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

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