Battle of the Books (BOB) is a program at the school I go to. We are given a list of 15 books and we have to read all of them. We do a bunch of practice questions, then we are quizzed to see who knows the books the best. The children with the best knowledge of the books are put on the team. We do even more practice questions, but this time it is with the team. Finally it is competition time. We travel to one of the other middle schools in our district to compete for the title of Battle of the Books Champion. We are put in a room with a team from a different school. They alternate between asking our team questions and the other team questions. The four teams with the most correct questions move on to the next level. The top two teams out of the teams left move on to the final round. The competition to become the winner is intense. Last year the champion only won by one or two questions. The winning team receives a banner and a trophy.
Below is a list of the 2010-2011 BOB books:
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
Code Orange by Caroline Cooney
Skullduggery Pleasant by Derek Yancy
Peak by Roland Smith
Schooled by Gordan Korman
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Downsiders by Neal Shusterman
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong
Wreckers by Ian Lawrence
Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle
Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
Cracker: the Best Dog in Vietnam by Cynthia Kadohata
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikelson
Compound by Stephanie Bodeen
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