Priyanka Taslim author of The Love Match
And the winners are:
1st place---Aarya Mirajkar ---Nina Stalenyj ---Ishika Bhalla ----Sanvi Kancharla ----Saisanvi Bothala ---Saanvi vyakaranam
2nd place---Sreshta Mitta ----Naisha Sonawala ---Priscilla Go ---Shannon Somes ---Shriaditi Kancherla - Laiba Nadeem
3rd place----Solai Ramasubramaniyam ---Rithika Gunasekaran ---Srinidhi Saravanan ---Sriyutha Kolagani ----Vijeta Garg ----Hasini Vummaji
Guidelines: 4-6 people per team/any HS grade level. Divide the reading of the 9 books among teammates. Answer each question with the title and author of the book. Battle will take place in March.
Email Mrs. Stocker for more information
Book Choices for 25/26 Team registration form will be on the GCR
The Giurls I've Been by Tess Sharpe
Realistic / Pages 356
When seventeen-year-old Nora O'Malley, the daughter of a con artist, is taken hostage in a bank heist, every secret she is keeping close begins to unravel
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Historical Fiction/Pages 340
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Fantasy/Pages 396
Linus Baker is a by-the-book caseworker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world. Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe, even if it means the world will burn. And his secrets will come to light
Five Survive by Holly Jackson
Mystery/Pages 400
Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend--the older brother--his perfect girlfriend--a secret crush--a classmate--and a killer. They have been trapped by someone out in the dark, someone who clearly wants one of them dead. With 8 hours until dawn, the 6 friends must escape, or figure out which of them is the target. But is there a liar among them? Buried secrets will be forced to light and tensions inside the RV will reach deadly levels. Not all of them will survive the night
Kneel by Candace Buford
Sports/Realistic Pages 311
When his best friend is unfairly arrested and kicked off the team, Russell Boudreaux kneels during the national anthem in an effort to fight for justice and, in an instant, falls from local stardom to become a target of hatred.
Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Romance Pages 276
Belly has spent her summers at the beach house with Conrad and Jeremiah, who had never noticed her noticing them. Every summer Belly hoped it would be different. This time, it is. The summer that Belly turns pretty is the summer that changes everything--for better and for worse.
We were Liars
by e. lockhart
Mystery/Realistic Pages 250
Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenage Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.
Klara and the Sun bu Kazuo Ishiguro
Science Fiction/Pages 303
From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans
Matched by Alli Condie
Dystopian/Pages 369
In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.
Cassia has always trusted the Society's choices. And when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, she is certain he's the one--until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now she is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's ever known and a path no has dared to follow . . . between perfection and the truth.