All students are welcome to participate in Battle of the Books, a literary competition that tests students on their knowledge of the books listed below. Team members are required to read books from the list and write questions to be used during practices. In February, a team representing HGMS will compete against other WCPSS middle schools in head-to-head battles on stage, in front of an audience.

Any students interested in participating should see Ms. Allen. All students are welcome to track the progress of these reading athletes on the bulletin board in the Media Center.

2012-2013 BOB T-shirt Order: CLICK HERE

Code: HGMSBATTLE12

Orders must be placed by December 16, 2012.

2012-2013 Battle of the Books Titles

• Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
• Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
• Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell
• Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac
• Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
• Death Cloud by Andrew Lane
• Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney
• Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
• Everlost by Neal Shusterman
• Flush by Carl Hiaasen
• Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
• George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War by Thomas B. Allen
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass
• Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Left for Dead: One Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis by Peter Nelson
• The Nine Pound Hammer by John Claude Bemis
• Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
• Peak by Roland Smith
• Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
• Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman 
• Saraswati's Way by Monica Schroder
• Stones in Water by Donna Jo Napoli
• Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone
• Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
• White Fang (complete and unabridged) by Jack London