Battle+of+the+Books

= *THANK YOU TO ALL WHO TURNED IN THEIR JOURNALS* = = READY, SET, READ!! = = Battle of the Books is an exciting adventure! = = As soon as you have read one of the titles from the BOTB list:  = = The first nine books on this list are also the 2010-2011 William Allen White titles. =
 * print the worksheet to the book
 * complete it
 * save the worksheet by keeping it in a safe place
 * complete at least 15 worksheets on different titles from the BOTB list
 * turn in all (15 or more) completed worksheets by March 31, 2011

After being abandoned, Chancey, an albino Appaloosa horse, finds a new home with Claire who needs him as much as he needs her, but as his eyesight deteriorates, he and Claire start anew as a therapeutic team.
 * Chancey of the Maury River /** Gigi **Amateau**



After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
 * Masterpiece /** Elise **Broach** ; Kelly **Murphy**



"The story of the first efforts to save the vanishing bison (buffalo) herds from extinction in the United States in the 1870s and 1880s. Based on the true story of Samuel Walking Coyote, a Salish (Kalispel) Indian who rescued and raised orphaned buffalo calves"--
 * Buffalo song /** Joseph **Bruchac** ; Bill **Farnsworth**



Twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason's older brother is a guard on the Freedom Train, which is carrying the Bill of Rights and other documents throughout the country in 1948, but Clyde is also learning about rights and freedom as he is saved from a beating by an African American boy, and later returns the favor when men in their Atlanta suburb decide to show the "Nigras" their place.
 * Freedom Train /** Evelyn **Coleman**



When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered.
 * Eleven /** Patricia Reilly **Giff**



After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.
 * Swindle /** Gordon **Korman**



Relates tales of Sir Lancelot, the bravest knight in King Arthur's court
 * The adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great /** Gerald **Morris** ; Aaron **Renier**



"This is the story of Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, Wangari came home from college to find the streams dry, the people malnourished, and the trees gone. How could she alone bring back the trees and restore the gardens and the people"
 * Planting the trees of Kenya :** **the story of Wangari Maathai /** Claire A **Nivola**



As her thirteenth birthday approaches, JoEllen decides to bring together her two separate lives--one as Joey, who enjoys weekends with her father and other relatives on a farm, and another as Ellen, who lives with her mother in a Cincinnati apartment near her school and friends.
 * 42 miles /** Tracie Vaughn **Zimmer**



Ten-year-old George Calder's life changes forever as he, his little sister, Phoebe, and their Aunt Daisy set out across the ocean on the "Titanic" in 1912.
 * How I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic. 1912**



Twelve-year-olds Madeleine, Theo, and Lulu, and thirteen-year-old Garrison, are sent to a remote Massachusetts school to overcome their phobias, but tragedy strikes and the quartet must work together--with no adult assistance--to face their fears.
 * School of Fear** by Gitty Daneshvari



On the run from a bounty hunter who arrested her mother for being part of a secret society devoted to freeing clones, thirteen-year-old Leanna learns amazing truths about herself and her family as she is forced to consider the value of freedom and what it really means to be human in 2170 America.
 * Clone Codes** by Patricia Mckissack



After being framed by a jealous poodle, a dachshund is left for dead, but comes back with a group of mutts from the National Last Ditch Dog Depository to disrupt the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club dog show and exact revenge on Cassius the poodle.
 * Flawed Dogs** by Berkeley Breathead



As mysterious circumstances bring Giuseppe, Frederick, and Hannah together, their lives soon interlock like the turning gears in a clock and they realize that each one holds a key to solving the others' mysteries.
 * The Clockwork Three** by Kirby Matthew



Griffin Bing is in big trouble when a Super Bowl ring disappears from his middle school's display case, replaced by Griffin's retainer, and the more he and his friends investigate, the worse his situation becomes.
 * Framed** by Gordan Korman



"Frances Foster books." In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her.
 * Diamond Willow** by Helen Frost



"A Stepping Stone book.";"RL: 2.6"--Cover p. 4. Hannah, a blind girl living in Michigan in the late nineteenth century, doesn't go to school until a new teacher tells her about the Braille method of reading for the blind.
 * Hannah** by Gloria Whelan



Includes bibliographical references. A boy who has signed on as cabin boy aboard the Titanic helps ready the ship for its maiden voyage, but when it is time to set sail and he cannot find the ship's cat on board, he leaves the vessel to search for her.
 * Titanicat** by Marty Crisp



Nine-year-old Ron, a frequent visitor to the Lake City Public Library in South Carolina in the 1950s, where he pores over books on airplanes and flight, makes his own quiet stand against segregation when he decides to apply for his own library card. Based on the life of astronaut Ron McNair.
 * Ron's Big Mission** by Rose Blue



Josie, who lives with her mother and grandmother and has cerebral palsy, befriends a boy who moves into one of the rich houses behind her old farmhouse.
 * Reaching for theSun** by Tracie Vaghn Zimmer



In parallel stories, Bone, an orphaned dog, finds and loses a series of homes, Molly, a family pet, helps Charlie through the grief and other after-effects of his brother's death, and lonely Henry pleads for a dog of his own.
 * Everything for a Dog** by Ann Martin



After being adopted by a human family, a tiny mouse sets out to win over his resentful new brother and the family feline while fending off a gang of cats who want him out of the house.
 * Stuart Little** by E.B. White



Poppy, a deer mouse, urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.
 * Poppy** by Avi



A little girl makes crowns and sells them to help raise money for the pedestal needed for mounting France's gift of the Statue of Liberty to this country.
 * Lily and Miss Liberty** by Carla Stevens