| BATTLE OF THE BOOKS
2007-8 Middle School List Click here if you would like to see a list alphabetized by author. Note: Titles read in class, will also be included. Book titles read by 6th graders will be included for everyone. Book titles read in 7th grade will be included for 7th and 8th graders. Books read in 8th grade will be included for 8th grade students only. The final rounds will include only those read by 6th graders. |
| Title | Author | R.L. | Pts. | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Ways To Sink a Sub | Gilson, Jamie | 5.1 | 6 | Fiction |
| Absolutely Normal Chaos | Creech, Sharon | 6.9 | 8 | Fiction |
| Absolutely True-How-Visited... | Roberts, Willo Davis | 6.1 | 8 | Fiction |
| Airborn | Oppel, Kenneth | 6.4 | 22 | Fiction |
| Aliens Ate My Homework | Coville, Bruce | 5.1 | 7 | Fiction |
| Anne Frank-Diary Of Young Girl | Frank, Anne | 5.9 | 21 | Nonfiction |
| Artemis Fowl | Colfer, Eoin | 6.2 | 14 | Fiction |
| Attaboy, Sam! | Lowry, Lois | 5.3 | 5 | Fiction |
| Austere Academy, The | Snicket, Lemony | 6.8 | 10 | Fiction |
| Baby Alicia Is Dying | McDaniel, Lurlene | 5.5 | 10 | Fiction |
| Baby-Sitting Is Dangerous Job | Roberts, Willo Davis | 6.9 | 9 | Fiction |
| Backfield Package | Dygard, Thomas J. | 6.5 | 9 | Fiction |
| Bad Beginning, The | Snicket, Lemony | 6.1 | 7 | Fiction |
| Barn Burner, The | Willis, Patricia | 5.3 | 11 | Fiction |
| Baseball: Becoming A - Hitter | Fitzgerald, Ron | 4.6 | 3 | Nonfiction |
| Bearstone | Hobbs, Will | 5.3 | 8 | Fiction |
| Because Of Winn-Dixie | DiCamillo, Kate | 4.1 | 7 | Fiction |
| Best Christmas Pageant Ever | Robinson, Barbara | 5.1 | 5 | Fiction |
| Best School Year Ever, The | Robinson, Barbara | 5.4 | 6 | Fiction |
| Bigger | Calvert, Patricia | 6.3 | 9 | Fiction |
| Bill | Reaver, Chap | 5.7 | 9 | Fiction |
| Blackwater | Bunting, Eve | 5.1 | 8 | Fiction |
| Blind Flight | Milton, Hilary | 6.5 | 7 | Fiction |
| Boston Jane: An Adventure | Holm, Jennifer L. | 5.9 | 15 | Fiction |
| Boston Jane: The Claim | Holm, Jennifer L. | 5.0 | 8 | Fiction |
| Boy Who Saved Baseball, The | Ritter, John H. | 5.6 | 13 | Fiction |
| Brian's Hunt | Paulsen, Gary | 7.9 | 8 | Fiction |
| Brian's Return | Paulsen, Gary | 5.3 | 7 | Fiction |
| Brian's Winter | Paulsen, Gary | 7.3 | 9 | Fiction |
| Bridge To Terabithia | Paterson, Katherine | 6.1 | 7 | Fiction |
| Bud, Not Buddy | Curtis, Christopher Paul | 5.2 | 12 | Fiction |
| Buffalo Gal | Wallace, Bill | 5.5 | 8 | Fiction |
| Buffalo Moon | Wisler, G. Clifton | 6.3 | 6 | Fiction |
| Call It Courage | Sperry, Armstrong | 5.8 | 5 | Fiction |
| Call Of The Wild, The | London, Jack | 7.3 | 9 | Fiction |
| Candidate For Murder, A | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 5.4 | 10 | Fiction |
| Canyons | Paulsen, Gary | 7.1 | 8 | Fiction |
| Car | Paulsen, Gary | 6.1 | 9 | Fiction |
| Castle In The Attic, The | Winthrop, Elizabeth | 5.9 | 7 | Fiction |
| Caught | Davis, Robert Willo | 7.3 | 9 | Fiction |
| Charlotte's Web | White, E. B. | 4.9 | 6 | Fiction |
| Chasing Vermeer | Balliett, Blue | 5.6 | 6 | Fiction |
| Cheater, Cheater | Levy, Elizabeth | 5.8 | 8 | Fiction |
| Chow Chow, The | Wilcox, Charlotte | 3.5 | 3 | Nonfiction |
| Christmas Spurs | Wallace, Bill | 5.7 | 6 | Fiction |
| Countdown | Mikaelsen, Ben | 3.7 | 13 | Fiction |
| Crash | Spinelli, Jerry | 4.8 | 9 | Fiction |
| Danger In Quicksand Swamp | Wallace, Bill | 4.7 | 7 | Fiction |
| Danger In The Desert | Fields, T.S. | 5.5 | 7 | Fiction |
| Danger On Panther Peak | Wallace, Bill | 4.2 | 6 | Fiction |
| Daphne's Book | Hahn, Mary Downing | 5.6 | 12 | Fiction |
| Deadly Game Of Magic | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 6.1 | 11 | Fiction |
| Dear Mr. Henshaw | Cleary, Beverly | 4.7 | 5 | Fiction |
| Divorce Express, The | Danziger, Paula | 5.8 | 9 | Fiction |
| Doberman Pinscher, The | Wilcox, Charlotte | 3.5 | 3 | Nonfiction |
| Dog Days | Lubar, David | 3.4 | 5 | Fiction |
| Don't Care High | Korman, Gordon | 8.2 | 12 | Fiction |
| Don't Die, My Love | McDaniel, Lurlene | 5.6 | 12 | Fiction |
| Don't Look Behind You | Duncan, Lois | 6.4 | 13 | Fiction |
| Don't Tell Anyone | Kehret, Peg | 5.2 | 9 | Fiction |
| Earthquake Terror | Kehret, Peg | 4.2 | 6 | Fiction |
| Edison Mystery, The | Gutman, Dan | 5.1 | 8 | Fiction |
| Ella Enchanted | Levine, Gail Carson | 5.1 | 5 | Fiction |
| Enchantress From The Stars | Engdahl, Sylvia | 6.9 | 18 | Fiction |
| Escape Of The Plant-Ate... | McArthur, Nancy | 5.2 | 8 | Fiction |
| Eulalia | Jacques, Brian | Fiction | ||
| Falling Up | Silverstein, Shel | 3.5 | 5 | Fiction |
| Family Apart, A | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 6.1 | 9 | Fiction |
| Fever, 1793 | Anderson, Laurie Halse | 7.6 | 13 | Fiction |
| From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | Konisburg, E.L. | 6.8 | 9 | Fiction |
| Freedom Crossing | Clark, Margaret Goff | 6.3 | 6 | Fiction |
| Gentle Ben | Morey, Walt | 5.1 | 13 | Fiction |
| Get Rich Quick Club, The | Gutman, Dan | 3.4 | 6 | Fiction |
| Ghost Boy | Lawrence, Iain | 5.1 | 18 | Fiction |
| Ghost Brother | Adler, C. S. | 6.5 | 7 | Fiction |
| Ghost In The House, A | Wright, Betty Ren | 5.8 | 7 | Fiction |
| Ghosts Of Mercy Manor | Wright, Betty Ren | 5.1 | 7 | Fiction |
| Gift Of The Girl Who Couldn't | Shreve, Susan | 5.8 | 5 | Fiction |
| Girl With the Silver Eyes | Roberts, Willo Davis | 5.9 | 10 | Fiction |
| Great Quarterback Switch, The | Christopher, Matt | 5.1 | 4 | Fiction |
| Harry Potter & Chamber Secrets | Rowling, J.K. | 5.9 | 18 | Fiction |
| Harry Potter & Goblet of Fire | Rowling, J.K. | 5.9 | 39 | Fiction |
| Harry Potter & Order Phoenix | Rowling, J.K. | 5.9 | 49 | Fiction |
| Harry Potter & Prisoner of Azkaban | Rowling, J.K. | 5.9 | 22 | Fiction |
| Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows | Rowling, J.K. | 7.4 | 42 | Fiction |
| Harry Potter & the Half-Blood | Rowling, J.K. | 6.5 | 34 | Fiction |
| Harry Potter Sorcerer's Stone | Rowling, J.K. | 5.3 | 16 | Fiction |
| Haymeadow | Paulsen, Gary | 6.9 | 9 | Fiction |
| Heartbeat | Creech, Sharon | 5.1 | 6 | Fiction |
| Help! I'm A Prisoner In... | Clifford, Eth | 5.2 | 4 | Fiction |
| Holes | Sachar, Louis | 5.2 | 12 | Fiction |
| Home Court Is Where You Find It | Cox, William | 5.5 | 11 | Fiction |
| Hoot | Hiaasen, Carl | 5.8 | 15 | Fiction |
| House Of The Scorpion, The | Farmer, Nancy | 6.1 | 23 | Fiction |
| How To Fight A Girl | Rockwell, Thomas | 4.6 | 5 | Fiction |
| I Know What You Did Last... | Duncan, Lois | 6.2 | 12 | Fiction |
| Incredible Journey, The | Burnford, Sheila | 8.1 | 8 | Fiction |
| Indian In The Cupboard, The | Banks, Lynne Reid | 5.9 | 9 | Fiction |
| Infield Hit | Dygard, Thomas J. | 6.6 | 7 | Fiction |
| Inkheart | Funke, Cornelia | 4.9 | 29 | Fiction |
| Jake's Orphan | Brooke, Peggy | 5.5 | 13 | Fiction |
| Jane-Emily | Clapp, Patricia | 5.0 | 8 | Fiction |
| Joey Pigza Swallowed The Key | Gantos, Jack | 5.2 | 9 | Fiction |
| Johnny Tremain | Forbes, Esther | 5.3 | 19 | Fiction |
| Just Tell Me When We're Dead | Clifford, Eth | 5.6 | 5 | Fiction |
| Kid Power Strikes Back | Pfeffer, Susan Beth | 4.3 | 6 | Fiction |
| Kid Who Ran For President, The | Gutman, Dan | 5.4 | 5 | Fiction |
| Killing Mr. Griffin | Duncan, Lois | 6.2 | 10 | Fiction |
| Kira-Kira | Kadohata, Cynthia | 5.8 | 12 | Fiction |
| Last Dog on Earth | Ehrnhaft, Daniel | 3.3 | 13 | Fiction |
| Last Shot | Feinstein, John | 5.0 | 11 | Fiction |
| Leroy And The Old Man | Butterworth, W.E. | 7.2 | 10 | Fiction |
| Liars | Petersen, P. J. | 5.1 | 11 | Fiction |
| Light In The Attic, A | Silverstein, Shel | 3.2 | 5 | Fiction |
| Loamhedge | Jacques, Brian | 6.7 | 26 | Fiction |
| Long Winter | Ingalls, Laura | 4.4 | 15 | Fiction |
| Long Way From Chicago, A | Peck, Richard | 4.6 | 10 | Fiction |
| Lord Brocktree | Jacques, Brian | 6.3 | 22 | Fiction |
| Loser | Spinelli, Jerry | 5.5 | 9 | Fiction |
| Maniac Magee | Spinelli, Jerry | 5.4 | 8 | Fiction |
| Mattimeo | Jacques, Brian | 7.1 | 25 | Fiction |
| Mickey & Me | Gutman, Dan | 4.7 | 8 | Fiction |
| Midnight For Charlie Bone | Nimmo, Jenny | 5.4 | 15 | Fiction |
| Million Dollar Kick, The | Gutman, Dan | 5.1 | 10 | Fiction |
| Miracle's Boys | Woodson, Jacqueline | 5.3 | 8 | Fiction |
| Missing Gator of Gumbo Limbo | Craighead, Jean | 5.7 | 6 | Fiction |
| Missing May | Rylant, Cynthia | 6.7 | 5 | Fiction |
| Moccasin Trail | McGraw, Eloise Jarvis | 6.9 | 16 | Fiction |
| My Louisiana Sky | Holt, Kimberly | 5.9 | 8 | Fiction |
| My Side Of The Mountain | George, Jean Craighead | 6.7 | 8 | Fiction |
| My Teacher Fried My Brains | Coville, Bruce | 5.9 | 6 | Fiction |
| My Teacher Is An Alien | Coville, Bruce | 4.3 | 5 | Fiction |
| Name Of The Game Was Murder | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 5.9 | 10 | Fiction |
| Nasty Stinky Sneakers | Bunting, Eve | 3.9 | 3 | Fiction |
| Never Say Quit | Wallace, Bill | 4.9 | 9 | Fiction |
| Nightmare | Roberts, Willo Davis | 7.8 | 12 | Fiction |
| No Coins, Please | Korman, Gordon | 6.1 | 11 | Fiction |
| No Time to Cry | McDaniel, Lurlene | 4.8 | 9 | Fiction |
| Nory Ryan's Song | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 4.9 | 8 | Fiction |
| Not For A Billion Gazillion... | Danziger, Paula | 6.2 | 6 | Fiction |
| Nothing But The Truth | Avi, - | 6.9 | 10 | Fiction |
| Number The Stars | Lowry, Lois | 5.2 | 5 | Fiction |
| Old Yeller | Gipson, Fred | 5.4 | 8 | Fiction |
| On My Honor | Bauer, Marion Dane | 5.6 | 4 | Fiction |
| Our Only May Amelia | Holm, Jennifer L. | 6.5 | 12 | Fiction |
| Paintball | Sievert, Terri | 5.5 | 3 | Nonfiction |
| Picking up the Pieces | Calvert, Patricia | 7.1 | 10 | Fiction |
| Pigman, The | Zindel, Paul | 5.9 | 9 | Fiction |
| Pike River Phantom, The | Wright, Betty Ren | 6.8 | 6 | Fiction |
| Pinballs, The | Byars, Betsy | 4.9 | 5 | Fiction |
| Place To Belong, A | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 5.2 | 11 | Fiction |
| Quarterback Walk On | Dygard, Thomas J. | 6.4 | 12 | Fiction |
| Ransom/Five Were Missing | Duncan, Lois | 5.3 | 9 | Fiction |
| Rebounder | Dygard, Thomas J. | 6.7 | 9 | Fiction |
| Red Dog | Wallace, Bill | 5.2 | 7 | Fiction |
| Redwall | Jacques, Brian | 7.8 | 22 | Fiction |
| Report Card, The | Clements, Andrew | 5.1 | 10 | Fiction |
| Rimwalkers | Grove, Vicki | 6.4 | 12 | Fiction |
| Rising Water | Petersen, P. J. | 4.1 | 9 | Fiction |
| River, The | Paulsen, Gary | 6.3 | 6 | Fiction |
| Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Taylor, Mildred D. | 6.9 | 15 | Fiction |
| Ruby Holler | Creech, Sharon | 5.4 | 12 | Fiction |
| Run From the Nun | MacLellan, Erin | 4.4 | 6 | Fiction |
| Saving Shiloh | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5.5 | 10 | Fiction |
| Sarah, Plain And Tall | MacLachlan, Patricia | 4.2 | 3 | Fiction |
| Scared Stiff | Roberts, Willo Davis | 6.5 | 12 | Fiction |
| Scariest Night, The | Wright, Betty Ren | 5.5 | 7 | Fiction |
| Secret Funeral-Slim Jim- Snake | Woodruff, Elvira | 4.5 | 6 | Fiction |
| Secret Garden, The | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | 6.8 | 18 | Fiction |
| Shiloh | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5.7 | 8 | Fiction |
| Shiloh Season | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5.9 | 9 | Fiction |
| Shoeless Joe & Me | Gutman, Dan | 4.8 | 8 | Fiction |
| Skipping Christmas | Grisham, John | 5.5 | 9 | Fiction |
| Sign Of The Beaver, The | Speare, Elizabeth George | 5.7 | 7 | Fiction |
| Six Months To Live | McDaniel, Lurlene | 4.2 | 9 | Fiction |
| Soccer Duel | Dygard, Thomas J. | 6.2 | 12 | Fiction |
| Squashed | Bauer, Joan | 7.8 | 11 | Fiction |
| Star Girl | Spinelli, Jerry | 6.1 | 11 | Fiction |
| Star in the Storm | Joan Hiatt Harlow | Fiction | ||
| Stepping On The Cracks | Hahn, Mary Downing | 6.3 | 10 | Fiction |
| Stone Fox | Gardiner, John Reynolds | 4.7 | 3 | Fiction |
| Stormbreaker | Horowitz, Anthony | 5.4 | 12 | Fiction |
| Strider | Cleary, Beverly | 5.6 | 7 | Fiction |
| Summer Of Fear | Duncan, Lois | 6.2 | 13 | Fiction |
| Summer Of My German Soldier | Greene, Bette | 6.9 | 14 | Fiction |
| Say Cheese And Die | Stine, R. L. | 4.9 | 7 | Fiction |
| Stormbreaker | Horowitz | 5.4 | 12 | Fiction |
| Switching Well | Griffin, Peni | 5.9 | 14 | Fiction |
| Taggerung | Jacques, Brian | 6.9 | 26 | Fiction |
| Taking Care Of Terrific | Lowry, Lois | 6.7 | 7 | Fiction |
| Taking Terri Mueller | Mazer, Norma Fox | 4.5 | 12 | Fiction |
| Tale Of Despereaux, The | DiCamillo, Kate | 4.8 | 9 | Fiction |
| Teacher's Funeral | Peck, Richard | 5.6 | 11 | Fiction |
| That Horse Whiskey | Adler, C.S. | 5.2 | 10 | Fiction |
| There's A Bat In Bunk Five | Danziger, Paula | 5.1 | 9 | Fiction |
| Thief Lord, The | Funke, Cornelia | 4.9 | 20 | Fiction |
| Thunder Rolling In-Mountains | O'Dell, Scott | 6.0 | 6 | Fiction |
| Tiger Eyes | Blume, Judy | 5.1 | 12 | Fiction |
| Tight End | Christopher, Matt | 5.5 | 6 | Fiction |
| Time For Andrew | Hahn, Mary | 5.9 | 11 | Fiction |
| To Live Again | McDaniel, Lurlene | 5.3 | 9 | Fiction |
| Tuck Everlasting | Babbitt, Natalie | 5.9 | 6 | Fiction |
| Uglies | Westerfield, Scott | 5.6 | 19 | Fiction |
| Until Angels Close My Eyes | McDaniel, Lurlene | 5.9 | 11 | Fiction |
| Upstairs Room, The | Reiss, Johanna | 5.9 | 12 | Nonfiction |
| Wait Till Helen Comes | Hahn, Mary Downing | 4.7 | 8 | Fiction |
| Walk Two Moons | Creech, Sharon | 6.6 | 13 | Fiction |
| Wanderer, The | Creech, Sharon | 5.3 | 11 | Fiction |
| Weasel | DeFelice, Cynthia | 5.6 | 6 | Fiction |
| Week In The Woods, A | Clements, Andrew | 5.4 | 10 | Fiction |
| Weekend Was Murder!, The | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 5.9 | 9 | Fiction |
| Uglies | Westerfeld, Scott | 5.6 | 19 | Fiction |
| Westing Game, The | Raskin, Ellen | 6.1 | 13 | Fiction |
| What Could Go Wrong? | Roberts, Willo Davis | 6.3 | 9 | Fiction |
| What Would Joey Do? | Gantos, Jack | 5.3 | 12 | Fiction |
| Whispers From The Dead | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 5.2 | 11 | Fiction |
| White-Tailed Deer, The | Zwaschka, Michael | 3.5 | 3 | Nonfiction |
| White Water | Petersen, P.J. | 4.8 | 5 | Fiction |
| Who Really Killed Cock Robin? | George, Jean Craighead | 5.9 | 8 | Fiction |
| Wide Window, The | Snicket, Lemony | 6.9 | 9 | Fiction |
| Windcatcher | Avi, - | 5.3 | 5 | Fiction |
| Winning Kicker | Dygard, Thomas J. | 6.9 | 9 | Fiction |
| Winning Stroke | Christopher, Matt | 5.5 | 6 | Fiction |
| Winter People, The | Bruchac, Joseph | 5.7 | 11 | Fiction |
| Witch Of Blackbird Pond | Speare, Elizabeth George | 6.9 | 14 | Fiction |
| Wolf Brother | Paver, Michelle | |||
| Woodsong | Paulsen, Gary | 7.2 | 9 | Nonfiction |
| Wrinkle In Time, A | L'Engle, Madeleine | 5.8 | 12 | Fiction |
| Wringer | Spinelli, Jerry | 5.5 | 10 | Fiction |
| Year Down Yonder | Peck, Richard | 4.9 | 9 | Fiction |
| You Can't Take 20 Dogs On .. | Cavanna, Betty | 5.1 | 7 | Fiction |
| Young Landlords, The | Myers, Walter Dean | 4.8 | 13 | Fiction |
| Last update on 01/31/2008 | ||||