Oregon Battle of the Books Website

2021-2022 Titles

2021-2022 OBOB Title Lists

6th to 8th Grade Division

• Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
• Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
• Archimancy by J.A. White
• Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire by John August
• The Best at It by Maulik Pancholy
• Deep Water by Watt Key
• Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
• A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
• It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• My Year in the Middle by Lila Quintero Weaver
• Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh
• The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
  by Dan Gemeinhart
• Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
• The Storm Runner by J.C. Cervantes
• To Night Owl from Dogfish
  by Holly Goldberg Sloan & Meg Wolitzer
• When Stars Are Scattered
  by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed

3rd to 5th Grade Division

• Astrid the Unstoppable by Maria Parr
• The Bookwanderers by Anna James
• The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole by Michelle Cuevas
• Clean Getaway by Nic Stone
• The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm
• Guts by Raina Telgemeier
• The Harlem Charade by Natasha Tarpley
• I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day
• Lety Out Loud by Angela Cervantes
• Lowriders in Space by Cathy Camper & Raúl the Third
• Sarah Journeys West by Nikki Shannon Smith
• Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks & Gita Varadarajan
• Some Places More Than Others by Renée Watson
• Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White by Melissa Sweet
• Stay by Bobbie Pyron
  The Storm Keeper’s Island by Catherine Doyle

9th to 12th Grade Division

• A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley
• Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
• Dry by Neal & Jarrod Shusterman
• The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
  by Ben Philippe
• Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
• Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson
• Lovely War by Julie Berry
• Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
• Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
• Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks
• Spellslinger by Sebastien de Castell
• Thorn by Intisar Khanani