America's Battle of the Books is a voluntary reading incentive program for students in grades 3-12. The purpose is simply to encourage students to read good books and have fun while competing with peers.
9th to 12th Grade Division
- The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros
- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
- The Final Six by Alexandra Monir
- Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
- Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez
- Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood by Gary Paulsen
- House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen*
- Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
- We Can Be Heroes by Kyrie McCauley
- The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf
*The official OBOB edition of Northanger Abbey is the 2003 edition from Penguin Books (9780141439792). You may read another edition, but page numbers and content will be taken from this edition. No questions will be created from any prefaces, introductions, afterwards, etc.
6th to 8th Grade Division
- Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna by Alda P. Dobbs
- The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden
- The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman
- The Boys in the Back Row by Mike Jung
- Focused by Alyson Gerber
- The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf
- A High Five for Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner
- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien*
- Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and Gabriela Epstein
- Katie the Catsitter by Colleen AF Venable and Stephanie Yue
- Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
- Partly Cloudy by Tanita S. Davis
- Powerless by Matthew Cody
- Stowaway by John David Anderson
- Wink by Rob Harrell
- Yusuf Azeem is Not a Hero by Saadia Faruqi
*The official OBOB edition of The Hobbit is the 2012 edition from Mariner Books (9780547928227). You may read another edition, but page numbers and content will be taken from this edition. No questions will be created from any prefaces, introductions, afterwards, etc.
3rd to 5th Grade Division
- Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd
- Flor and Miranda Steal the Show by Jennifer Torres
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg*
- The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
- The List of Things that Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead
- The Lion of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm
- The Midnight Children by Dan Gemeinhart
- Molly and the Twin Towers: A 9/11 Survival Story by Jessika Fleck
- New From Here by Kelly Yang
- Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac
- Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas
- The Trouble with Chickens by Doreen Cronin (Student Popular Choice Vote)
- A True Home by Kallie George
- Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson
- When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
- Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams (NOT the graphic novel version)
*The official OBOB edition of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler is the 1998 edition from Atheneum Books for Young Readers (9780689711817). You may read another edition, but page numbers and content will be taken from this edition. No questions will be created from any prefaces, introductions, afterwards, etc.