Battle of the Books 2024

In which book does a character remember a friend’s

mother whispering that everything was going to be just

fine and somehow the character knows that she was

right?

• Amari and the Night Brothers

  B.B. Alston

• Where the Watermelons Grow

  Cindy Baldwin

• The Very, Very Far North

  Dan Bar-el

• Not If I Can Help It

  Carolyn Mackler

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

In which book does a person say that a building is full

of books which are windows into worlds we never

even dreamed possible?

• Escape From Mr. Limoncello’s

  Library

  Chris Grabenstein

• The Hero Two Doors Down

  Sharon Robinson

• The Miscalculations of Lightning

  Girl

  Stacy McAnulty

• Pax

  Sara Pennypacker

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

In which book does a character call a poet “tennis boy”

instead of Tennyson?

• The Total Eclips of Nector Lopez

  Adrianna Cuevas

• Linked

  Gordon Korman

• Walls Within Walls

  Maureen Sherry

• Pax

  Sara Pennypacker

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

In which book does a character say that a teacher

pulls him into a hug, thankfully quick, since there’s

nothing worse than being hugged by a teacher?

• Wildfire

  Rodman Philbrick

• The Total Eclips of Nector Lopez

  Adrianna Cuevas

• The Elephant in the Room

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

• The Hero Two Doors Down

  Sharon Robinson

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

In which book does a character shrug and change the

subject when asked if she has homework?

• Wish

  Barbara O’Connor

• Not If I Can Help It

  Carolyn Mackler

• Root Magic

  Eden Royce

• The Hero Two Doors Down

  Sharon Robinson

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

In which book does a character not get lonely because

she sees the bus driver and the librarian?

• Where the Watermelons Grow

  Cindy Baldwin

• Linked

  Gordon Korman

• Pax

  Sara Pennypacker

• The Very, Very Far North

  Dan Bar-el

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

In which book is a character up before sunrise with his

head stuck out of the bedroom window?

• Escape From Mr. Limoncello’s

  Library

  Chris Grabenstein

• Pax

  Sara Pennypacker

• The Hero Two Doors Down

  Sharon Robinson

• Not If I Can Help It

  Carolyn Mackler

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

In which book do characters find the long, skinny

shape of a lake on the elevation map they found?

• Where the Watermelons Grow

  Cindy Baldwin

• Wildfire

  Rodman Philbrick

• Pax

  Sara Pennypacker

• Amari and the Night Brothers

  B.B. Alston

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

In which book does a character say that a camp is

really a fatness camp, not a fitness camp?

• The Hero Two Doors Down

  Sharon Robinson

• Wildfire

  Rodman Philbrick

• The Very, Very Far North

  Dan Bar-el

• Amari and the Night Brothers

  B.B. Alston

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

In which book does a character meet a girl who has

braces and brown hair that flips out at the ends in

spiky way?

• Wish

  Barbara O’Connor

• Walls Within Walls

  Maureen Sherry

• Pax

  Sara Pennypacker

• The Miscalculations of Lightning

  Girl

  Stacy McAnulty

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CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9