2009  Battle of the Books List 
6th Grade

Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam and the Science of Ocean Motion
Loree Griffin Burns
                                                                              
The Great Race: The Amazing Round-the-World Auto Race of 1908
Gary Blackwood

The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 
Christopher Paul Curtis                

Al Capone Does My Shirts  
Gennifer Choldenko                       

The London Eye Mystery
Siobhan Dowd                                    

Scat   
Carl Hiaasen                                           

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
Kadir Nelson   

The Teacher’s Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
Richard Peck    

Magyk 
Angie Sage                                                             

To Dance: a Memoir
Siena Cherson Siegel                                                   

The Wednesday Wars                                                 
Gary D. Schmidt     

Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories of Growing Up Scieczka
Jon Scieczka                                                                             

The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart                              

A Crooked Kind of Perfect 
Linda Urban                                                        

The Aurora County All-Stars   
Deborah Wiles