4th Grade Battle of the Books

2024 Winners

Championship team holding trophy. Six girls in yellow shirts and white tutus smiling with pride.

Champions

The Smart Bookies

Oxford Elementary School

Best costume winners. Boy in boxing costume, girl in lab coat, girl dressed as a granny, girl dressed as a sasquatch.

Best Costume

Chapter Champs

Oxford Virtual Academy

Best Team Name winners. Six girls in black shirts, different colored tutus and bandit masks.

Best Team Name

The Bookshelf Bandits

Clear Lake Elementary

2024 Final Scores

Rank

Team Name

Score

1

Smart Bookies (Oxford Elementary)

71

2

Fantasy Finishers (Kingsbury)

63

2

So Many Books, So Little Time (Kingsbury)

63

3

Chapter Champs (OVA)

61

4

Speedy Lightbulb Storytellers (Lakeville)

59

5

Bookshelf Bandits (Clear Lake)

56

5

Rockin' Readers (Clear Lake)

56

6

Reading Dragons (Lakeville)

53

7

Smartie Pants (Clear Lake)

51

8

Preppy Smileys (Oxford Elementary)

50

2024 Book List

Boy running from a wall of water with the power plant in the background

I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011

by Lauren Tarshis

A boy and a girl facing forward with a giant Sasquatch behind them

Imaginary Veterinary: The Sasquatch Escapes

by Suzanne Selfors

Two kids holding instrument cases at the top of a long museum staircase lined with a red carpet

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E.L. Konigsburg

Cartoon image of Muhammad Ali with red boxing gloves

Wait! What? Muhammad Ali was a Chicken?

by Dan Gutman

Steaming pot of soup with the book title above it

Granny Torrelli Makes Soup

by Sharon Creech