ESU #11 Battle of the Books 2020-2021
Grades 3-5
New Kid by Jerry Craft
Endling the First by Katherine Applegate
Wildfire by Rodman Philbrick
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia Williams
Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome
City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
Where the Heart Is by Johanna Knowles
Because of the Rabbit by Cynthia Lord
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk
Clean Getaway by Nic Stone
Above by Roland Smith
Grade 3-8
The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate
My Year in the Middle by Lila Quintero Weaver
Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn
The Dark is Rising/Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
Don’t Tell the Nazis by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
Grades 6-8
WhatsHisFace by Gordon Korman
A Drop of Hope by Keith Calabrese
Words On Fire by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Allies by Alan Gratz
Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
The Traitor’s Game by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
Other Words For Home by Jasmine Warga
The Fountains Of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee