Battle of the Books

Katherine Applegate — The One and Only Ivan

Judy Blume — Freckle Juice

Tricia Brown — Bobbie the Wonder Dog: A True Story

Betsy Byars — Tornado

Patrick Skene Catling — The Chocolate Touch

Roshani Chokshi — Aru Shah and the End of Time

Matt Christopher — Ice Magic

Beverly Cleary — Muggie Maggie

Andrew Clements — Frindle

Barbara Cohen — Molly’s Pilgrim

Jacqueline Davies — The Lemonade War

Kate DiCamillo — Because of Winn-Dixie

Sid Fleischman — By the Great Horn Spoon!

Candace Fleming — Boxes for Katje 

John Patrick Green — InvestiGators

Valerie Hobbs — Sheep

Kelly Jones — Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer

Erin Entrada Kelly — The First State of Being

Gordon Korman — Masterminds

Sandra Markle — What If You Had Animal Eyes?

Chad Morris & Shelly Brown — The Playmakers

Sara Pennypacker — Clementine

Jon Scieszka — Knights of the Kitchen Table

Jerry Spinelli — Fourth Grade Rats

Lauren Tarshis — I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919

Audrey Vernick — Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team

Gertrude Warner — The Boxcar Children

Jonah Winter — You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!