Teen Services: Battle of the Books

2020 Battle of the Books @ GPL  

Love Reading? Love Competition? Join GPL’s BOB Teams!

**Attention: 2020 Westchester Library System Battle of the Books Tournament Has Been Postponed until 2021**

2020 GPL Battle of the Books Book Club

Read the books, attend the meetings, discussion & trivia competition!

Age Range: Teens entering grade 6-12 in September 2020

Meeting Dates, Book Titles, Locations:

• August 18 @ 7 PM - Zoom Meeting -- Book: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• September 23 @ 7 PM - Zoom Meeting -- Book: TBA
• ... more dates coming soon.

2021 Westchester Library System Battle of the Books

• Coaches:
  • Teen Team Coach: Liz Anastasi eanastasi@greenburghlibrary.org 
  • Children Team Coach: Nicole Guenkel nguenkel@greenburghlibrary.org
• 2021 BOB Selected Books:
  • ​Teen Titles
  • Children's Titles

Past Book Selections for Westchester Library System Battle of the Books

Grades 6-10 2019 Book Selections:

• Refugee by Alan Gratz
• Restart by Gordon Korman
• Scythe by Neal Shusterman
• When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandyha Menon
• The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

Grades 6-10 2018 Book Selections:

• Delirium by Lauren Oliver
• Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
• Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
• The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Grades 6-10 2017 Book Selections:

• Fever 1793  by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Michael Vey, the Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans
• Jackaby by William Ritter
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K Rowling
• Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon

Grades 6-10 2016 Book Selections:

• Every Day by David Levithan
• Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
• Life as we knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer
• Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
• Dead End in Norvelt  by Jack Gantos

Grades 6-9 2015 Book Selections:

• How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg
• Hold Me Closer Necromancer by Lish McBride
• Legend by Marie Lu
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt

Grades 6-9 2014 Book Selections:

• Divergent by Veronica Roth 
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
• The Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steven Sheinkin
• The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson

Battle of the Books @ GPL  

Love Reading? Love Competition? Join GPL’s BOB Teams!

GPL’s Battle of the Books 2020 is starting Spring 2020!

How can you get more info or join a team? It’s easy, just check out the info below!

Teen Team - For Students Entering Grades 7-10 in September 2020

• To Sign Up:
  • Email eanastasi@greenburghlibrary.org or call 914-721-8224 for more details and to sign up.
  • Attend an Interest Meeting
• Interest Meetings:
  • ​Dates To Be Announced Soon
• 2020 Team Meetings:
  • July 15, 22, 29 @ 6-7 PM
  • August 5, 12, 19, 26 @ 6-7 PM
  • September 16, 23, 30 @ 6-7:30 PM -- Note Time Change
  • October 7, 14, 21 @ 6-7:30 PM -- Note Time Change
  • October ??, 2020 - Battle of the Books Tournament (To Be Announced Soon)
• Selected Books for Grades 7-10 Team:
  • Titles Coming Soon
• 2020 Battle of the Book Forms For All Teen Team Members:
  • 2020 BOB Permission Form
  • 2020 BOB Commitment & Photo Release Form
• 2020 Teen Team Book Trivia Practice Questions:
  Note: These will be updated multiple times so check back for new Questions:
  • To be posted in Spring/Summer 2020

Children's Team - Students Entering Grades 4-6 in September 2020

• 2020 Team Team Meetings:
  • ​Visit the GPL Online Calendar here for Team Meeting Dates. 
  • Email nguenkel@greenburghlibrary.org or call 914-721-8227 for more details and to sign up.
• Selected Books fro Grades 4-6 Team:
  • Titles Announced Soon