Students from three Santa Maria junior high schools went head-to-head Tuesday during Battle of the Books. The students from Fesler, Arellanes and El Camino junior high schools have been preparing ...

Michie and Walter Graebner — Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Last year’s Battle of Britain will go into the books as one of the most epic—if not the most decisive—in history. It was like Marathon ...

ASHLAND, Ore. – Ashland Middle Schoolers are celebrating a state title they won at Oregon’s Battle of the Books (OBOB) competition. The Oregon Battle of the Books is a reading comprehension program ...

Saturday Review started out with an observation that any casual reader could make: the lists disagree on many books. Example: in 1948, the Times had The Naked and the Dead in first place for 19 ...

Fulton students Zoey French, Rhea Hartranft and Abigail Olcott of the “Leaders of the Readers” pose with their trophies after taking the first place win for the third and fourth grade bracket in the ...

The soaring space is moving as well as beautiful; it evokes all the reverence and hunger for learning, for books ... At the battle, which occurred not far from Puebla's center, on May 5, 1862 ...

Coeur d'Alene School District elementary librarians held their third annual Idaho Battle of the Books district tournament Tuesday evening. The tournament was hosted by Ramsey Magnet School of ...

“In which book does a doctor take a dog home?” This answer would determine additional points, or stolen points, for one of the 33 Battle of the Books teams who attended the quiz-bowl event in Durango ...

Elementary winners, Wintergreen Intermediate: Vibha Anand, Sophie Boomer, Ruby Brimhall, Karena Huang, Jude Jaison, Maggie Locklear, Quinn McConnell, Dev Mundphane ...

Oakwood Elementary emerged victorious in the Hickory City Schools Elementary Battle of the Books competition, scoring 110 points. Coached by Jana Kaylor, the Oakwood team read 16 books and ...

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However, most only a little about what really happened on May 5, a holiday that commemorates the Mexican army's 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War. If ...