OBOB
OBOB
Looking for Information about OBOB? Check out the basics below and the 2024-2025 title lists! The OBOB Quiz Center now has quizes available for all books! Check them out HERE
Check out the Cedar Mills Library OBOB INFO PAGE
PPS OBOB Ebooks and Audiobooks linked here for 3-5 and here for 6-8
3rd to 5th Grade Division
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley
Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers by Caela Carter
Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega and Rose Bousamra
J.D. and the Great Barber Battle by J. Dillard
Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life by Jerry Pinkney
Leonard (My Life as a Cat) by Carlie Sorosiak
Marshmallow & Jordan by Alina Chau
The Mystwick School of Musicraft by Jessica Khoury
The Name of This Book Is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch
Sam Makes a Splash by Nicole Melleby
Solimar: The Sword of the Monarchs by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Thirst by Varsha Bajaj
A Time Traveler’s Theory of Relativity by Nicole Valentine
Twins by Varian Johnson and Shannon Wright
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
6th to 8th Grade Division
Candidly Cline by Kathryn Ormsbee
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan
Every Falling Star by Sungju Lee & Susan McClelland
Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson
The Inquisitor’s Tale by Adam Gidwitz
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
Lo & Behold by Wendy Mass and Gabi Mendez
The Losers at the Center of the Galaxy by Mary Winn Heider
The Magical Imperfect by Chris Baron
The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake
Scary Stories for Young Foxes by Christian McKay Heidicker
The Serpent’s Secret by Sayantani DasGupta
Starfish by Lisa Fipps
The Story That Cannot be Told by J. Kasper Kramer
Tales of a Seventh-Grade Lizard Boy by Jonathan Hill
OBOB Basics
Battles will take place between winter and spring break, most likely in February and early March.
Each team can have 4-5 player but only 4 may compete in a battle. For SES games, the alternate player can swap halfway through so everyone gets a chance to play but at the regional level, the four players have to stay in for the whole battle.
Our battles will start with a round robin where each team battles two other teams. For this round, the scores will be combined and the top 6-8 teams will move onto to round two. From round two to the end, battles will be sudden death, with the winning team from each battle moving on to the next round.
Each battle consists of 20 questions - 10 In Which Book and 10 In The Book (Content) Questions. Questions bounce between teams and who goes first is decided with a coin toss. The four players have 15 seconds to confer with their teammates once the question is read before the spokesperson answers. Only the spokesperson may answer the question. Stealing points (when a team gets the answer wrong and the other team has a chance to answer) will only happen if we have in person battles.
How to Get Started With OBOB:
Every OBOB Team (3-5) needs an adult coach to help organize them. Middle School teams can choose to self coach or have an adult coach. I suggest that every book be read by at least two teammates. Some kids will want to read all the books but no one HAS to read all the books. Divvy up the books and have kids practice titles and authors (the In Which Book questions have points for both title and author)
Practice spending 15 seconds talking as a team and then having just the spokesperson answer.
Cedar Mills Library publishes practice questions every year! You can download them from their OBOB Page