2026 Battle of The Books

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2026 Battle of The Books

May 9 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Free

2026 BATTLE OF THE BOOKS

The Robert H. Jackson Center welcomes enthusiastic middle school students to this year's Battle of the Books on Saturday, May 9, 2025 2 - 4 p.m.

The teams have been reading the books over the last several months, and now it is time to see how well they know them.

Thank you to our sponsors the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and Cummins Jamestown Engine Plant for their support of this event.

The Books:

Grade 6

  • J vs. K — Jerry Craft & Kwame Alexander
  • Impossible Creatures — Katherine Rundell
  • Fish in a Tree — Lynda Mullaly Hunt
  • Amari and the Night Brothers — B. B. Alston

Grade 7

  • New Kid — Jerry Craft
  • Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis' Secret Code — Rebecca E. F. Barone
  • Greenglass House — Kate Milford
  • SOAR — Joan Bauer

Grade 8

  • Amulet (Book 1)Kazu Kibuishi
  • City Spies — James Ponti
  • Victory. Stand!: Rising My Fist for Justice — Tommie Smith
  • Uprising — Margaret Peterson Haddix

Join the audience for this delightful, rapid fire experience on Saturday, May 9, 2026, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Details

Date:
May 9
Time:
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:
Website:
www.roberthjackson.org/events/battle-of-the-books

Organizer

Venue

The Robert H. Jackson Center
305 E 4th ST
Jamestown, NY 14701 United States
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Phone
716-483-6646
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Program Content Disclaimer

The Robert H. Jackson Center is a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization that is dedicated to presenting accurate and balanced information about complex issues. The opinions expressed by various guest speakers, panelists, and authors do not necessarily reflect the views of the Center, its Board, and supporters.

The Center fulfills its educational mission by welcoming diverse views and by providing a forum to explore a wide range of perspectives on often controversial legal and public policy issues. While we make an effort to ensure the information we provide is accurate and balanced, we welcome your comments, suggestions, or correction of any factual errors.

Since 2001, the Robert H. Jackson Center has preserved the values embodied in the life and works of Robert H. Jackson, who served as U.S. Solicitor General, U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and Chief U.S. Prosecutor of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Through programs, presentations, exhibits, media, internships, and scholarship, the Center seeks to demonstrate to current and future generations the relevance and applicability of Justice Jackson’s ideas and writings. The Center provides educational content on the United States Constitution and Supreme Court, civil rights, the legacy of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and international human rights, and the rule of law. During his illustrious career, Justice Jackson addressed these subjects, and the Center recognizes his thinking remains relevant today.

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