2017-2018 Book Lists

Welcome to 2017-2018 OBOB! This is our third year participating in the Battle of the Books program and students are excited to get going!

Here is the list of books teams must read to compete in the battles.

3-5 Division

• Blast-off! By Nate Ball
• The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity by Mac Barnett
• Dash by Kirby Larson
• The Door by the Staircase by Katherine Marsh
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• EllRay Jakes the Recess King! by Sally Warner
• Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
• I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 by Lauren Tarshis
• Masterpiece by Elise Broach
• My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen
• Mystery on Museum Mile by Marcia Wells
• Poppy by Avi
• The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney
• We the Children by Andrew Clements
• Wild Life by Cynthia DeFelice
• Wild Wings by Gill Lewis 

6-8 Division

• Fallout by Gwenda Bond
• Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
• I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest
• Kalahari by Jessica Khoury
• The Lightning Queen by Laura Resau
• Lost in the Sun by Lisa Graff
• The Mark of the Dragonfly by Jaleigh Johnson
• Popular: A Memoir by Maya Van Wagenen
• Rebel Mechanics by Shanna Swendson
• The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
• Schooled by Gordon Korman
• The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall
• The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
• The Turn of the Tide by Rosanne Parry
• The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

These books are available in the school library, and most teachers have some of the titles as well. You may need to supplement with books from the public library, but it is not necessary for you to buy them.

Battles will be held in late February. Teams should know the titles AND authors of the books to do well in the battles. But most of all, HAVE FUN READING!