Georgia McCoy reveals how her life changes after she receives an anonymous gift membership to a nearby art museum. **2008 Beehive Nominee**
Gideon the Cutpurse	Buckley-Archer, Linda	YA F Buckley-Archer
Ignored by his father and sent to Derbyshire for the weekend, twelve-year-old Peter and his new friend, Kate, are accidentally transported back in time to 1763 England, where they are befriended by a reformed cutpurse. **2008 Beehive Nominee**
SOS Titanic	Bunting, Eve	YA F Bunting
Fifteen-year-old Barry O'Neil, traveling from Ireland to America on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, finds his life endangered when the ship hits an iceberg. **1999 Beehive WINNER**
Shark Callers	Campbell, Eric	YA F Campbell
Two teenage boys, one on a shark hunt and the other traveling with his family, face the challenge of their lives when a volcano erupts, causing a massive tidal wave in the South Seas. **1997 Beehive Nominee**
Shadow Brothers	Cannon, A.E.	YA F Cannon
High school junior Marcus feels his entire world changing around him as Henry, the Navajo foster brother who has lived with him since the age of seven, starts to change his personality and wonder if he should return to his family's reservation in another state. **1994 Beehive Nominee**
Cheating Lessons	Cappo, Nan Willard	YA F Cappo
When her school's team is announced as a finalist in the state Classics Bowl contest, Bernadette suspects that cheating may have been involved. **2005 Beehive Nominee**
The Warrior Heir	Chima, Cinda Williams	YA F Chima
After learning about his magical ancestry and his own warrior powers, sixteen-year-old Jack embarks on a training program to fight enemy wizards. **2008 Beehive Nominee**
The Year of Impossible Goodbyes	Choi, Sook Nyul	YA F Choi
A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Soviet occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea. **1994 Beehive Nominee**
Things Not Seen	Clements, Andrew	YA F Clements
When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it. **2004 Beehive Nominee**
On the Run	Coleman, Michael	YA F Coleman
When a persistent youth offender is caught once again, he is sentenced to community service as the partner to a blind runner. **2007 Beehive Nominee**
Airman	Colfer, Eoin	YA F Colfer
Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king. He is branded a traitor, imprisoned and forced to mine diamonds under brutal conditions, but plans a daring escape. **2010 Beehive Nominee**
With Every Drop of Blood	Collier, James Lincoln	YA F Collier
Fourteen-year-old Johnny is on a bold mission to supply the Rebel troops with his family's mules and wagon when he is captured by a Yankee--Cush, a runaway slave. **1999 Beehive Nominee**
Hunger Games	Collins, Suzanne	YA F Collins
In a future North America, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in a televised survival competition. **2010 Beehive Nominee**
Waiting for Normal	Connor, Leslie	YA F Connor
When twelve-year-old Addie and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York, Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior. **2010 Beehive Nominee**
Flight #116 is Down	Cooney, Carolyn B.	YA F Cooney
Teenager Heidi Landseth helps rescue people from a plane crash on her family's property, and the experience changes her life forever. **1995 Beehive Nominee**
Twenty Pageants Later	Cooney, Caroline B.	YA F Cooney
As the younger and plainer sister of a frequent beauty contest winner, fourteen-year-old Scottie-Ann has always had mixed feelings about such competitions especially when she finds herself a reluctant contestant in the Marsh Mid Princess Pageant. **1994 Beehive Nominee**
Hit the Road	Cooney, Caroline B.	YA F Cooney
Sixteen-year-old Brittany acts as chauffeur for her grandmother and three other eighty-plus-year-old women going to what is supposedly their college reunion, on a long drive that involves lies, theft, and kidnappings. **2008 Beehive Nominee**
Goddess of Yesterday	Cooney, Caroline B.	YA F Cooney
Taken from her home on an Aegean island as a six-year-old girl, Anaxndra calls on the protection of her goddess as she poses as two different princesses over the next six years, before ending up as a servant in the company of Helen and Paris as they make their way to Troy. **2004 Beehive Nominee**
The Ransom of Mercy Carter	Cooney, Caroline B.	YA F Cooney
In 1704 Mohawk Indians attack Mercy's home in Massachusetts. Led by their attackers, the survivors march to Canada, where the "English" will be ransomed, sold, or adopted by French and Indian families. **2003 Beehive Nominee**
What Child is This? A Christmas Story	Cooney, Caroline B.	YA F Cooney
When sixteen-year-old Matt tries to find a family for an eight-year-old foster child, his efforts go for naught until some friends and adults help out with some timely intervention. **2000 Beehive Nominee**
Mississippi Trial, 1955	Crowe, Chris	YA F Crowe
In Mississippi in 1955, a sixteen-year-old finds himself at odds with his grandfather over issues surrounding the kidnapping and murder of a fourteen-year-old African American from Chicago. **2006 Beehive Nominee**
Catherine, Called Birdy	Cushman, Karen	YA F Cushman
The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off. **1997 Beehive Nominee**
The Horizontal Man	Dahl, Michael	YA F Dahl
Twelve-year-old Finnegan has been living with his Uncle Stoppard, a famous writer. The discovery of a body in a storage room plunges them both into a mystery involving Mayan treasures and family secrets. **2002 Beehive Nominee**
Little Sister	Dalkey, Kara	YA F Dalkey
Thirteen-year-old Fujiwara no Mitsuko, daughter of a noble family in the imperial court of twelfth century Japan, enlists the help of a shape-shifter and other figures from Japanese mythology in her efforts to save her older sister's life. **2000 Beehive WINNER**
Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales	Datlow, Ellen	YA F Datlow
Thirteen prominent authors unite to create this inventive book of modern fairy tales. These classic short stories are given a breath of fresh air and some surprising twists. **2002 Beehive Nominee**
Comfort	Dean, Carolee	YA F Dean
Fourteen-year-old Kenny Roy Willson fantasizes about escape from his hometown of Comfort, Texas, following his alcoholic father's release from prison. **2004 Beehive Nominee**
Along for the Ride	Dessen, Sarah	YA F Dessen
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father and his new family before college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she learns to ride a bike and begins dating. **2011 Beehive Nominee**
The Truth About Forever	Dessen, Sarah	YA F Dessen
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief. **2006 Beehive Nominee**
Heart of a Champion	Deuker, Carl	YA F Deuker
Seth faces a strain on his friendship with Jimmy, who is both a baseball champion and something of an irresponsible fool, when Jimmy is kicked off the team. **1996 Beehive Nominee**
Night Hoops	Deuker, Carl	YA F Deuker
Always in the shadow of his brother, Scott, Nick begins to catch his father's attention when Scott gives up basketball to spend more time on his music, and Nick's basketball prowess develops. **2002 Beehive Nominee**
Golden	Dokey, Cameron	YA F Dokey
Born bald and raised by an adoptive mother, Rapunzel is finally told the truth about Rue, another daughter trapped in a tower due to a witch's curse, and so she heads off to help the imprisoned girl but becomes jealous of Rue's beautiful hair. **2008 Beehive Nominee**
Don't Look Behind You	Duncan, Lois	YA F Duncan
Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer. **1992 Beehive Nominee**
The Musician’s Daughter	Dunlap, Susanne Emily	YA F Dunlap
In 18th century Vienna, Austria, 15-yr-old Theresa seeks a way to help her mother and brother financially while investigating the murder of her father, a violinist in Haydn's orchestra at the court of Prince Esterhazy. **2011 Beehive Nominee**
Battle Dress	Efaw, Amy	YA F Efaw
As a newly arrived freshman at West Point, seventeen-year-old Andi finds herself gaining both confidence and self esteem as she struggles to get through the grueling six weeks of new cadet training known as the Beast. **2004 Beehive Nominee**
Overboard	Fama, Elizabeth	YA F Fama
Escaping from a sinking ferry off Sumatra, fourteen-year-old Emily fights for survival for herself and a young Indonesian boy. **2006 Beehive Nominee**
House of the Scorpion	Farmer, Nancy	YA F Farmer
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States. **2004 Beehive Nominee**
Across the Grain	Ferris, Jean	YA F Ferris
Since his mother's death, a 17-year-old has difficulty dealing with his irresponsible older sister and eventually faces a choice of helping her or living his own life. **1995 Beehive Nominee**
Once Upon a Marigold	Ferris, Jean	YA F Ferris
A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father. **2004 Beehive Nominee**
Seedfolks	Fleischman, Paul	YA F Fleischman
The story of a blighted neighborhood transformed when a young girl plants a few lima beans in an abandoned lot. Slowly, neighbors are stirred to action as they watch the plant grow. **2001 Beehive Nominee**
Alphabet of Dreams	Susan, Fletcher	YA F Fletcher
Fourteen-year-old Mitra, of royal Persian lineage, and her five-year-old brother Babak, whose dreams foretell the future, flee for their lives in the company of the magus Melchoir and two other Zoroastrian priests, traveling through Persia as they follow star signs leading to a newly-born king in Bethlehem. **2008 Beehive Nominee**
Shadow Spinner	Fletcher, Susan	YA F Fletcher
A crippled serving girl faces the intrigue of the harem, the dangers of the streets, and the anger of the Sultan himself to find the needed ending to an incomplete story. **2001 Beehive Nominee**
Beastly	Alex, Flinn	YA F Flinn
A vain Manhattan private school student is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form. **2010 Beehive Nominee**
Monkey Island	Fox, Paula	YA F Fox
Forced to live on the streets of New York after his mother disappears from their welfare hotel room, eleven-year-old Clay is befriended by two men who help him survive. **1994 Beehive Nominee**
Oy, Joy!	Frank, Lucy	YA F Frank
Although her ailing uncle creates problems for her whole family when he moves in with them, Joy survives his bungling attempts at matchmaking even as she plays the game herself. **2002 Beehive Nominee**
Indio	Garland, Sherry	YA F Garland
Teenage Ipa struggles to survive a brutal time of change as the Spanish begin the conquest of the native people along the Texas border. **1998 Beehive Nominee**
Letters from the Mountain	Garland, Sherry	YA F Garland
A teenage boy, sent for the summer to relatives in the mountains in order to remove him from gang influences, discovers life's really important values through his unlikely friendship with an economically challenged boy. **1999 Beehive Nominee**
Princess of the Midnight Ball	George, Jessica Day	YA F George
A retelling of the tale of 12 princesses who wear out their shoes dancing every night, and of Galen, a former soldier, who follows them in hopes of breaking the curse. **2011 Beehive Nominee**
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow	George, Jessica Day	YA F George
A girl travels east of the sun and west of the moon to free her beloved prince from a magic spell. **2010 Beehive Nominee**
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn	Goodman, Alison	YA F Goodman
16-yr-old Eon hopes to become an apprentice to one of the 12 energy dragons of good fortune, but to do so will require much, including keeping secret that she is a girl. **2010 Beehive Nominee**
Pigboy	Grant, Vicki	YA F Grant
Dan's school field trip to a farm turns from boring into more exciting than one would want. **2009 Beehive Nominee**
The Brooklyn Nine	Gratz, Alan	YA F Gratz
Follows the fortunes of a German immigrant family through nine generations, beginning in 1845, as they experience American life and play baseball. **2011 Beehive Nominee**
Bronx Masquerade	Grimes, Nikki	YA F Grimes
While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their classmates. **2004 Beehive Nominee**
The Witch's Boy	Gruber, Michael	YA F Gruber
A grotesque foundling turns against the witch who sacrificed almost everything to raise him when he becomes consumed by the desire for money and revenge against those who have hurt him, but he eventually finds his true heart's desire. **2007 Beehive Nominee**
Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey	Haddix, Margaret Peterson	YA F Haddix
In the journal she is keeping for English class, sixteen-year-old Tish chronicles the changes in her life when her abusive father returns home after a two-year absence. **1999 Beehive Nominee**
Taylor Five	Halam, Ann	YA F Halam
Fourteen-year-old Taylor is dealing with the fact that she is a clone produced by the same company that funds the Orangutan Reserve which is her home on the island of Borneo, when the Reserve is attacked and she flees with her younger brother and Uncle, the Reserve's mascot. **2006 Beehive Nominee**
Book of a Thousand Days	Hale, Shannon	YA F Hale
Dashti and her mistress Lady Saren imprisoned in a tower must escape to save their lives. **2010 Beehive Nominee**
Goose Girl	Hale, Shannon	YA F Hale
On her way to marry a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers. **2005 Beehive Nominee**
The Light of the Oracle	Hanley, Victoria	YA F Hanley
Bryn is the daughter of a humble stone-cutter. So no one is more surprised than she when the Master Priest seeks her out to become a student at the famous Temple of the Oracle; a training school for future priests and priestesses. **2008 Beehive Nominee**
The Seer and the Sword	Hanley, Victoria	YA F Hanley
Princess Torina is the only child of King Kareed. After the king defeats Bellandra, he brings home the country's famous sword and gives Torina a magic crystal and Landen, the prince of Bellandra, to be her slave. **2003 Beehive Nominee**
Last Chance Texaco	Hartinger, Brent	YA F Hartinger
Lucy Pitt, a troubled teen with no family, struggles to fit in as a new tenant at a last-chance foster home. **2006 Beehive Nominee**
Project Sweet Life	Hartinger, Brent	YA F Hartinger
When their fathers insist that they get summer jobs, three 15-yr-old friends dedicate their summer to fooling their parents into thinking they are working. **2011 Beehive Nominee**
The Trouble with Lemons	Hayes, Daniel	YA F Hayes
Tyler and Lymie, eighth grade misfits, discover a dead body in a quarry and work to uncover the mystery behind it. **1995 Beehive Nominee**
Phoenix Rising	Hesse, Karen	YA F Hesse
Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont farmhouse. **1998 Beehive Nominee**
Cry of the Icemark	Hill, Stuart	YA F Hill
A young princess warrior, Thirrin Freer Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield, befriends a warlock and forges a coalition of snow leopards, ancient vampires, and wolf-folk to protect her tiny kingdom against a cunning general and his conquering army. **2007 Beehive Nominee**
The Big Wander	Hobbs, Will	YA F Hobbs
As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs. **1996 Beehive Nominee**
The Maze	Hobbs, Will	YA F Hobbs
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild. **2001 Beehive Nominee**
Far North	Hobbs, Will	YA F Hobbs
After the destruction of their floatplane, two teenage boys, a Texan and a Dene, struggle for survival in the wilderness along the South Nahanni River. **1999 Beehive Nominee**
Search of the Moon King's Daughter	Holeman, Linda	YA F Holeman
Emmaline is determined to find her brother, Tommy, who has been sold into servitude as a chimney sweep in London. **2005 Beehive Nominee**
My Louisiana Sky	Holt, Kimberly	YA F Holt
Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950's, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse. **2000 Beehive Nominee**
Stormbreaker	Horowitz, Anthony	YA F Horowitz
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6. **2004 Beehive WINNER**
Star of Kazan	Ibbotson, Eva	YA F Ibbotson
After Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany. **2007 Beehive Nominee**
Bad Kitty	Jaffe, Michele	YA F Jaffe
While vacationing with her family in Las Vegas, 17-year-old Jasmine stumbles upon a murder mystery that she attempts to solve with the help of her friends, recently arrived from California. **2008 Beehive WINNER**
House of Many Ways	Jones, Diana Wynne	YA F Jones
When Charmain is asked to housesit for Great Uncle William, the Royal Wizard of Norland, she is ecstatic to get away from her parents, but finds that his house is much more than it seems. **2010 Beehive Nominee**
What Became of Her	Kerr, M.E.	YA F Kerr
Edgar meets Neal at a group session arranged by their psychotherapist and their friendship ends up thwarting the plans of an eccentric widow to get revenge on the town where she was mistreated as a young girl. **2002 Beehive Nominee**
Goose Chase	Kindl, Patrice	YA F Kindl
Trapped in a tower until she chooses between two equally ghastly suitors Goose Girl needs a quick miracle. Enter her geese, which transport her and set in motion a classic adventure. **2003 Beehive Nominee**
The Primrose Way	Koller, Jackie French	YA F Koller
Sixteen-year-old Rebekah joins her missionary father in New England in the 1630's and, after being introduced to Indian culture, begins to question whether these "savages" need saving after all. **1997 Beehive Nominee**
Nothing to Fear	Koller, Jackie French	YA F Koller
When his father moves away to find work and his mother becomes ill, Danny struggles to help his family during the Great Depression. **1996 Beehive WINNER**
Son of the Mob	Korman, Gordon	YA F Korman
Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent. **2005 Beehive Nominee**
Schooled	Korman, Gordan	YA F Korman
Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie. But when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap lands in public school. **2010 Beehive Nominee**
Epic	Kostick, Conor	YA F Kostick
On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik pursuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families. **2009 Beehive Nominee**
Beyond the Burning Time	Lasky, Kathryn	YA F Lasky
When, in the winter of 1691, accusations of witchcraft surface in her small New England village, twelve-year-old Mary Chase fights to save her mother from execution. **1998 Beehive Nominee**
Lord of the Nutcracker Men	Lawrence, Iain	YA F Lawrence
An English boy during World War I comes to believe that the battles he enacts with his toy soldiers control the war his father is fighting on the front. **2004 Beehive Nominee**
The Brave	Lipsyte, Robert	YA F Lipsyte
Having left the Indian reservation for the streets of New York, seventeen-year-old boxer Sonny Bear tries to harness his inner rage by training Alfred Brooks, who has left the sport to become a policeman. **1995 Beehive Nominee**
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie	Lubar, David	YA F Lubar
While navigating his first year of high school awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer. **2007 Beehive Nominee**
Hidden Talents	Lubar, David	YA F Lubar
Sent to a school for kids with behavior problems, smart aleck Martin meets several classmates whose idiosyncrasies actually mask psychic powers. **2001 Beehive Nominee**
Prophecy Rock	MacGregor, Rob	YA F MacGregor
Will Lansa visits his father, who is the tribal police chief on the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona, and learns about some sacred Hopi traditions while he helps investigate several murders. **2000 Beehive Nominee**
Wildwood Dancing	Marillier, Juliet	YA F Marillier
Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood. **2009 Beehive WINNER**
In My Enemy's House	Matas, Carol	YA F Matas
Marisa, a blond, blue-eyed Jewish girl in WWII Poland passes as a Polish peasant and gets a job working for a Nazi family. **2002 Beehive Nominee**
After the War	Matas, Carol	YA F Matas
After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth joins the underground organization Berihah, and risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine. **1999 Beehive Nominee**
The Kite Rider	McCaughrean, Geraldine	YA F McCaughr
In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. **2005 Beehive Nominee**
Swallowing Stones	McDonald, Joyce	YA F McDonald
Dual perspectives reveal the aftermath of seventeen-year-old Michael MacKenzie's birthday celebration during which he discharges an antique Winchester rifle and unknowingly kills the father of high school classmate Jenna Ward.**2000 Beehive Nominee**
The Devil’s Paintbox	McKernan, Victoria	YA F McKernan
In 1865, 15-yr-old Aiden and his 13-yr-old sister Maddy, penniless orphans, leave Kansas on a wagon train hoping for a better life in Seattle, but find there are still many hardships to be faced. **2011 Beehive Nominee**
The Lighthouse Land	McKinty, Adrian	YA F McKinty
Thirteen-year-old Jamie is overjoyed when a bequest sends him and his mother to live on an Irish island, where he and his newfound friend Ramsay travel back in time to help a young girl save her people from certain death. **2008 Beehive Nominee**
Rio Grande Stories	Meyer, Carolyn	YA F Meyer
While preparing a book which highlights the people and traditions of the diverse culture found in Albuquerque, a group of seventh-graders discover interesting things about their city and families. **1998 Beehive Nominee**
Drummers of Jericho	Meyer, Carolyn	YA F Meyer
A fourteen-year-old Jewish girl goes to live with her father and stepmother in a small town and soon finds herself the center of a civil rights battle when she objects to the high school band marching in the formation of a cross. **1997 Beehive Nominee**
White Lilacs	Meyer, Carolyn	YA F Meyer
In 1921 in Dillon, Texas, twelve-year-old Rose Lee sees trouble threatening her Black community when the Whites decide to take the land there for a park and forcibly relocate the Black families to an ugly stretch of territory outside the town. **1995 Beehive Nominee**
Mary, Bloody Mary	Meyer, Carolyn	YA F Meyer
Before she ascends the throne, Mary is dismayed by the way her mother is discarded by Henry after failing to produce a male heir. Jealous and bitter, Mary is nevertheless full of determination and strength. **2002 Beehive Nominee**
Red Midnight	Mikaelsen, Ben	YA F Mikaelsen
After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States. **2005 Beehive Nominee**
Touching Spirit Bear	Mikaelsen, Ben	YA F Mikaelsen
Cole is always in trouble, and eventually, his probation officer suggests that he participate in a Native American tradition which ends up banishing Cole for a year to an island off the coast of Alaska. **2003 Beehive WINNER**
Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City	Miller, Kirsten	YA F Miller
Life becomes more interesting for Ananka Fishbein when, at the age of twelve, she discovers an underground room in the park across from her New York City apartment and meets a mysterious girl called Kiki Strike who claims that she, too, wants to explore the subterranean world. **2009 Beehive Nominee**
Under the Mermaid Angel	Moore, Martha	YA F Moore
Through an unusual friendship with her thirty-one-year-old neighbor in a Texas trailer park, thirteen-year-old Jesse learns that what's inside a person is more important than what's outside. **1999 Beehive Nominee**
Dairy Queen	Murdock, Catherine	YA F Murdock
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her. **2008 Beehive Nominee**
April and the Dragon Lady	Namioka, Lensey	YA F Namioka
Feeling confined by the traditional family attitudes of her strong-willed, manipulative grandmother, sixteen-year-old April Chen fights for her independence. **1996 Beehive Nominee**
Sabriel	Nix, Garth	YA F Nix
Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead. **1999 Beehive Nominee**
Land of Hope	Nixon, Joan Lowery	YA F Nixon
Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop. **1995 Beehive Nominee**
Other Side of Dark	Nixon, Joan	YA F Nixon
Seventeen-year-old Stacy awakens from a four-year coma ready to identify, locate, and prosecute the young man who murdered her mother and wounded her. **1991 Beehive Nominee**
Airborn	Oppel, Kenneth	YA F Oppel
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. **2006 Beehive WINNER**
Peeling the Onion	Orr, Wendy	YA F Orr
Following an automobile accident in which her neck is broken, a teenage karate champion begins a long and painful recovery with the help of her family. **2001 Beehive Nominee**
Eragon	Paolini, Christopher	YA F Paolini
When 15-year-old Eragon finds a mysterious polished blue stone in the forest, he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, dwarves and monstrous warriors, and discovers that the fate of the Empire may rest in his hands. **2005 Beehive WINNER**
Lyddie	Paterson, Katherine	YA F Paterson
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s. **1994 Beehive Nominee**
East	Pattou, Edith	YA F Pattou
A young woman journeys to a distant castle on the back of a great white bear who is the victim of a cruel enchantment. **2005 Beehive Nominee**
Nightjohn	Paulsen, Gary	YA F Paulsen
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read. **1996 Beehive Nominee**
Soldier's Heart	Paulsen, Gary	YA F Paulsen
The Civil War comes alive in this very short novel about a boy who joins up at age 15 and learns that the boring times in camp are the best part of any war. **2001 Beehive Nominee**
The Transall Saga	Paulsen, Gary	YA F Paulsen
While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive. **2000 Beehive Nominee**
A Long Way from Chicago	Peck, Richard	YA F Peck
In a novel that skillfully captures the nuances of small town life, an elderly man reminisces about his annual trips from Chicago to his grandmother's house in rural Illinois during the Depression. **2001 Beehive WINNER**
Liars	Peterson, P. J.	YA F Peterson
Life in the remote town of Alder Creek, California, is boring for eighth-grader Sam and his friends, until his newly awakened ability to tell when a person is lying involves him in a series of mysterious events. **1997 Beehive Nominee**
How Could You Do It, Diane?	Pevsner, Stella	YA F Pevsner
As Bethany struggles to find the reasons why her step-sister committed suicide, her parents try to repress the incident. **1994 Beehive Nominee**
Life as We Knew It	Pfeffer, Susan Beth	YA F Pfeffer
Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. **2009 Beehive Nominee**
Last Book in the Universe	Philbrick, W.R.	YA F Philbrick
Spaz lives in a nearly illiterate society. He encounters a man called Ryter, who believes in the power of books. As a result, they visit Eden, a community endowed with fresh air and technological marvels. **2003 Beehive Nominee**
The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman	Plummer, Louise	YA F Plummer
Seventeen-year-old Kate hopes for romance when her older brother's friend Richard comes to stay at their house during Christmas vacation. **1999 Beehive Nominee**
A Dance for Three	Plummer, Louise	YA F Plummer
When fifteen-year-old Hannah becomes pregnant and her rich, popular boyfriend claims he is not responsible, she is forced to face some hard facts about her life. **2002 Beehive Nominee**
The Wee Free Men	Pratchett, Terry	YA F Pratchett
A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland. **2006 Beehive Nominee**
My Fair Godmother	Rallison, Janette	YA F Rallison
Savannah wants to find the perfect prom date, but when a godmother who is only fair becomes involved, Savannah finds herself in trouble in the Middle Ages. **2011 Beehive Nominee**
It's a Mall World After All	Rallison, Janette	YA F Rallison
While working at the mall, organizing a school fundraiser, and trying to prove that her best friend's boyfriend is seeing another girl, high-school student Charlotte's best intentions always seem to backfire. **2009 Beehive Nominee**
The Only Alien on the Planet	Randle, Kristen D.	YA F Randle
After moving to the East Coast, Ginny enters her senior year of high school and uncovers the secret behind a new friend's refusal to speak. **1998 Beehive Nominee**
The Fifth of March	Rinaldi, Ann	YA F Rinaldi
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770. **1996 Beehive Nominee**
The Lightning Thief	Riordan, Rick	YA F Riordan
Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods. **2007 Beehive Winner**
Shadow of a Doubt	Rottman, S.L.	YA F Rottman
As his sophomore year of high school begins, fifteen-year-old Shadow joins the forensics team, makes new friends, and struggles to cope with the return of his older brother, who ran away seven years earlier and now faces a murder trial. **2006 Beehive Nominee**
Rough Waters	Rottman, S.L.	YA F Rottman
Hurt and angry by the death of their parents, Scott and Gregg leave a comfortable life in the California for the remote Colorado Rockies, where their uncle runs a white water rafting company. **2001 Beehive Nominee**
Under the Blood-Red Sun	Salisbury, Graham	YA F Salisbury
Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. **1998 Beehive Nominee**
Under a Different Sky	Savage, Deborah	YA F Savage
Two teenagers from very different backgrounds, Ben, born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, and Laura, a troubled student at an exclusive boarding school, find each other and new meaning in their lives. **2001 Beehive Nominee**
Wednesday Wars	Schmidt, Gary D.	YA F Schmidt
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in. **2009 Beehive Nominee**
The Schwa Was Here	Shusterman, Neal	YA F Shusterman
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone. **2007 Beehive Nominee**
Full Tilt	Shusterman, Neal	YA F Shusterman
Blake must experience seven terrifying carnival rides in a surreal nightmarish amusement park to redeem his brother's soul and get them both back to the "real" world. **2005 Beehive Nominee**
Downsiders	Shusterman, Neal	YA F Shusterman
An underground culture thrives beneath New York. Talon journeys to the Topside to save his ill sister. There he meets Lindsay, causing two worlds to collide. **2002 Beehive WINNER**
Unwind	Shusterman, Neal	YA F Shusterman
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives. **2011 Beehive Nominee**
Dark Side of Nowhere	Shusterman, Neal	YA F Shusterman
Clued in by the mysterious death of a classmate, Jason begins to suspect that all is not what it seems in his boring small town existence and ever pleasant family life. **2001 Beehive Nominee**
Flygirl	Smith, Sherri L	YA F Smith
During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots. **2011 Beehive Nominee**
Song of the Gargoyle	Snyder, Zilpha Keatley	YA F Snyder
When mysterious men in black abduct his father, the court jester of Austerneve, thirteen-year-old Tymmon flees into the forest, where he acquires a strange animal companion and plots to rescue his father. **1996 Beehive Nominee**
What My Mother Doesn't Know	Sones, Sonya	YA F Sones
A series of poems reflect the thoughts and feelings of Sophie, a fifteen-year-old-girl, as she describes her relationships with a series of boys and searches for Mr. Right. **2004 Beehive Nominee**
Stop Pretending	Sones, Sonya	YA F Sones
A younger sister has a difficult time adjusting to life after her older sister has a mental breakdown. **2002 Beehive Nominee**
Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie	Sonnenblick, Jordan	YA F Sonnenblick
The life of eighth-grader Steven Alper, already complicated by his friendship with two girls and a prodigious talent for drumming, is turned upside down when his five-year-old brother Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukemia. **2007 Beehive Nominee**
Milkweed	Spinelli, Jerry	YA F Spinelli
A Jewish orphan must use all of his wits and courage to survive unimaginable circumstances during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw during World War II. **2006 Beehive Nominee**
Stargirl	Spinelli, Jerry	YA F Spinelli
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes her high school forever. **2002 Beehive Nominee**
Crash	Spinelli, Jerry	YA F Spinelli
Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family. **1999 Beehive Nominee**
The Case of the Left-Handed Lady	Nancy, Springer	YA F Springer
Pursued by her much older brother, famed detective Sherlock Holmes, fourteen-year-old Enola, disguised and using false names, attempts to solve the kidnapping of a baronet's sixteen-year-old daughter in nineteenth-century London. **2009 Beehive Nominee**
Haveli	Staples, Suzanne Fisher	YA F Staples
Having relented to the ways of her people in Pakistan and married the rich older man to whom she was pledged against her will, Shabanu is now the victim of his family's blood feud and the malice of his other wives. Sequel to Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind. **1996 Beehive Nominee**
How I Changed My Life	Strasser, Todd	YA F Strasser
Overweight high school senior Bo decides to change her image while working on the school play with a former star football player who is also struggling to find a new identity for himself. **1998 Beehive Nominee**
Shining Company	Sutcliff, Rosemary	YA F Sutcliff
In 600 A.D. in northern Britain, Prosper becomes a shield bearer with the Companions, an army made up of three hundred younger sons of minor kings and trained to act as one fighting brotherhood against the invading Saxons. **1994 Beehive Nominee**
For Mike	Sykes, Shelly	YA F Sykes
Jeff is devastated when his best friend, Mike, disappears. Then Jeff begins to have eerie, vivid dreams in which Mike says, "Come get me." Should Jeff believe his dreams? **2001 Beehive Nominee**
Sniper	Taylor, Theodore	YA F Taylor
Fifteen-year-old Ben must cope alone when a mysterious sniper begins shooting the big cats in his family's private zoological preserve. **1993 Beehive Nominee**
Mimus	Thal, Lilli	YA F Thal
Through ruse and trickery, Prince Florin is forced to apprentice to Mimus, King Theodo's seemingly cruel and certainly repellent court jester, in order to amuse the king and spare his imprisoned father and his father's allies a gruesome death. **2008 Beehive Nominee**
Cattail Moon	Thesman, Jean	YA F Thesman
Unable to deal with her mother's disregard of her interest in a musical career, fifteen-year-old Julia leaves Seattle to live with her father and grandmother near the Cascade mountains, where she encounters a ghost who helps her make important decisions about her future. **1997 Beehive Nominee**
Stuck in Neutral	Trueman, Terry	YA F Trueman
A teenager with profound cerebral palsy, who is utterly unable to give even those who know him best the faintest sign that he is sentient, narrates this devastating family portrait-cum-moral conundrum. **2003 Beehive Nominee**
Wishing Moon	Tunnell, Michael	YA F Tunnell
After a fourteen-year-old orphan named Aminah receives a magic lamp, the wishes granted to her by the genie inside it allow her to alter her life by choosing prosperity, purpose, and romance. **2006 Beehive Nominee**
The King of Attolia	Turner, Megan Whalen	YA F Turner
Eugenides, still known as a Thief of Eddis, faces palace intrigue and assassins as he strives to prove himself both to the people of Attolia and to his new bride, their queen. **2009 Beehive Nominee**
Montmorency: Liar, Thief, Gentleman?	Updale, Eleanor	YA F Updale
In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself. **2007 Beehive Nominee**
Heir Apparent	Vande Velde, Vivan	YA F Vande Velde
While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, 14-year-old Giannine discovers that the equipment is damaged and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself. **2006 Beehive Nominee**
Climbing the Stairs	Venkatraman, Padma	YA F Venkatraman
After Vidya's father becomes brain-damaged in a 1941 protest march in India, she and her family must become accustomed to a totally different way of life. **2010 Beehive Nomineee**
Walker of Time	Vick, Helen Hughes	YA F Vick
A fifteen-year-old Hopi boy and his freckled companion travel back 800 years to the world of the Sinagua culture, a group of people beset by drought and illness and in need of a leader. **1996 Beehive Nominee**
Missing Abby	Weatherly, Lee	YA F Weatherly
As the last one to see thirteen-year-old Abby, Emma is determined to discover the truth about her mysterious disappearance, spurred in part by her feelings of guilt over ending their friendship in order to ensure popularity at her new school. **2007 Beehive Nominee**
Red Moon at Sharpsburg	Wells, Rosemary	YA F Wells
As the Civil War breaks out, India, a young Southern girl, summons her sharp intelligence and the courage she didn't know she had to survive the war that threatens to destroy her family, her Virginia home, and the only life she has ever known. **2009 Beehive Nominee**
Uglies	Westerfeld, Scott	YA F Westerfeld
In Tally's world, everyone receives an operation to become pretty on their sixteenth birthday, but when her friend runs away from the operation, Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty herself. **2007 Beehive Nominee**
Homeless Bird	Whelan, Gloria	YA F Whelan
At 13, Koly finds that her childhood is over as she enters an arranged marriage that ends almost before it has begun. However, there's no place for young widows in India, no opportunities, no hope. **2003 Beehive Nominee**
Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083	White, Andrea	YA F White
In a future where the government plies the public with nonstop reality television to provide distraction from the rampant poverty, Historical Survivor is the most popular program on TV. Five teens have been chosen from a pool of thousands to reenact Robert F. Scott's fatal 1910-13 expedition to the South Pole in Antarctic Historical Survivor. **2007 Beehive Nominee**
Fight Game	Wild, Kate	YA F Wild
Fifteen-year-old Freedom Smith is a fighter, just like all of his relatives who have the "Hercules gene," which leads him to a choice between being jailed for attempted murder or working with a covert law enforcement agency to break up a mysterious, illegal fight ring. **2009 Beehive Nominee**
The Chosen One	Williams, Carol Lynch	YA F Williams
In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet 14, is chosen as the 7th wife of her uncle and is torn between facing her fate or running away from all that she knows and loves. **2011 Beehive Nominee**
I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade	Wilson, Diane	YA F Wilson
In 1339 Mongolia, Kublai Khan has forbidden women to own a horse or ride, but Oyuna has heard the prophesy of her grandmother, that one day she will ride a horse of her own to win honor for herself and her mother and father. **2000 Beehive Nominee**
Dealing with Dragons	Wrede, Patricia C.	YA F Wrede
Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards who want to steal away the dragons' kingdom. **1995 Beehive Nominee**
The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kopp	Yancey, Rick	YA F Yancey
Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur from the forces of evil. **2008 Beehive Nominee**
Girl in a Cage	Yolen, Jane	YA F Yolen
As English armies invade Scotland in 1306, eleven-year-old Princess Marjorie, daughter of the newly crowned Scottish king, Robert the Bruce, is captured by England"s King Edward Longshanks and held in a cage on public display. **2005 Beehive Nominee**
Armageddon Summer	Yolen, Jane	YA F Yolen
Jed and Marina are two teenagers who have traveled with their families to Mount Weeupcut to camp out, pray, and await Armageddon. **2001 Beehive Nominee**