Past Battle Books
A Duet for Home - Karina Yan Glaser
The Last Mapmaker - Christina Soontornvat
Show Us Who You Are - Elle McNicoll
The Storm Keeper's Island - Catherine Doyle
Valentina Salazar is Not a Monster Hunter - Zoraida Córdova
2023
Amari and the Night Brothers - B.B. Alston
The Lion of Mars - Jennifer L. Holm
Merci Suarez Changes Gears - Meg Medina
We Dream of Space - Erin Entrada Kelly
Wilderlore: The Accidental Apprentice - Amanda Foody
2022
Anya and the Dragon - Sofiya Pasternack
I Can Make This Promise - Christine Day
The Season of Styx Malone - Kekla Magoon
Show Me a Sign - Ann Clare LeZotte
Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor - Ally Carter
2021 (Best of Battle)
Book Scavenger – Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
The City of Ember – Jeanne DuPrau
The False Prince – Jennifer A. Nielsen
Greenglass House – Kate Milford
Holes – Louis Sachar
2020
Front Desk – Kelly Yang
Granted – John David Anderson
Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish – Pablo Cartaya
The Parker Inheritance – Varian Johnson
The Stone Girl’s Story – Sarah Beth Durst
2019
The Adventurers Guild – Zack Loran Clark & Nick Eliopulos
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook – Leslie Connor
Beyond the Bright Sea – Lauren Wolk
Esperanza Rising – Pam Munoz Ryan
Raymie Nightingale – Kate DiCamillo
2018
Cosmic – Frank Cottrell Boyce
Fish in a Tree – Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Greenglass House – Kate Milford
One Crazy Summer – Rita Williams-Garcia
The Witch’s Boy – Kelly Barnhill
2017
Book Scavenger – Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Chasing Secrets – Gennifer Choldenko
The Luck Uglies – Paul Durham
The Seventh Most Important Thing – Shelley Pearsall
The Water Castle – Megan Frazer Blakemore
2016
Icefall – Matthew J. Kirby
Malcolm at Midnight – W.H. Beck
The Mark of the Dragonfly – Jaleigh Johnson
A Snicker of Magic – Natalie Lloyd
Under the Egg – Laura Marx Fitzgerald
2015
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life – Wendy Mass
Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things – Cynthia Voigt
The Mysterious Howling (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place) – Maryrose Wood
Three Times Lucky – Sheila Turnage
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
2014
The False Prince – Jennifer A. Nielsen
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E.L. Konigsburg
Holes – Louis Sachar
The Vengekeep Prophecies – Brian Farrey
The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 – Christopher Paul Curtis
2013
The City of Ember – Jeanne DuPrau
Moon Over Manifest – Clare Vanderpool
Notes from a Liar and Her Dog – Gennifer Choldenko
The Puzzling World of Winston Breen – Eric Berlin
The Ruins of Gorlan – John Flanagan
2012
The Clockwork Three – Matthew J. Kirby
Number the Stars – Lois Lowry
Turtle in Paradise – Jennifer L. Holm
When You Reach Me – Rebecca Stead
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon – Grace Lin
2011
Al Capone Does My Shirts – Gennifer Choldenko
Captain Nobody – Dean Pitchford
The Misadventures of Maude March – Audrey Couloumbis
Scat – Carl Hiaasen
Things Not Seen – Andrew Clements
2010
Elijah of Buxton – Christopher Paul Curtis
Hope Was Here – Joan Bauer
Peter and the Starcatchers – Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
Rules – Cynthia Lord
Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time – Lisa Yee
2009
Heat – Mike Lupica
Ida B – Katherine Hannigan
The Mysterious Benedict Society – Trenton Lee Stewart
The Penderwicks – Jeanne Birdsall
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle - Avi