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Battle of the books

First grade team: Noah McClellan, Grant Hilbert, Evan Frederick, Elizabeth Eigel, Lejla Dolic, Nora Westbay, Lauren Eigel

Second grade team: Eli Marks, T.J. Bloomer, Emily Minnis, Jonathan Henson, Bryant Miles, Sam Hutchins, Freeman Hester

Third grade team: Elizabeth Nichols, Alexis Stuhler, Taylor Bruggeman, Taylor Bledsoe, Trenton Stetser, Becca Holdson, Nathan Frederick

Fourth grade team: Taylor Gravel, Erika Stultz, Austin DeWeese, Brandy Gartner, Chad Tilley, Christina Hayes, Ashton Brazell

Fifth grade team: Terry Lynn Bryant, Haleigh Glasgow, Pamela Herrera, Dylan Ing, Cheyanne Alexander, Dylan Clark, Nathan Johnson

 

Battle List 2009-2010

 

First Grade

 

  1. Swimmy, Leo Lionni
  2. Frog and Toad, Arnold Lobel
  3. Clifford Gets a Job – Bridwell
  4. Doctor De Soto – William Steig
  5. Froggy Gets Dressed, London
  6. Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse – Kevin Henkes
  7. Miss Nelson is Missing – Allard
  8. Rainbow Fish – Pfister
  9. The Mitten – Jan Brett
  10. The Ugly Duckling – Anderson
  11. There’s a Monster Under My Bed – Howe
  12. Max’s Words – Binks
  13. Thank You Mr. Falker – Polacco
  14. Wolf Island – Godkin
  15. What Do You Do With a Tail Like That? – Paige & Jenkins
  16. Cassie’s Word Quilt – Faith Ringold
  17. How a Seed Grows – Helene J. Jordan
  18. How to Hide a Crocodile – Ruth Heller
  19. Are You a Butterfly? – Judy Allen
  20. What it’s Like to be a Fish – Wendy Pfeffer
  21. Take me out to the Ballgame – Jack Norworth
  22. Germs Make Me Sick 0 Melvin Berger
  23. Animals:  Black and White – Phyllis Limbacher Tildes
  24. Are you a Ladybug – Judy Allen
  25. The Planets in our Solar System – Franklyn Branley
  26. Good Boy Fergus – David Shannon
  27. Chrysanthemum – Kevin Henkes
  28. Sophie – Mem Fox
  29. Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers – Winnick
  30. Click Clack Moo:  Cows that Type – Coreen Cronin

 

Second Grade

 

  1. Night Boat to Freedom – Raven
  2. Keep the Light Burning Abby – Roop & Hanson
  3. Mercy Watson – DiCamillo
  4. Horrible Harry in Room 2B – Kline
  5. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears – Aaardema
  6. The Hickory Chair – Fraustino
  7. The Keeping Quilt – Polacco
  8. The Other Side – Woodson
  9. Young Abe Lincoln 0 Harness
  10. What do Illustrators Do? – Christelow
  11. The Talking Eggs – San Souci
  12. How do you Raise a Raisin – Pam Munoz Ryan
  13. Fly Away Home – Bunting
  14. Charlie Anderson – Abercrombie
  15. Abe Lincoln, The Boy who Loved Books – Winters
  16. The Flag we Love – Pam Munoz Ryan
  17. The Story of Ruby Bridges – Coles & Ford
  18. Koko’s Kitten – Patterson
  19. Jack Outwits the Giants – Johnson
  20. Uncle Andy’s – James Warhola
  21. Author:  A True Story – Helen Lester
  22. Fly Away Home – Bunting
  23. Basketball in  Action – Hon Crossingham
  24. Digging up Dinosaurs – Aliki
  25. Endangered Elephants – Bobbie Kalman

 

Third Grade

 

  1. Molly’s Pilgrim – Cohen & Duffy
  2. Marvin Redpost:  Is He a Girl? – Sachar
  3. The Remembering Box – Eth Clifford
  4. Abe Lincoln Remembers – Turner
  5. The Summer My Father was Ten – Bisson
  6. Baseball Saved Us – Mochizuki & Lee
  7. Sarah Plain and Tall – MacLachlan
  8. The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft – Moore & Young
  9. Hank Aaron, Brave in Every Way – Peter Golenbock
  10. What do you do when something wants to eat you? – Steve Jenkins
  11. Tutankhamen’s Gift – Robert Sabuda
  12. Animals Nobody Loves – Seymour Simon
  13. Sharks – Seymour Simon
  14. Lou Gehrig:  The Luckiest Man – David Adler
  15. The Boy and the Ghost – San Souci
  16. Rumpelstiltskin – Zelinsky
  17. Duke Ellington – Pinkney
  18. Raising Yoder’s Barn – Yolen
  19. Grandfather’s Journey – Allen Say
  20. My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother – Polacco
  21. Pink and Say – Polacco
  22. Freckle Juice – Blume
  23. Katie Meets the Impressionists – Weterer

 

Fourth Grade

 

  1. Golem – Wisniewski
  2. Double Fudge – Blume
  3. Coming to America – Maestro
  4. The Great Wall of China – Fisher
  5. Watsons go to Birmingham – Christopher Paul Curtis
  6. The Tarantula in my Purse – Jean Craighead George
  7. How to make a Million – Rowland Morgan
  8. America votes:  how our president is elected – Linda Granfield
  9. Punctuation takes a Vacation – Pulver & Reed
  10. The village that vanished – Ann Grifalconi
  11. The Tale of Desperaux – DiCammilo
  12. There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom – Sacher (is this Sachar?)
  13. Jim Ugly – Fleishman
  14. Chasing Vermeer – Balliett
  15. The Janitor Boy – Clements
  16. Pictures of Hollis Woods – Griff
  17. Surviving the Applewhites – Tolan
  18. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic
  19. The Wednesday Wars – Schmidt
  20. The Black Pearl – O’Dell

 

Fifth Grade

 

  1. Teammates – Golenbock
  2. Coffin Quilt – Rinaldi
  3. Bud, Not Buddy – Christopher Paul Curtis
  4. Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry – Patterson
  5. Henry’s Freedom Box – Levine
  6. John, Paul, George, and Ben – Smith
  7. The Higher Power of Lucky – Susan Patron
  8. Elijah of Buxton – Christopher Paul Curtis
  9. How we Crossed the West:  The Adventures of Lewis & Clark – Schanzer
  10. And then what happened Paul Revere? – Jean Frite
  11. Nathan Hale – Olson (graphic novel)
  12. The Story of the Statue of Liberty – Niz (graphic novel)
  13. Ruby Holler – Creech
  14. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln – Olson (graphic novel)
  15. Young Abe Lincoln – Harness
  16. A Single Shard – Park
  17. Hatchett – Paulson
  18. Our Only May Amelia – Holm
  19. The Invention of Hugo Cabret:  A Novel in Words & Pictures – Selznick
  20. Maniac Magee - Spinelli