Below is the 2012-2013 Battle of the Books reading list for kids in the 4-6 grade battle division. The numbers in the parentheses after the titles show the number of years each book has been on the list. Books are typically on the list for three years before being removed so that new books can be added.
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Author
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Title
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Amato, Mary |
The Naked Mole Rat Letters (2) |
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Angleberger, Tom |
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda (2) |
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Applegate, Katherine |
Home of the Brave (2) |
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Avi |
The Seer of Shadows (3) |
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Barry, Dave |
Peter and the Starcatchers (2) |
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Bishop, Nic |
Lizards (2) |
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Bosch, Pseudonymous |
The Name of This Book Is Secret (1) |
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Broach, Elise |
Masterpiece (1) |
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Buckley, Michael |
The Fairy-Tale Detectives (2) |
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Choldenko, Gennifer |
No Passengers Beyond This Point (1) |
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Clark, Clara Gillow |
Secrets of Greymoor (3) |
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Clements, Andrew |
Extra Credit (2) |
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Colfer, Eoin |
Artemis Fowl (3) |
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Connor, Leslie |
Crunch (1) |
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Cottrell Boyce, Frank |
Cosmic (2) |
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Creech, Sharon |
Love That Dog (3) |
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DiCamillo, Kate |
The Tale of Despereaux (3) |
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Dorris, Michael |
Sees Behind Trees (1) |
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Dowd, Siobhan |
The London Eye Mystery (3) |
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Draper, Sharon |
Out of My Mind (2) |
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Fleischman, Sid |
The Whipping Boy (1) |
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French, Jackie |
How to Scratch a Wombat (2) |
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Frost, Helen |
Diamond Willow (1) |
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Greenberg, Jan |
Christo and Jeanne-Claude (3) |
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Hahn, Mary Downing |
All the Lovely Bad Ones (2) |
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Hale, Bruce |
The Malted Falcon (3) |
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Hale, Shannon |
Rapunzel's Revenge (2) |
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Halls, Kelly Milner |
Saving the Baghdad Zoo (1) |
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Hannigan, Katherine |
Ida B (3) |
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Holm, Jennifer |
Turtle in Paradise (1) |
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Howe, Deborah |
Bunnicula (2) |
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Jennings, Patrick |
We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes (3) |
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Kelley, Jane |
The Girl Behind the Glass (1) |
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Kinney, Jeff |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (3) |
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Korman, Gordon |
Schooled (1) |
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Krull, Kathleen |
Lives of the Musicians (1) |
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L'Engle, Madeleine |
A Wrinkle in Time (1) |
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Lai, Thanhha |
Inside Out & Back Again (1) |
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Law, Ingrid |
Savvy (3) |
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Lin, Grace |
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (2) |
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Lowry, Lois |
Number the Stars (2) |
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Marrin, Albert |
Oh, Rats! (3) |
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Mass, Wendy |
11 Birthdays (1) |
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Meyer, Susan |
Black Radishes (1) |
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Nelson, Kadir |
We Are the Ship (3) |
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Nelson, Peter |
Herbert's Wormhole (1) |
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O'Connor, Barbara |
The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis (1) |
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Parry, Rosanne |
Heart of a Shepherd (1) |
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Paver, Michelle |
Wolf Brother (3) |
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Phelan, Matt |
The Storm in the Barn (3) |
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Philbrick, Rodman |
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg (3) |
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Pogue, David |
Abby Carnelia's One & Only Magical Power (2) |
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Riordan, Rick |
The Lightning Thief (2) |
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Ryan, Pam Munoz |
The Dreamer (2) |
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Selzer, Adam |
I Put a Spell on You (2) |
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Selznick, Brian |
Wonderstruck (1) |
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St. John, Lauren |
The White Giraffe (3) |
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Tarshis, Lauren |
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree (2) |
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Urban, Linda |
A Crooked Kind of Perfect (3) |
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Williams-Garcia, Rita |
One Crazy Summer (2) |