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2012 Battle of the Books

 

January 25th is the deadline to turn in your permission slip and team registration form to your class teacher or your school’s media center. The Battle of the Books will take place on Tuesday April 10, 2012. at the Oxford High School Performing Arts Center at 7pm. Good luck and have fun reading these great books! Please click on the links below for copies of the information packet that was sent home from school:

 

For more information and registration forms click here.

 

Book List 2012

Multiple copies of the books are available to check out at the public library and a limited number are available at the school libraries.

 

For a printable book list click here.

 

Fairy-Tale Detectives, (fantasy), by Michael Buckley
Sabrina and Daphne Grimm have been brought to live with a grandmother to a world in which humans and fairy-tale creatures live side-by-side in rural New York.

Guinea Dog, (humor), by Patrick Jennings
Rufus, a fifth grade boy, begs his parents for a dog but, instead, his Mom brings home a pet guinea pig which is not a typical guinea pig.

Sherlock Files: The 100-Year-Old Secret, (mystery), by Tracy Barrett
Xena and Xander Holmes move to London with their parents and discover they are the great-great-great grandchildren of Sherlock Holmes and they have inherited his book of unsolved mysteries.

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, (Newbery honor book),
by Grace Lin
Minli loves to listen to her father’s stories about Jade Dragon and the Old Man of the Moon and one day sets out on a journey to ask the wise Old Man of the Moon how to change her very poor village’s fortune while meeting a dragon who cannot fly and other magical creatures.

Wildfire Run, (adventure & survival), by Dee Garretson
In this fast-paced adventure story, Luke, son of the President, vacations at Camp David with his friends and when a wildfire surrounds the camp, Luke and his friends are left alone to overcome obstacles to increase their chance of survival.