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Round 1, Match 7: Rose Under Fire vs The Thing About Luck
JUDGE – MALINDA LO Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein Hyperion/Disney The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata Atheneum Books for Young Readers Since SLJ’s Battle of the Kids Books is known for its wacky pairings, I’ll skip the whole “these two books are so different!” hand-wringing. It’s true, Elizabeth Wein’s Rose Under Fire is [...]
Round 1, Match 6: Midwinterblood vs P.S. Be Eleven
JUDGE - MAC BARNETT Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick Roaring Brook Press P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia Amistad/HarperCollins In P.S. Be Eleven, the sequel to Rita Williams-Garcia’s Newbery Honor-winning One Crazy Summer, the Gaither girls are back in Brooklyn after a few months with their mother in California. It’s the late 60s and the various cultural [...]
Round 1, Match 5: Hokey Pokey vs March, Book One
JUDGE – TOM ANGLEBERGER Hokey Pokey by Jerry Spinelli Knopf Books for Young Readers March, Book One by John Robert Lewis and Andrew Aydin Top Shelf Productions Look, I don’t know what the other judges in this Battle are up against, but I think I’ve got the most outrageously unfair bracket since the invention of brackets [...]
This Week’s Peanut Gallery
These Peanut Gallery posts are where we put up whatever we’ve found around the web responding to the latest BOB news. Be sure to let us know in the comments if we’ve missed yours and we will either add it here or put in our next Peanut Gallery post. On the eve of [...]
Round 1, Match 4: Far Far Away vs Flora and Ulysses
JUDGE – SARAH MLYNOWSKY Far Far Away by Tom McNeal Knopf/Random House Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo Candlewick Press Once upon a time, on a couch in my apartment, there were two books, Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo and Far Far Away by Tom McNeal. One book I liked. The other I loved. [...]
Round 1, Match 3: Doll Bones vs Eleanor and Park
JUDGE – LAUREN OLIVER Doll Bones by Hollly Black Margaret K. McElderry Books Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Saint Martin’s Press Somehow, despite the buzz, the plethora of positive reviews, the online chatter and endorsements from authors as venerated as John Green, Eleanor & Park had slipped beneath my radar until very recently. It’s not that I [...]
This Week’s Peanut Gallery
These Peanut Gallery posts are where we put up whatever we’ve found around the web responding to the latest BOB news. Be sure to let us know in the comments if we’ve missed yours and we will add it in here. Battle Commander Monica pitched the BoB over at the Nerdy Book Club. [...]
While Waiting for the Battle to Begin…
…check out this BoB trailer. Created a couple of years ago by the awesome Everdeen Sisters*, it is such an entertaining and informative overview of the Battle that we thought we’d repost it (especially given the now-ubiquitous nature of the opening theme). And if anyone wants to do one featuring this year’s Battle, please do [...]
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