North Carolina School Library Media Association
2020-2021 Battle of the Books List

 Where the Watermelons Grow by Cindy Baldwin

Soft Rain by Cornelia Cornelissen

Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein

Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm

Kenny & the Dragon by Tony DiTerlizzi

Walls Within Walls by Maureen Sherry

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

Wish by Barbara O’Connor

Pax Sara by Pennypacker

The Hero Two Doors Down by Sharon Robinson

Wildfire by Rodman Philbrick

The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty

Not If I Can Help It by Carolyn Mackler

The Very, Very Far North by Dan Bar-el

North Carolina School Library Media Association
2019-2020 Middle School Battle of the Books List

Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling

The War that Saved My Life Kimberly by Brubaker Bradley

Gym Candy by Carl Deuker

The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler by Phillip Hoose

House Arrest by K. A. Holt

Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam by Cynthia Kadohata

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Legend by Marie Lu

Greenglass House by Kate Milford

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen

The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling

Bomb by Steve Sheinkin

I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan

The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan

The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen

Crow by Barbara Wright

I Am Malala * by Malala Yousafzai

* Young Reader’s edition with Patricia McCormick