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Fiction
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Baseball in April and Other Stories by Gary Soto
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
Wayside School is Falling Down by Louis Sachar
The Bicycle Spy by Yona Zeldis McDonough
You'll Like it Here (Everybody Does) by Ruth White
Standing for Socks by Alyssa Brent Wiseman
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
Africa is my Home: A Child of the Amistad by Monica Edinger
Graphic Novels
Cardboard by Doug TenNapel
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Non-Fiction
Who was Roald Dahl? by True Kelley
If you Lived Here: Houses of the World by Giles Laroche
Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball by John Coy
Here Comes the Garbage Barge! by Jonah Winter
How to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look at Unusual Animal Partnerships by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
Poetry
Dark Emperor and other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
Picture Books
The Goodbye Cancer Garden by Janna Matthies, illus. by Kristi Valiant
Papa's Mechanical Fish by Candace Fleming, illus. by Boris Kulikov
Tucky Jo and Little Heart by Patricia Polacco, illus. by Patricia Polacco
What Do You Do with an Idea? by Kobi Yamada, illus. by Mae Besom
When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest, illus. by P.J. Lynch
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña, illus. by Christian Robinson
A note:
We understand the incredible value that illustrators play in communicating a story. We chose to include the illustrators’ names for only the books listed in the picture book section, but hope that you will pay attention to the illustrators’ names for every book you read. Questions about the illustrations are allowed for every book on the list, as this is an integral part of the story.
How are Battle of the Books books selected?
The books were selected by a committee made up of Books for a Better World members and representatives from our partnerships: EVSC and Evansville Public Libraries. Looking at a large list of submitted suggestions, we narrowed down the books based off of availability in libraries and selected books using a set of criteria. The criteria were: reading level, interest, gender focus, cultural/ethnic emphasis, and format of the book.
*Please be respectful to your teammates and other participants by keeping in mind that if a book is checked out for an extended length of time, that it restricts access to it by everyone.