Battle of the Books - 2007- 08
Title |
Author |
Description |
ABBY TAKES A STAND |
McKissack |
Gee recalls for her grandchildren the 1960 sit-ins held at restaurants and lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee to protest segregation. |
AIRBALL: MY LIFE IN BRIEFS |
Harkrader |
Uncoordinated Kansas seventh-grader Kirby Nickel braves his coach’s ire and becomes captain of the basketball team in order to help him prove that NBA star Brett McGrew is the father he has never known. |
CHICKEN BOY |
Dowell |
Since the death of his mother, Tobin’s life has been in disarray, but after he starts raising chickens with his seventh-grade classmate, Henry, everything starts to fall into place. |
DEFIANCE |
Hobb |
While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow. |
DOG’S LIFE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A STRAY |
Martin |
Squirrel, a stray puppy, tells her life story, from her nurturing mother and brother to making her own way in the world, facing busy highways, changing seasons, and humans both gentle and brutal. |
DOUBLE IDENTITY |
Haddix |
When thirteen-year-old Bethany’s parents drop out of sight with no explanation, leaving her with an aunt she never knew existed, Bethany uncovers secrets that make her question everything she thought she knew about her family. |
GHOST’S GRAVE |
Kehret |
Twelve-year-old Josh finds adventure when he meets the ghost of a coal miner while spending the summer in Washington State with his Aunt Ethel when his parents get an overseas job. |
GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA, OR, PIRATES GALORE |
Fleishman |
A cabin boy on a pirate ship finds himself in San Diego in 1846 as war breaks out between the United States and Mexico. |
LEGEND OF SPUD MURPHY |
Colfer |
When their mother drops them off at the library several afternoons a week, William and his brother dread boredom and the overbearing librarian, but they are surprised at how things turn out. |
LISTENING FOR LIONS |
Whelan |
Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor’s identity to travel to England. |
MISADVENTURES OF MAUDE MARCH, OR, TROUBLE RIDES A FAST HORSE |
Couloumbis |
Eleven-year-old Sallie and her fifteen-year-old sister escape their self-serving guardians and begin an adventure resembling those in the dime novels Sallie loves to read. |
OWEN FOOTE, MIGHTY SCIENTIST |
Greene |
Third grade best friends Owen and Joseph have to change their science project plans two days before the fair. |
PRINCESS ACADEMY |
Hale |
While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland. |
SHAKESPEARE’S SECRET |
Broach |
A sixth-grader named Hero becomes interested in a missing diamond, a five-hundred-year-old necklace, and a mystery dating back to the time of Shakespeare. |
SISTERS GRIMM: THE FAIRY-TALE DETECTIVES |
Buckley |
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead. |
WHALES ON STILTS |
Anderson |
Shy middle-school student Lily and her best friends, Katie and Jasper, must foil the plot of her father’s conniving boss to conquer the world using an army of whales. |