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The Battle of the Books
The Battle of the Books | Jonathan Swift, Sir William Temple, William Wotton, Charles Boyle Earl of Orrery, Richard Bentley
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Bookgirl
The Battle of the Books | Jonathan Swift, Sir William Temple, William Wotton, Charles Boyle Earl of Orrery, Richard Bentley
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Extremely proud of my son @Wolfman and his Book Battle team for tying for 4th place at this year‘s Battle of the Books. Two team members dropped out halfway in and their first adult coach wasn‘t working with them. I stepped up but only met with them a couple times due to health complications. Bottom line, they coached themselves. And, I love that the team is a group of great friends also. #raisingreaders #proudparentmoments #booknerdsrule

hermyknee 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 6y
Bookladylinda 🙌🏾 6y
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alisiakae
The Battle of the Books | Jonathan Swift, Sir William Temple, William Wotton, Charles Boyle Earl of Orrery, Richard Bentley
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What a fabulous bookish morning! Maya‘s school Battle of the Books team pushed from 3rd place (with 5 teams ahead of them tied for 1st and 2nd) in the first round up to first place winners in the final tie-breaker!! They didn‘t give up and they went home with the trophy! I am so happy for these kids!! 🎉🎉🎉
#battleofthebooks

That-Bookish-Hiker This is awesome! Congrats to them! 7y
JoScho Yay!!!! 7y
CareBear What is this? This looks like so much fun! 7y
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CareBear Ok I just read your comment on your last post, lol. That is awesome and congrats to her! 7y
Austink1 Congratulations!! Fantastic! 7y
erzascarletbookgasm Congrats to the kids 👏. 7y
tammysue What great fun! Congrats to them!! 🙌🏻 7y
TricksyTails Woohoo! Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉 7y
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alisiakae
The Battle of the Books | Jonathan Swift, Sir William Temple, William Wotton, Charles Boyle Earl of Orrery, Richard Bentley
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We‘re at the Elementary School Battle of the Books competition this morning! My kid and her school team have worked so hard the past few months preparing for this. 📚 📚 📚

I love the competition shirts: “We read past our bedtimes.” 😆👍

JenGrow Love those shirts!!! 7y
JoScho Cuteness. Good luck to them! 7y
AlaMich 👍👍👍 7y
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Austink1 The shirts are amazing!! Good luck! 🍀 7y
Booksnchill Awesome! 7y
Lcsmcat 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 7y
Austen_Nerd Good luck!!🍀👍🏻 7y
Ddzmini Don‘t tell her teacher 😳... 😝🤣 7y
alisiakae @JenGrow @JoScho @AlaMich @Austink1 @Booksnchill @Lcsmcat @Austen_Nerd Thanks! Her team just moved up from 3rd to 2nd place going into the 3rd and final round! 🎉🎉🤞🤞🤞 7y
JoScho Yay!! Keep us posted 🤞 7y
jessijames This makes my librarian heart so happy!!! Please tell me about their battle. What do they do? The only battle of the books I‘ve heard of is where they read books then vote on favorites. @4thhouseontheleft (edited) 7y
JenGrow That‘s so cool! Good luck in the finals!! I totally want to hear how this works! It sounds amazing! 7y
Lcsmcat 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 7y
alisiakae @jessijames @JenGrow Six books were assigned back in December. The kids need to become experts on the books, and then competed today in a trivia style competition. Most of the local public school elementary schools participated! There is a middle school version as well. To get on the school team, she had to submit an application and essay back in December, and the teachers chose 12 kids from the 30+ that applied. They practiced before school. (edited) 7y
StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego THIS IS AMAZING!!! 😲 7y
Kappadeemom That is so awesome!! 7y
Ksheridann That is SO cute! I love it! 7y
Kimberlone I participated in Battle of the Book from elementary through high school. Nerdy but so much fun. Love those T-shirts!!! 7y
jessijames @4thhouseontheleft this is sooooo cool!!! Definitely going to try to plan this for my school next year. Thanks for sharing. 7y
LeahBergen So cute! 😍😍 7y
alisiakae @jessijames Here is a link with more info! http://www.ncslma.org/ebob 7y
jessijames @4thhouseontheleft thank you so much! 7y
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Aseleener
The Battle of the Books | Jonathan Swift, Sir William Temple, William Wotton, Charles Boyle Earl of Orrery, Richard Bentley
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My daughter is super excited to join her school's Battle of the Books team. Any other BOB parents here? The coaches split the 30 books into 2 lists of 15 and this is the list Lena chose. I definitely plan to read the books with her. #battleofthebooks #bob

kspenmoll 😃 7y
Lynnsoprano Love Prelutsky! Fun list. 7y
Reviewsbylola So fun! 7y
Saknicole Battle of the books for the win! I coach a high school team 📚📚📚 7y
Aseleener @Saknicole Awesome! My daughter's in 4th grade. 7y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
The Battle of the Books | Jonathan Swift, Sir William Temple, William Wotton, Charles Boyle Earl of Orrery, Richard Bentley
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#BotB Post 5: So proud of my students and so proud of all 95 of these kids who came together today to compete in Battle of the Books and celebrate their love of reading. Rockford ended up taking 2nd place in an insane tie-breaker round.

Brenley Nice!!! 8y
mandapants Amazing. This whole day sounds like the best thing ever. 8y
CrowCAH Awesome; great job!!! 8y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
The Battle of the Books | Jonathan Swift, Sir William Temple, William Wotton, Charles Boyle Earl of Orrery, Richard Bentley
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#BotB Post 4: After all 11 schools have played 10 rounds there's a tie-breaker for 1st! The two teams have to break the tie in front of EVERYONE in the gym and one of my schools is up there! Go orange and blue! #GoGators

LauraBeth Better than sports! 8y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
The Battle of the Books | Jonathan Swift, Sir William Temple, William Wotton, Charles Boyle Earl of Orrery, Richard Bentley
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#BotB Post 3: Here's the list of books for this year. I work with gifted students at 2 different schools each day, so I'm remaining impartial and rooting for Rockford and Franklin (and Mountain Park, the team I coached for 3 years).

#GoGators #GoBulldogs #GoMountaineers

xoKatie This is brilliant. 8y
CrowCAH What state are you in? These schools sound familiar. Michigan? 8y
CrowCAH @TobeyTheScavengerMonk neat! Then there definitely is repeat in school names lol 8y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
The Battle of the Books | Jonathan Swift, Sir William Temple, William Wotton, Charles Boyle Earl of Orrery, Richard Bentley
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#BotB Post 2: Also excited about Battle of the Books today because this is the first year I don't actually have to do anything!

I've been a coach (of the County champions the first two years we had the competition!), a scorekeeper, and a timekeeper, but this year I kept my head down and wasn't voluntold anything. My classroom is a competition room so I just get to float around and watch my students!

BookInMyHands ❤️ What state are you in? I help run Oregon Battle of the Books at the Regional and State levels. It's a lot of work but so much fun! 8y
mandapants Ahhhh...I am so jealous. I had no idea this existed. Wish we did this with our schools. 8y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
The Battle of the Books | Jonathan Swift, Sir William Temple, William Wotton, Charles Boyle Earl of Orrery, Richard Bentley
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#BotB Post 1: So excited because today's the day of our county's Elementary Battle of the Books competition! Teams of 4th and 5th graders from all 11 elementary schools in the county read 18 books over the course of the year and today they compete to answer questions like "In which book does a character trip while running down the hall?" or "In which book does a character place a green hat on a dog?"

My kind of spectator sport!

Sace That sounds fun! 8y
saresmoore This was not around when I was in school, but I wish I could participate now! Eat your heart out, spelling bee. 8y
mandapants This sounds SO great! Better than Jeopardy. Did you read all the books? Do you get to ask the questions? Or sit in the audience and secretly know all the answers? 8y
xoKatie This sounds awesome! They don't have anything like this in our school district! 😩 8y
aa_guer2021 That sounds like a wonderful idea!! Definitely my kind of sport... 8y
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