2025-2026 State Convention Book Battle Lists

The Book Battle competition is a literature-driven, online multiple choice test based on the books listed. This competition provides an opportunity for a group of four students to use an integrated study of novels to collaborate as they participate in this competition. Students will have thirty minutes to complete the test.

Encourage your book-loving Betas to get a head start on their convention preparation by delving into the official list of books selected for next year.

ELEMENTARY

Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The City of Ember (Book of Ember #1) by Jeanne DuPrau
The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan
The Girl in the Locked Room: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

JUNIOR

And Then, Boom! by Lisa Fipps
Cinder: The Lunar Chronicles, Book 1 by Marissa Meyer
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
New Kid by Jerry Craft
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Refugee by Alan Gatz
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements

SENIOR

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Catch-22 (First Edition) by Joseph Heller
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson and Cecil Murphey
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
Love is the Drug by Alaya Dawn Johnson
The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë