The 7th & 8th Grade Battle of the Books is coming! On Wednesday, February 23 at 7 PM, seventh and eighth graders will battle for book knowledge supremacy at Cornell Area School District.

For more information, check out the BOB Wiki.

Registration

Team registration must be completed by January 24, 2022 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.
Registration forms can be turned into your school librarian, Moon Library, Sewickley Library, or by email.
Team managers will receive an information packet upon registration.

Books

The Overthrow #1: Bloom

By Kenneth Oppel

Available as a book, ebook, and digital audiobook.

Summary: The invasion begins–but not as you’d expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout–overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, and burrow below streets. They bloom–and release toxic pollens. They bloom–and form Venus flytrap-like pods that swallow animals and people. Three kids on a remote island seem immune to the toxic plants. Anaya, Petra, Seth. They each have strange allergies–and yet not to these plants. What’s their secret? Can they somehow be the key to beating back this invasion? They’d better figure it out fast, because it’s starting to rain again.

The Canyon’s Edge

By Dusti Bowling

Available as a book, Playaway, ebook, and digital audiobook.

Summary: One year after a random shooting changed their family forever, Nora and her father are exploring a slot canyon deep in the Arizona desert, hoping it will help them find peace. Nora longs for things to go back to normal, like they were when her mother was still alive, while her father keeps them isolated in fear of other people. But when they reach the bottom of the canyon, the unthinkable happens: A flash flood rips across their path, sweeping away Nora’s father and all of their supplies. Suddenly, Nora finds herself lost and alone in the desert, facing dehydration, venomous scorpions, deadly snakes, and, worst of all, the Beast who has terrorized her dreams for the past year. If Nora is going to save herself and her father, she must conquer her fears, defeat the Beast, and find the courage to live her new life.

Dreamland Burning

By Jennifer Latham

Available as a book, ebook, and digital audiobook.

Summary: When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family’s property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past, the present, and herself. One hundred years earlier, a single violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what’s right the night Tulsa burns.

The Disasters

By M.K. England

Available as a book, ebook, and digital audiobook.

Summary: Hotshot pilot Nax Hall has a history of making poor life choices. So it’s not exactly a surprise when he’s kicked out of the elite Ellis Station Academy in less than twenty-four hours. But Nax’s one-way trip back to Earth is cut short when a terrorist group attacks the Academy. Nax and three other washouts escape—barely—but they’re also the sole witnesses to the biggest crime in the history of space colonization. And the perfect scapegoats. On the run and framed for atrocities they didn’t commit, Nax and his fellow failures execute a dangerous heist to spread the truth about what happened at the Academy. They may not be “Academy material,” and they may not get along, but they’re the only ones left to step up and fight.

The Inheritance Games #1

By Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Available as a book, Playaway, ebook, and digital audiobook.

Summary: Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why–or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man’s touch–and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.

The Next Great Paulie Fink

By Ali Benjamin

Available as a book, CD audiobook, and ebook.

Summary: When Caitlyn Breen begins her disorienting new life at Mitchell School–where the students take care of real live goats and study long-dead philosophers, and where there are only ten other students in the entire seventh grade–it seems like nobody can stop talking about some kid named Paulie Fink. Depending on whom you ask, Paulie was either a hilarious class clown, a relentless troublemaker, a hapless klutz, or an evil genius. One thing’s for sure, though: The kid was totally legendary. Now he’s disappeared, and Caitlyn finds herself leading a reality-show-style competition to find the school’s next great Paulie Fink. With each challenge, Caitlyn struggles to understand a person she never met…but it’s what she discovers about herself that most surprises her.

Shadow and Bone #1

By Leigh Bardugo

Available as a book and ebook.

Summary: Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.

We Are Not Free

By Traci Chee

Available as a book, ebook, and digital audiobook.

Summary: Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco. Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted. Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps. In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.

Rules

Each team has a Team Manager, who must be an adult at least 18 years old.
Books can only be borrowed by team members. Team Managers cannot borrow books.
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.
Team Managers act as Scorekeepers for another team.
The Battle Moderator will ask each question twice. There are 5 questions and three rounds of questions.
Teams have 20 seconds to write down their answers.
Up to 5 points are awarded for each answer. All decisions are final.
The top three teams will receive prizes.

COVID Protocol

All participants must wear masks over their nose and mouth during the entire Battle of the Books.

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