BATTLE OF THE BOOKS 2014!

 

Registration is open for Teen Battle of the Books 2014!

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 31st. 

Battle of the Books 2014 Dates:

6th Grade - Tuesday, February 18th, 7:00 PM
7th & 8th Grade - Wednesday, February 19th, 6:30 PM
High School - Tuesday, February 25th, 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!

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.

2012 Battle of the Books Information

6th grade: Monday, February 27, 2012 - 7PM
in Sewickley Academy's Senior School Commons (next to Hansen Library)

• Booklist


• Team Sign Up Sheet

7th & 8th Grade: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 7PM
in Sewickley Academy's Hansen Library

• Booklist


• Team Sign Up Sheet
  
  

High School: Monday, March 5, 2012 - 6:30PM
in Sewickley Academy's Hansen Library

• Please arrive by 6:20pm to enjoy pizza and a Skype visit with Ruta Sepetys, author of Between Shades of Gray. The Skype session will run from 6:30-7ish and will be immediately followed by the Battle.


• Booklist


• Team Sign Up Sheet

The Booklists for the Battle are available:

on this Blog
in area school libraries
in Moon Public Library
in Sewickley Public Library

There will be no physical informational meetings this year. Instead, we'll interact virtually within this blog. You are encouraged to ask questions via the comments on each post. This will allow everyone to see your question and my answers. Hopefully this will allow busy teens and Team Managers to get all of the information that they need to participate successfully.

If you have a question for me that you would not like everyone to see, you can email Kelly at Sewickley at rottmundk@einetwork.netor Heather at Moon at panellah@einetwork.net.

High School Battle Books

Battle of the Books 2012

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys - In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan - Told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two sixteen-year-olds carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmas-time in New York, neither knowing quite what--or who--they will find.

Fire by Kristin Cashore - In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world.

Hold Still by Nina LeCour - As she reads the journal left by her best friend, who committed suicide, Caitlin struggles with powerful feelings of loss, sadness, and guilt, but friends and a first love help her to cope with her negative emotions.

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness - Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri - A portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life.

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum - The untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. A pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end an era when untraceable poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan - When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.

A Note to Parents and Team Managers

Choosing titles for B.O.B. can be a challenging task! The selected books for 2012 were chosen based on their student appeal, diverse subject matter and characters, representation of a wide variety of genres, and their literary merit. The books were each read, reviewed, and discussed by a team of school and public librarians. Should you have a concern about one of the titles, please feel free to contact Moon or Sewickley libraries.

Thank you,
Heather Panella, Moon Township Public Library
Kelly Rottmund, Sewickley Public Library

*Plot summaries are from the NoveList database.