Oregon Battle of the Books

6th to 8th Grade Division

  • Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna by Alda P. Dobbs
  • The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden
  • The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman
  • The Boys in the Back Row by Mike Jung
  • Focused by Allyson Gerber
  • The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf
  • A High Five for Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner
  • The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien*
  • Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and Gabriela Epstein
  • Katie the Catsitter by Colleen AF Venable and Stephanie Yue
  • Partly Cloudy by Tanita S. Davis
  • Powerless by Matthew Cody
  • Stowaway by John David Anderson
  • Wink by Rob Harrell
  • Yusuf Azeem is Not a Hero by Saadia Faruqi
  • Students participating in the OBOB State Tournament in April will choose between:
  • Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
  • Red White and Whole by Lajani LaRocca
  • Starfish by Lisa Fipps
  • *The official OBOB edition of The Hobbit is the 2012 edition from Mariner Books (9780547928227). You may read another edition, but page numbers and content will be taken from this edition. No questions will be created from any prefaces, introductions, afterwards, etc.

Find the Grades 6-8 OBOB List in the catalog.

9th to 12th Grade Division

  • The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros
  • The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
  • The Final Six by Alexandra Monir
  • Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
  • The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
  • Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez
  • Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood by Gary Paulsen
  • House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
  • Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen*
  • We Can Be Heroes  by Kyrie McCauley
  • The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf
  • Students participating in the OBOB State Tournament in April will choose between:
  • Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon
  • She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick
  • Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
  • *The official OBOB edition of Northanger Abbey is the 2003 edition from Penguin Books (9780141439792). You may read another edition, but page numbers and content will be taken from this edition. No questions will be created from any prefaces, introductions, afterwards, etc.

Find the Grades 9-12 OBOB List in the catalog.