BATTLE OF THE BOOKS 2025

• The Emperor’s Riddle by Kat Zhang
• Alone In the Woods by Rebecca Behrens
• The Last Gate of the Emperor by Kwame Mbalia and Prince Joel Makonnen
• Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh
• Millionaires For the Month by Stacy McAnulty
• My Hero Academia Vol. 1 by Kohei Horikoshi
• Alcatraz Vs. the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson

• Amari and the Night Brothers by BB Alston
• The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands
• Bloom, The Overthrow Book 1 by Kenneth Oppel
• Clean Getaway by Nic Stone
• Peak by Roland Smith
• Shadow of the Batgirl by Sarah Kuhn
• The Winter Horses by Philip Kerr

• A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
• Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking: A 14-Day Mystery by Erin Dionne
• Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
• One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
• Terror at Bottle Creek by Watt Key
• The Roar by Emma Clayton
• Zero Tolerance by Claudia Mills

• Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
• The Lost Property Office by James Hannibal
• The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
• Breakout by Kate Messner
• The Someday Birds by Sally Pla
• Malamander by Thomas Taylor
• The Iron Tomb by Peter Vegas

• Tesla's Attic by Neal Shusterman & Eric Elfman
• Prisoner of Ice and Snow by Ruth Lauren
• Lemons by Melissa Savage
• Framed! by James Ponti
• Greetings from Witness protection! by Jake Burt
• Ghost By Jason Reynolds
• The High Climber of Dark Water Bay by Caroline Arden

Close to Famous by Joan Bauer

A Diamond in the Desert by Kathryn Fitzmaurice

Greenglass House By Kate Milford

Ice Dogs by Terry Lynn Johnson

Loki’s Wolves by Kelly Armstrong & Melissa Marr

Masterminds by Gordon Korman

Turn Left at the Cow by Lisa Bullard

Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Breaking Stalin’s Nose by Eugene Yelchin

The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm

Loot by Jude Watson

Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty

The Swap by Megan Shull

The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann

The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel

Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

The Iron Trial by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare

Paperboy by Vince Vawter

Spy School by Stuart Gibbs

Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick

Once upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris

The Paladin Prophecy (Book1) by Mark Frost

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein

The Ghost of Graylock by Dan Poblocki

Over the Wall by John Ritter

Bluefish by Pat Schmatz

One Came Home by Amy Timberlake

The False Prince: Book 1 of the Ascendance Trilogy by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney

Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt

The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott

Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage

The Girl Who Threw Butterflies by Mick Cochrane

The Raft by S. A. Bodeen

The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan

The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai

All Shook Up by Shelley Pearsall

The Candymakers by Wendy Mass

The Great Wide Sea by M.H. Herlong

Payback Time by Carl Deuker

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson

Dark Life by Kat Falls

Killer Pizza by Greg Taylor

Moon Over Manifest by Claire Vanderpool

Schooled by Gordon Korman

Tangerine by Edward Bloor

The White Mountains by John Christopher

Scat by Carl Hiaasen

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Stormbreaker: An Alex Rider Adventure by Anthony Horowitz

Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements

Elephant Run by Roland Smith

Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass

Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff

Scepter of the Ancients (Skulduggery Pleasant) by Derek Landy

Shackleton’s Stowaway by Victoria McKernan

Shakespeare’s Secret by Elise Broach