NCSLMA Battle of the Books2021

Given by North Carolina School Library Media Association (NCSLMA)

53 Works 119,919 Books 4,973 Reviews 4.1
[[Years listed are the end of an academic year. So, books listed as 2024 are for the 2023-2024 school year.]]

Battle of the Books began as a program for middle school students, grades 6-8. The show more program has expanded to include the elementary and high school levels. Students at participating schools read books from a list established by the state Battle of the Books committees and then compete in quiz-bowl-style tournaments to test their knowledge of these books. show less
Categories:
All, Elementary (122), High School (123), Middle School (176)
Years:
All, 2024 (52), 2023 (47), 2022 (53), 2021 (53), 2020 (52), 2019 (56), 2018 (56), 2025 (52)
Announced:
2025-05-01: 2024-2025 Upcoming
WorkCategoryYear
Where the Watermelons Grow by Cindy Baldwin
Elementary2021
The Very, Very Far North by Dan Bar-el
Elementary2021
Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears by Cornelia Cornelissen
Elementary2021
Kenny and the Dragon by Tony DiTerlizzi
Elementary2021
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
Elementary2021
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Elementary2021
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
Elementary2021
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Elementary2021
Not If I Can Help It by Carolyn Mackler
Elementary2021
The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty
Elementary2021
Wish by Barbara O'Connor
Elementary2021
Pax by Sara Pennypacker
Elementary2021
Wildfire: A Novel by Rodman Philbrick
Elementary2021
The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend by Sharon Robinson
Elementary2021
Walls Within Walls by Maureen Sherry
Elementary2021
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
High School2021
Recursion by Blake Crouch
High School2021
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
official competition version: Signet Classic paperback, copyright 2001, ISBN 978-0-451-52801-8.
High School2021
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
High School2021
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
High School2021
Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson
High School2021
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
High School2021
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
High School2021
The Novice by Taran Matharu
High School2021
Circe by Madeline Miller
High School2021
There There by Tommy Orange
High School2021
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
High School2021
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
High School2021
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
Questions will be drawn from the entire content of the book, cover to cover, which includes graphics and text
High School2021
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
High School2021
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
Middle School2021
Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Middle School2021
The Iron Trial by Holly Black
Middle School2021
Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish by Pablo Cartaya
Middle School2021
Airman by Eoin Colfer
Dropped due to availability issues during this year
Middle School2021
New Kid by Jerry Craft
Middle School2021
The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans
Middle School2021
90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis
Middle School2021
Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz
Middle School2021
Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary by Gail Jarrow
Middle School2021
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
Middle School2021
Nyxia by Scott Reintgen
Middle School2021
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds
Middle School2021
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
Middle School2021
Bluefish by Pat Schmatz
Middle School2021
The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
Replaced Airman when it was dropped
Middle School2021
Death on the River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Amazon Adventure by Samantha Seiple
Middle School2021
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Middle School2021
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town by Warren St. John
Selected edition: Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town. Do not confuse with adult editions of this book with very similar names. [See Editions under linked LibraryThing record]
Middle School2021
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
Middle School2021
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
Middle School2021
The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic by Allan Wolf
Middle School2021
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
Middle School2021

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