Battle of the Books 2008 -2009

5th Grade (rev’d 10/7/2008)

Title

Author

Al Capone Does My Shirts

Gennifer Choldenko

Brian’s Winter

Gary Paulsen

Candyfloss

Jacqueline Wilson

The City of Ember

Jeanne Duprau

Esperanza Rising

Pam Munoz Ryan

Elijah of Buxton

Christopher Paul Curtis

Each Little Bird That Sings

Deborah Wiles

Flush

Carl Hiassen

Go Big or Go Home

Will Hobbs

Gregor the Overlander

Suzanne Collins

How Angel Peterson Got His Name

Gary Paulsen

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Scott O’Dell

The Magician’s Nephew

C. S. Lewis

Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli

My Side of the Mountain

Jean Craighead George

Peter and the Starcatchers

Dave Barry

Rules

Cynthia Lord

The Shakespeare Stealer

Gary Blackwood

Surviving the Applewhites

Stephanie S. Tolan

There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom

Louis Sachar

Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech

The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963

Christopher Paul Curtis

Where the Red Fern Grows

Wilson Rawls