• Oregon Battle of the Books (OBOB):
     
    Welcome to 2024-2045 OBOB! This is a friendly optional competition for 6th, 7th, & 8th graders to participate in! Each year this event is coordinated by the Oregon Association of School Librarians; this is the largest Book Club in the state and is designed to promote reading!

    OBOB’s mission is to encourage and recognize students who enjoy reading, to broaden reading interests, to increase reading comprehension, promote academic excellence, and to promote cooperative learning and teamwork among students.
     
    Teams will form by Friday, October 19th, weekly lunch practice will start in the library November, and battles start in January! The final school battle will be held in February to determine which team will represent MTMS at Regionals. 
     
    Here are some helpful links and tips:
     
     - Registration is due Friday, October 19th. Each student must register individually. No team, no problem! We will help all interested students find a team. 
     
     - here's the list of books for this year from the OBOB website. The MTMS Library has 4 copies of each book. If your team wants to purchase the books,  often offers 20% off and has a good selection of used copies.  is another reasonably priced option for purchase. And just a reminder, audio books are a great option for reading the books.
     
     - This can be helpful for teams to divide up the books. Students do NOT need to read all 16 books. In fact, we recommend each team member read half the books, or 8 books apiece and be the primary reader or book expert on 4 books and secondary reader or back up on 4 books. 
     
     - This is a link to a question bank of questions organized by book.
     
    Practice Questions -  are a great resource for practice questions. They will update the questions for this year later in the fall. The  will also be adding practice questions later in the fall.