• KATY BOOK WARS 24-25

    Students in grades 6-8 will work in teams of three to five to read 27 books throughout the school year. Teams will compete in a school-wide competition the week of March 18 to determine the team that will represent the school in our district-wide Katy Book Wars Competition at Legacy Stadium on March 27. 

     

    Each student on the winning team will receive a medal. Participation certificates will be issued to every student. The team that wins the district competition will receive the Katy Book Wars trophy to display at their school until next year’s competition. 

     

    The selected books were chosen from the 2024 TLA Lone Star Reading Lists. Parents can find more information about the books at the Texas Library Association’s website: https://txla.org/tools-resources/reading-lists/lone-star/past-lists/ 

     

    This year’s Katy Book Wars Reading List:

     

    • Alexander, Kwame – The Door of No Return

    • Barry, Michelle A. – Plotting the Stars: Moongarden

    • Bayron, Kalynn– The Vanquishers

    • Bow, Erin – Simon Sort of Says

    • Carvalho, Rebecca – Salt and Sugar*

    • Day, Christine – We Still Belong

    • Everett, Sarah – The Probability of Everything

    • Fawcett, Heather – The Grace of Wild Things

    • Feldman, Jacquetta Nammar – The Puttermans Are in the House

    • Glaser, Karina Yan – A Duet for Home

    • Greenwald, Tommy – Dinged

    • Hardinge, Frances – Unraveller*

    • Healy, Christopher – No One Leaves the Castle

    • Hiaasen, Carl – Wrecker

    • Horwitz, Sarah Jean – The Demon Sword Asperides

    • Landers, Melissa – Lumara*

    • López, Diana – Los Monstruos: Felice and the Wailing Woman

    • Morris, Chad and Shelly Brown – Virtually Me

    • Perry, Adam – Ghosts Come Rising

    • Pla, Sally J. – The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn

    • Salazar, Aida – A Seed in the Sun

    • Schmidt, Gary D. – The Labors of Hercules Beal

    • Siddiqui, Maleeha – Bhai for Now

    • Swinarski, Claire – What Happened to Rachel Riley?

    • Warga, Jasmine – A Rover’s Story

    • Waters, Charles & Traci Sorell – Mascot

    • Wein, Elizabeth – Stateless*

    Books with an asterisk * denote Young Adult (YA) titles.


    CLICK VISIT THE LINK BELOW TO JOIN THE KATY BOOK WARS CANVAS COURSE:

    https://katyisd.instructure.com/enroll/LKDMHN