Battle of the Books

  • Form teams of 2-5 people and read the list of 10 books as a team. (Each person does not have to read all 10 books.)
     
  • Sign up in the library with Mrs. Bohn.
  • On Tuesday, April 13 compete after school from 3:30 - 5:00 in the library by answering 10 questions about each book as a team. We will have lots of food/drinks and a gift bag for everyone who participates.  
  • All members of the top 5 teams will win the book of their choice. (Books should cost around $15 or less). The winning team will split $100 in gift cards to Borders or Barnes and Noble.
  • Members of the teams who participate in the Battle of the Books will also be eligible for prize drawings including Homecoming tickets, Prom tickets, a free parking pass, book store gift cards, and more!

 

  Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson Lia and Cassie had been best friends since elementary school, and each developed her own style of eating disorder that leads to disaster.  Now 18, they are no longer friends.  Despite their estrangement, Cassie callls Lia 33 times on the night of her death, and Lia never answers.
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare When Clary Fray witnesses three tattoo-covered teenagers murder another teen, she is unable to prove the crime because the victim disappears right in front of her eyes, and no one else can see the killers.  She learns that the teens are Shadowhunters (humans who hunt and kill demons), and Clary, a mundie (i.e., mundane human), should not be ab le to see them either.  

  New Moon by Stephenie Meyer Things are heating up between Bella Swan and her vampire boyfriend, Edward Cullen.  Then Bella is injured at her birthday party, and the Cullens’ reaction to her blood sends Edward’s family packing.  Bella is inconsolable until she discovers that reckless behavior allows her to hear Edward’s warning voice in her head.  To keep him close, she decides to live as dangerously as possible.
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher  When Clay Jenson plays the casette tapes he received in a mysterious package, he’s surprised to hear the voice of dead classmate Hannah Baker.  He’s one of 13 people who receive Hannah’s story, which details the circumstances that led to her suiceide.  Clay spends the rest of the day and long into the night listening to Hannah’s voice and going to the locations she wants him to visit.  
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah This absorbing account by a young man who, as a boy of 12, gets swept up in Sierra Leone’s civil war goes beyond even the best journalistic efforts in revealing the life and mind of a child abducted into the horrors of warfare.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins  In a not-too-distant future, the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts.  Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games.  Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted with all citizens requried to watch.
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold  When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven.  This was before milk carton photos and public service announcements, she tells us; back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared.  In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and her own adjustment to the strange new place she finds herself.
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green  Colin has just been dumped by his most recent girlfriend (all of them have been named Katherine), and he’s inconsolable.  What better time for a road trip!  He and his buddy Hassan load up the gray Olds and leave Chicago.  They make it as far as Gutshot, Tennessee, where they stop to tour the gravesite of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and meet a girl who isn’t named Katherine…
  Lord of the Flies by William Golding  In the midst of a raging war, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island.
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan   Perseus, aka Percy Jackson, thinks he has big problems.  His father left before he was born, he’s been kicked out of six schools in six years, he’s dyslexic, and he has ADHD.  What a surprise when he finds out that that’s only the tip of the iceberg; he vaporizes his pre-algebra teacher, learns his best friend is a satyr, and is almost killed by a minotaur before his mother manages to get him to the safety of Camp Half-Blood–where he discovers that Poseidon is his father.