This is the list for 4th and 5th graders participating in Battle of the Books. There are 20 books total and students must read 8 of these books by Feb. 1, 2023 to qualify to be on a team.

- Booked – Kwame Alexander (novel in verse)
- Red, White and Whole – Rajani LaRocca (novel in verse)
- Witches of Brooklyn – Sophie Escabasse ( graphic novel)
- Agent 9 – James Burks – (graphic novel)
- Roller Girl – Victoria Jamieson (graphic novel)
- I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018 – Laura Tarshis
- Who Was Walt Disney? – Whitney Stewart
- Bartali’s Bicycle: the True Story of Gino Bartali, Italy’s Secret Hero – Megan Hoyt (info picture book)
- The Camping Trip that Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir and our National Parks – Barb Rosenstock (info picture book)
- The Floating Field: How a group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field -Scott Riley, Nguyen Quang (info picture book)
- My Life as a Potato – Arianne Costner
- Small Spaces – Katherine Arden
- Glitch – Laura Martin
- Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation – Stuart Gibbs
- Island of the blue Dolphins- Scott O’Dell
- Amari and the Night Brothers – B.B. Alston
- Born Behind Bars – Padma Venkatraman
- Willowdeen – Katherine Applegate
- History Smashers – Pearl Harbor – Kate Messner
- The Beatryce Prophecy – Kate Dicamillo
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