Forsyth County Schools - Battle of the Books 2025-2026

Best Books by Age

• Toddlers
• Preschoolers
• Kindergarten & 1st Grade
• 2nd & 3rd Grade
• 4th & 5th Grade

Picture Books

• Back To School
• Books About Libraries
• Community Helpers
• Concept Books
• Cowboys and Cowgirls
• Dance
• Death and Dying
• Dinosaurs
• Empathy
• Everyday Diversity
• Fairies, Mermaids, and Dragons
• Farm

• Funny Books
• Georgia Authors
• Great Read-Alouds
• I Love Me
• Pets
• Pirate Tales
• Rhythm Books
• Royal Reads
• Things that Go
• Timeless Classics
• Toddler Transitions
• Trains

Ready to Read

• Earliest Early Reader Series
• Reading Sight Words

• Reading Sentences
• Reading Independently

Chapter Books

• Adventure Stories
• Challenging Reads
• Empathy
• Everyday Diversity
• Fairy Tales Retold
• Fantasy
• Friends and Frenemies
• Funny Chapter Books
• Georgia Authors
• Great Audio Titles for Families
• Great Graphic Novels for Children
• High Lexile Level
• Historical Fiction
• Horse Stories
• If You Like Captain Underpants
• If You Like Diary of a Wimpy Kid
• If You Like Dog Man

• If You Like Harry Potter
• If You Like I Survived
• If You Like James Patterson
• If You Like Percy Jackson & the Olympians
• If You Like Smile
• If You Like Warriors
• Juvenile School Stories
• Mysteries and Crime Solving
• Peculiar Reads for Precocious Kids
• Pop Culture Reads
• Realistic Fiction
• Scary Stories
• Science Fiction
• Sports Stories
• Timeless Classics
• Uproarious Right Now Reads

Seasonal Books

• Spring
• Summer

• Fall
• Winter

One World Books

• African American Culture
  • Picture Books
  • Chapter Books
• African Culture
• Asian Culture
• Exploring Our Differences

• Hispanic Culture
• Middle Eastern Culture
• Native American Culture
• Reading Without Walls
• Southeast Asian Culture

Award Winners

• Caldecott Medal Winners
• Coretta Scott King Award
• (Theodor Seuss) Geisel Award

• Pura Belpré Award
• Newbery Medal Winners
• Sibert Medal Winners