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Battle of the Books is an after school club for sixth grade students who love to read.  Students work throughout the school year to read the book list below.  They then compete against other Middle Schools on their knowledge of the books.  Students answer questions with book title and author.  BoB meets after school on Tuesdays until 3:30.  Start date to be announced.
 
Coaches: Rachel Brillisour, Media Specialist
Dietra Garden, Art Teacher
 

Book List 2012-2013

Airborn    Kenneth Oppel
Bronx Masquerade    Nikki Grimes
Chicken Boy    Frances  O’Roark Dowell
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two    Joseph Bruchac
Dead End in Norvelt    Jack Gantos
Death Cloud    Andrew Lane
Diamonds in the Shadow    Caroline B. Cooney
Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie    Jordan Sonnenblick
Everlost    Neal Shusterman
Flush    Carl Hiaasen
Freak the Mighty    Rodman Philbrick
George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the
Revolutionary War    Thomas B. Allen
The Graveyard Book    Neil Gaiman
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life    Wendy Mass
Just Ella **    Margaret Peterson Haddix
Left for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis    Peter Nelson
The Nine Pound Hammer    John Claude Bemis
Out of My Mind    Sharon M. Draper
Peak    Roland Smith
Peter and the Starcatchers    Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science    John Fleischman
Saraswati’s Way    Monica Schroder
Stones in Water    Donna Jo Napoli
Storm Warriors    Elisa Carbone
Under the Mesquite    Guadalupe Garcia McCall
The Wednesday Wars    Gary D. Schmidt
White Fang ***    Jack London
 
**Just Ella (Aladdin Paperback Edition)
*** White Fang (Puffin Books – Complete & Unabridged)