SLJ Kicks Off Its First Annual Battle of the Books
By SLJ Staff -- School Library Journal, 3/30/2009
School Library Journal is about to launch its first annual Battle of the (Kids’) Books contest. What is it, you ask? Call it a book war.
Lois Lowry, Jon Scieszka, Linda Sue Park, and John Green are just some of your favorite authors who’ll be judging the contest, which pits 16 of last year’s best books for young people against each other.
The competition launches the week of April 13, but you can read more about it on our Battle of the Books blog before it kicks off.
Here’s a list of the competing titles. We’re sure you have your own favorite, but stay tuned over the coming weeks to hear which book Lowry will evntually pick as the nation’s top title.
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Vol. 2 by M. T. Anderson
Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Trouble Begins at 8 by Sid Fleischman
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Washington at Valley Forge by Russell Freedman
Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
We Are the Ship by Kadir Nelson
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Porcupine Year by Louise Erdrich
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
The Lincolns by Candace Fleming
Nation by Terry Pratchett
