Oregon Battle of the Books List 2023-2024 3rd to 5th Grade Division Browse All See all items Allergic: A Graphic Novel Megan Wagner Lloyd Current price: $12.99 A coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel featuring a girl with severe allergies who just wants to find the perfect pet! ... From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E.L. Konigsburg Current price: $8.99 A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. L. Konigsburg’s beloved classic and Newbery Medal–winning novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler! ... Discounted The Jumbies Tracey Baptiste Previous price: $8.99 Current price: $7.95 The start of an exciting series filled with Caribbean folklore and daring adventure. ... Discounted The List of Things That Will Not Change Rebecca Stead Previous price: $8.99 Current price: $7.99 EIGHT STARRED REVIEWS! The reassuring book kids and families need right now. "An absolute original . . . a story that kids will love." --R. J. Palacio, bestselling author of Wonder ... The Lion of Mars Jennifer L. Holm Current price: $8.99 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Life on Mars is pretty standard…. until a mysterious virus hits. Don’t miss this timely and unputdownable novel from the bestselling author of The Fourteenth Goldfish. ... The Midnight Children Dan Gemeinhart Current price: $16.99 The #1 New York Times and Indie bestseller! ... Molly and the Twin Towers: A 9/11 Survival Story (Girls Survive) Jessika Fleck Current price: $7.95 Life in lower Manhattan is normal for Molly, her dads, and younger sister. But on September 11, 2001, everything changes. Molly and her younger sister, Adeline, are at school when the first plane hits the World Trade Center. When the Twin Towers fall, the city is thrown into chaos. ... New from Here Kelly Yang Current price: $8.99 An instant #1 New York Times bestseller! This “timely and compelling” (Kirkus Reviews) middle grade novel about courage, hope, and resilience follows an Asian American boy fighting to keep his family together and stand up to racism during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus. ... Rez Dogs Joseph Bruchac Current price: $7.99 Renowned author Joseph Bruchac tells a powerful story of a girl who learns more about her Penacook heritage while sheltering in place with her grandparents during the coronavirus pandemic. ... Discounted Swim Team: A Graphic Novel Johnnie Christmas Previous price: $15.99 Current price: $12.99 “Combines wonderful characters and history to create a story that will make you want to dive right in!” JERRY CRAFT, author of the Newbery Medal–winning New Kid ... Discounted A True Home (Heartwood Hotel #1) Kallie George Previous price: $6.99 Current price: $5.99 Courage, kindness, and adventure abounds in this charming, illustrated chapter book series about a mouse discovering the true meaning of home. ... Ways to Make Sunshine (A Ryan Hart Story) Renée Watson Current price: $7.99 From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Renée Watson comes the first book in a young middle grade series about Ryan Hart, a girl who is pure spirit, kindness, and sunshine. ... When You Trap a Tiger: (Newbery Medal Winner) Tae Keller Current price: $8.99 WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL • WINNER OF THE ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ... The Trouble with Chickens: A J.J. Tully Mystery Doreen Cronin Current price: $9.99 From the bestselling, award-winning author-illustrator team of Doreen Cronin and Kevin Cornell comes the first book in a heavily illustrated, hilarious chapter book series about the adventures of a dog detective. Perfect for fans of Sara Pennypacker's Clementine series and Jarrett J. ... Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom Graphic Novel (Heroes in Training Graphic Novel #1) Joan Holub (Created by) Current price: $9.99 After pulling a magical thunderbolt from a stone, ten-year-old Zeus goes on the adventure of a lifetime in this first graphic novel adapted from the popular Heroes in Training series! ... 6th to 8th Grade Division Browse All See all items Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna Alda P. Dobbs Current price: $7.99 2022 Pura Belpré Honor Book NYPL Best Book of 2021 Texas Bluebonnet Master List Selection NPR Best Book of 2021 ... The Benefits of Being an Octopus: A Novel Ann Braden Current price: $9.99 One of Edutopia's "25 Essential Middle School Reads from the Last Decade," NPR Best Book of 2018, Bank Street List for Best Children's Books of 2019, Named to the Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher List, Maine's Student Book Award List, Louisiana Young Reader's Choice Award List, Rhode Island Middle ... The Blackbird Girls Anne Blankman Current price: $8.99 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNERA SYDNEY TAYLOR MIDDLE GRADE HONOR BOOK Like Ruta Sepetys for middle grade, Anne Blankman pens a poignant and timeless story of friendship that twines together moments in underexplored history. ... The Boys in the Back Row Mike Jung Current price: $12.99 Now in Paperback—Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol—a famous comic creator. ... Focused Alyson Gerber Current price: $8.99 Following Braced, which had three starred reviews, comes a story of a girl caught between her love of chess and her ADHD. ... The Girl and the Ghost Hanna Alkaf Current price: $9.99 * Chosen as a 2020 Kirkus Prize Finalist for Young Readers' Literature! * A Malaysian folk tale comes to life in this emotionally layered, chilling middle grade debut, perfect for fans of The Book of Boy and The Jumbies. ... A High Five for Glenn Burke Phil Bildner Current price: $7.99 A heartfelt and relatable novel from Phil Bildner, weaving the real history of Los Angeles Dodger and Oakland Athletic Glenn Burke--the first professional baseball player to come out as gay--into the story of a middle-school kid learning to be himself. ... The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien Current price: $17.99 The journey through Middle-earth begins here with J.R.R. Tolkien's classic prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy. ... Invisible: A Graphic Novel Christina Diaz Gonzalez Current price: $12.99 For fans of New Kid and Allergic, a must-have graphic novel about five very different students who are forced together by their school to complete community service... and may just have more in common than they thought. Can five overlooked kids make one big difference? ... Katie the Catsitter: (A Graphic Novel) Colleen AF Venable Current price: $13.99 NOMINATED FOR MULTIPLE STATE AWARDS! ... Discounted Partly Cloudy Tanita S. Davis Previous price: $9.99 Current price: $6.99 From award-winning author Tanita S. ... Discounted Powerless (Supers of Noble's Green #1) Matthew Cody Previous price: $8.99 Current price: $7.99 Superheroes soar in this promising debut—and they’re kids! ... Discounted Stowaway (The Icarus Chronicles #1) John David Anderson Previous price: $9.99 Current price: $7.99 The beloved author of Posted and Ms. Bixby's Last Day returns with the first book in a coming-of-age sci-fi duology about Leo, a kid trying to navigate the galaxy in order to save his family—and, possibly, the planet Earth. ... Wink Rob Harrell Current price: $8.99 A hilarious and heartwrenching story about surviving middle school--and an unthinkable diagnosis--while embracing life's weirdness. ... Discounted Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero Saadia Faruqi Previous price: $9.99 Current price: $7.99 At a time when we are all asking questions about identity, grief, and how to stand up for what is right, this book by the author of A Thousand Questions will hit home with young readers who love Hena Khan and Varian Johnson—or anyone struggling to understand rece ... Other Words for Home: A Newbery Honor Award Winner Jasmine Warga Current price: $9.99 New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book! A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed. ... 9th to 12th Grade Division Browse All See all items The City Beautiful Aden Polydoros Current price: $11.99 Winner of the 2022 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Young Adult2022 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel finalist2021 National Jewish Book Award finalistA Lambda Literary Award finalist ... The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air #1) Holly Black Current price: $12.99 By #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, the first book in a stunning new series about a mortal girl who finds herself caught in a web of royal faerie intrigue. ... The Final Six Alexandra Monir Current price: $10.99 Set in the near future, this action-packed YA novel—already optioned by Sony Pictures—will take readers out of this world and on a quest to become one of six teens sent on a mission to Jupiter’s moon. ... Firekeeper's Daughter Angeline Boulley Current price: $14.99 A PRINTZ MEDAL WINNER!A MORRIS AWARD WINNER!AN AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD YA HONOR BOOK! A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller ... The Fountains of Silence Ruta Sepetys Current price: $12.99 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a gripping, extraordinary portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship. ... Discounted Furia Yamile Saied Méndez Previous price: $11.99 Current price: $10.95 A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK Recipient of the 2021 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Medal One of BuzzFeed's Must-Read YA Books of 2020 A Best Book of the Year: Cosmopolitan * Kirkus Reviews * SheReads * New York Public Library ... Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood Gary Paulsen Current price: $9.99 A mesmerizing memoir from a literary legend, giving readers a new perspective on the origins of Hatchet and other famed survival stories. ... House of Hollow Krystal Sutherland Current price: $10.99 A New York Times Bestseller!An Instant Indie Bestseller! A dark, twisty modern fairytale where three sisters discover they are not exactly all that they seem and evil things really do go bump in the night. ... Northanger Abbey Jane Austen Current price: $8.00 Austen's witty exploration of the perils of mistaking fiction for reality ... We Can Be Heroes Kyrie McCauley Current price: $17.99 Kyrie McCauley, author of the William C. Morris YA Debut Award winner If These Wings Could Fly, delivers a powerful contemporary YA novel about the lasting bonds of friendship and three girls fighting for each other in the aftermath of a school shooting. ... Discounted The Weight of Our Sky Hanna Alkaf Previous price: $12.99 Current price: $11.99 A music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding, “stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) debut. ... Today Tonight Tomorrow Rachel Lynn Solomon Current price: $12.99 “Brilliant, hilarious, and oh-so-romantic.” —BuzzFeed“Swoony, steamy.” —Entertainment Weekly ... Need more information about Oregon Battle of the Books? Visit the OBOB site for Need more information about Oregon Battle of the Books? Wondering if we have something in stock? 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Allergic: A Graphic Novel Megan Wagner Lloyd Current price: $12.99 A coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel featuring a girl with severe allergies who just wants to find the perfect pet! ...
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E.L. Konigsburg Current price: $8.99 A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. L. Konigsburg’s beloved classic and Newbery Medal–winning novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler! ...
Discounted The Jumbies Tracey Baptiste Previous price: $8.99 Current price: $7.95 The start of an exciting series filled with Caribbean folklore and daring adventure. ...
Discounted The List of Things That Will Not Change Rebecca Stead Previous price: $8.99 Current price: $7.99 EIGHT STARRED REVIEWS! The reassuring book kids and families need right now. "An absolute original . . . a story that kids will love." --R. J. Palacio, bestselling author of Wonder ...
The Lion of Mars Jennifer L. Holm Current price: $8.99 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Life on Mars is pretty standard…. until a mysterious virus hits. Don’t miss this timely and unputdownable novel from the bestselling author of The Fourteenth Goldfish. ...
The Midnight Children Dan Gemeinhart Current price: $16.99 The #1 New York Times and Indie bestseller! ...
Molly and the Twin Towers: A 9/11 Survival Story (Girls Survive) Jessika Fleck Current price: $7.95 Life in lower Manhattan is normal for Molly, her dads, and younger sister. But on September 11, 2001, everything changes. Molly and her younger sister, Adeline, are at school when the first plane hits the World Trade Center. When the Twin Towers fall, the city is thrown into chaos. ...
New from Here Kelly Yang Current price: $8.99 An instant #1 New York Times bestseller! This “timely and compelling” (Kirkus Reviews) middle grade novel about courage, hope, and resilience follows an Asian American boy fighting to keep his family together and stand up to racism during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus. ...
Rez Dogs Joseph Bruchac Current price: $7.99 Renowned author Joseph Bruchac tells a powerful story of a girl who learns more about her Penacook heritage while sheltering in place with her grandparents during the coronavirus pandemic. ...
Discounted Swim Team: A Graphic Novel Johnnie Christmas Previous price: $15.99 Current price: $12.99 “Combines wonderful characters and history to create a story that will make you want to dive right in!” JERRY CRAFT, author of the Newbery Medal–winning New Kid ...
Discounted A True Home (Heartwood Hotel #1) Kallie George Previous price: $6.99 Current price: $5.99 Courage, kindness, and adventure abounds in this charming, illustrated chapter book series about a mouse discovering the true meaning of home. ...
Ways to Make Sunshine (A Ryan Hart Story) Renée Watson Current price: $7.99 From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Renée Watson comes the first book in a young middle grade series about Ryan Hart, a girl who is pure spirit, kindness, and sunshine. ...
When You Trap a Tiger: (Newbery Medal Winner) Tae Keller Current price: $8.99 WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL • WINNER OF THE ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ...
The Trouble with Chickens: A J.J. Tully Mystery Doreen Cronin Current price: $9.99 From the bestselling, award-winning author-illustrator team of Doreen Cronin and Kevin Cornell comes the first book in a heavily illustrated, hilarious chapter book series about the adventures of a dog detective. Perfect for fans of Sara Pennypacker's Clementine series and Jarrett J. ...
Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom Graphic Novel (Heroes in Training Graphic Novel #1) Joan Holub (Created by) Current price: $9.99 After pulling a magical thunderbolt from a stone, ten-year-old Zeus goes on the adventure of a lifetime in this first graphic novel adapted from the popular Heroes in Training series! ...
Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna Alda P. Dobbs Current price: $7.99 2022 Pura Belpré Honor Book NYPL Best Book of 2021 Texas Bluebonnet Master List Selection NPR Best Book of 2021 ...
The Benefits of Being an Octopus: A Novel Ann Braden Current price: $9.99 One of Edutopia's "25 Essential Middle School Reads from the Last Decade," NPR Best Book of 2018, Bank Street List for Best Children's Books of 2019, Named to the Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher List, Maine's Student Book Award List, Louisiana Young Reader's Choice Award List, Rhode Island Middle ...
The Blackbird Girls Anne Blankman Current price: $8.99 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNERA SYDNEY TAYLOR MIDDLE GRADE HONOR BOOK Like Ruta Sepetys for middle grade, Anne Blankman pens a poignant and timeless story of friendship that twines together moments in underexplored history. ...
The Boys in the Back Row Mike Jung Current price: $12.99 Now in Paperback—Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol—a famous comic creator. ...
Focused Alyson Gerber Current price: $8.99 Following Braced, which had three starred reviews, comes a story of a girl caught between her love of chess and her ADHD. ...
The Girl and the Ghost Hanna Alkaf Current price: $9.99 * Chosen as a 2020 Kirkus Prize Finalist for Young Readers' Literature! * A Malaysian folk tale comes to life in this emotionally layered, chilling middle grade debut, perfect for fans of The Book of Boy and The Jumbies. ...
A High Five for Glenn Burke Phil Bildner Current price: $7.99 A heartfelt and relatable novel from Phil Bildner, weaving the real history of Los Angeles Dodger and Oakland Athletic Glenn Burke--the first professional baseball player to come out as gay--into the story of a middle-school kid learning to be himself. ...
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien Current price: $17.99 The journey through Middle-earth begins here with J.R.R. Tolkien's classic prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy. ...
Invisible: A Graphic Novel Christina Diaz Gonzalez Current price: $12.99 For fans of New Kid and Allergic, a must-have graphic novel about five very different students who are forced together by their school to complete community service... and may just have more in common than they thought. Can five overlooked kids make one big difference? ...
Katie the Catsitter: (A Graphic Novel) Colleen AF Venable Current price: $13.99 NOMINATED FOR MULTIPLE STATE AWARDS! ...
Discounted Partly Cloudy Tanita S. Davis Previous price: $9.99 Current price: $6.99 From award-winning author Tanita S. ...
Discounted Powerless (Supers of Noble's Green #1) Matthew Cody Previous price: $8.99 Current price: $7.99 Superheroes soar in this promising debut—and they’re kids! ...
Discounted Stowaway (The Icarus Chronicles #1) John David Anderson Previous price: $9.99 Current price: $7.99 The beloved author of Posted and Ms. Bixby's Last Day returns with the first book in a coming-of-age sci-fi duology about Leo, a kid trying to navigate the galaxy in order to save his family—and, possibly, the planet Earth. ...
Wink Rob Harrell Current price: $8.99 A hilarious and heartwrenching story about surviving middle school--and an unthinkable diagnosis--while embracing life's weirdness. ...
Discounted Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero Saadia Faruqi Previous price: $9.99 Current price: $7.99 At a time when we are all asking questions about identity, grief, and how to stand up for what is right, this book by the author of A Thousand Questions will hit home with young readers who love Hena Khan and Varian Johnson—or anyone struggling to understand rece ...
Other Words for Home: A Newbery Honor Award Winner Jasmine Warga Current price: $9.99 New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book! A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed. ...
The City Beautiful Aden Polydoros Current price: $11.99 Winner of the 2022 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Young Adult2022 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel finalist2021 National Jewish Book Award finalistA Lambda Literary Award finalist ...
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air #1) Holly Black Current price: $12.99 By #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, the first book in a stunning new series about a mortal girl who finds herself caught in a web of royal faerie intrigue. ...
The Final Six Alexandra Monir Current price: $10.99 Set in the near future, this action-packed YA novel—already optioned by Sony Pictures—will take readers out of this world and on a quest to become one of six teens sent on a mission to Jupiter’s moon. ...
Firekeeper's Daughter Angeline Boulley Current price: $14.99 A PRINTZ MEDAL WINNER!A MORRIS AWARD WINNER!AN AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD YA HONOR BOOK! A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller ...
The Fountains of Silence Ruta Sepetys Current price: $12.99 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a gripping, extraordinary portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship. ...
Discounted Furia Yamile Saied Méndez Previous price: $11.99 Current price: $10.95 A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK Recipient of the 2021 Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Medal One of BuzzFeed's Must-Read YA Books of 2020 A Best Book of the Year: Cosmopolitan * Kirkus Reviews * SheReads * New York Public Library ...
Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood Gary Paulsen Current price: $9.99 A mesmerizing memoir from a literary legend, giving readers a new perspective on the origins of Hatchet and other famed survival stories. ...
House of Hollow Krystal Sutherland Current price: $10.99 A New York Times Bestseller!An Instant Indie Bestseller! A dark, twisty modern fairytale where three sisters discover they are not exactly all that they seem and evil things really do go bump in the night. ...
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen Current price: $8.00 Austen's witty exploration of the perils of mistaking fiction for reality ...
We Can Be Heroes Kyrie McCauley Current price: $17.99 Kyrie McCauley, author of the William C. Morris YA Debut Award winner If These Wings Could Fly, delivers a powerful contemporary YA novel about the lasting bonds of friendship and three girls fighting for each other in the aftermath of a school shooting. ...
Discounted The Weight of Our Sky Hanna Alkaf Previous price: $12.99 Current price: $11.99 A music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding, “stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) debut. ...
Today Tonight Tomorrow Rachel Lynn Solomon Current price: $12.99 “Brilliant, hilarious, and oh-so-romantic.” —BuzzFeed“Swoony, steamy.” —Entertainment Weekly ...
