2019-2020 Middle School BoB List
2020 - 2021 Middle School Battle of the Books List
Title
| Author
|
| The Crossover | Kwame Alexander |
| I Will Always Write Back | Caitlin Alifirenka & Martin Ganda |
| Etiquette & Espionage | Gail Carringer |
| Maybe He Just Likes You | Barbara Dee |
| Ashes to Asheville | Sarah Dooley |
| Paper Things | Jennifer Richard Jacobson |
| Roller Girl | Victoria Jamieson |
| The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | William Kamkwamba &
Bryan Mealer |
Alexander Hamilton:
The Making of America | Teri Kanefield |
| Song for a Whale | Lynne Kelly |
| Under the Mesquite | Guadalupe Garcia McCall |
| Cinder | Marissa Meyer |
| Bloom | Kenneth Oppel |
| All of the Above | Shelly Pearsall |
| A Good Kind of Trouble | Lisa Moore Ramée |
| Ghost | Jason Reynolds |
| Between Shades of Gray | Ruta Sepetys |
| Undefeated | Steve Sheinkin |
| Counting by 7s | Holy Goldberg Sloan |
| The Screaming Staircase | Jonathan Stroud |
| The Bridge Home | Padma Venkatraman |
| Deathwatch | Robb White |
| Beyond the Bright Sea | Lauren Wolk |
2020 - 2021 Middle School Battle of the Books List
| Title | Author |
Home of the Brave | Katherine Applegate |
The Iron Trial | Holly Black and Cassandra Clare |
Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish | Pablo Cartaya |
Book Scavenger | Jennifer Chambliss Bertman |
New Kid | Jerry Craft |
Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 | Richard Paul Evans |
90 Miles to Havana | Enrique Flores-Galbis |
Prisoner B-3087 | Alan Gratz |
Fatal Fever | Gail Jarrow |
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky | Kwame Mbalia |
Nyxia | Scott Reintgen |
Look Both Ways | Jason Reynolds |
The Hired Girl | Laura Amy Schlitz |
Bluefish | Pat Schmatz |
The Alchemyst | Michael Scott |
Death on the River of Doubt | Samantha Seiple |
Salt to the Sea | Ruta Sepetys |
Outcasts United | Warren St. John |
Other Words for Home | Jasmine Warga |
Genesis Begins Again | Alicia D. Williams |
The Watch That Ends the Night | Allan Wolf |
Wolf Hollow | Lauren Wolk |
2019-2020 Middle School Battle of the Books List
| Title | Author |
| Serafina and the Black Cloak | Robert Beatty |
| Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus | Dusti Bowling |
| The War that Saved My Life | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley |
| Gym Candy | Carl Deuker |
| The Ruins of Gorlan | John Flanagan |
| The Boys Who Challenged Hitler | Phillip Hoose |
| House Arrest | K. A. Holt |
| Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam | Cynthia Kadohata |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| Legend | Marie Lu |
| Greenglass House | Kate Milford |
| A Monster Calls | Patrick Ness |
| The First Rule of Punk | Celia C. Perez |
| Ghost Boys | Jewell Parker Rhodes |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | JK Rowling |
| Bomb | Steve Sheinkin |
| I’ll Be There | Holly Goldberg Sloan |
| The Bitter Side of Sweet | Tara Sullivan |
| The Running Dream | Wendelin Van Draanen |
| Crow | Barbara Wright |
I Am Malala
(Young Reader’s edition with Patricia McCormick) | Malala Yousafzai |
| A Night Divided | Jennifer A. Nielsen |