Battle of the Books 2025-2026 

3rd–4th  Reading List

☐  A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold

☐ The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs by Betty G. Birney

☐ The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

☐ The Chalk Box Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla

☐  Wanted…Mud Blossom by Betsy Byars

☐  Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville

☐  Moo by Sharon Creech

☐  Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper

☐  Wolfie and Fly by Cary Fagan

☐  Pocket Full of Colors by Amy Guglielmo

☐  The Million Dollar Shot by Dan Gutman

☐  Bearstone by Will Hobbs

☐  Earthquake Terror by Peg Kehret

☐  Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine

☐  Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look

☐ A Handful of Stars by Cynthia Lord

☐  All About Sam by Lois Lowry

☐  Helen’s Big World by Doreen Rappaport

☐  The Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson

☐  I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 by Lauren Tarshis

Battle of the Books 2025-2026 

5th–6th  Reading List

☐ The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

☐ Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech

☐ Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

☐ The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

☐  Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliot

☐  Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix

☐  One Dead Spy: Hazardous Tales #1 by Nathan Hale

☐  Ida B… And her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan

☐  Regarding the Fountain by Kate Klise

☐  Worth by A. LaFaye

☐  Savvy by Ingrid Law

☐  Rules by Cynthia Lord

☐  Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan

☐  War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

☐  The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen

☐ Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

☐  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

☐  Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman

☐  Rump: The (Fairly) True Tale of Rumpelstiltskin 

by Liesl Shurtliff

☐  Who Was Walt Disney? by Whitney Stewart