The 16th annual Battle of the Books has now been fought
The day began with a virtual visit from Natalia Sylvester, the award-winning author of Breathe and Count Back From Ten (and one of our three Battle books). Natalia spoke about the process of writing her novel, and then welcomed questions from the audience.
The Battle began at 2:30. It was a very close race almost until the end, at which point two teams had maintained perfect scores. After a tie-breaking question, Team Tower vanquished Team Headquarters to take on the top spot for their second year running.
Congrats to all of our amazing teens, who spent their summer vacation preparing and ultimately all showing some pretty brilliant reading comprehension for the three novels.
- First Place: Team Tower Road
- Second Place: Team Headquarters
- Third Place: Team Millhopper
Further congrats to teams from Alachua, High Springs, and Waldo, who also scored incredibly well.
For any questions, please contact us at ysref@aclib.us.
And also, a big thank you to the Friends of the Library for their generous contributions that helped to fund this program.
Congratulations to Last Year's Winners
WINNERS
Congratulations to our winners of the 2024 Battle of the Books trivia competition!
1st Place: Tower Road Branch
2nd Place: Headquarters Library
3rd Place: Millhopper Branch
Alachua County teen participants were given free copies of selected books to read over the summer to prepare to flex their trivia skills at the annual Battle of the Books. The competition took place July 19.
Alachua County teens selected the following books for 2025:
- Breathe and Count Back From Ten by Natalia Sylvester
- Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega
- Concealed by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
Thank you to the Alachua County Friends of the Library, for their generous contributions that helped to fund this program.
Hall of Fame
Previous Winning Teams
- (2010) Tower Road Branch
- (2011) Millhopper Branch
- (2012) Headquarters Library
- (2013) Tower Road Branch
- (2014) Tower Road Branch
- (2015) High Springs Branch
- (2016) High Springs Branch
- (2017) Headquarters Library tied with Newberry Branch
- (2018) Headquarters Library tied with Tower Road Branch
- (2019) Headquarters Library
- (2020) Tower Road Branch
- (2021) Millhopper Branch
- (2022) Millhopper Branch
- (2023) Waldo Branch
- (2024) Tower Road Branch
- (2025) Tower Road Branch