Battle of the Books 2024
The Basics:
This summer we are inviting students entering 5th-7th grade to join our Battle of the Books trivia competition! Each member of the winning team will receive a $25 Gift Certificate to Park Street Books in Medfield. The competition will cover 8 novels. Students can join in teams of 2-4, or as a solo team.
To join, simply email Youth Services Librarian Rachel at rsilverman@minlib.net by July 1st, and let her know which other students (if any) are on your child’s team, along with a parent email for each student.
A Few Details:
-Please feel free to read to your child or to access the books in an audio format if that works better for your family.
-The competition will take place on a date TBD AFTER Labor Day to avoid running it while families may be on vacation.
Picking Up Books:
Below you will find a list of our Battle Books. Each team should contact youth librarian Rachel at rsilverman@minlib.net to arrange pick up of a set of books for your team. Pass them back and forth all summer! It always helps to have more than one team member read each book. Books will be available for pick up by July 1st, but feel free to reach out earlier, we may be able to get them to you a bit before that.
Questions? Email Rachel at rsilverman@minlib.net
The Books:
The Pura Belpré Honor winning novel in verse, in which a lost dog helps a lonely girl find a way home to her family.
A fictionalized account of the author’s experiences and emotions living in residential treatment facilities as a young teen with an eating disorder, Louder than Hunger is a triumph of raw honesty. With a deeply personal afterword for context, this much-anticipated verse novel is a powerful model for muffling the destructive voices inside, managing and articulating pain, and embracing self-acceptance, support, and love.
When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed forever.
In the wake of a destructive tornado, Ivy Aberdeen develops feelings for another girl in this stunning, tender novel about emerging identity.
Tensions are high over the trial of a police officer who shot an unarmed Black man. When the officer is set free, and Shay goes with her family to a silent protest, she starts to see that some trouble is worth making.
A splashy, contemporary middle grade graphic novel from bestselling comics creator Johnnie Christmas.
Feng-Li can’t wait to discover America with her family! But after an action-packed vacation, her parents deliver shocking news: They are returning to Taiwan and leaving Feng-Li and her older siblings in California on their own.
Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod’s family.