Battle of the Books

Battle of the Books 2017-2018 Booklist

CLASSICS OLD and NEW

Title	Author
Cue for Treason	Geoffrey Trease
Charlotte’s Web	E.B. White
James and the Giant Peach	Roald Dahl
Forbidden City	William Bell
The Case of the Mistaken Identity	Mac Barnett
The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien
The Boundless	Kenneth Oppel
Mary Poppins	P.L. Travers
Threatened	Eliot Schrefer
The Watson’s Go to Birmingham: 1963	Christopher Paul Curtis
A Handful of Time	Kit Pearson
Heart of a Champion	Carl Deuker
Holes	Louis Sachar
The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Otherwise Known as Shelia the Great	Judy Blume
Pax	Sarah Pennypacker
Wilder Boys	Brandon Wallace
The Sky is Falling	Kit Pearson
Hello Universe	Erin Entrada Kelly
The Mighty Miss Malone	Christopher Paul Curtis
The View from Saturday	E.L. Konigsburg
Because of Mr. Terupt	Rob Buyea

STUDENTS’ CHOICE

Belly Up	Stuart Gibbs
Amulet Book 1: The Stonekeeper	Kazu Kibuishi
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone	J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	J.K. Rowling
The Hidden Oracle: Trials of Apollo Book 1	Rick Riordan
Wonder	R.J. Palacio
The Enchanted Egg	Kallie George
Fish in a Tree	Lynda Hunt
And Then it Happened: Book 1	M.L. Wade
The Wishing Spell	Chris Colfer
Ghosts	Raina Telgemeier
11 Birthdays	Wendy Mass
Peak	Roland Smith
Jack’s Run	Roland Smith
The 100	Kass Morgan

WILD CARD

Title	Author
Enchanted Glass	Diana Wynne-Jones
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library	Chris Grabenstein
The Adventures of Captain Underpants	Dav Pilkey
Raymie Nightingale	Kate DiCamillo
Drama	Raina Telgemeier
Home Ice Advantage	Tom Earle
Into the Wild	Erin Hunter
The League of Unexceptional Children	Gitty Daneshvari
A Year in the Life of a Total and Complete Genius	Stacey Matson
Milo	Alan Silverberg
Crenshaw	Katherine Applegate
The Beautiful Game	David Skuy
Cardboard	Doug Tenapel
I Kill the Mockingbird	Paul Acampora
Fuzzy Mud	Louis Sachar
Under the Egg	Laura Marx Fitzgerald
Gracefully Grayson	Ami Polonsky
Rooftoppers	Katherine Rundell
Tommysaurus Rex	Doug Tenapel
Lumberjanes: Volume 1	Noelle Stevenson
Wildwood	Colin Meloy
A Night Divided	Jennifer A. Nielsen
Everything’s Amazing (sort of)	L. Pichon
Olga and the Smelly Thing from Nowhere	Elise Gravel
The Unwanteds	Lisa McMann
Out from Boneville	Jeff Smith

INTERESTING PEOPLE

Title	Author
An Ocean Apart (Dear Canada Series)	Gillian Chan
Who Was Alexander Hamilton?	Pam Pollock
Making Bombs for Hitler	Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
These are My Words (Dear Canada Series)	Ruby Slipperjack
I Dissent	Debbie Levy
Undergrounders	David Skuy
Sniper Fire (Dear Canada Series)	Jonathan Webb
Who is Gloria Steinem?	Sarah Fabiny
The Great Antonio	Elise Gravel
Who was Winston Churchill?	Ellen Labrecque
Who is Jane Goodall ?	Roberta Edwards
I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens	Lauren Tarshis
Who Was Harriet Tubman?	Yona Zeldis McDonough
Who Was Marie Curie?	Megan Stine
Who Was Sacagawea?	Judith Bloom Fradin
Who Was Alexander Graham Bell?	Bonnie Bader
Enormous Smallness: a story of E.E. Cummings	Matthew Burgess

RICH PICTURE BOOKS

Title	Author
The Wolves in the Walls	Neil Gaiman
Jumanji	Chris Van Allsburg
The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Victor Hugo retold by Tim Wynne-Jones
I am not a number	Jenny Kay Dupuis
The Enemy : A book about peace	Davide Cali and Serge Bloch
Three Monks No Water	Ting-Xing Ye
The Fishing Summer	Teddy Jam
Fox Song	Joseph Bruchac
Secret Path	Gord Downie
The Django	Levi Pinfold
The Day I Became a Canadian	Jo Bannatyne Cugnet
The Dunderheads	Paul Fleishman
Nightsong	Ari Berk
Not My Girl	Christy Jordan Fenton
The Listeners	Gloria Whelan