Battle of the books is a fun way to get show
your love of reading and actually earn some great prizes
for it! All you need to do is grab up to 4 friends (teams
should be 5 people or less) from grade 6 and read the
list of librarian-chosen books. A trivia competition
(and chaos!) will ensue. Keep in mind, you don’t all
have to be from the same school to be a team.
The Battle Moderator will begin by asking the first
question twice. After the question is asked twice, teams
will have 20 seconds write down their
answers. Play will continue in this manner for the next
4 questions. The Moderator will announce the answers
for the first 5 questions. If your team answers
correctly you get 4 points, plus a bonus point if you
can give the last name of the author, spelled
correctly. This means that each question is worth a
potential 5 points.
As a team, you need to assign the books to be read by
the various team members. You can have each team
member read two books, have all team members read
all books, or some combination between. It’s really up
to you!
The moderator and judges will decide if an answer given is correct, and that decision is final. Play will resume as above for the rest of the round. There will be
three rounds with one question from each book per
round.
IMPORTANT : Teams will be required to
know how to correctly spell authors’ last
names in order to receive credit.
At the end of each round, scorecards will be
collected and verified. At the end of the third round,
the Judges will tally all scores. If there is a tie, a
special lightening round will take place between the tied
teams. Once a clear winner has been made, the Battle
Moderator will announce the winners. The top three
teams will receive prizes.
Battle of the Books
Information for Students
You will need to have a responsible person, 18
years or over, to act as your Team Manager. The
Manager is there to help you get organized, practice for
the battle, and provide transportation the night of the
event. In the past, teams have asked a parent, a teacher,
an older sibling, or their school librarian to be a Team
Manager.
Here’s some rules that you’ll need to know
about before heading into the library to check out
books for the Battle of the Books:
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The books can only be borrowed on a library card
belonging to a team member. Team Managers are
not to check out books for their teams.
The books will be available at Sewickley Library,
Moon Library, and your school libraries.
Overdue fines for Battle Books are $.25/day.
If the library doesn’t have the book because all copies
have been checked out, ask a librarian to order you a
copy from another library— this service is free!
Here’s what happens on the night of the Book
Battle. First, your team will need to arrive at QVMS
Auditorium at least 15 minutes before the start time
You’ll sign in and set up your table. Your team manager will be present, but he/she will be working as a
Scorekeeper for a different team.
So, are you interested yet? To get started grab
this booklist and a registration form. Find 4 friends in
6th grade, find a responsible adult to be a Team Manager, create a name for your team, and start reading!!! All
final registration forms are due Friday,
February 10, 2017 by 5:00 PM.
Questions??? Visit the B.O.B WIKI @
info4BOB.blogspot.com/
Contact Information
Heather Panella, Public Services Librarian
Moon Township Public Library
412-269-0334
[email protected]
Emily Fear, Teen Services Librarian
Sewickley Public Library
412-741-6920
[email protected]
Moon Township Public
Library
&
Sewickley Public Library
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
7:00 PM
@
Quaker Valley Middle
School Auditorium
A Note to Parents and Team Managers
Choosing titles for B.O.B. can be a challenging task!
The selected books for 2017 were chosen based on their
student appeal, diverse subject matter and characters,
representation of a wide variety of genres, and literary merit.
The books were each read, reviewed, and discussed by a team
of school and public librarians. Should you have a concern
about one of the titles, please feel free to contact Moon or
Sewickley libraries.
Thank you,
Heather Panella, Moon Township Public Library
Emily Fear, Sewickley Public Library
Absolutely Truly by Heather Frederick
Now that Truly Lovejoy’s father has been
injured in Afghanistan and is
having trouble finding work back home, the
family moves from Texas to tiny
Pumpkin Falls, New Hampshire, to take over
Lovejoy’s Books, a struggling bookstore
that’s been in the family for one hundred
years. With two older brothers and two
younger sisters clamoring for
attention, her mother back in school, and everyone up to their
eyebrows trying to keep Lovejoy’s Books afloat, Truly feels
more overlooked than usual. So she pours herself into uncovering the mystery of an undelivered letter she finds stuck in a
valuable autographed first edition of Charlotte’s Web, which
subsequently goes missing from the bookshop. What’s inside
the envelope leads Truly and her new Pumpkin Falls friends
on a madcap treasure hunt around town, chasing clues that
could spell danger.
The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands
“Tell no one what I’ve given you.” Until he
got that cryptic warning, Christopher Rowe
was happy, learning how to solve complex
codes and creating powerful medicines, potions, and weapons as an apprentice to Master
Benedict Blackthorn. But when a mysterious
cult begins to prey on London’s apothecaries,
the trail of murders grows closer and closer to
Blackthorn’s shop. With time running out,
Christopher must use every skill he’s learned to discover the
key to a terrible secret with the power to tear the world apart.
Click Here to Start by Denis Markell
Twelve-year-old Ted Gerson has spent most of his summer
playing video games. So when his great-uncle dies and bequeaths him the all so-called treasure in his apartment, Ted
explores it like it’s another level to beat. And to his shock, he
finds that Great-Uncle Ted actually has set the place up like a
real-life escape-the-room game! Using his skills,
Ted sets off to win the greatest game he’s ever
played, with help from his friends Caleb and
Isabel. Together they discover that Uncle Ted’s
“treasure” might be exactly that—real gold and
jewels found by a Japanese American unit in
World War II. With each puzzle Ted and his
friends solve, they get closer to unraveling the
mystery.
Finding Someplace by Denise Patrick
Reesie Boone just knows that thirteen is going
to be her best year yet-this will be the year she
makes her very first fashion design on her Ma
Maw's sewing machine. She'll skip down the
streets of New Orleans with her best friends,
Ayanna and Orlando, and everyone will look at
her in admiration. But on Reesie's birthday,
everything changes. Hurricane Katrina hits her
city. Stranded at home alone, Reesie takes refuge with her elderly
neighbor, Miss Martine. The waters rise. They escape in a boat.
And soon Reesie is reunited with her family. But her journey back
home has only begun.
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart
people. Every time she lands in a new school, she
is able to hide her inability to read by creating
clever yet disruptive distractions. However, her
newest teacher Mr. Daniels sees the bright kid
underneath the trouble maker. With his help, Ally
learns not to be so hard on herself and that dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed of. As her confidence grows, Ally feels free to be herself and the world starts
opening up with possibilities.
MiNRS by Kevin Sylvester
Christopher, his parents, and a few other families
live on Perses, a planetoid in Earth's solar system
that has been set up as a mining operation, shipping much-needed ore back to Earth. One night,
just as a communications blackout begins, raiders
attack Perses, bombing and shooting into the gathered crowds. Christopher and a few other kids
survive, hiding in the mining tunnels. It will be two months
before the blackout is over, however, and Christopher isn't sure
they can hold out that long. As the oldest, it's up to him to find a
way to keep everyone alive and figure out a way to contact Earth
once the blackout ends. A survivor with a more militant agenda,
the discovery of Perses' dark secret, and a spy within the ranks
threaten not only his plan, but everyone's survival.
Nightmares by Jason Segal & Kirsten Miller
Eleven-year-old Charlie Laird is convinced that his
stepmother Charlotte is a witch. She dresses funny, serves strange food, and runs a store called
Hazel's Herbarium. Charlie's dad, little brother,
and friends all like Charlotte and think Charlie's
still grieving for his mom. He's also suffering from
terrible nightmares, and living in Charlotte's crazy
purple mansion isn't helping. The evil witch who stars in those
nightmares threatens to follow him into the real world and kidnap
his brother. Instead, he is tricked into the Nightmare World, with
monsters and madness: gorgons, goblins, crazy clowns, scary
bunnies, tests filled with gibberish, and the monomaniacal President Fear. But all is not what it seems, and some of the scariest
creatures turn out to be sympathetic—or even allies.
Pax by Sarah Pennypacker
Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since
Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day, the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military
and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his
grandfather's house, three hundred miles away
from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should
be—with Pax. He strikes out on his own despite
the encroaching war, spurred by love, loyalty, and grief, to be
reunited with his fox. Meanwhile Pax, steadfastly waiting for his
boy, embarks on adventures and discoveries of his own. . . .
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by
Elspeth Leacock & Susan Buckley
As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights
march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama,
Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young
adults can be heroes. Jailed nine times before her
fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. for the rights of AfricanAmericans. In this memoir, she shows today's
young readers what it means to fight nonviolently (even when the
police are using violence, as in the Bloody Sunday protest) and
how it felt to be part of changing American history.
The Way Home Looks Now by Wendy
Wan-Long Shan
Twelve-year-old Peter Lee and his family are
baseball lovers, who bond over back lot games
and talk of the Pittsburgh Pirates. But when
tragedy strikes, the family flies apart and baseball
no longer seems to matter. Is that true? Peter
wonders if just maybe the game they love can
pull them together and bring them back, safe at
home.
Annotations taken from Amazon.com