Oregon Battle of the Books (OBOB)

OREGON BATTLE OF THE BOOKS (OBOB) 2023-2024

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.

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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 & Gabriela Epstein

Katie the Catsitter by Colleen AF Venable & 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

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*

*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.