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Battle of the Books

Highlands Ranch Library Presents Pilot Program: Battle of the Books

Eight brave Highlands Ranch elementary schools have volunteered to compete in our tournament in the spring of 2009. Teams of third and fourth graders and fifth and sixth graders will each read the ten Battle books then test their knowledge in a quiz bowl here at the library. All the questions begin with "In which book…"

Sound exciting? Find out if your school is participating. If so, join the team and start READING!

Participating Elementary Schools

Copper Mesa Northridge Platte River Academy Bear Canyon
Saddle Ranch Stone Mountain Trailblazer Elementary Wildcat Mountain

3 & 4 Grade Book Lists

Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolf

Champ by Marcia Thornton Jones

Disappearing Acts by Betsy Byars

Music of the Dolphins by Karen Hesse

Rules by Cynthia Lord

A Spy in the White House by Ron Roy

The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin

The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

5 & 6 Grade Book Lists

Black Storm Comin’ by Diane Lee Wilson

Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith

Heat by Mike Lupica

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass

The Seven Professors of the Far North by John Fardell

The Kid Who Became President by Dan Gutman

Rodzina by Karen Cushman

Phineas L. MacGuire Erupts Dowell Frances O’Roark

The Spy Who Came in From the Sea Peggy Nolan

The Twenty-One Balloons William Pene du Bois

Books on Dislay at Highlands Ranch Library

Books are available at the Highlands Ranch Library as Your Lucky Day books. This means that you cannot put them on hold, but they will be available at the library in the special display in the Southeast corner of the children’s section.