OBOB 2024-2025: Grades 6-8Like this list

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• Oregon Battle of the Books

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• Candidly Cline

  Ormsbee, Kathryn,

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  Signing up for a young musicians' workshop as she learns to make music of her own, Cline Alden realizes how much of herself she's been holding back when she falls for talented singer Sylvie.

• Counting by 7s

  Sloan, Holly Goldberg, 1958-

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  Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.

• Daughter of the Deep

  Riordan, Rick,

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  Attending a high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators and underwater explorers in the world, Ana Dakkar must put her leadership skills to the test when she and her classmates face deadly enemies during their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Every Falling Star

  the True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea

  Lee, Sungju,

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  The memoir of a twelve-year-old boy who grew up in North Korea looks at how he was forced to live on the streets, fend for himself, and live with a gang after his parents disappeared.

• Freewater

  Luqman-Dawson, Amina,

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  Fleeing Southerland Plantation with his little sister, 12-year-old Homer finds a secret community called Freewater, created by formerly enslaved people, but when he learns of a threat that could destroy this place, he crafts a plan to help his new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Inquisitor's Tale, Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog

  Gidwitz, Adam,

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  Crossing paths at an inn, three 13th-century travelers impart the wryly whimsical tales of a monastery oblate, a Jewish refugee and a psychic peasant girl, who, in the company of a loyal greyhound, must escape evil knights, sit alongside a king and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Cuentista

  Higuera, Donna Barba,

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  In 2061, twelve-year old Petra Peña, her seven-year-old brother Javier, and her mother and father prepare to leave a doomed Earth. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to a new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lo & Behold

  Mass, Wendy, 1967-

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  With her life recently turned upside down, 12-year-old Addie is uncomfortable in her own skin until the world of virtual reality sparks her imagination and leads to an exciting new project, a new friend, and to reconnecting with who she's always…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Losers at the Center of the Galaxy

  Heider, Mary Winn,

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  Two years after their father disappeared, Winston and Louise wrestle with their grief while investigating mysterious teachers, innovative science, and a captive bear.

• The Magical Imperfect

  Baron, Chris (Christopher Leigh),

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  When Etan, who doesn't speak, and Malia, who is also known as“the Creature” due to her acute eczema, become friends, Etan must convince his family and hers that he might have a cure for her condition.

• The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James

  Blake, Ashley Herring,

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  Twelve-year-old Sunny St. James must navigate heart surgery, reconnecting with a lost mother, the betrayal of a former best friend, first kisses, and emerging feelings for another girl.

• Scary Stories for Young Foxes

  Heidicker, Christian McKay,

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  A collection of six connected stories that follows a group of fox kits as they fight to survive in an unforgiving wilderness.

• The Serpent's Secret

  DasGupta, Sayantani,

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  When a rakkhosh demon attacks her family on the morning of her 12th birthday, Kiranmala discovers that her parents' fantastical stories about their ties to royalty are true and is whisked away by two crush-worthy princes to a parallel dimension…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Starfish

  Fipps, Lisa,

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  Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.

• The Story That Cannot Be Told

  Kramer, J. Kasper,

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  In Romania in 1989, when people who say or do the wrong thing disappear, ten-year-old aspiring writer Ileana copes with fear, hunger, and cruelty by writing new endings to stories, including her own.

• Tales of a Seventh-grade Lizard Boy

  Hill, Jonathan (Comic book artist),

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  Threatened with diminishing resources, Booger Lizk’t and his family flee their lizard community deep below Earth’s crust to survive above among humans. The Lizk’t family of Elberon now passes as the Tomkins family of Eagle Valley. “Tommy Tomkins”…Read moreRead more of this annotation