The 2023 Battle of the Books Regional Tournament took place at East Junior High in Boise.
The guest speaker was The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise author Dan Gemeinhart.
North sent two teams to this tournament.
Just Quit Now included members Ardin Anderson, Kane Cochrane, Grady Noble, Lucy Robison, and Teddy Winkler.
BOBasaurus Rex included members Elsa Fesenmyer, Ethan Lowe, Kellen McClaskey, Katie Sawyer, and Mona Schwartz. This was a team made up of members of The Tome Readers and Nerds of the Lost Cities, who tied for the 2nd place slot at North.
The winning team came from Heritage Middle School (Meridian, ID). Just Quit Now from North came in second!
The Apprentices
The Bibliophiles
Illiterate by Kate Raley
Insert Name Here
Just Quit Now
The Leap Froggers
Nerds of the Lost Cities
Reading Rodeo
Solvable
The Tome Readers
Your Shoe's Untied
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman
The Rig by Joe Ducie
It Ain't So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas
Starfish by Lisa Fipps
Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
When Stars are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
OCDaniel by Wesley King
Bloom by Kenneth Oppel
Pony by R.J. Palacio
The Someday Birds by Sally J. Pla
Peak by Roland Smith
Loot by Jude Watson
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede