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Global Reading Challenge and Battle of the Books
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The Global Reading Challenge is for fourth and fifth graders and is sponsored by the King County Library System. This is a program that allows students to work together as a team and challenge other schools to correctly answer questions about the selected books. Each year, King County Library System Children's Librarians select ten titles in a wide range of reading levels especially suited to the interests of young readers. The goal is to encourage students at all reading levels to engage in teamwork while reading some of the best in children's literature. The top team from each school proceeds on to the District Challenge, with that winner moving on to the Regional Challenges. Regional winners will compete in the Grand Challenge, to be held in March, which will determine which school will hold the trophy for the following year. The new Global Reading Challenge titles for 2009-2010 are:
- Erath’s Birthday—Avi
Legend of Spud Murphy—Colfer
Gregor the Overlander—Collins
Marley: A Dog Like No Other—Grogan
Princess Academy—Hale
Drita, My Homegirl—Lombard
Sarah, Plain and Tall—MacLachlan
Boys Start the War—Naylor
Mysterious Benedict Society—Stewart
Aurora County All-Star—Wiles
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The Battle of the Books is for sixth graders and is organized by the teacher librarians in the LWSD. Its purpose is to promote the reading of quality literature.
Rules for Battle of the Books
- Teams shall consist of no more than four members.
- Students may be from different classes as long as they have a common recess.
- One team member shall be designated as the “Spokesperson” who will be responsible for putting forth the team’s answer. The team may talk amongst themselves to come up with an 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 be running. After 30 seconds the scorekeeper will shout “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.
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- Scoring
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- 2 points for a correct answer to a new question
- 1 point for a correct answer to a missed question.
- Teams may not have a list of the books at their table during the competition.
2009-2010 Battle of the Books List
- 3 Cups of Tea (Young Reader’s Edition), by Greg Mortensen
- Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo
- Deep, Dark, and Dangerous, by Mary Hahn
- Elijah of Buxton, by C.P. Curtis
- Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat, by Connie Gordon Green
- Igraine the Brave, by Cornelia Funke
- Lawn Boy, by Gary Paulsen
- Marley: A Dog Like no Other, by John Grogan
- Mysterious Benedict Society, by T.L. Stewart
- No Talking, by Andrew Clements
- Peak, by Roland Smith
- Star in the Storm, by Joan Harlow
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