Get ready to cheer for your favorite team at the 2019 Knox County Battle of the Books fifth-grade team championship competition!
This year, thirteen teams of fifth-graders from elementary schools and the program’s first homeschool team will face off at the preliminary competition on Tuesday, April 2, 5:00 p.m., at St. Vincent de Paul school and Twin Oak Elementary. Eight teams will then move on to the team championship competition on Thursday, April 4, 6:00 p.m. at the Mount Vernon High School auditorium, 300 Martinsburg Road, Mount Vernon.
The preliminary rounds for the competition will be held simultaneously on Tuesday, April 2, 5:00 p.m. at two locations. Six teams will compete at St. Vincent de Paul, 206 E. Chestnut Street: East Knox, Home School, Pleasant Street, Wiggin Street Team 1 & Team 2 and St. Vincent de Paul. The remaining seven teams will compete at Twin Oak Elementary, 8888 Martinsburg Rd: Dan Emmett, Danville, Centerburg, Columbia Team 1 & Team 2, East and Twin Oak.
The team who moves on and scores the highest amount of points at the championship competition on Thursday, April 4, 6:00 p.m., will be named the “2019 Knox County Battle of the Books Team Champions” and will have their team added to a commemorative plaque.
Knox County Battle of the Books is sponsored by the Central Ohio Technical College, the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County and the Friends of the Library, and community business contributors.
All schools and homeschool groups within the Knox County area are invited to create teams of fifth graders that are interested in using their love of reading in a respectful competition. Teams are up to nine players, six of which compete in each round. For more than six months, students read over 80 books to prepare for this annual competition.
Both events are free and open to the public. Third and fourth graders and coaches interested in participating on a future Knox County Battle of the Books team and their families are encouraged to attend to learn more about this program.
For more information, call the main library at 740-392-2665 (BOOK), visit www.knox.net or email Battle@knox.net.