"Battle of the Books" Alpine School District list for 2014-2015
Students have the option to read these books and compete in the "Battle of the Books" competition which will be held in March of 2015.
Traditional/Standard 30 Book List 6-8 Grades 2014-15
Note: Alpine School District's Battle of the Book committee selected to switch a couple of books from the national lists to the ones listed here. Please use this Alpine School District's list for OCJHS competition scheduled for March 2015.
Author/Title
Alcott - Eight Cousins
Avi, Greg - City of Orphans
Bauer - Stand Tall
Boyne -The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Curtis - Bud, Not Buddy
Freedman - Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker's son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty
George - On the Far Side of the Mountain
Giff - Pictures of Hollis Woods
Hale - One Dead Spy
Hansen - I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly
Henkes - Olive's Ocean
Hobbs - Jason's Gold
Holm, Anne - I Am David
Holm Jennifer - Our Only May Amelia
Houston/Houston - Farewell to Manzanar
Lasky, Kathryn - Guardians of Ga'hoole 02: The Journey
Leavitt, Sean - Griswold's Head
Mull - Wild Born: Spirit Animals bk 1
Nielsen - The False Prince: Ascendance Trilogy bk 1
Park - A Single Shard
Paterson - Jip, His Story
Shahan, S. - Death Mountain
Sloan, Holly - Counting by 7's
Soto - Baseball in April
Snyder - The Egypt Game
Steinbeck - The Red Pony
Tolen - Surviving the Applewhites
Woodson - Feathers
Wright - The Dollhouse Murders
Zindel - The Pigman
Note: Alpine School District's Battle of the Book committee selected to switch a couple of books from the national lists to the ones listed here. Please use this Alpine School District's list for OCJHS competition scheduled for March 2015.
Author/Title
Alcott - Eight Cousins
Avi, Greg - City of Orphans
Bauer - Stand Tall
Boyne -The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Curtis - Bud, Not Buddy
Freedman - Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker's son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty
George - On the Far Side of the Mountain
Giff - Pictures of Hollis Woods
Hale - One Dead Spy
Hansen - I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly
Henkes - Olive's Ocean
Hobbs - Jason's Gold
Holm, Anne - I Am David
Holm Jennifer - Our Only May Amelia
Houston/Houston - Farewell to Manzanar
Lasky, Kathryn - Guardians of Ga'hoole 02: The Journey
Leavitt, Sean - Griswold's Head
Mull - Wild Born: Spirit Animals bk 1
Nielsen - The False Prince: Ascendance Trilogy bk 1
Park - A Single Shard
Paterson - Jip, His Story
Shahan, S. - Death Mountain
Sloan, Holly - Counting by 7's
Soto - Baseball in April
Snyder - The Egypt Game
Steinbeck - The Red Pony
Tolen - Surviving the Applewhites
Woodson - Feathers
Wright - The Dollhouse Murders
Zindel - The Pigman