This is the list for 4th and 5th graders participating in Battle of the Books. There are 20 books total and students must read at least 8 of these books by Feb. 1, 2024 to qualify to be on a team.

- Lifeboat 12 – Susan Hood (novel in verse)
- Odder – Katherine Applegate (novel in verse)
- Invisible – Christina Diaz Gonzalez ( graphic novel) – Beehive Book nominee
- Squished – Megan Wagner Lloyd (graphic novel)
- Swim Team – Johnnie Christmas (graphic novel)
- Action! How Movies Began – Meghan McCarthy (info picture book) – Beehive Book nominee
- Harriet’s Ruffled Feathers – Jay McCullough (info picture book) – Beehive Book nominee
- The Gardener of Alcatraz – Emma Bland Smith (info picture book)
- The Million Dollar Shot – Dan Gutman
- Once Upon a Tim – Stuart Gibb
- A Rover’s Story – Jasmine Warga
- Maizy Chen’s Last Chance – Lisa Yee – Beehive Book nominee
- Ground Zero – Alan Gratz
- Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls – Kaela Rivera
- Black Brother, Black Brother – Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Wildoak – C.C. Harrington
- A Perfect Mistake – Melanie Conklin – Beehive Book nominee
- The Sheep, the Rooster and the Duck – Matt Phelan
- Ali Cross – James Patterson
- Long Lost – Jacqueline West – Beehive Book nominee
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