YA Battle of the Books

The Young Adult program is for 6th, 7th and 8th graders at Grove, Mead and Queen of the Rosary,  The program is run by the schools not by our library. The 2008  books are out on the shelves. Start your reading early.

The 2008 LIST

The EGVPL provides the books and the prizes. It also hosts the final battle between the schools.

Avi - Crispin:  The Cross of Lead

Bauer, Joan - Stand Tall

Budhos, Marina Tamar - Ask Me No Questions

Cummings, Priscilla - Red Kayak

DiCamillo, Kate - Tale of Despereaux

Gantos, Jack - Heads or Tails

Giff, Patricia Reilly - Nory Ryan’s Song

Graff, Nancy - Taking Wing

Henkes, Kevin - Olive’s Ocean

Hesse, Karen - Out of the Dust    

Hobbs, Will - Crossing the Wire

Holm, Jennifer - Our Only May Amelia

Horowitz, Anthony - Stormbreaker

Jennings, Patrick - Wolving Time

Kadohata, Cynthia - Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam

Larson, Kirby - Hattie Big Sky

Lisle, Janet Taylor - Black Duck

Lowry, Lois - Gossamer

Lupica, Mike - Miracle on 49^th Street

Lynch, Chris - Gold Dust

Martin, Ann M. - Corner of the Universe

McKissack, Patricia - Porch Lies

Mickle, Shelley Fraser - Barbaro: America’s Horse

Mikaelsen, Ben - Petey

Morpurgo, Michael - War Horse

Na, Ann - A Step From Heaven

Park, Linda Sue - Project Mulberry

Patron, Susan - Higher Power of Lucky

Peck, Richard - Here Lies the Librarian

Peck, Richard - River Between Us

Richards, Justin - Death Collector

Sebestyen, Ouida - Out of Nowhere

Selznick, Brian - The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Taylor, Theodore - Lord of the Kill

Tolan, Stephanie - Listen

Whelan, Gloria - Homeless Bird