International Bilingual School at Tainan-Science-Park

Hello IBST

Designed to encourage summer reading, the Battle of the Books encourages students to form teams and read 8 books over the course of the summer. As the new school year begins, participants form teams and prepare to have their memories and knowledge tested on the big day.

While the official event schedule will be released next fall, you or your pupil can get a head start by diving into these books over the summer:

4th-6th Grade Reading List

• Starfish by Lisa Fipps

• The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

• Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell

• Linked by Gordon Korman

• A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat

• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

• New Kid by Jerry Craft

• The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

7th-12th Grade Reading List:

• Dry by Neal Shusterman (Corrected spelling of Shusterman)

• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (Corrected title punctuation)

• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

• Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-Zi

• The Martian by Andy Weir

• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 

Please contact Mr. Dodson (bdodson@nnkieh.tn.edu.tw) if you have any questions.