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Battle of the Books - 2012 / 2013 list by author
Author	Title	Grade Level
Armstrong, Alan	Whittington (Newbery Honor – 2006)	4+
Aker, Don	One On One (OLA Best Bet 2005)	5 +
Alcott, Louisa May	Little Women	6+
Alexander, Lloyd	Time Cat	4+
Armstrong, William H.	Sounder (Newbery – 1970)	4+
Atwater, Richard and Florence	Mr. Popper's Penguins (pub. 1938 - Newberry Honor)	4+
Austen, Catherine	All Good Children	6+
Auxier, Jonathan	Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes	5+
Avi	Poppy (Boston Globe-Horn Book Award 1996)	4+
Babbitt, Natalie	Tuck Everlasting	5+
Barry, Dave & Pearson, Ridley (either author accepted in battle)	Peter and the Starcatchers	5+
Baum, Frank	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	5+
Baxter, Jean Rae	Way Lies North (Red Maple Nominee 2009)	6+
Bell, William	Zack (Red Maple Nominee 1999, Mr. Christie 1998)	7+
Bianco, Margery Williams (for battles either Bianco or Williams correct for author)	The Velveteen Rabbit	3-4+
Birdsall, Jeanne	The Penderwicks (National Book Award)	5+
Blume, Judy	Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing	4+
Bowman, Patrick	Torn from Troy (Red Maple Nominee 2012)	6+
Buckley-Archer, Linda	Gideon the Cutpurse Note: American edition is called the Time Travelers and can be accepted in Battle - Jane	5+
Buffie, Margaret	Who is Frances Rain?	6+
Burgess, Thornton W.	The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad	3-4+
Burnett, Frances Hodgson	The Secret Garden	5+
Bush, Maureen	Feather Brain	4+
Card, Orson Scott	Ender’s Game (Hugo & Nebula Awards)	6 - 7+
Carroll, Lewis	Through the Looking Glass	5+
Carter, Anne Laurel	Shepherd’s Granddaughter (Red Maple Nominee 2010)	6+
Choldenko, Gennifer	Al Capone Does My Shirts (Newbery Honor – 2005)	6+
Christopher, John	The White Mountains (ALA Notable Bk)	5+
Citra, Becky	Never to Be Told (Silver Birch Nominee 2008)	5+
Cleary, Beverly	Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Newbery Honor– 1982)	4+
Clements, Andrew	Lost and Found	4+
Coerr, Eleanor	Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes	5+
Cohen, Marina	Ghost Ride (Red Maple Nominee 2011)	6+
Colfer, Eoin	Artemis Fowl	5+
Collins, Suzanne	Gregor the Overlander	5+
Collodi, Carlo	Pinnochio	5+
Constable, Kate	The Singer of All Songs	6+
Cooper, Afua	My Name is Henry Bibb (Red Maple Nominee 2011)	6+
Cooper, Susan	King of Shadows	5+
Coville,Bruce	Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher	5+
Creech, Sharon	The Wanderer (Newbery Honor – 2001)	5+
Cushman, Karen	The Midwife's Apprentice (Newbery – 1996)	6+
Dahl, Roald	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	4+
Dahl, Roald	Matilda	4+
DeMeulemeester, Linda	Grim Hill, the Secret Deepens (Silver Birch Nominee 2010)	4+
DiCamillo, Kate	Because of Winn Dixie (Newbery Honor 2001)	4+
Dickens, Charles	A Christmas Carol	6+
Dowd, Siobhan	The London Eye Mystery	6+
Draper, Penny	Terror at Turtle Mountain (Silver Birch Nominee 2007)	5+
DuPrau, Jeanne	City of Ember	5+
Ellis, Deborah & Walters, Eric (either author accepted in Battle)	Bifocal	6+
Ellis, Sarah	Odd Man Out (Silver Birch Nominee 2008)	5+
Erdrich, Louise	The Birchbark House	4+
Estes, Eleanor	The Hundred Dresses	4+
Falcone, L.M.	Walking With the Dead (Silver Birch 2007)	5+
Farley, Walter	The Black Stallion	4+
Farmer, Nancy	House of the Scorpion (Newbery Honor – 2003)	6+
Fitch, Sheree	The Gravesavers (Red Maple Nominee 2006)	5+
Fitzhugh, Louise	Harriet the Spy	4+
Fleischman, Sid	The Whipping Boy (Newbery – 1987)	4+
Fox, Paula	The Slave Dancer (Newbery – 1974)	6+
Funke, Cornelia	Inkheart	5+
Gaiman, Neil	The Graveyard Book (Newbery – 2009)	5+
George, Jean Craighead	My Side Of the Mountain	5+
Ghent, Natalie	Odds Get Even (Silver Birch Nominee 2010)	4+
Giff, Patricia Reilly	Pictures of Hollis Woods (Newbery Honor – 2002)	5+
Gilmore, Rachna	That Boy Red (Silver Birch Nominee 2012)	5+
Grant, Vicki	Quid Pro Quo (Silver Birch Nominee 2006)	6+
Guest, Jacqueline	Ghost Messages (Silver Birch Nominee 2012)	4+
Haddix, Margaret	Among the Hidden	5+
Harrison, Troon	A Bushel of Light (Red Maple Nominee 2002)	5+
Harvey, Alyxandra	Haunting Violet (Red Maple Nominee 2012)	6+
Haworth-Attard, Barbara	Home Child (Silver Birch Nominee 1998 )	4+
Heneghan, James	Safe House (OLA Best Bet 2006)	5+
Henkes, Kevin	Olive’s Ocean (Newbery Honor 2004)	5+
Hiassen, Carl	Hoot (Newbery Honor – 2003)	5+
Holm, Jennifer	Our Only May Amelia (Newbery Honor – 2000)	5+
Horowitz, Anthony	Stormbreaker	6+
Horvath, Polly	The Trolls (Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor 1999)	5+
Howe, James	Bunnicula	4-5+
Hume, Stephen	Ben Franklin’s War	5+
Hunter, Erin	Into the Wild	5 +
Huser, Glen	Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen (Red Maple Nominee 2008)	6+
Jacques, Brian	Redwall	5+
Jaimet, Kate	Dunces Anonymous (Silver Birch Nominee 2011)	4+
Jocelyn, Marthe	How it Happened in Peach Hill (OLA Best Bet, CLA Award Shortlist 08)	6+
Jones, David	Baboon (Silver Birch Nominee 2008)	4+
Juster, Norton	The Phantom Tollbooth	5+
Kacer, Kathy	Clara’s War (Red Maple 2000)	5+
Kacer, Kathy	Night Spies	5+
Kadohata, Cynthia	Kira-Kira (Newbery – 2005)	5+
Kerz, Ann	Mealworm Diaries (Silver Birch Nominee 2010)	4+
King-Smith, Dick	Babe: the Gallant Pig	4+
Konigsburg, E.L.	The View From Saturday (Newbery – 1997)	5+
Korman, Gordon	Pop (Red Maple Nominee 2011)	5+
Kress, Adrienne	Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate (OLA Best Bet 2009)	4+
L’Engle, Madeleine	A Wrinkle in Time	5+
Larson, Kirby	Hattie Big Sky (Newbery Honor – 2007)	6+
Lawrence, Iain	The Giant-Slayer (Silver Birch Nominee 2011)	5+
Lawson, Julie	Ghosts of the Titanic (Silver Birch Nominee 2012)	5+
Levine, Gail Carson	Fairest	5+
Lewis, C.S.	The Magician’s Nephew	4+
Lewis, C.S.	The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	4+
Linden, Dianne	Peacekeepers (Red Maple Nominee 2005)	5+
Lisle, Janet Taylor	The Art of Keeping Cool (Scott O’Dell Award 2001)	5+
London, Jack	Call of the Wild	7+
Lottridge, Celia Barker	Ticket to Curlew (CLA Award 1993, Geoffrey Bilson)	5+
Lowry, Lois	The Giver (Newbery – 1994)	6+
Mack, Winnie	After All, You're Callie Boone	5+
MacLean, Jill	Nine Lives of Travis Keating (Silver Birch Nominee 2010)	5+
Mass, Wendy	11 Birthdays	4+
McKay, Sharon	Thunder Over Kandahar (Red Maple Nominee 2012)	6 – 7+
McKinley, Robin	The Hero and the Crown (Newbery – 1985)	5+
McNaughton, Janet	Raintree Rebellion (Red Maple Nominee 2007)	6+
Milne, A.A.	Winnie-the-Pooh	4+
Montgomery, Lucy Maude	Anne of Green Gables	6+
Morey, Walt	Gentle Ben	5+
Mowat, Farley	Lost in the Barrens (former title is Two Against the North)	6+
Naidoo, Beverley	The Other Side of Truth (Carnegie – 2000 & Smarties Silver Medal)	5+
Narsimhan, Mahtab	The Tiffin (OLA Best Bet)	6+
Naylor, Phyllis R.	Shiloh (Newbery – 1992)	5+
Nielsen, Susin	Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom (Red Maple Nominee 2012)	5 – 6+
North, Sterling	Rascal	5+
Norton, Mary	The Borrowers	4+
Nyoka, Gail	Mella and the N’anga (Silver Birch Nominee 2007)	4+
O'Brien, Robert	Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (Newbery – 1972)	5+
O'Dell, Scott	Island of the Blue Dolphins	5+
Olsen, Sylvia	Catching Spring	4+
Oppel, Kenneth	Half Brother (OLA Best Bet 2011, Red Maple Nominee 2012)	6+
Park, Linda Sue	A Single Shard (Newbery 2002)	5-6+
Peacock, Shane	The Eye of the Crow (OLA Best Bet, Silver Birch Nominee 2009)	6+
Pearson, Kit	A Perfect, Gentle Knight (Red Maple Nominee 2009)	6+
Perkyns, Dorothy	Last Days in Africville (Silver Birch Nominee 2005)	5+
Peterson, Lois	The Ballad of Knuckles McGraw (Silver Birch Nominee 2011)	4+
Pierce, Tamora	Briar’s Book	5-6+
Pignat, Caroline	Greener Grass (Red Maple Nominee 2010, Governor General Winner 2009)	6+
Pinkwater, Daniel M.	The Hoboken Chicken Emergency	4+
Porter, Pamela	The Crazy Man (Governor General 2005, OLA Best Bet 2005, Silver Birch Nominee)	5+
Pratchett, Terry	Wee Free Men	6+
Pullman, Philip	Golden Compass	7+
Rawls, Wilson	Where the Red Fern Grows	5+
Rayburn, Tricia	The Melting of Maggie Bean	5+
Riordan, Rick	The Lightning Thief	4+
Rowling, J.K.	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	5+
Roy, Philip	Submarine Outlaw (Red Maple Nominee 2010)	6+
Rylant, Cynthia	Missing May (Newbery – 1993)	4+
Sachar, Louis	Holes (Newbery – 1999)	5+
Schmidt, Gary	Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (Newbery Honor 2005)	5+
Schmidt, Rene	Leaving Fletchville (Red Maple Nominee 2010)	6+
Schwartz, Virginia	Crossing to Freedom (Silver Birch Nominee 2012)	4+
Scieszka, Jon	Tut, Tut	3+
Selden, George	The Cricket in Times Square	4+
Selznick, Brian	The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Caldecott Medal 2008)	4+
Sewell, Anna	Black Beauty	5+
Sherrard, Valerie	Sarah’s Legacy (Red Maple Nominee 2008)	5+
Silberberg, Alan	Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze (Silver Birch Nominee 2012)	4+
Skrypuch, Marsha	Stolen Child (OLA Best Bet 2010)	5+
Skuy, David	Undergrounders (Silver Birch Nominee 2012)	5+
Slade, Arthur	Jolted (Silver Birch Nominee 2010, OLA Best Bet 2008)	5+
Smucker, Barbara	Underground to Canada	4+
Spinelli, Jerry	Stargirl	5+
Steig, William	Abel’s Island (Newbery Honor – 1977)	4+
Stevenson, R.L.	Treasure Island	5+
Sylvester, Kevin	Neil Flambe and the Aztec Abduction (Silver Birch Nominee 2012)	4+
Taylor, Mildred	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Newbery 1977)	5+
Tolan, Stephanie	Surviving the Applewhites (Newbery Honor – 2003)	5+
Tolkien, J.R.R.	The Hobbit (Full title is The Hobbit or There and Back Again but for the battles just The Hobbit is acceptable)	6+
Townley, Roderick	The Great Good Thing	5+
Travers, Pamela L.	Mary Poppins	5+
Turner, Megan Whalen	The Thief (Newbery Honor )	5+
Walters, Eric	Wounded (Red Maple Nominee 2011)	6+
Weeks, Sarah	Regular Guy	4+
Westerfeld, Scott	Uglies	6+
Weston, Robert Paul	Zorgamazoo (Silver Birch 2010)	4+
Whelan, Gloria	Homeless Bird (National Book Award 2000)	5+
White, E.B.	Charlotte's Web	4+
White, Ruth	Belle Prater’s Boy (Newbery Honor 1997)	4+
White, T.H.	The Sword in the Stone	5+
Wilde, Oscar	Happy Prince	4+
Wilder, Laura Ingalls	Farmer Boy	4+
Withers, Pam	Peak Survival	6+
Yolen, Jane	Dragon's Blood	5+
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FAIRYTALES/FOLKLORE
AUTHOR -	TITLE	Grade Level
Note that Fairytales/Folktales do not have authors listed.	Anansi’s Hat Shaking Dance	All Grade 1-4
	Bremen Town Musicians (Grimm)
	Cat and Mouse in Partnership (Grimm)
	The Donkey Driver and the Thief
	Emperor’s New Clothes (Andersen)
	The Fish Basket Goddess
	The Fisherman and His Wife (Grimm)
	The Forest Bride
	The Golden Goose (Grimm)
	The Half Chick
	Hans in Luck (Grimm)
	Jorinda and Joringel (Grimm)
	The Little Match Girl (Andersen)
	The Mouse and the Sun
	The Nightingale (Andersen)
	Oni and the Great Bird
	Puss in Boots
	The Queen Bee (Grimm)
	Rapunzel (Grimm)
	The Raven Brings Light
	Rumpelstiltskin (Grimm)
	The Snow Queen (Andersen)
	The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Andersen)
	The Straw, the Coal and the Bean (Grimm)
	The Swineherd (Andersen)
	The Three Hares
	Three Magic Oranges
	Thumbelina (Andersen)
	The Tinderbox (Andersen)
	The Twelve Dancing Princesses
	The Ugly Duckling (Andersen)
	Urashima
	Who is my Neighbour?
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