![]() If a team couldn’t answer a question, the opposing team was asked a new question. The correct answer: “Ruby Holler” by Sharon Creech. Six teams (two from each school) consisting of six students apiece were given 30 seconds to answer questions like, “In what book do two children plan to leave at night on a freight train?” Questions asked during the tournament could be based on any part of a book. ![]() ![]() To prepare for the tournament, the students began reading novels in September from a list of 20 books selected by America’s Battle of the Books, a voluntary reading incentive program designed to test students’ reading comprehension skills. Students from three elementary schools in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District tested their literary knowledge Wednesday in the district’s first Battle of the Books tournament.įourth- and fifth-graders from Sonora, Newport Heights and Eastbluff elementary schools congregated at Eastbluff’s auditorium in Newport Beach to answer questions about novels they had read. ![]()
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