Reading and a competition! Great fun! Sign-up as an individual (you will become part of a team) or as a team of five and conquer a list of 15 books together. The Bergen County Battle takes place in May at Cavallini Middle School. Meetings begin in November. Sixth graders compete with a separate list from those is 7th and 8th grades.
Click here to sign up for Battle of the Books
- The Worst Class Trip Ever by Dave Barry
- El Deafo by Cece Bell
- The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Bradley
- Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
- It Ain't So Awful Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas
- Space Case by Stuart Gibbs
- Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading by Tom Greenwald
- Into the Wild by Erin Hunter (Warriors, book 1)
- Escaping the Giant Wave by Peg Kehret
- From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
- Rules by Cynthia Lord
- Ghost by Jason Reynolds (Track, book 1)
- Rump: the (fairly) True Tale of Rumpelstiltskin by Lies Shurtliff
- Flipped by Wendell Van Draanen
- Pie by Sarah Weeks
- Crossover by Kwame Alexander
- Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Nothing But the Truth by Avi
- Airman by Eoin Colfer
- Absolutely Truly by Heather Vogel Frederick (Pumpkin Falls Mystery #1)
- Cracker by Cynthia Kadohata
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
- Ties that Bind, Ties that Break by Lensey Namioka
- Maximum Ride: the Angel Experiment by James Patterson
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- Wednesday War by Gary D. Schmidt
- Counting by 7's by Holly Goldberg Sloan
- Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
- I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Reader's Edition) by Malala Yousafzai