Middle School Battle of the Books List 2025-2026

Click on print or digital to check on availability of copies.  Students can use their Infinite Campus number to download the digital copies, but will need a Wayne County Public Library card to check out the print items.

  • Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar – print | digital
  • Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi – print | digital
  • The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan – print | digital
  • Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes – print | digital
  • The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys & Steve Sheinkin – print | digital
  • City Spies by James Ponti – print | digital
  • The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander – print  |  digital
  • The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Peréz – print | digital
  • The Fort by Gordon Korman – print | digital
  • Ground Zero* by Alan Gratz – print | digital
  • Healer of the Water Monster by Brian Young – print | digital
  • House Arrest by K. A. Holt – print | digital
  • Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling – print | digital
  • The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nicholas Day & Brett Helquist – print  |  digital
  • The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga – print | digital
  • Solimar by Pam Muñoz Ryan – print | digital
  • Starfish by Lisa Fipps – print | digital
  • The Storyteller by Brandon Hobson – print | digital
  • To Night Owl From Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan & Meg Wolitzer – print | digital
  • When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed – print | digital

*Student choice selection

  • Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar – print  |  digital
  • Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi – print | digital
  • The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan – print | digital
  • Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes – print | digital
  • The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys & Steve Sheinkin – print | digital
  • City Spies by James Ponti – print | digital
  • The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander – print  |  digital
  • The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Peréz – print | digital
  • The Fort by Gordon Korman – print | digital
  • Ground Zero* by Alan Gratz – print | digital
  • Healer of the Water Monster by Brian Young – print | digital
  • House Arrest by K. A. Holt – print | digital
  • Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling – print | digital
  • The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nicholas Day & Brett Helquist – print  |  digital
  • The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga – print | digital
  • Solimar by Pam Muñoz Ryan – print | digital
  • Starfish by Lisa Fipps – print | digital
  • The Storyteller by Brandon Hobson – print | digital
  • To Night Owl From Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan & Meg Wolitzer – print | digital
  • When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed – print | digital

* Student Choice Selection