Book Bee is a competition between schools which takes place in the Archdiocese of Louisville in the spring of each year.

Students in grades fourth through eighth read books on the Book Bee list. Questions from these books are developed and used for the year-end competition. Students practice with their respective teams throughout the year in preparation for the tournament. A group of students choose a book and attempt to become proficient in the knowledge of all aspects of the story.

Book Bee 2012

ROUND ONE: Saturday, March 3, 2012 Presentation Academy
Grades 4/5: 8:30 a.m. Grades 6/Junior High: 10:30 a.m.
Matches last at least 30 minutes. Teams are assigned a time.

ROUND TWO: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Place: St. Aloysius School, Pewee Valley
Grades 4/5: 3:30 p.m. Grades 6/Junior High: 6:00 p.m.
Matches last at least 30 minutes. Teams are assigned a time.

FINALS: Thursday, March 8, 2012 DeSales High School
Grades 4/5/6/Junior High: 7:00 p.m.
AWARDS: 8:15 p.m.


Following are the Book Bee books for the 2011-2012 school year:

GRADE FOUR

The Anybodies by N.E. Bode
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate di Camilo
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very
Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall
Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Erupts by Frances O'Roark Dowell
The Power of Un by Nancy Etchemendy
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret
The Beloved Dearly by Doug Cooney
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney
Along Came Spider by James Preller
Fairy Tale Detectives (Sisters GrimmSeries #1 by Michael Buckley
The Magic Half by Annie Barrows

GRADE FIVE

All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn
Blood on the River: James Town 1607 by Elisa Lynn Carbone
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull
Esperanza Rising by Pat Munro Ryan
Ghost of Fossil Glen by Cynthia DeFelice
Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
Swindle by Gordon Korman
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller
The Mysterious Benedict Society#1 by Trenton Lee Stewart
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Septimus Heap, Book 1: Magyk by Angie Sage
Swindle by Gordon Korman

GRADE SIX

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Chodenko
City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
Abduction by Peg Kehret
Alcatraz Versus Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
So B. It by Sarah Weeks
Travel Team by Mile Lupica
Two Hot Dogs With Everything by Paul Haven
Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt

GRADES SEVEN AND EIGHT 2012

Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Flamel by Michael D. Scott
Code Orange by Caroline Cooney
Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of WWII by Jos. Bruchac
Hero by S.L. Rottman
H.I.V.E. by Mark Walton
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
Petey by Ben Mikaelsen
Premonitions by Jude Watson
Scat by Carl Hiaasen
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Curtis
Zach's Lie by Roland Smith


GRADES SEVEN AND EIGHT -- 2013

An Acquaintance with Darkness by Ann Rinaldi
Letters from Wolfie by Patti Sherlock
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Nothing But the Truth by Avi
Peter and Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Priates by Celia Rees
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman
Tangerine by Edward Bloor