ANCHORAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT
Summaries for Battle of the Books, 2019-2020
GRADES 5-6
Listed below are the summaries for Diamond Willow Jake, a jokester who can barely play
the Battle of the Books titles. For By Helen Frost an instrument, will have to think of
reviews on fictional titles, visit In a remote area of Alaska, twelve- something quick before the last laugh
[Link] year-old Willow helps her father with is on him.
For additional information on Battle their sled dogs when she is not at
of the Books and for the OFFICIAL school, wishing she were more Night Gardener
BOOKMARK (August 1), visit the popular, all the while unaware that the By Jonathan Auxier
Alaska Association of School animals surrounding her carry the Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and
Librarians (AkASL) webpage. ASD spirits of dead ancestors and friends Kip, ten, travel to England to work as
who care for her. servants in a crumbling manor house
Board Policy requires that
where nothing is quite what it seems
summaries be given to all
Dinosaurs: Fossils and feathers to be, and soon the siblings are
participants prior to participation.
By M. K. Reed confronted by a mysterious stranger
This fascinating look at dinosaur and secrets of the cursed house.
Amina’s Voice science covers the last 150 years of
By Hena Khan dinosaur hunting, and illuminates how Real Friends
A Pakistani-American Muslim girl our ideas about dinosaurs have By Shannon Hale
struggles to stay true to her family's changed--and continue to change. Shannon and Adrienne have been best
vibrant culture while simultaneously friends ever since they were little. But
blending in at school. After her local Fish In A Tree one day, Adrienne starts hanging out
mosque is vandalized, she is By Lynda Hunt with Jen, the most popular girl in class
devastated. Her friend Soojin is Ally has been smart enough to fool a and the leader of a circle of friends
talking about changing her name. lot of smart people. Every time she called The Group. Everyone in The
Does Amina need to become more lands in a new school, she is able to Group wants to be Jen's #1, and some
"American" and hide who she really hide her inability to read by creating girls would do anything to stay on top
is? clever yet disruptive distractions. She -- even if it means bullying others.
is afraid to ask for help, after all, how Now every day is like a roller coaster
Ban This Book can you cure dumb? However, her for Shannon. Will she and Adrienne
By Alan Gratz newest teacher Mr. Daniels sees the stay friends? Can she stand up for
A fourth grader fights back when bright, creative kid underneath the herself? And is she in The Group -- or
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. trouble maker. With his help, Ally out?
Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. learns not to be so hard on herself and
Konigsburg is challenged by a well- that dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed Space Case
meaning parent and taken off the of. She discovers that there's a lot By Stuart Gibbs
shelves of her school library. Amy more to her -- and to everyone -- than Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon
Anne is shy and soft-spoken, but don't a label, and that great minds don't Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of
mess with her when it comes to her always think alike. one of the moon's most prominent
favorite book in the whole world. doctors.
Amy Anne and her lieutenants wage a Flying Lessons & Other Stories
battle for the books as they start a By Ellen Oh Strange Case of Origami Yoda
secret banned books locker library, From basketball dreams and family By Tom Angleberger
make up ridiculous reasons to ban fiascoes to first crushes and new Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends
every single book in the library to neighborhoods, this anthology, written describe their interactions with a paper
make a point, and take a stand against by award-winning children's authors, finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their
censorship. celebrates the uniqueness and weird classmate Dwight, as they try to
universality in all of us. figure out whether or not the puppet
Because of Mr. Terupt can really predict the future.
By Rob Buyea Jake the Fake Keeps It Real
Seven fifth-graders at Snow Hill By Craig Robinson
School in Connecticut relate how their Having faked his way into the Music
lives are changed for the better by and Art Academy, a performing arts
"rookie teacher" Mr. Terupt. school for gifted students where his
talented older sister rules, sixth-grader
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