School Library Journal’s Battle of the Kids’ Books is a competition
among 16 of the very best books for young people of the year, judged by
some of the biggest names in children’s books.
Wonder vs. Bomb
Judge: Kenneth Oppel
Winner: Bomb
By R.J. Palacio
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born
with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes
from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle
school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his
classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
By Steve Sheinkin
Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
Code Name Verity vs. Titanic
Judge: Margarita Engle
Winner: Code Name Verity
By Elizabeth Wein
In
1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the
survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage
as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that
she can.
(Young adult fiction)
By Deborah Hopkinson
Tells the tale of the sinking of the Titanic using the narratives of the witnesses and survivors to the disaster.
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