Battle of the Books
The 2008-2009 Wake County Battle of the Books list is here!
This year's list is for grades 6 through 8.
Click on linked titles to see if you can get a copy at your local library.
Don't forget that you can request titles and have them sent to your local library for pick-up!
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Children of the River by Linda Crew
Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa
Dovey Coe by Frances O’Roark Dowell
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Gentle’s Holler by Kerry Madden
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
LeRoy and the Old Man by W.E. Butterworth
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen
The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo
Romiette and Julio by Sharon M. Draper
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Something Upstairs by Avi
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Treasure Island (unabridged) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wright 3 by Blue Balliett
Get a head start! Here is the list for 2009-2010:
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
Chicken Boy by Frances O’Roark Dowell
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Flush by Carl Hiaasen
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass
Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
The Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt
Peak by Roland Smith
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Phineas Gage: a gruesome but true story about brain science by John Fleischman
Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
White Fang by Jack London
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