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YA Battle of the Books List

The 2011 Book List

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 2011 books are out on the shelves. Start your reading early.

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

Balliett, Blue - The Calder Game

Barakat, Ibtisam - Tasting the Sky: a Palestinian Childhood

Budhos, Marina Tamar - Ask Me No Questions

DiCamillo, Kate - The Magician's Elephant

Giff, Patricia Reilly - Nory Ryan's Song

Giff, Patricia Reilly - Wild Girl

Graff, Nancy - Taking Wing

Halls, Kelly Milner - Saving the Baghdad Zoo

Harlow, Joan Hiatt - Secret of the Night Ponies

Herlong, M.H. - The Great Wide Sea

Hobbs, Will - Crossing the Wire

Jennings, Patrick - Wolving Time

Kadohata, Cynthia - Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam

Keller, Julia - Back Home

Kent, Rose - Kimchi and Calamari

Lasky, Kathryn - Ashes Special note about Ashes by Kathryn Lasky (see note below)

Lasky, Kathryn - Lone Wolf

Law, Ingrid - Savvy

Lisle, Janet Taylor - Black Duck

Lupica, Mike - Miracle on 49th Street

Martin, Ann M. - Everything for a Dog

McNicoll, Sylvia - Last Chance for Paris

Mickle, Shelley Fraser - Barbaro: America's Horse

Mikaelsen, Ben - Petey

Morpurgo, Michael - War Horse

Na, Ann - A Step From Heaven

Naidoo, Beverly - Burn My Heart

National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance - Our White House

Patron, Susan - Higher Power of Lucky

Peck, Richard - River Between Us

Selznick, Brian - The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Smith, Sherri L. - Flygirl

St. John, Lauren - The Last Leopard

Taylor, Theodore - Lord of the Kill

Thomson, Sarah - Three Cups of Tea (The Young Reader's Edition)

Turner, Pamela S. - A Life in the Wild

Special note about Ashes by Kathryn Lasky Ashes by Kathryn Lasky is not on the list for Queen of the Rosary.

Last Updated: November 17, 2010

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