Battle of the Books Competition:

Chair and Co-chair: Michelle Alexander and Carla Stephens

Please see details for 2012-13 at: http://www.ncslma.org/ebob-info.html 

Battle of the Books Rules

• 2012 – 2013 List  Title	Author
  A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray	Ann M. Martin
  Because of Winn-Dixie	Kate DiCamillo
  Becoming Naomi Leόn	Pam Muñoz Ryan
  Blood on the River: James Town 1607	Elisa Carbone
  *Found	Margaret Peterson Haddix
  How to Steal a Dog	Barbara O'Connor
  John Smith Escapes Again!	Rosalyn Schanzer
  Lawn Boy	Gary Paulsen
  Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH	Robert C. O'Brien
  The Mystery of the Lost Colony	Carole Marsh
  Peace, Locomotion	Jacqueline Woodson
  Poppy	Avi
  Ruby Holler	Sharon Creech
  Runaway Twin	Peg Kehret
  Scumble	Ingrid Law
  The Last Holiday Concert	Andrew Clements
  The Lemonade War	Jacqueline Davies
  Tuck Everlasting	Natalie Babbitt
  *The Missing Series - Book 1

• Teams consist of no more than four members, grades 4 - 6.
• Students may be from different classes.
• One team member will be designated as the "Spokesperson" who will be responsible for reporting the team's answer.  The team may talk amongst themselves to come up with the answer.
• Each team will be given 30 seconds to give the title of the book.  The timing starts as soon as the question is asked once.  The team may ask to have the question repeated but the clock will continue running.  After 30 seconds the scorekeeper will call "Time."  If the Spokesperson is giving an answer when "Time" is heard, she/he may finish the answer.
• New questions will alternately be given to each team regardless of which team gave the last correct answer.  In other words, if team A is given a new question, team B will be given the next new question, even if team B just correctly answered a question that team A had just missed.
• The title must be exact. 
• The moderator's decision will be final in the case of any team answer, which may be questionable.
• Battles will not be rescheduled due to student illness or vacations.
• Substitutes for missing team members are not allowed 

• 2 points for a correct answer to a new question
• 1 point for "stealing" an answer to a missed question
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