Battle of the Books 2013!

Registration is open for Teen Battle of the Books 2013!

Teams are allowed up to five members. Team members can be from any school, any area, so long as they are in the same designated grade level.

Every team also needs a Team Manager - someone over the age of 18 who can motivate and monitor team progress, as well as assist the night of the Battle.

All teams must register by Friday, January 25th. 

Battle of the Books 2013 Dates:

6th Grade - Tuesday, February 26th, 7:00 PM
7th & 8th Grade - Wednesday, February 27th, 7:00 PM
High School - Tuesday, March 4th, 6:30 PM

All Battles are held at Sewickley Academy's Hansen Library.

BOB booklists and team registration sheets are available at Moon & Sewickley libraries, at your local school library, and online.

6th Grade BOB Booklist
6th Grade BOB Team Registration Sheet

7th & 8th Grade BOB Booklist
7th & 8th Grade BOB Team Registration Sheet

High School BOB Booklist
High School BOB Team Registration Sheet

Want to know more about BOB? Check out this post from last year!

2012 High School Battle of the Books

Thank you to everyone for one of the best Battles we've ever hosted!

We started the night with Ruta Sepetys, author of Between Shades of Gray, visiting us via Skype. Ms. Sepetys shared tales of her career in the entertainment industry and of her travels to Lithuania. Her stories were fascinating, funny, and heart-breaking. We were so lucky to have her join us, especially since she'd just returned from a book tour in Lithuania.

After saying goodnight to Ms. Sepetys we started our Battle. The competition was tough! All of the teams did an amazing job and knew the answers to some of our toughest questions! After three tie-breaker questions we were able to declare our 2012 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place teams.

2012 High School Battle of the Books Participants

1st Place - The Marauders

2nd Place - The Book Fetish

3rd Place - The Knights Who Say Nee

Better Than You

BOB's Angels

The Book Keepers

The Bookworms

The Cougars

Gryffindor

J.B. and the Chicks

The Kaleidoscopes

The Lynx

The Outsiders

The Power Puff Girls

The Pretty Little Liars

The Soul Suckers

Team Procrastinators

Thank you again to all of the Battle participants, team managers, teachers, and the family members who came out to support them. Thank you again to Ms. Sepetys for making our night even more memorable.

2012 7th & 8th Grade Battle of the Books

The 7th and 8th grade Battle could have gone on all night. Two former first place teams battled it out for the win. After 10+ tie-breaker questions, the evenly matched teams were both declared the 2012 1st place winners!

Thank you to all the Battle participants, team managers, parents, siblings, etc. who continue to make Battle so fun and exciting! And thank you to everyone who makes shirts and dresses up. We love to see your team "uniforms!"

1st Place - Les Pamplemousses et la Pomme de Terre
1st Place - F.A.M.O.U.S. Readers Who Cannot Be Named
2nd Place - The Bookworms
3rd Place - Rapid Readers

Falling in Reverse
The Hazel Eyed Duo and the Blonde
Head in the Books
The Illusion
The Other Guys Part Two
The Page Burners
Pajama Llamas
The Smarties
Toddlers & Tiaras
Triumphant Text
Winners of the 2012 Battle of the Books
The Reading Snuffleupaguses

2012 6th Grade Battle of the Books

This year's 6th grade Battle featured 19 amazing teams! We hope everyone had fun reading and discussing the books with their team members and team managers. It was obvious how much work everyone put into the Battle by the amount of detail the teams' recalled from the books!

Thank you to the teams/team managers for signing up, showing up, being excited, and making Battle so much fun. Another big thank you goes out to all of the spectators who supported the teams during their reading and during the Battle. We know the teens' love of reading comes from and is supported by you, thank you for helping to make Battle such a success.

Below are this year's 6th grade teams:

1st Place - The Book Nooks
2nd Place - Team Riptide III
3rd Place - Rappin' Readers

Books-R-Us
The Bookworms
Chapter Champions
The Cliffhangers
The Coconut Rainbow Monkeys
Fiction Friction
The Final Chapter
Kooky. Orange. Octopus. Lovers. [KOOL]
Nerds 4 Life
The Players
The Purple Mustaches
The Sleepy Readers
The Team That Must Not Be Named
This Is Our First Year So Don't Blame Us
The Victorious Wise Guys
The Write Decision

Thank you again to everyone for sharing your love of reading (and fun) with us. We hope to see you at next year's Battle.