Monday, December 15, 2008

Battle of the Books

I'm working with area librarians to see if some young people are interested in participating in a region-wide Battle of the Books competition to be held in the spring or summer of 2009. Teams will be comprised of four young people who will represent area libraries. We're thinking of leaving this open to students currently in grades 6-12.

Read about how a competition like this might work here or here, though official rules and procedures for this competition would be provided to participating teams.

If you may be interested in participating, email Lori: lrohol[at]tds.lib.mn.us or call 359-8334. You don't need to have a team in mind to express interest!

Update: Area librarians have come up with the official reading list for our Battle of the Books competition:
  1. House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
  2. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
  3. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
  4. Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
  5. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
  6. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
We've also set a tentative competition date: Saturday, July 11 in Mankato. More details to come!
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2 comments:

Haley Sas said...

My daughter competed at this competion and she really enjoyed. She hopes she can compete again.

July 14, 2009 at 2:58 PM
Anonymous said...

Fantastic event, but a better scoring system needs to be used if there is a future Battle of the Books. Perhaps the judges can keep a tally of the teams they are in charge of, rather than having one person confused at the board and missing some of the points..

July 21, 2009 at 11:39 PM

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