NC Battle of the Books... NOT just the North Carolina BOB competition

N.C. Battle of the Books

 is on my agenda every year, in fact, every week. 

27 books 

to 

read, 

discuss, 

and 

practice 

quiz-bowl style competition every year in March 

That's enough to keep most kids busy for the entire school year, but then North Carolina ALSO has a competition for the best book of the year... Students vote in March for their favorite of the 10 selected each year.  "Counting By 7's" ( on our Bob List this year) won for 2015.

       North Carolina School Library Media Association Young Adult Book Award

                                             

This year's Middle School nominees: (only 1 is BoB list, "Crossover")

1. Anybody Shining by Frances O'Roark Dowell, Atheneum Books for Young Readers (October 7, 2014)
2. Blue Birds by Caroline Starr Rose, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers (March 10, 2015) {replaces The End by Michael Hopf}
3. The Crossover by Kwame Alexander,  HMH Books for Young Readers, 2014
4. The President Has Been Shot by James Swanson, Scholastic Inc, 2013**
5. The Flame of Olympus by Kate O'Hearn, Aladdin, 2013
6. The Port Chicago 50 by by Steve Sheinkin, Roaring Brook Press (January 21, 2014)
7. Rule of Three by Eric Walters, Square Fish (January 20, 2015)
8. Secret Hum of a Daisy by Tracy Holczer, Putnam Juvenile (2014)
9. The Troubles of Johnny Cannon by Isaiah Campbell, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (October 14, 2014)
10. What I Came to Tell You by Tommy Hays, EgmontUSA, 2013

So, what are you reading?