Battle of the Books

Battle of the Books 2017-2018

Serafina and the black cloak - Robert Beatty
American born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang
The dark is rising - Susan Cooper
The Wednesday wars - Gary D. Schmidt
The blackthorn key - Kevin Sands
The evolution of Calpurnia Tate - Jacqueline Kelly
Bronze and Sunflower - Cao Wenxuan
Wolf Hollow - Lauren Wolk
The thing about jellyfish - Ali Benjamin
The boy on the wooden box - Leon Leyson
Revolution is not a dinner party - Ying Chang Compestine
Booked - Kwame Alexander
The crooked sixpence - Jennifer Bell
Sun thief - Jamie Buxton
The last Dragonslayer - Jasper Fforde
Among the hidden - Margaret Peterson Haddix
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
A wrinkle in time - Madeleine L'Engle
Walk two moons - Sharon Creech
Brown girl dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson

Battle of the Books 2016-2017

Crispin: The Cross of Lead - Avi
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken
The Friends - Kazumi Yumoto
Ruby in the Smoke - Philip Pullman
Skink: No Surrender - Carl Hiassen
Countdown - Deborah Wiles
Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
Lost Riders - Elizabeth Laird
Winter in Wartime - Jan Terlouw
The Nest - Kenneth Oppel
Listen, Slowly - Thanhha Lai
Echo - Pam Munoz Ryan
Out of My Mind - Sharon Draper
Lizard Music - Daniel Pinkwater
Lost in the Sun - Lisa Graff
The Lie Tree - Frances Hardinge
Soldier Bear - Bibi Dumon Tak
Shadow of the Minotaur - Alan Gibbons
The Red Pencil - Andrea Davis Pinkney
Cosmic - Frank Cottrell Boyce

Battle of the Books 2015-2016

Rooftoppers - Katherine Rundell
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle - Avi
Trash - Andy Mulligan
Mariel of Redwall - Brian Jacques
Liar & Spy - Rebecca Stead
Half Brother - Kenneth Oppel
Paperboy - Vince Vawter
The Silver Donkey - Sonya Hartnett
Chains - Laurie Halse Anderson
The London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd
Weed Flower - Cynthia Kadohata
The Apothecary - Maile Maloy
A Rose for the ANZAC Boys - Jackie French
A Letter for the King - Tonke Dragt
No More Dead Dogs - Gordon Korman
The Endless Steppe - Esther Hautzig
A Girl Named Disaster - Nancy Farmer
The Night Gardener - Jonathan Auxier
Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett

Battle of the Books 2014-15

After winning the semi-final, our fabulous, invincible team won the final! Way to go! Congratulations!

Books We Have Read...

Battle of the Books 2013-14

We Shall Come Back!

Although we lost in the final, we have held our spirits together. Students and teachers have started right away for preparation of next year's competition. All details can be found on this weebly site: http://ckybattleofthebooks.weebly.com/

Thanks a lot, Joey!
posted 10:20am, 26/06/2014

Event: The Hong Kong Battle of the Books Final
Time: 9:00-12:00pm
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2014
Finalists:

HKUGA College
King George V School
Marymount Secondary School - Winner
West Island School
Island School
Po Leung Kuk Choi Kai Yau School

More details can be accessed on the official website of Hong Kong Battle of the Books.

Congratulations! CKY Battlers!
It's our first time to enter BoB and our team has made their first success at the semi-final held at our school on May 9th. The three schools joined CKY for the event were South Island School, Hong Kong Academy, and Harrow International School. All teams fought hard, and we're very proud of our achievements today.

Books We Have Read...