Battle of the Books

2015/2016

What is BOB
Battle of the Books (BOB) is an exciting type of
reading club that uses a game show format to
challenge teams knowledge of literature.
There are eight pre-selected books from a variety of
authors and genres.
Teams of students are asked questions based on the
characters, plots, themes, and settings of the books.
Points are scored by correctly identifying the titles
and authors of the books.

Team Composition
Students from grades to 5 to 8 are eligible to participate.
Maximum of 4 students per team
Teams are responsible for creating a team name.
In order to be inclusive, team substitutions (a 5th person)
will be permitted during the zone tournaments and city
finals. This may occur only in special circumstances
whereby a team dissolves prior to zones and leaves one
member who wishes to compete.
After the 3rd question, the 5th person subs in and a team
member comes out. After the next 3 questions, a
different team member rotates (continue repeating until
all team members have had to rotate out and then begin
again).

Zone Groupings and

Tournaments

THE Books

Among the Hidden

by Margaret Peterson Haddix
In a future where the Population
Police enforce the law limiting a
family to only two children, Luke has
lived all his twelve years in isolation
and fear on his familys farm, until
another third convinces him that
the government is wrong.
[BL 4.8; MG; 160 p.]
*click on book for video

About the Author

Margaret Peterson Haddix grew up on a farm near
Washington Court House, Ohio.

Before her first book was published, she worked as a

Margaret Peterson Haddix

newspaper copy editor in Fort Wayne, Indiana; a

newspaper reporter in Indianapolis; and a community
college instructor and freelance writer in Danville,
Illinois.

She has since written more than 30 books for kids and
teens

Her books have been honored with New York Times

bestseller
status,
the
International
Associations Childrens Book Award;

Reading

They have also been translated into more than twenty

different

languages.

http://www.haddixbooks.com/home.html

The Colossus Rises

SEVEN WONDERS Series BOOK 1

by Peter Lerangis
Teens Jack, Marco, Aly, and Cass
begin a quest to find seven pieces of
Atlantiss power that were hidden
long ago and that will, if returned to
Atlantis, save them from death due to
the genetic abnormality that also
gives them superior abilities.
[BL 4.1; MG; 348 p.]
*click on book for video

About the Author

The author of more than one hundred and sixty books, which have sold more than five and half million copies and been translated
into twenty-eight different languages,
The Colossus Rises, the first book in the New York Times Bestselling series Seven Wonders, and two books in the 39 Clues series.
Peter is a Harvard graduate with a degree in biochemistry.
He has run a marathon and gone rock climbing during an earthquake - though not on the same day.
He lives in New York City with his wife, musician Tina deVaron, and their two sons, Nick and Joe.
In his spare time, he likes to eat chocolate.
http://www.sevenwondersbooks.com/

Peter Lerangis

Seven Wonders Series

Book 2
Book 3
Book 4

Counting by 7s
by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Twelve-year-old genius and outsider
Willow Chance must figure out how
to connect with other people and find
a surrogate family for herself after
her parents are killed in a car
accident.
[BL 5.6; MG; 380 p.]
*click on book for video

About the Author

http://hollygoldbergsloan.com /
Find out who the book is dedicated to!
Perhaps you know someone who has a cat named Cheddar?
Where is Bakersfield California?
Find the answers to these questions and more at the
authors website. (select Counting by 7s from the
homepage)

Curse of the Dream Witch

by Allan Stratton
(Willow Nominee)

The Dream Witch haunts the forest

beyond the kingdom of Bellumen,
waiting to collect on a horrible
debt owed by the king and queen
the heart of their only daughter,
Princess Olivia. Until she has it,
none of the kingdoms children are
safe.
[BL 4.3; MG; 265 p.]
*click on book for video

About the Author

The author is an internationally acclaimed

author his work has won awards: Michael L.
Printz Honour Book, his film won the Francois
Chalais Prize at the Cannes International Film
Festival.
His most recent novel, The Grave Robber's
Allan Stratton
Apprentice, was nominated for the Governor
General's Literary Award.
Allan lives in Toronto, Ontario with his four cats
and numerous fish.
What are the Willow Awards? The mission of The Willow
Awards is to promote reading by granting a "Willow Award" to the Canadian and/or
Saskatchewan book(s) voted by Saskatchewan students to be the best of those
nominated in designated categories for a specific year.

Author website: www.allanstratton.com

The False Prince

Book 1 of the Ascendance Trilogy
by Jennifer A. Nielsen
The thrilling first book of an exciting trilogy. In the
country of Carthya, a devious nobleman Connor
engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be
selected to impersonate the kings long-missing son
in an effort to avoid a civil war. Layer upon layer of
treachery and deceit unfold, until finally, a truth is
revealed that, in the end, may very well prove more
dangerous than all of the lies taken together.
This is an extraordinary adventure filled with danger
and action, lies and deadly truths! seats.
[BL 5.1; MG; 342 p.]
*click on book for video

Ascendance Trilogy

About the Author

New York Times Bestselling author
Born and raised in northern Utah, where she still lives today with her husband, three children, and a dog that wont play fetch.
In 6th grade she wrote a full-length story about a girl who becomes trapped in her daydreams and that world becomes real. She even called a locksmith to do research on how to pick locks. When he found out she was only 11, he ended the call and
the story got set aside, unfinished.
She always loved reading, she loved the Hardy Boys and Encyclopedia Brown series, but her favorite childhood book was The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken.
Her favorite book in junior high was The Outsiders. That books author, S.E. Hinton, published The Outsiders at the age of 17. Jennifer set a goal to be published sooner.
She published her first book in her early 20s.
She loves chocolate, old books, and lazy days in the mountains.
To find out more about the author visit: http://www.jennielsen.com/

Jennifer Nielsen

The Red Kayak

by Priscilla Cummings
First hailed as a hero for his
dramatic water rescue of a little
boy, thirteen-year-old Brady soon
makes a discovery that puts him at
the heart of a tragedy. Alone with
his dark secret, Brady is forced to
choose between his friends and the
right thing.
[BL 4.9; MG+; 209 p.]

About the Author

The author was a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor prior to writing her first book Chadwick the Crab.
Her first book was inspired from her move Maryland where she saw her first blue crab.
Over the years, I wrote several more picture books about animals: Baron von Heron, Toulouse the Canada Goose, Hector Spector Jellyfish, Orville the Oyster and Bernie the Sea Gull
As a child her favorite literature was a Nancy Drew mystery or a book that featured a horse. She had very few books of her own, but the most treasured one, Charlottes Web, remains on her bookshelf today.

Her stories were inspired by something in real life that moved her emotionally
Today, her home is in Annapolis, Maryland with her family.
She has a small sailboat and a green canoe, but no red kayaks.
She has two cats named Mr. Charles Bingley (Mr. B. for short) and Romeo.
http://www.priscillacummings.com/

Priscilla Cummings

Rocket Blues
Rocket Blues Series

by David Skuy
(Willow Nominee)
The Huskies new coach is deciding that brawn is better
than brains. He wants big players, not high skill players
like Rocket. Rocket is cut from the Huskies. He now has to
deal with all the problems hes been ignoring for years: his
reputation at school, the gangs, the poverty and most of
all, whether his hockey dream is actually nothing more
than a pipe dream.
Rocket doesnt want to quit. But what do you do when
everything seems stacked against you?
Rocket Blues for kids who dont like to be told what to
do!
[BL 4.1; MG; 236 p.]
*click on book for video
Read the sequel Last Shot to see what is in
Rockets hockey future!

About the Author

David Skuy

The author is a lawyer, writer, and Leafs fan to the

core.
He spent most of his childhood playing some sport
or another and what he remembers most is the
intensity, the competitiveness, and the sheer
enjoyment of playing a sport you love when you're
young.
He has written five books in the Game Time series,
as well the standalone novel Undergrounders,
which won the Silver Birch Award.
He lives in Toronto, Ontario with his family.
Author website: www.davidskuy.com

Game Time
The Rocket Blues
The Striker Series
Series
Series

Silver Birch Award

Winner

Other series by the author: The Charlie Joyce

Hockey Series

Wave
by Eric Walters
It's December 2004 and Sam and his parents are
leaving frostbitten Ontario for a vacation in lush,
sun-soaked Thailand. Sam's sister Beth is
staying behind. She drives her family to the
airport to bid them farewell, not knowing that
what awaits them is a natural disaster of
unimaginable
proportions.
Over the next few days, Sam will find himself
thrust into the very centre of a crisis he could
never have anticipated, one that will test his
instinct to survive.

About the Author

Eric was born in Toronto in 1957, which makes him "real old". But, as Eric says, "Just because I have to grow old doesn't mean that I have to grow up!
In his many roles as parent, teacher, social worker, youth sports coach and writer he is in constant contact with children and young adults. He draws from these experiences and feels that this helps him to capture the realistic interaction between young people - the conflicts, tensions, stresses and interests that make up
their lives.
Eric began his writing as a teacher. He taught in classes from kindergarten up and his stories often reflect the curriculum that he was teaching.
He always read stories - picture books and novels - to his students and this helped him to understand what children liked, responded to, and were inspired by.
He enjoys the enthusiasm of his students and often looks at them to provide him with the inspiration to pursue a particular topic in both the classroom and in his writing.

Author website: http://www.ericwalters.net/

Eric Walters