BoB

  • 2019/2020 Iowa Middle School Battle of the Books Reading List!

    • Backfield Boys by John Feinstein 
    • Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
    • Lumberjanes: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson
    • One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus 
    • Refugee by Alan Gratz
    • Saving Red by Sonya Sones
    • Serefina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty
    • The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall 
    • York: The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby
    • Solo by Kwame Alexander
    • Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand
    • The Thing About Jellyfish by Benjamin Ali 
    • Ugly by Robert Hoge

Middle School BOB 2018 - 2019 Book List

    • All’s Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson
    • Ashes to Asheville by Sarah Dooley
    • Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk
    • Booked by Kwame Alexander
    • The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya
    • The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez
    • Ghost by Jason Reynolds
    • Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
    • Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead
    • Hidden Figures (Young Readers’ Edition) by Margot Lee Shetterly
    • The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart
    • I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest
    • Last Day on Mars by Kevin Emerson
    • The Lost Books: The Scroll of Kings by Sarah Prineas - *Released 6/26/2018
    • Making Bombs for Hitler by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
    • Mark of the Thief by Jennifer A. Nielsen
    • Need by Joelle Charbonneau
    • Nothing But Trouble by Jacqueline Davies
    • Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II by Alan Gratz
    • The Serpent’s Secret by Sayantani DasGupta
    • Scythe by Neal Shusterman
    • Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson
    • Slider by Pete Hautman
    • Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
    • Still a Work in Progress by Jo Knowles
    • Terror at Bottle Creek by Watt Key
    • The Trap by Steven Arntson
    • The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor
    • The Girl I Used to Be by April Henry
    • Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee

    *Readers must respond with the bolded portions of each title during the written and oral rounds of the battle to earn credit for an answer. In the case of tie scores, the judges will consider full titles and author names (during the written portion only).