PLEASE NOTE:
No books were changed from 2019 for the upcoming 2020 battle. Instead, we have been working on improving the questions for each book.
CLICK ON GRADES BELOW FOR AWESOME RESOURCES ABOUT THOSE BOOKS FROM TEACHINGBOOKS!!
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
The Ghost of Fossil Glen by Cynthia DeFelice
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Phineas L. MacGuire ... Erupts! by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Nurse, Soldier, Spy by Marissa Moss
I Am Helen Keller by Grace Norwich and Mark Elliott
River of Dreams by Hudson Talbott
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Frindle by Andrew Clements
A Nation’s Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis by Matt de la Peña
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal by Cheryl Harness
Those Rebels, John & Tom by Barbara Kerley
Bird in a Box by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy
Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka by Jon Scieszka
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Blood on the River by Elisa Carbone
Phineas Gage by John Fleischman
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
A Dog's Life by Ann M. Martin
My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen
The Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steve Sheinkin
Elephant Run by Roland Smith
Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White by Melissa Sweet
Funny Bones by Duncan Tonatiuh
Escape!: The Story of The Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip Hoose
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America by Jim Murphy
The Legend of Bass Reeves by Gary Paulsen
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood
**I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai (with Patricia McCormick)
** I Am Malala is the YOUNG READERS' edition for Battle of the Books. Note the co-author.
1st Place – Argyle
2nd Place – Johnsburg
3rd Place – Lake George
4th Place – Queensbury Elementary
1st Place – St. Mary's - St. Alphonsus
2nd Place – Glens Falls - Kensington Rd.
3rd Place – Indian Lake
4th Place – (Tie) South Glens Falls Harrison Ave; Lake George
1st Place – St. Mary’s - St. Alphonsus
2nd Place – Schuylerville
3rd Place - Lake George
4th Place - (Tie) Hudson Falls Intermediate; Warrensburg
1st Place – St. Mary’s - St. Alphonsus
2nd Place – Glens Falls Middle School
3rd Place – Warrensburg
4th Place – Johnsburg
