Battle of the Books

This is an optional program offered to intermediate students, to promote reading quality literature.

All intermediate classes will be introduced to the Young Reader's Choice and Sasquatch Reading Award nominees in September. Students are encouraged to read as many of the titles as possible and to form a team for the Battle of the Books. The school battles will begin in February 2009.

Here is the list for the February 2009 Battle of the Books.

TITLE	AUTHOR
Year of the Dog	Grace Lin
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane	Kate DiCamillo
Magyk	Angie Sage
My Name is Sally Little Song	Brenda Wood
The Homework Machine	Dan Gutman
Archer's Quest	Linda Sue Park
Room One	Andrew Clements
Beasts of Clawstone Castle	Eva Ibbotson
Rules	Cynthia Lord
Mr. Chickadee's Funny Money	Christopher Paul Curtis
Modoc The World's Greatest Elephant	Ralph Helfer
Looking for Bapu	Anjali Banerjee

Rules

	Teams shall consist of no more than four members, grades 4 – 6. Students may be from different classes as long as they have a common recess.
	One team member shall be designated as the “Spokesperson” who will be responsible for putting forth the team’s answer. The team may talk amongst themselves to come up with an answer.
	Each team will be given 30 seconds to give the title of the book. The timing starts as soon as the question is asked once. The team may ask to have the question repeated, but the clock will be running. After 30 seconds the scorekeeper will shout “Time.” If the Spokesperson is giving an answer when “Time” is heard, she/he may finish the answer.
	New questions will alternately be given to each team regardless of which team gave the last correct answer. In other words, if team A is given a new question, team B will be given the next new question, even if team B just correctly answered a question that team A had just missed.
	The title must be exact. The moderator’s decision will be final in the case of any team answer, which may be questionable.
	Scoring: 2 points for a correct answer to a new question. 1 point for a correct answer to a missed question.
	Teams may not have a list of the books at their table during the competition.

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One team member shall be designated as the “Spokesperson” who will be responsible for putting forth the team’s answer. The team may talk amongst themselves to come up with an answer.

New questions will alternately be given to each team regardless of which team gave the last correct answer. In other words, if team A is given a new question, team B will be given the next new question, even if team B just correctly answered a question that team A had just missed.

The title must be exact. The moderator’s decision will be final in the case of any team answer, which may be questionable.

Scoring: 2 points for a correct answer to a new question. 1 point for a correct answer to a missed question.

Teams may not have a list of the books at their table during the competition.