Battle of the Books Lists for Senior Teams
Suggested Authors for Senior Teams
- AVI (Avi Worthis)
- Adams, Richard
- Aiken, Joan
- Alcott, Louisa M.
- Alexander, Lloyd
- Armstrong, Kelley
- Armstrong, William
- Bailey, Linda
- Bauer, Marion Dane
- Bedard, Michael
- Bell, William
- Bellairs, John
- Blos, Joan W.
- Blume, Judy
- Brink, Carol Ryrie
- Brooks, Martha
- Buffie, Margaret
- Bunting, Eve
- Burgess, Melvin
- Burnett, Frances
- Burnford, Sheila
- Byars, Betsy
- Cohen, Marina
- Colfer, Eoin
- Conford, Ellen
- Cooney, Caroline
- Cooper, Afua
- Cooper, Susan
- Coville, Bruce
- Creech, Sharon
- Cumyn, Alan
- Curtis, Christopher
- Cushman, Karen
- Dadey, Debbie
- Dahl, Roald
- Danziger, Paula
- Defoe, Daniel
- DiCamillo, Kate
- Doyle, Brian
- Duncan, Lois
- Ellis, Deborah
- Ellis, Sarah
- Farmer, Nancy
- Field, Rachel
- Fox, Paula
- Friesen, Gayle
- Gaiman, Neil
- Gantos, Jack
- George, Jean C.
- Giff, Patricia Reilly
- Gipson, Fred
- Golding, William
- Grant, Vicki
- Griggs, Terry
- Haddix, Margaret
- Hahn, Mary
- Haworth – Attard, Barbara
- Hesse, Karen
- Hiasson, Carl
- Hilton, James
- Hinton, S.E.
- Holeman, Linda
- Holt, Kimberly W.
- Houston, James
- Hughes, Monica
- Hunter, Bernice T.
- Huser, Glen
- Ibbotson, Eva
- Irving, Washington
- Jacques, Brian
- Jocelyn, Marthe
- Johnston, Julie
- Jones, Diana Wynne
- Jordan, Rosa
- Kacer, Kathy
- Kadohata, Cynthia
- Kogawa, Joy
- Konigsburg, E. L.
- Korman, Gordon
- Kushner, Don
- Lasky, Kathryn
- Lawrence, Iain
- Lawson, Julie
- Lee, Y.S.
- LeGuin, Ursula
- L'Engle, Madeleine
- Levine, Gail
- Lewis, C.S.
- Little, Jean
- London, Jack
- Lottridge, Celia
- Lowry, Lois
- Lunn, Janet
- Lynch, Chris
- MacHale, D. L.
- MacLachlan, Patricia
- Mahy, Margaret
- Major, Kevin
- Martin, Ann
- Matas, Carol
- McKay, Sharon
- McNicoll, Sylvia
- Montgomery, Lucy M.
- Mowat, Farley
- Nimmo, Jenny
- Nix, Garth
- O'Dell, Scott
- Oppel, Kenneth
- Park, Linda Sue
- Park, Ruth
- Paterson, Katherine
- Paulsen, Gary
- Pearce, Philippa
- Pearson, Kit
- Peck, Richard
- Perkins, Lynne Rae
- Pierce, Tamora
- Pike, Christopher
- Rawlings, Marjorie K.
- Richardson, Bill
- Rowling, J.K.
- Rylant, Cynthia
- Sachar, Louis
- Shelley, Mary
- Slade, Arthur
- Sleator, William
- Smucker, Barbara
- Spalding, Andrea
- Speare, Elizabeth G.
- Spinelli, Jerry
- Springer, Nancy
- Spyri, Johanna
- Stevenson, Robert L.
- Stinson, Kathy
- Taylor, Cora
- Taylor, Mildred
- Tolkien, J.R.R.
- Trottier, Maxine
- Twain, Mark
- Van Draanen, Wendelin
- Verne, Jules
- Voight, Cynthia
- Walters, Eric
- Whelan, Gloria
- Wilson, Budge
- Wilson, Eric
- Wyndham, John
- Wynne-Jones, Tim
- Wyss, Johann
- Yolen Jane
Award Winners for Senior Teams
| Title | Author |
| Adam and Eve and pinch me | Julie Johnston |
| After Hamelin | Bill Richardson |
| Airborn | Ken Oppel |
| Anne of Green Gables | L.M. Montgomery |
| Awake and dreaming | Kit Pearson |
| The Baby project | Sarah Ellis |
| A Book dragon | Donn Kushner |
| Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson |
| Bringing up beauty | Sylvia McNicoll |
| Bud, not Buddy | Christopher Curtis |
| Caddie Woodlawn | Carol Ryrie Brink |
| Charlie Wilcox | Sharon McKay |
| Clara's war | Kathy Kacer |
| Cookcamp | Gary Paulsen |
| Covered bridge | Brian Doyle |
| The crazy man | Porter, Pamela |
| Crispin: the cross of lead | Avi |
| Criss cross | Perkins, Lynne Rae |
| Daniel's story | Carol Matas |
| The Day no pigs would die | Robert Newton Peck |
| Days of terror | Barbara Smucker |
| Dead man in Indian Creek | Mary Downing Hahn |
| Dicey's song | Cynthia Voight |
| Dust | Arthur Slade |
| Easy Avenue | Brian Doyle |
| Forbidden city | William Bell |
| From the mixed up files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler | E.L. Konigsberg |
| A Gathering of days | Joan W. Blos |
| The Giver | Lois Lowry |
| The grey king | Susan Cooper |
| A Handful of time | Kit Pearson |
| Harris and me | Gary Paulsen |
| Hatchet | Gary Paulsen |
| The high king | Lloyd Alexander |
| Holes | Louis Sachar |
| The Hollow tree | Trapped in ice |
| Incredible Jumbo | Barbara Smucker |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell |
| Jacob have I loved | Katherine Paterson |
| Julie | Cora Taylor |
| Julie of the wolves | Jean Craighead George |
| Kira Kira | Kadohata, Cynthia |
| The Lights go on again | Kit Pearson |
| Lisa | Carol Matas |
| Looking at the moon | Kit Pearson |
| Looking for X | Deborah Ellis |
| Losing forever | Gayle Friesen |
| Losing Joe's place | Gordon Korman |
| Lost in the barrens | Farley Mowat |
| The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis |
| The Maestro | Tim Wynne-Jones |
| Mama's going to buy you a mockingbird | Jean Little |
| The Midwife's apprentice | Karen Cushman |
| Missing May | Cynthia Rylant |
| Monkey Island | Paula Fox |
| Mrs Frisby and the rats of NIMH | Robert O'Brien |
| Number the stars | Lois Lowry |
| Out of the blue | Sarah Ellis |
| Out of the dust | Karen Hesse |
| Pick up sticks | Sarah Ellis |
| The Pinballs | Betsy Byars |
| Playing Beattie Bow | Ruth Park |
| The Quarter pie window | Marianne Brandis |
| Rebound | Eric Walters |
| Redwork | Michael Bedard |
| The Root cellar | Janet Lunn |
| That scatterbrain Booky | Bernice Thurman Hunter |
| The Secret garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| Shadow in Hawthorne Bay | Janet Lunn |
| Shiloh | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| Silverwing | Kenneth Oppel |
| A Single shard | Linda Park |
| The Sky is falling | Kit Pearson |
| The slave dancer | Paula Fox |
| Some of the kinder planets | Tim Wynne-Jones |
| Sounder | William Armstrong |
| Stones | William Bell |
| Stitches | Glen Huser |
| The Summer of my German soldier | Bette Green |
| Summer of the swans | Betsy Byars |
| Ticket to curlew | Celia Lottridge |
| True confessions of a heartless girl | Martha Brooks |
| The True confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi |
| Uncle Ronald | Brian Doyle |
| The View from Saturday | E.L. Konigsberg |
| Walk two moons | Sharon Creech |
| The Whipping boy | Sid Fleischman |
| Who is Frances Rain | Margaret Buffie |
| Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare |
| A wrinkle in time | Madeleine L'Engle |
| A year down yonder | Richard Peck |
Practice Questions for Senior Teams
- In what book do Thorn and Bone wake the dragons who have been asleep underground for years after trying to defend their homeland against invaders?
- In which book is a young Sherlock Holmes aided by a pair of crows in his search for evidence to clear a man wrongly accused of murder?
- In what award winning book do we read about Moose, Piper, Theresa and Jimmy who all live on the island of Alcatraz with one very famous convict?
- In what award-winning book is Travis ridiculed by his schoolmates because he prefers sewing and puppet making to sports and activities that "real" boys like to do?
- In which classic book is a mean old man plagued by the three ghosts of Christmas past, present and future?
- In which classic thriller were parts of dead bodies brought to life to create a monster after being sewn together?
- In Greek mythology, who was forced to carry the world on his back forever?
- According to viking myth, warriors killed in battle can be found in this legendary hall constructed from instruments of war.
- In what new Silver Birch nominee does Ian ultimately decide to take a stand against his school's new uniforms after he learns that they are made in a sweatshop?
- In which new novel does Ben Tomlin get caught up in his parent's research project to teach a baby chimpanzee American Sign Language?
- In which Canadian novel do the five Bell children cope with the death of their mother by inventing a fantasy game based on the legends of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table?
- In which coming of age novel, set in Smithers B.C., does a teenage girl's diary introduce us to her therapist, Death Lord Bob, her brother MacGregor and her mothers misfit hippie friends ?
- Name the fairy who sprinkles magic dust in the story about Peter Pan.
- Can you name the character who stole from the rich and gave to the poor?
- In which popular book does Emerson Watts work for Stark Enterprises to protect her family after undergoing a brain transplant into the body of a supermodel?
- In which book does Grace meet and begin a relationship with Sam, who is really a wolf in human form?
- Armed with nothing but her courage and wit, Tara tries to find her missing mother and grandfather, the true healer, in time to save her village. Can you name this award-winning book?
- In which new novel do Katsa and Po use their "graces" to save Princess Bitterblue from King Leck of Monsea and to create peace in the Seven Kingdoms?
- In which Canadian novel does Violet, fed up with her mother's disasterous dating, take matters into her own hands and write to a famous movie star?
- In which book does Fletcher Moon become a Sharkey?
Answers for Senior Team Sample Questions
- Crown of Horns by Jeff Smith
- Eye of the Crow by Shane Peacock
- Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
- Stitches by Glen Huser
- Christmas Carol, A by Charles Dickens
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Atlas
- Valhalla
- Branded by Eric Walters
- Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel
- A Perfect Gentle Knight by Kit Pearson
- Alice, I Think by Susan Juby
- Tinkerbell
- Robin Hood
- Being Nikki by Meg Cabot
- Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
- The third eye by Mahtab Narsimhan
- Graceling by Kristin Cashore
- Dear George Clooney, please marry my mom by Susin Nielsen
- Half-moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer
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