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 2014


Following are the Book Bee books for the 2012-2013 school year:

* New for 2014

GRADE FOUR

*The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davis
Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
Fairy Tale Detectives (Sisters GrimmSeries #1) by Michael Buckley
The Magic Half by Annie Barrows
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
*The Strange Case of Origami by Tom Angleberger
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney

GRADE FIVE

All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn
Blood on the River: James Town 1607 by Elisa Lynn Carbone
The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull
Esperanza Rising by Pat Munro Ryan
*Peter Nimble and His Kantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller
Mostly True Adventure of Homer R. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
The Mysterious Benedict Society#1 by Trenton Lee Stewart
Rules by Cynthia Lord
*Savvy by Ingrid Law
Swindle by Gordon Korman

GRADE SIX

Abduction by Peg Kehret
*The Eleventh Plagueby Jeff Hirsch
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Chodenko
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Found by Mary Peterson Haddix
*The Klipfish Codeby Mary Cassanova
Powerless by Matthew Cody
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 -- 2014

An Acquaintance with Darkness by Ann Rinaldi
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
*Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
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
*Legend by Marie Lu
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman
Tale Dark and Grimm, A Adam Gidwitz
Tangerine by Edward Bloor

GRADES SEVEN AND EIGHT 2015

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
Zach's Lie by Roland Smith

* New Titles for 2014