Port Angeles students win in 2018 Battle of the Books competition
Published 1:30 am Wednesday, April 4, 2018
The Bookworms, a team of homeschool students from Port Angeles, took top honors in the county-wide Battle of the Books Competition on Friday, March 16.
The Forks Elementary Spartans and Olympic Peninsula Academy Bottles of Awesome Sauce tied for second place, and Greywolf Elementary’s Greywolves placed third.
The Bookworms team members include Josey Ray Cooley, Oliver Rather, Kayana Vass, Tes Karjalainen and Isaac Rutledge.
In all, 13 teams participated in the 2018 Battle of the Books Program at the Port Angeles Main Library.
The final battle was the culminating event for a year-long book club for fourth-graders throughout the county to encourage reading. More than 220 children from throughout the county were a part of the program.
Participating schools included Helen Haller, Greywolf, Olympic Peninsula Academy, Crescent, Dry Creek, Forks, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Queen of Angels and Roosevelt elementary schools, Quileute Tribal School and the Port Angeles homeschool group.
During the school year, participants read five books and met with library staff once a month to discuss them. Titles included “El Deafo” by Cece Bell, “Fish in a Tree” by Linda Mullaly Hunt, “The War that Saved My Life” by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, “A Dragon’s Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans” by Laurence Yep and Joanne Ryder, and “The Astounding Broccoli Boy” by Frank Cottrell Boyce.
As part of the program, all participants received a copy of each book and a custom student-designed T-shirt.
The Battle of the Books program is supported by the Friends of Sequim Library, the Port Angeles Friends of the Library and the Friends of the Forks Library.
For information about this and other programs for youth, visit the library website at www.nols.org, or contact the Youth Services Department of the Port Angeles Main Library at 360-417-8500 x7705, or Youth@nols.org.
