Idaho Battle of the Books (IBOB) 24-25

Statewide Competition Booklist

Want to know which IBOB (Idaho Battle of the Books) books we have access to at Coeur d'Alene Library? Here's some booklists!

High School Division

• Any Sign of Life by Rae Carson

• Bluebird by Sharon Cameron

• Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah ⓔbook

• Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

• Fable by Adrienne Young ⓔaudio

• The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones by Daven McQueen

• Lovely War by Julie Berry ⓔaudio

• Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong by Prudence Shen & Faith Erin Hicks

• The Silence That Binds Us by Joanna Ho

• Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim

• Thieves’ Gambit by Kayvion Lewis

• We Are All That’s Left by Carrie Arcos

We have a monthly IBOB Book Club for Grades 6-8. (You must register at this link to join the club.) The book club uses the following booklist:

​Middle School Division

• A First Time For Everything by Dan Santat

• A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

• Alone by Megan E. Freeman

• Black Bird Blue Road by Sofiya Pasternack

• Coop Knows the Scoop by Taryn Souders

• Falling Short by Ernesto Cisneros audio-cd

• The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez

• Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix

• Jinxed by Amy McCulloch ⓔbook

• The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt ⓔbook | ⓔaudio | playaway

• The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd

• The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh playaway

• The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nicholas Day playaway

• The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

• Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas

• Yonder by Ali Standish

We also have a monthly IBOB Book Club for Grades 3-5. (You must register at this link to join the club.) The book club uses the following booklist:

Elementary Division

• The In-Between by Rebecca K.S. Ansari

• Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome

• Space Case by Stuart Gibbs

• The Elephant in the Room by Holly Goldberg Sloan

• The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman

• Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina ⓔbook | audio-cd

• White Bird by R. J. Palacio

• Pax by Sara Pennypacker ⓔbook | ⓔaudio | audio-cd | playaway

• Knights Vs. Dinosaurs by Matt Phelan

• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell ⓔbook | audio-cd

• The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead & Wendy Mass playaway

• I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 by Lauren Tarshis ⓔaudio | playaway

• A Rover’s Story by Jasmine Warga

• Pie by Sarah Weeks

• Wretched Waterpark by Kiersten White

• The Wishmakers by Tyler Whitesides