The 4th Grade Battle of the Books is coming! On Tuesday, April 1 at 6:00 PM, fourth graders will battle for book knowledge supremacy at the Moon Area Middle School Gym.
Registration
- Team registration must be completed by March 1, 2025. Click HERE to register.
- Teams have 1-5 members.
- If you can’t find a team or need members for your team, contact Ms. Megan.
- Team managers will receive an information packet upon registration.
Books
Worst Week Ever #1: Monday
By Eva Amores & Matt Cosgrove
Available as a book.
Summary: Have you ever had a bad week? Justin Chase sure has, and this is it!
His mum has just married a vampire. His dad is driving a giant toilet on wheels. His cat has probably been abducted by aliens. A psychotic bully is making his first day at a new school miserable. And right now, he’s hanging off the edge of a ten-metre-high diving tower in front of his entire class, wearing nothing but rapidly disappearing crocheted swimmers.
And it’s only Monday!
The Girl Who Built a Spider
By George Brewington
Available as a book.
Summary: Three young inventors are excited to start their summer internship at Flax Industries, where they can build the invention of their dreams, but things take a sinister turn when Dr. Flax’s robots take over the laboratory and try to take over the world.
The Sisters Grimm #1: The Fairy-Tale Detectives
By Michael Buckley
Available as a book, CD audiobook, ebook, and digital audiobook.
Summary: For Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, life has not been a fairy tale. After the mysterious disappearance of their parents, the sisters are sent to live with their grandmother–a woman they believed was dead! Granny Relda reveals that the girls have two famous ancestors, the Brothers Grimm, whose classic book of fairy tales is actually a collection of case files of magical mischief. Now the girls must take on the family responsibility of being fairy tale detectives.
Finch House
By Ciera Burch
Available as a book, CD audiobook, and ebook.
Summary: When eleven-year-old Micah’s grandfather goes missing, her instincts lead her to the off-limits Finch House, but when a boy named Theo invites her in, Micah realizes she cannot leave and must convince the house to let her go.
Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor #1
By Ally Carter
Available as a book, CD audiobook, ebook, and digital audiobook.
Summary: When 11-year-old April joins a group of kids living at Winterborne Home she doesn’t expect to be there for very long. But she soon learns that this home isn’t like any of the others – especially when she unearths the secret of the missing-and-presumed-dead billionaire, Gabriel Winterborne, who is neither missing nor dead but is actually living in a basement lair, sharpening his swords and looking for vengeance.
Now that April knows Gabriel Winterborne is alive, she must turn to the other orphans to keep him that way. As a looming new danger threatens to take Gabriel down once and for all, they must use their individual talents to find a way to make sure this home for misfits isn’t lost to them for ever.
Because at the Winterborne Home, nothing is what it seems, no one is who they say they are and nowhere is safe. And now a ragtag group of orphans must unravel the riddle of a missing heir, a supposed phantom and a secret key, all without alerting the adults of Winterborne House that trouble is afoot.
Villains Academy #1: Baddies in Training
By Ryan Hammond
Available as a book.
Summary: At Villains Academy, werewolf Bram, initially unsure of his villainous abilities, embarks on a quest to prove his potential, and win the Villain of the Week trophy with the help of his newfound friends.
The Lucky Ones
by Linda Williams Jackson
Available as a book.
Summary: It’s 1967, and eleven-year-old Ellis Earl Brown has big dreams. He’s going to grow up to be a teacher or a lawyer–or maybe both–and live in a big brick house in town. There’ll always be enough food in the icebox, and his mama won’t have to run herself ragged looking for work as a maid in order to support Ellis Earl and his eight siblings and niece. So Ellis Earl applies himself at school, soaking up the lessons that Mr. Foster teaches his class–particularly those about famous Black people like Thurgood Marshall and Marian Wright–and borrowing books from his teacher’s bookshelf. When Mr. Foster presents him with a copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Ellis Earl is amazed to encounter a family that’s even worse off than his own–and is delighted by the Buckets’ very happy ending. But when Mama tells Ellis Earl that he might need to quit school to help support the family, he wonders if happy endings are only possible in storybooks.
Tree. Table. Book.
By Lois Lowry
Available as a book and CD audiobook.
Summary: Everyone knows the two Sophies are best friends. One is in elementary school, and one is…well…in a little trouble of late. She’s elderly, sure, but she’s always been on her game, the best friend any girl struggling to fit in could ever have. The Sophies drink tea, have strong opinions about pretty much everything, and love each other dearly. Now it seems the elder Sophie is having memory problems, burning teakettles, and forgetting just about everything. It looks like her son is going to come and get her and steal her away forever. Young Sophie isn’t having that. Not one bit. So she sets out to help elder Sophie’s memory, with the aid of her neighborhood friends Ralphie and Oliver. But when she opens the floodgates of elder Sophie’s memories, she winds up listening to stories that will illustrate just how much there is to know about her dear friend, stories of war, hunger, cruelty, and ultimately love.
The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter #1
by Aaron Reynolds
Available as a book.
Summary: Cursed by an old carnival game, sixth-grader Rex Dexter uses his new ability to communicate with dead animals to investigate the mysterious deaths of endangered zoo animals.
It’s the End of the World and I’m in My Bathing Suit #1
by justin a. reynolds
Available as a book, Playaway, ebook, and digital audiobook.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Eddie Gordon Holloway has concocted his most genius plan ever to avoid chores… especially the dreaded L-A-U-N-D-R-Y. If he can wear all the clothes he owns, he’ll only have to do the laundry once during his school break.
On the day of the highly anticipated Beach Bash, Eddie’s monstrous pile of dirty laundry is found by his mom. And Eddie’s day has just taken a turn for the worst. Now he’s stuck at home by himself, missing the bash, and doing his whole pile of laundry. But mid-cycle, the power goes out!
With his first load of laundry wet and the rest of his stuff still filthy, he sets out to explore the seemingly empty neighborhood in his glow-in-the-dark swim trunks, flip-flops, and a beach towel. He soon meets up with other neighborhood kids: newcomer Xavier (who was mid-haircut and has half his head shaved), Eddie’s former friend Sonia (who has spent her entire break trying to beat a video game and was mid-battle with the final boss), and siblings Trey and Sage (who are dealing with major sibling drama).
As they group up to cover more ground and find out what happened, they realize that their families aren’t coming back anytime soon. And as night falls, the crew realizes that they aren’t just the only people left in the neighborhood, they might be the only people left… anywhere.
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.
- The Battle Moderator will ask each question twice.
- There are 3 rounds with 1 question from each book.
- Teams have 30 seconds to write down their answers.
- Up to 5 points are awarded for each answer.
