Friday, 07 March 2014 12:06
Students Battle Brain Matter At ‘Battle of the Books’
QUEENSBURY – Thirty one teams across four grade levels from 11 school districts will compete on March 10 at SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury to demonstrate their brute knowledge of books at Battle of
the Books.
For the competition, hosted by the WSWHE BOCES School Library System, all participants were required to read ten books in five months on their own time. Of the ten books, half were fiction; half were nonfiction and titles included P.T. Barnum’s new biography for kids and Steven Sheinkin’s award-winning “The Notorious Benedict Arnold.”
The competition will start next Monday at 9:30 a.m. and end at 1 p.m. with the awards ceremony starting at 12:30 p.m.
