AkASL Battle of the Books 3rd-4th

• After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen. The day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again.
• Genre: Fantasy & School
• Book Trailer
• Author's Website

• Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-story treehouse that has a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of sharks, a library full of comics, a secret underground laboratory, a games room, self-making beds, vines you can swing on, a vegetable vaporiser and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and automatically shoots your favourite flavoured marshmallows into your mouth whenever it discerns you're hungry. Life would be perfect for Andy and Terry if it wasn't for the fact that they have to write their next book, which is almost impossible because there are just so many distractions, including thirteen flying cats, giant bananas, mermaids, a sea monsters pretending to be mermaids, enormous gorillas, and dangerous burp gas-bubblegum bubbles!

• Genre: Humor & Books/Reading
• Book Trailer by author
• Book Talk
• Author's Website

• When the squirrel Tail comes barreling into the chicken coop ranting about a round, shiny, green, big, scary thing in the yard, Dirt, Sweetie, Poppy, and Sugar investigate this strange object.

• Genre: Mystery, Animals, Humor
• Book Trailer
• Interview with Author talking about Chicken Squad
• Author's Website

• At the first annual meeting of WOOF--Words of Our Friends--assorted dogs preserve their heritage by sharing tales of canines throughout history, including Abu, who ruled all of Egypt except for one pesky cat, and Zippy, who simply must find the squeaky toy..

• Genre: Dogs
• Book Trailer
• Author's Website (Betsy Byars)

While picking up milk for his children's cereal, a father is abducted by aliens and finds himself on a wild adventure through time and space

• Genre: Imagination, Brothers & Sisters, Family
• Book Trailer by Penguin Kids Publisher
• Book Trailer by Jeff Smith
• Author's Website

• Crusty dragon Miss Drake's new pet human, precocious ten-year-old Winnie, not only thinks Miss Drake is her pet, she accidentally brings to life her "sketchlings" of mysterious and fantastic creatures hidden in San Francisco, causing mayhem among its residents.

• Subject: Dragons, Fantasy/Magic, Friendship

• No Book Trailer Available

• Author's Website (Scholastic)

• Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.

• Genre: Humor, Superheros, Fantasy, Newbery
• Book Trailer
• Interview with Author talking about Flora and Ulysses
  
  

• A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.

• Genre: Inventions, Books/Reading, Fantasy
• Book Trailer
• Interview with Author about Island of Dr. Libris
• Author's Website

• James is going on vacation for a week. His best friend, Marvin the beetle, has to stay at home. Without James to keep him company, Marvin has to play with his annoying cousin, Elaine. Marvin and Elaine quickly find themselves getting into all sorts of trouble -- even getting trapped inside a pencil sharpener! Marvin misses James and starts to worry about their friendship. Will James still be Marvin's friend when he gets home or will James have found a new best friend?

• Genre: Friendship, Animals/Beetles, Fantasy
• No Book Trailer Available
• Author's Website

Alex's active sense of humor helps him get along with the school braggart, make the most of his athletic talents, and simply get by in a hectic world.

• Genre: Alaska & Non-Fiction
• Book Trailer
• Author's Biography (Random House)

Excited to board the Titanic with his aunt and little sister, ten-year-old George begins to explore the ill-fated ship's first-class storage cabin when the ship is rocked by a collision with an iceberg and begins to sink.

• Genre: Survival, Volcanoes, Alaska
• No Book Trailer Available
• Author's Website

Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change. She has continued to speak out for the right of all children to have an education. In 2014 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Genre: Biography, Political Activists, Women Social Reformer
• No Book Trailer Available
• Malala Yousafzai Nobel Peace Prize Speech