The 6th Grade Battle of the Books is coming! On Tuesday, February 18 at 7 PM, sixth graders will battle for book knowledge supremacy at Quaker Valley Middle School.
Registration
- Team registration must be completed by January 31 by 8:00 PM.
- Teams have 1-5 members.
- If you can’t find a team or need members for your team, contact Ms. Heather or Ms. Emily.
- Register online or fill out a paper form at the library.
- Team managers will receive an information packet upon registration.
Books
Simon Sort of Says
By Erin Bow
Available as a book and ebook.
Summary: Two years after a tragedy saddles him with viral fame, twelve-year-old Simon O’Keeffe and his family move to Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, where the internet and cell phones are banned so astrophysicists can scan the sky for signs of alien life, and where, with the help of two new friends, a puppy, and a giant radio telescope, Simon plans to restart the narrative of his life.
The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, A Shocking Heist, and the Birth of A Global Celebrity
By Nicholas Day & Brett Helquist
Available as a book, Playaway, ebook, and digital audiobook.
Summary: A narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world, and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all.
The Bellwoods Game
By Celia Krampien
Available as a book, ebook, and digital audiobook.
Summary: A group of sixth graders participating in an annual Halloween tradition to pacify the ghost of Abigail Snook quickly realize that the Bellwoods contains an even bigger threat to their town.
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Operation Final Notice
By Matthew Landis
Available as a book and digital audiobook.
Summary: As Christmas and the new year inch closer, so do Ronny and Jo’s anxieties. Because Ronny needs $878 by January 4th to keep his family’s only car from getting taken by the bank. Ever since a workplace injury disabled his dad and forced the family to move from their home into the apartment complex across the street, Ronny’s had a crash course in repossession.
His best friend Josefina Ramos is also counting down until the start of January when her life could change forever-that’s when she has her big cello audition at the prestigious music academy Maple Hill. Except she can’t play a solo performance without something disastrous happening and no one seems to hear her when she talks about how nervous she is.
As the countdown to the new year rolls ahead, Ronny and Jo learn what can happen to best-laid plans and how to depend on one another and their community when things get tough.
New Dragon City
By Mari Mancusi
Available as a book.
Summary: No one predicted the dragon apocalypse. The dragons came suddenly and decimated the world as we knew it, including New York City. Now, three years later, Noah, his hardcore survivalist father, and a ragtag group of survivors are barely scraping by in this new reality. Kids scavenge not only for materials in abandoned homes but also for leftover books at the library. Adults spend their time establishing a make-shift society and defending their shelter… with any means available. At least for the few months the dragons are hibernating, until it’s no longer safe aboveground.
Noah has seen the damage these creatures can do firsthand. When it comes to dragons: It’s kill or be killed. But a chance encounter between Noah and a young dragon causes him to question everything he thought he knew. With rumors spreading that there’s a group of survivors living in harmony with dragons instead of hiding underground, Noah teams up with his fire-breathing ally to find out if peace between humans and dragons is really possible. But the division runs deeper than scales versus skin because trying to follow his heart might just cost Noah his family too. If Noah and his father can’t see eye to eye, can he really get humans and dragons to?
The Myth of Monsters #1: Medusa
By Katherine Marsh
Available as a book and CD audiobook.
Summary: Ava Baldwin has always tried to keep her anger in check, just like her mom taught her. But when know-it-all classmate Owen King tries to speak over her yet again, Ava explodes . . . and Owen freezes, becoming totally unresponsive. Although Owen recovers, Ava’s parents whisk her off to her mother’s alma mater, the Accademia del Forte, a mysterious international boarding school in Venice. There, Ava and her brother, Jax, discover that the Olympian gods founded the Accademia to teach the descendants of mythological monsters how to control their emotions and their powers and become functioning, well-adjusted members of society. But not everything at the Accademia is as it seems. After her friend Fia is almost expelled for challenging a teacher, Ava realizes the school is hiding a dangerous secret. To uncover the truth, Ava and her new friends embark on an adventure that could change the way they view history, mythology—and themselves—forever…or end their lives.
Camp Sylvania
By Julie Murphy
Available as a book, CD audiobook, ebook, and digital audiobook.
Summary: Maggie’s finally ready to leave for her longed-for performing-arts camp, but her parents have made other plans: she’s going to Camp Sylvania, a “wellness” (i.e., fat) camp. Maggie is furious, of course, but thankfully, her bunkmates are fantastic and she gets the lead in the camp production of The Music Man opposite her crush. But the counselors have some strange rules, campers start going missing, and there’s an unusually alluring blood bank near the cafeteria.
Uprising
By Jennifer A. Nielsen
Available as a book, CD audiobook, and digital audiobook.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Lidia’s life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
The Winterton Deception #1: Final Word
By Janet Sumner Johnson
Available as a book.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old twins Hope and Gordon enter a spelling bee in a last-ditch effort to save their family from financial ruin, only to find themselves in a cut-throat competition to uncover a fortune and dark secrets about the wealthy relations they have never known.
Paige Not Found
By Jen Wilde
Available as a book.
Summary: When Paige learns that her parents enrolled her in an autism study without telling her, her world turns upside down. Suddenly she isn’t sure if she can trust the two people she loves most. A chip was implanted in her brain that sends them information about her mood, brain activity, and location. It can even boost the chemicals that keep her calm or make her happy. So Paige has to wonder… can she even trust her own mind
Rules
- Each team has a Team Manager. The Manager can be a family member, teacher, or high school student.
- Each team member can only borrow 3 books at a time.
- The overdue fines for Battle books are $0.25 per day.
- Teams arrive at Battle at least 15 minutes before it starts.
- Teams seat together in a circle. One team member will be elected Secretary. The Team Secretary will be solely responsible for recording team answers.
- Team Managers will be assigned to monitor a team that is not their own. Monitors collect and check team answers and record their score.
- The Battle Moderators will ask each question twice and show it on a screen.
- There are 3 rounds with 1 question from each book.
- Teams have 20 seconds to write down their answers.
- Up to 5 points are awarded for each answer: 4 for answering the question correctly + 1 for spelling the author’s last name correctly.
