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My tips:

Make sure you know how you will handle tie breakers.
Take pictures of the teams beforehand, they don't like taking pictures
after they lose.
Have plenty of backup questions...I write over 200 questions, so I know I
will have poor/incorrect questions come up along the way. I tell kids I
have the right to throw out a questions at any time.

I use the Caudills, b/c I encourage the reading of a variety of books and
they are all perfect for my middle school readers.

:)

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Sometimes the actual Battle books aren't appropriate for our age group, or
> we can't get enough of them. We used March Book Madness this year, and
> worked with our public library to get enough copies of the books to
> actually run the competition.
>
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>> I do not use the Battle website etc.  I inherited sets of books with
>> questions 5 years ago, so I have used mostly those and added/swapped 2-3
>> books each year.  We do 3 classroom rounds and then the top classrooms
>> compete against each other.
>> I guess I choose my books from what I have a lot of copies of and any
>> that I come across that I think are really good.  I try to have several #1
>> books in a series in hopes they will go on to read the rest of the series.
>> I also do a book from the same author for all grade levels - ex.  *Honus
>> and Me* for 4th grade and *Jackie and Me* for 5th grade.
>>
>> This year I did a Breakout EDU with my battle team revolving around the
>> books they read.
>> You can contact me byager at d23.org if you want more info.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
>> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>>> Hi Everyone,
>>> We are having our first Battle of the Books next week.  Does anyone have
>>> any tips or pointers to give me before the chaos?  Also, I have noticed
>>> that other schools are not using the actual "Battle of the Books"
>>> website/books/questions...can someone explain to me why you would do that
>>> and how you chose your books?  Just thinking to next year already! Thank
>>> you so so so much in advance for answering!  If you want here is my school
>>> email: cbauer at johnsburg12.org
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Chrissy Bauer
>>> JES LC
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Sincerely,
Amy Hamernick
Media Specialist
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Century Jr. High
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