• Battle of the Books

    The Battle of the Books program is a reading program designed to encourage fourth and fifth grade students to read good books and participate in friendly competition with their peers.  All elementary students read the same 15 books that have been designated by the North Carolina School Library Media Association.

    Elementary Battle of the Books is open to all fourth and fifth grade students who love to read and enjoy some competition!  An informational meeting will be held in mid-September.  Normally, meetings are held once a week on Mondays, afterschool, for about one hour. Here at Stokesdale we begin as a club.  As students read books, attend meetings, take practice author and title tests, create a journal of books read and complete homework assignments, they achieve points.  The top 12 students with the most points will be our competitive team in the virtual county-wide competition in March 2023.  The competition team members will be announced at the beginning of January.

    Please start reading books from the Battle of the Books list this summer.

    Here is the amazing list of books for 2022-2023:

    North Carolina School Library Media Association
    2022-2023
    Elementary Battle of the Books

    Title

    Author

    GCS eBook/Audio

    A Nest for Celeste

    Henry Cole

     

    A Place at the Table

    Saadia Faruqi & Laura Shovan

     

    Clean Getaway

    Nic Stone

    X

    Crenshaw

    Katherine Applegate

    X

    Fish in a Tree

    Lynda Mullaly Hunt

    X

    Front Desk

    Kelly Yang

    X

    The Great Treehouse War

    Lisa Graff

    X

    The Key to Extraordinary

    Natalie Lloyd

    X

    The Last Last-Day-of-Summer

    Lamar Giles

     

    The Last Musketeer

    Stuart Gibbs

     

    The League of Seven

    Alan Gratz

    X

    The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg

    Rodman Philbrick

    X

    Sal & Gabi Break the Universe

    Carlos Hernandez

    X

    Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe

    Jo Watson Hackl

    X

    Stand Up, Yumi Chung

    Jessica Kim

    X

    Good Luck and Happy Reading!
Last Modified on June 1, 2022