Working List Battle of the Books

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1 Working List Battle of the Books The title conference selection for the Battle of the Books will take place at the AKLA Conference in Fairbanks on February 25th. If you are unable to make the conference session, you can your comments to the grade level chairs. Final title selection list will be posted in March Kindergarten to Second Grade Level Title Author ISBN Subject RL pages Price Note Repeat 2nd Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Careers, Humor $ nd K Baby Sister for Francis Russell Hoban Family, Sisters Repeat $ K K/2 Bear Story Joy Martin alaska, bears, abc 32 $9.95 K/2 Ben's Robot Robin Stevenson Robots, Friendship 3 58 $4.99 Blues go birding across K/2 America Carol Malnor Birds, Nature $8.95 K/2 Brave Irene William Steig Weather, Nature $7.99 K/2 Call for a New Alphabet Jef Czekaj Humor, ABC, Historical $5.95 K/2 Cowboy Ned and Andy David Stein Western, Animals $6.99 1st Days with Frog and Toad Arnold Lobel Animals $3.99 Else Holmelund K/2 Father Bear Comes Home Minarik Bears, Family $3.95 Stephen K/2 Gnome from Nome Cosgrove Alaska 32 $10.99 Fantasy, Knights, K/2 Good Night, Good Knight Shelley Thomas Dragons 2 48 $3.99 K/2 Groucho's eyebrows Tricia Brown Alaska, Cats being reprinted in PB

2 Humpty Dumpty Climbs K/2 Again Dave Horowitz Fairy tales, emotions $6.99 K/2 I Broke my Trunk! Mo Willems Storytelling, pigs $8.99 2nd Johnny Appleseed Steven Kellogg Action, Folk Story $6.99 repeat 1990 K/2 Ling and Ting: not exactly the same Grace Lin Twins, Family, Multicultural $3.99 K/2 Little Panda Renata Liwska Animals, Storytelling, multigenerational $5.99 K/2 Lucy's Dance Deb Vanasse Alaska, Yupik 4.2 $10.95 K/2 Marty Mcguire Kate Messner Theater, School, Fiction $5.99 K/2 Mouse and Mole: a winter wonderland Wong Herbert Yee Animals, weather, snow $4.99 K/2 Mr. Putter and Tabby pick the pears Cynthia Rylant Family, multigeneraltional, cats $5.99 K/2 My Think-a-ma-Jink Dave Whamond Fantasy, Imagination 2.4 $7.95 K/2 Out of the Ballpark Alex Rodriguez Sports, Biography 2.8 $6.99 Mar-12 K/2 President Pennybaker Kate Feiffer Fiction, elections $7.99 K/2 Spaghetti in a hot dog bun Maria Dismondy Self-esteem, teasing $9.95 K Stone Soup Marcia Brown Action, Folk Tales $ st Three Billy Goats Gruff Paul Gadone Animals, Nursery Rhymes 3 31 $ K/2 We're going on a bear hunt Michael Rosen Humor, Outdoors, Bears $7.99 K/2 Wizard of Oz Daisy Alberto Fantasy $4.99 Third/Fourth Grade 3rd/4th 11 Birthdays Wendy Mass Friendship, Social, Bday $6.99 3rd/4th 26 Fairmount Avenue Tomie depaola Biography, Repeat $

3 Alvin Ho: allergic to girls, school and other scary things Lenore Look Self-confidence, Multiculture, Friendship $6.99 3rd/4th Ancient Greece and the Mary Pope 3rd/4th Olympics Osborne Nonfiction, Historical $5.99 Babe Ruth and the baseball 3rd/4th curse David Kelly Sports, History, Nonfic $4.99 Calvin Coconut: Trouble Graham 3rd/4th Magnet Salisbury School, Hawaii, Bullies $6.99 Nonfic, Animals, 3rd/4th Caribou Journey Debbie S Miller migration $ rd/4th Fantastic Mr. Fox Roald Dahl Animals, Repeat $6.99 Frankie Pickle and the 3rd/4th Closet of Doom Eric Wright Family, Dogs $5.99 Family, Special Needs, Cooking, 3rd/4th Granny Torrelli Makes Soup Sharon Creech Multigenerational $5.99 How Oliver Olson changed Parenting, science, 3rd/4th the world Claudia Mills schools $5.99 3rd/4th Key to Rondo Emily Rodda fantasy, space, magic $6.99 school, comics/graphic novel $ rd/4th Knights of the Lunch Table Frank Cammuso Lunch Lady and the Cyborg 3rd/4th Substitute Jarrett Krosoczka Robots, school, comics $6.99 3rd/4th Magical Ms. Plum Bonny Becker School, Fantasy $5.99 Humor, Science, 3rd/4th Melonhead Katy Kelly Geography $6.99 Survival, animals, 3rd/4th Nim's Island Wendy Orr friendship, repeat $6.99 Family, Tennessee, 3rd/4th Penny Dreadful Laurel Snyder adventure $7.99 3rd/4th Punished David Lubar Word games, friendship, libraries $

4 3rd/4th Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan Historical, Frontier $ rd/4th Seldovia Sam and the very large clam Susan Woodward Springer Alaska, Adventure $ rd/4th Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Judy Blume School, Humor, Repeat $ rd/4th The 100-year-old secret Tracy Barrett Family, Europe $6.99 3rd/4th Tornado Betsy Byars Animals, Tornados $ rd/4th Toys go Out Emily Jenkins Adventure, Toys $6.99 3rd/4th Trouble with Chickens Doreen Cronin Mystery, animals $5.99 Historical, adventure, 3rd/4th Turtle in Paradise Jennifer L. Holm family $6.99 3rd/4th Van Gogh Café Cynthia Rylant Cooking, Fantasy $5.95 Where the Mountain Meets 3rd/4th the Moon Grace Lin Folklore, Dragons $7.99 3rd/4th Who was Amelia Earhart? Kate Jerome Biography, Flight $4.99 Fifth/Sixth Grade th/6th Alabama Moon Watt Key Survival, Social Issues, Orphans $7.99 on HS List 5th/6th Big Nate: In a class by himself Lincoln Peirce Humor, School Hardback $12.99 only 5th/6th Boggart Susan Cooper Adventure, fantasy, repeat $ th/6th Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis Historical Fiction, runaways $ th/6th City of Ember Jeanne DuPrau Fantasy $ th/6th Colony Kids Heather LeHe Alaska, Mat-Su Valley 155 $ th/6th Do Not Pass Go Kirkpatrick Hill Family, Alaska, Social $6.99 5th/6th Dragon's Gate Laurence Yep Historical Fiction $6.99

5 5th/6th Dragon's Keep Janet Lee Carey Animals, nature, fantasy $7.95 5th/6th Half upon a time James Riley Adventure, fantasy $6.99 5th/6th Horton Halfpott Tom Angleberger Mystery $6.95 5th/6th Lawn Boy Gary Paulsen realistic fiction $6.99 5th/6th Leaping Beauty Gregory Maguire Fairy tales, short stories $6.99 5th/6th Lost and Found Andrew Clements family, school $5.99 5th/6th Mission Unstoppable Dan Gutman Action, Adventure $6.99 5th/6th Mississippi Bridge Mildred Taylor Historical fiction $4.99 5th/6th Mockingbird Kathryn Erskine School, Social Issues $6.99 Mostly true adventures of History, Civil War, 5th/6th Homer P. Figg Rodman Philbrick Action $6.99 5th/6th Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic Betty MacDonald Manners, Humor $5.99 Pseudonymous 5th/6th Name of this Book is Secret Bosch Fantasy, adventure $6.99 March 2012 Pub th/6th Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster Fantasy, repeat $ th/6th Red Pyramid Rick Riordan Fantasy, adventure $9.99 5th/6th Root Cellar Janet Lunn Farm, Canada, Sci-Fi $ th/6th Sasquatch Roland Smith Volcanoes, repeat $5.99 School, fear, interpersonal 5th/6th School of Fear Gitty Daneshvari relationship $6.99 5th/6th Sign of the Beaver Elizabeth George Speare Frontier, Indians $6.99 5th/6th Wish Stealers Tracy Trivas Fantasy, supernatural $5.99 Sixth-Eighth Grade 2006

6 6th-8th After Ever After Jordan Sonnenblick Realistic Fiction YA 260 $7.99 6th-8th Blue Sword Robin McKinley Fantasy $6.99 6th-8th Chew on This Eric Schlosser NonFic, Food Habits $9.99 5th/6th Colony Kids Heather LeHe Alaska, Mat-Su Valley 155 $ th-8th Dark Sons Nikki Grimes Realistic Fiction $8.99 Mystery, Adventure, 6th-8th Door of No Return Sarah Mussi Historical YA 400 $8.99 6th-8th Emerald Atlas John Stephens Magic, Family $7.99 on HS List too 6th-8th Evolution of Calpurnia Tate Jacqueline Kelly Real Life, Texas $7.99 6th-8th Homeless Bird Gloria Whelan Multicultural, repeat $5.99 Title 6th-8th Lassie Come Home Eric Knight classic, animals, repeat $6.99 Title Alaska, Family Life, 6th-8th Leaving Protection Will Hobbs repeat YA 192 $5.99 Title 6th-8th Lost Hero Rick Rioridan Fantasy YA 576 $9.99 Apr-12 6th-8th Maze Runner James Dashner Sci Fi YA 375 $9.99 6th-8th Moon over Manifest Clare Vanderpool historical $7.99 6th-8th Mysterious Benedict Society Trenton Stewart sci fi $6.99 6th-8th Peter Pan J.M. Barrie Classic, repeat $4.95 Title 6th-8th Petey Ben Mikaelsen Realistic Fiction, repeat $5.99 Title 6th-8th Princess Academy Shannon Hale Fairy tale $7.95 6th-8th Princess of the Midnight Ball Jessica George Fairy tale $8.99 6th-8th Redwall Brian Jacques fantasy, repeat $8.99 6th-8th Scat Carl Hiaasen Mystery $8.99 6th-8th Shooting Kabul N.H. Senzai Afghan culture $6.99 Title

7 6th-8th Storm Runners Roland Smith adventure $5.99 6th-8th Thief Megan Whalen Turner adventure, repeat $6.99 title 6th-8th Tom's midnight garden Philippa Pearce magic, repeat $7.99 title 6th-8th Tunnels Roderick Gordon adventure $8.99 6th-8th Wednesday Wars Gary Schmidt coming of age $6.99 High School HS Across Five Aprils Irene Hunt Historical Fiction YA 190 $6.99 Title HS Alabama Moon Watt Key Survival, Social Issues, Orphans YA 294 on 5/6 list $7.99 too HS Between Shades of Gray Ruta Sepetys Historical Fiction YA 368 $8.99 HS Change-up John Feinstein Baseball, mystery YA 308 $7.99 HS Claudette Colvin Phillip Hoose Biography YA 150 $9.99 HS Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare supernatural, steampunk, fantasy YA 512 $10.99 HS Compromised Heidi Ayarbe Runaway, tourette, travels YA 452 $8.99 HS Curse Dark as Gold Elizabeth Bunce Ghosts, Magic, Family YA 400 $9.99 HS Disreputable history of Frankie Landau Banks E. Lockhart Social Issues, Friendship, school YA 340 $8.99 HS Door of No Return Sarah Mussi Mystery, Adventure, Historical YA 400 on MS List $8.99 too HS Eagle of the Ninth Rosemary Sutcliff Historical Fiction YA 210 $8.99 HS East Edith Pattou Fairy Tales YA 507 $8.95 HS Here lies Arthur Philip Reeve Historical, Fantasy, Legends YA 339 $8.99 HS Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkein Fantasy, Repeat YA 320 $10.99 Title HS Icebound Dean Koontz Arctic, Adventure, YA 408 $7.99 Title

8 HS Last Summer of the Death Warriors Francisco Stork Multicultural, Social, Cancer YA 344 $9.99 HS Lockdown Alexander Gordon Smith Sci Fi, Law, escape, prison YA 304 $8.99 HS Murder on the Iditarod Trail Sue Henry Alaska, mystery YA 246 $7.99 Title HS People of the Deer Farley Mowat Nonfiction, Adventure YA 287 $14.95 Title HS Perfect storm Sebastian Junger Nonfiction, Adventure YA 233 $15.95 title HS Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Graphic Novel, Biography YA 153 $13.95 HS Red Umbrella Christina Gonzalez Historical Fiction, Cuba YA 284 $6.99 HS Revolution Jennifer Donnelly Family, Social Isues, Historical Fiction YA 471 $9.99 HS Revolver Marcus Sedgwick Mystery, Alaska (?) YA 204 $8.99 HS Ship breaker Paolo Bacigalupi Sci Fi, Recycling, Thriller YA 326 $9.99 Walter Dean Historical, military, HS Sunrise over Fallujah Myers middle east YA 320 $7.99 HS Things a brother knows Dana Reinhardt Soldiers, Post traumatic stress YA 245 $8.99 HS Thirteenth Child Patricia Wrede Steampunk/fantasy YA 344 $8.99 HS Unwind Neal Shusterman Sci Fi, adventure YA HS When I was a Soldier Valerie Zenatti Biography, women soldiers, Israel YA 235 $8.99