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TOP 1O FINISH!
Members of the
East Marshall Middle School Battle of the Books competed on Tuesday, March 30th at AEA 267 in Cedar Falls. Students
read 40 selected works of fiction for young adults, including Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. Competition included
an 80-question written exam over the novels. Students worked together to determine to answer the questions for their team.
East Marshall's team placed in the top 10, at 8th place in overall competition.
Students
also heard from Iowa author Eileen Boggess, author of Mia the Meek, Mia the Melodramatic and Mia the Magnificent. Mrs. Boggess discussed the writing process
and answered questions about the craft of writing, revising, and publishing.
MIDDLE SCHOOL BATTLE
OF THE BOOKS READING LIST
All Shook Up S. Pearsall
The Big Field M. Lupica
Code Talkers
J. Bruchac
Confessions of a Closet Catholic S. Darer-Littman
Deep and Dark and Dangerous
M.D. Hahn
Ender's Game O.S. Card
Fairest G.C. Levine
Fever 1793 L.H. Anderson
Found
M.P. Haddix
Freak the Mighty R. Philbrick
The Giver
L. Lowry
The Graveyard Book N. Gaiman
Green Glass Sea E. Klages
The Hunger Games S. Collins
IQ: Independence Hall R. Smith
The Jacket A. Clements
A Mango Shaped Space W. Mass
My Life in Dog Years G. Paulsen
The Mysterious
Edge of the Heroic World E.L. Konisberg
Of Mice and Men J. Steinbeck
Out
of the Dust K. Hesse
Parvana's Journey D. Ellis
The Pearl
J. Steinbeck
Power of the UN Etchemendy
Runaway VanDraanen
Savvy
I. Law
Scat C. Hiassen
Science Fair D. Barry
Stargirl
J. Spinelli
Stolen Children P. Kehret
Things Not Seen A. Clements
A Thousand
Never Evers S. Burg
Tiger Eyes J. Blume
To Kill a Mockingbird
H. Lee
Trouble G. Schmidt
Tunnels Gordon & Williams
Twilight
S. Meyer
Walk Two Moons S. Creech
We Beat the Streets Davis, Jenkins
& Hunt
Westing Game Raskin
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