Battle of the books is one of Alec and Alyssa's favorite clubs at school. Every year, a list of 20 or so books are assigned by a state literary group. Through the school year, the groups meet and discuss the books, memorize title and author of each of the books and practice questions pertaining to each book. In March, all the groups in our county meet and have a competition. Two teams of 5 kids are up on a stage and an adult asks each kid a vague question about a book from the list. You can confer with team mates, but the person originally called upon has to answer the question, with the title of the book and the author. Alec and Alyssa were anchors for our team, since they were the most experienced (Alec) and had read the most books (Alyssa). During the answer sessions, you could tell these two really knew the book material! Even though the team placed fourth, everyone had fun missing a day of school and eating lunch at the pizza hut buffet. Alec tells me he and his two friends together made 24 trips to the buffet! I guess they got their $9.12 worth of food!
Pictured here Brianna Cain, Arial Miller, Alec Taylor, Douglas Cain, and Alyssa Taylor.
