8th Annual Battle of the Books
Battle of the Books is a competition between teams of students that have read the same five titles. Questions are designed to determine who can remember the most details from the five books. Teams can consist of 3-5 students. Our kickoff will be on January 15, 2025, when we reveal the 5 titles. Teams will compete in two rounds of questions in April. The top team will advance to the final battle at Orchard Park MS against other 10+ schools in May 2, 2025.
Interested? Join the Google Classroom HERE: saqag6c
Congratulations to Danger Kitties, the HMS 2024 Battle of the Books Champions!
Standing left to right: Cassidy Thompson, Madeline Welch, Ananya Saikia, Charlotte Kaminski & (seated) Elizabeth Clemency
Danger Kitties ended up taking SECOND PLACE at the Multi-District Battle! Orchard Park won the trophy, but Hamburg was only 1 point behind them. Congrats again to this HMS team! Pictures from the final battle at Connor MS are below.
Pictures from this year's HMS battle
Pictures from the final battle at Connor MS
View last year's REVEAL presentation HERE!
Here were last year's books!
HUGE thanks to Kiwanis of Hamburg for sponsoring our 2024 Battle at HMS!
Who participated in last year's multi-district competition?
Hamburg MS -- Akron MS -- Alden MS -- Casey MS -- Connor MS -- Frontier MS
Lackawanna MS -- Mill MS -- Orchard Park MS -- William G. Houston MS -- West Seneca West MS
Hamburg Middle School hosted the Multi-District Battle of the Books on May 5, 2022! A total of twelve schools participated, and because we won in 2021, the final battle took place at HMS. The top middle school teams from Akron, Alden, Frontier, Grand Island, Iroquois, Lakeshore, Orchard Park, Pioneer, West Seneca West and Williamsville (Mill MS and Casey MS) joined us to compete for the trophy! While the West Seneca and Williamsville teams participated virtually, the other eight schools traveled to HMS. Forty-five difficult questions resulted in a two-way tie between Akron MS and Casey MS. (Our Hamburg team was in 2nd place with only ONE point away from the winners!) A tie-breaker determined the winner - Congratulations to Casey Middle School of Williamsville! Great job from our HMS team ~ Kennedy Calvert, Charlie Dzubella, Tessa Reinagel and Soleil Marcinelli, otherwise known as Musical Mayhem! (Pics to the right are from the final battle, pics below are from the HMS battles.)
Musical Mayhem won the 2022 HMS Battle!
