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Advanced Division Battle of the Books
| Advanced Division Battle of the Books is a county-wide book trivia contest for students who are cardholders at Longwood Public Library and in grades 9 through 12. In the spring, participants read three books, attend practice sessions, and then compete in teams against other libraries at "Advanced Division Battle of the Books," which is held at a local public library. Parents and friends are welcome at the final competition. Registration usually takes place in November; the program usually takes place on Fridays in the Spring. Discover the joy of reading, learning, and competing through this program and other "Battle of the Books" programs. | |||
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We are proud to say that our Team, Longwood's Mightiest Heroes, were the 2013 Advanced Division Battle of the Books County Champions! Our team had a perfect score in the final round of competition and also brought home the coveted Costume Award! The 2013 Advanced Battle of the Books titles Are |
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Blundell, Judy |
In 1947, teenage Evie, smitten by a handsome ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on her stepfather Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome changes her life and that of her family forever. | ||
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Asher, Jay |
It's 1996, and less than half of all American high school students have ever used the Internet. Emma just got her first computer and Josh is her best friend. They power up and log on--and discover themselves on Facebook, fifteen years in the future. Everybody wonders what their destiny will be. Josh and Emma are about to find out. | ||
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Oppel, Kenneth |
In 1973, as part of an experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced language skills, a renowned behavioral psychologist brings home a baby chimp named Zan and asks his son to treat Zan like a little brother. | ||
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Thanks for your interest! The 2012 Suffolk County Advanced Division Battle of the Books was held on Friday, March 16 at Sachem Public Library. Our LPL team, "The Bookbonic Plague," took second place and also came home with the award for best costume! The three titles for the 2012 competition were |
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| Fat Cat | Brande, Robin | Overweight teenage Catherine embarks on a high school science project in which she must emulate the ways of hominims, the earliest ancestors of human beings, by eating an all-natural diet and foregoing technology. | |
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The Sky is Everywhere | Nelson, Jandy | In the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician. |
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Marcelo in the Real World | Stork, Francis X. | Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mail room of a corporate law firm |
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| We enjoyed competing in the 2011 Advanced Division Battle of the Books. Our team's theme was "A Long Time Ago in a Library Far, Far Away." | |||
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| Lockhart, E. | Sophmore Frankie starts dating Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks. | |||
| Little Brother | Doctrow, Cory | After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right. | ||
| The Hunger Games | Collins, Suzanne | In the ruins of a place once know as Noth America lies the Nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. | ||
| The titles for the 2010 Advanced Battle of the Books titles were: | ||||
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| Suite Scarlett | Johnson, Maureen | Fifteen-year-old Scarlett Marvin is stuck in New York City for the summer working at her quirky family's historic hotel, but her brother's attractive new friend and a seasonal guest who offers her an intriguing and challenging writing project improve her outlook. | ||
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Rash | Hautman, Pete | In a future society that has decided that it would "rather be safe than free," sixteen-year-od Bo's anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives where he survives as a result of his running skills and an artifical intelligence program named Bork. | |
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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac | Zevin, Gabrielle | After a nasty fall, Naiomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her life. | |
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| The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl | Lyga, Barry | A fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself. |
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The Body of Christopher Creed | Plum-Ucci, Carol | Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast. |
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Dairy Queen | Murdock, Catherine Gilbert | After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her. |
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Elsewhere | Zevin, Gabrielle | After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live".
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Sleeping Freshman Never Lie | Lubar, David | While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer.
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Black and White | Volpomi, Paul | Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught.
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A Great and Terrible Beauty | Bray, Libba | After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world. | |
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Fat Kid Rules the World | Going, K.L. | Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band. | |
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Son of the Mob | Korman, Gordon | Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.
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| The titles for the 2006 Advanced Battle of the Books titles were: | ||||
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| Airborn | Oppel, Kenneth | Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existance of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the earth's surface. | ||
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Love Among the Walnuts | Ferris, Jean | Born and raised in isolation in a wealthy, eccentric family, Sandy is shocked when he, his parents, and their servants become victims of a vicious plot by his greedy uncles to incapacitate them and take their money.
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