BATTLE OF THE BOOKS 2010-11 Noble BOB Team takes first place at the County Competition March 10 th

1. BATTLE OF THE BOOKS 2010-11 Noble BOB Team takes first place at the County Competition March 10th Noble won!

2. BATTLE OF THE BOOKS 2011 - 2012

3. What is Battle of the Books… • A reading incentive program originally created for middle school… • Students read from a pre-determined list of titles… • Students work in 6-member groups to answer questions related to content of books on the list… • Team of 12 students from each participating middle school meet to compete with other teams in the county… • The county team that wins meets for a Regional competition… • 1st Place at Regional’s goes to the State Battle!

4. The Pre-Determined List Of Books 2011-2012

5. “Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.”

6. “A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.”

7. “On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand which is immediately stolen by the evil Librarians who are trying to take over the world, and Alcatraz is introduced to his grandfather and his own special talent, and told that he must use it to save civilization.”

8. “When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny that is planned for her.”

9. “Recounts the twelve-day pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth, covering the chase through Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, with a discussion of Abraham Lincoln as a father, husband, and friend that examines the impact of his death on those close to him.”

10. “Text mainly in English with some Spanish. Violet Paz, a Chicago high school student, reluctantly prepares for her upcoming "quince," a Spanish nickname for the celebration of an Hispanic girl's fifteenth birthday.”

11. “Provides an account of the yellow fever epidemic that swept through Philadelphia in 1793, discussing the chaos that erupted when people began evacuating in droves, leaving the city without government, goods, or services, and examining efforts by physicians, the Free African Society, and others to cure and care for the sick.”

12. “A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.”

13. “A battered child learns to embrace life when he is adopted by an old man in the English countryside during World War II.”

14. “Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River.”

15. “After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.”

16. “Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.”

17. “Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.”

18. “The author describes how dogs have impacted his life from childhood through the present day, recounting the stories of his first dog, Snowball, in the Philippines; Dirk, who protected him from bullies; and Cookie, who saved his life.”

19. “In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.”

20. “At her grandparents' North Carolina mountain home during the summer of 1963, grief-stricken after the death of her newborn sister and isolated by her mother's deepening depression, eleven-year-old Annie Winters finds comfort holding an oblong stone she calls her "rock baby" and befriends a reclusive mountain woman with a devastating secret.”

21. “Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.”

22. “Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.”

23. “Fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, find themselves caught up in the deadly struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient book that holds the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.”

24. “While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.”

25. “In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.”

26. “Twin daughters of interracial parents, eleven-year-olds Keira and Minna have very different skin tones and personalities, but it is not until their African American grandmother enters them in the Miss Black Pearl Pre-Teen competition in North Carolina that red-haired and pale-skinned Minna realizes what life in their small town in the Pacific Northwest has been like for her more outgoing, darker-skinned sister.”

27. “Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria.”

28. “Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.”

29. “In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search for her in spite of the dangers he faces in doing so.”

30. “A young girl's rebellion against bigotry culminates in a terrifying witch hunt and trial.”

31. “While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.”

32. So, how does BOB “work” ?

33. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Among the Hidden The Bad Beginning Charlotte’s Web The Devil’s Arithmetic Eragon The Guardians of Ga’Hoole: The Capture Hatchet The Hunger Games The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe A Wrinkle in Time Simulation BOB

34. Question 1. In which book does the main character time travel to a camp?

35. Question 2 In which book does a boy find a mysterious stone?

36. Question 3 In which book does a boy learn to survive by himself in the woods and also how to survive his parents’ divorce?

37. Question 4 In which book does a character voluntarily take her younger sister’s place in a competition?

38. Question 5 In which book does a barn owl make friends with an elf owl?

39. Question 6 In which book does the main character’s father disappear while he is involved with top secret government work?

40. Question 7 In which book do the main characters find themselves in a land cursed by an evil “queen” and where it is always winter?

41. Question 8 In which book did a young boy live along the Mississippi River?

42. Question 9 In which book is a man willing to use any means necessary to get the fortune of his three relatives?

43. Question 10 In which book does a spider save the life of a pig?

44. Question 11 In which book does a boy live twelve years in isolation?

45. Question 12 In which book does the government hold annual survival competitions?

46. Question 13 In which book does a boy trick a friend into painting a fence for him?

47. Question 14 In which book does a girl resent the traditions of her Jewish heritage?

48. Question 15 In which book do four children travel to a strange and magical land?

49. Let’s Check Your Answers !!!

50. Question 1. e. The Devil’s Arithmetic In which book does the main character time travel to a camp?