The Battle of the Books is coming! On Wednesday, February 18 at 7 PM, seventh and eighth 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 Heather, Caid, or Casey.
- Register online or submit a paper form at the library.
- Team managers will receive an information packet upon registration.
Books
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
By Suzanne Collins
Available as a book, CD audiobook, ebook, and digital audiobook.
Summary: It’s the 50th annual Hunger Games and as the games begin, District 12 tribute Haymitch Abernathy realizes he’s been set up to fail, but something in him wants to fight, in the fifth book in the Hunger Games series.
The Ruby Code
By Jessica Khoury
Available as a book.
Summary: Bullied at school and home, Ash finds respite from his unhappy life in virtual reality games. One night, he spends his meager savings to help a stranger, who thanks him with a copy of an old fantasy game called The Glass Realm. While exploring the game,Ash meets a seemingly humble shopkeeper named Ruby. But from the start, Ruby seems different than the other townsfolk–especially when she and Ash stumble across an in-game quest designed not for the player, but for Ruby to solve. When Ruby begins developing powerful abilities that can rewrite the very code of the game, they realize she is far more than a pre-programmed side character.
Dragonfruit
By Makiia Lucier
Available as a book, ebook, and digital audiobook.
Summary: Forced into a life of exile, Hanalei of Tamarind is reunited with her childhood best friend Sam to find a rare dragonfruit whose magic can save his mother, the princess — offering Hanalei the chance to return home and right a terrible wrong.
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Bye Forever, I Guess
By Jodi Meadows
Available as a book and ebook.
Summary: When a wrong-number text message from another gamer called Traveler offers her a chance at connection, prickly 13-year-old Ingrid, who doesn’t trust easily, becomes fast friends with Traveler until she suspects they are a student at her school, forcing her to make difficult decision.
Find Her
By Ginger Reno
Available as a book.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Wren fights to find her missing Cherokee mother, while also navigating a chilling town mystery, a new friendship, and a family in need of healing.
The Bletchley Riddle
By Ruta Sepetys & Steve Sheinkin
Available as a book, ebook, digital audiobook, Playaway, and Wonderbook.
Summary: A stunning collaboration between two award-winning and best-selling authors follows siblings Jakob Novis and his quirky younger sister Lizzie as they find themselves at Bletchley Park, the home of WWII codebreakers working to decrypt the Nazi’s Enigma cipher, where the two struggle to unravel a mystery surrounding their mother’s disappearance against the backdrop of the Battle of Britain and Hitler’s feared invasion.
Mid-Air
By Karla Arenas Valenti
Available as a book and digital audiobook.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Isaiah grapples with the loss of his best friend as he strives to fit into a world that expects him to toughen up, which leads him on a exploration of identity and vulnerability.
Lunar New Year Love Story
By Gene Luen Yang & Leuyen Pham
Available as a book and ebook.
Summary: Val is ready to give up on love. It’s led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and she’s pretty sure she’s cursed—no one in her family, for generations, has ever had any luck with love. But then a chance encounter with a pair of cute lion dancers sparks something in Val. Is it real love? Could this be her chance to break the family curse? Or is she destined to live with a broken heart forever?
Rules
- Each team has a Team Manager. The Manager can be a family member, teacher, or high school student that is at least 18 years old.
- Each team member can only borrow 3 books at a time. Battle books can only be borrowed on a library card belonging to a team member.
- The overdue fines for Battle books are $0.25 per day.
- Teams arrive at Battle at least 15 minutes before it starts to check in, set up their area, and complete any necessary forms.
- 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.
- 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. There is no partial credit for answers.
- The Moderators and Judges will decide if an answer is correct. Their decision is final.
- There are 3 rounds with 1 question from each book. Score will be tallied at the end of the third round.
- A lightning round will break any ties between teams.
- The top 3 teams will receive prizes.
