Hello again everybody! Sorry I haven’t been posting anything(I’ve been a bit busy)😉 Anyway… I’m back with the new OBOB 2021 book list for all the 3rd to 5th graders who want to be in OBOB this next year(I’m one of them)! I hope lots of kids, from 3rd grade to 12th, decide to try out OBOB this year. Or maybe some of you are coming back to try again! So, for kids young and old, may I present to you the great OBOB list for 2021:

-Before They Were Authors by Elizabeth Haidle: This book shares the story of 10 fabulous authors telling what inspired them and what creates a writer.

-Bob by Wendy Mass & Rebecca Stead: When 10-year-old Livy goes to visit her grandmother in Australia, she remembers the promise she made five years ago to Bob, a green, weird creature who can’t seem to recall what he is.

-A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold: Bixby (known as Bat) falls in love with the baby skunk kit that Bat’s mom, a veterinarian, brings home until it can go to a wild-animal shelter. Now, all he has to do is convince his mom to keep the kit.

-Changeling by William Ritter: Two 12-year-olds who were raised as human twins, leave their town, sleepy Endsborough, to venture off to the Wild Woods, Oddmire Swamp, and the Deep Dark to see which one of them is a goblin changeling that has a very important mission.

-The Dragonet Prophecy by Tui T. Sutherland: All seven dragon tribes have been at war for longer than anyone can count, battling for a ancient and lost treasure. But when the dragonets of destiny are born and try to stop the battle, they instead find themselves smack dab in the middle of it.

-El Deafo by Cece Bell: In this book the author, Cece Bell, tells about her hearing lost when she was young and shares her experience with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful and awkward hearing aid.

-Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton: Olemann, a 8-year-old child who wants nothing more but to be able to read, begs her father to let her go to a school located far north of Canada. When she arrives she meets a mean nun who calls her Margaret instead of Olemaun who can’t seem to “educate” her into submission.

-Front Desk by Kelly Yang: Mia Tang is a 10-year-old and her parents are recent immigrants from China. They are longing for work and money so when they find a job open for managing a beat up old motel in Southern California, they take take it. Now Mia has to work up a the front desk and learn to handle demanding, bossy, and angry customers.

-The Night Fairy by Laura Amy Schlitz: Flora is a creature called a night fairy. But when Flora’s wings get broken, she has to face a challenge to do everything differently.

-Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin: 4 young children from all different parts of the country face different circumstances find their lives intersecting as the events of September 11, 2001 begin.

-Power Forward by Hena Khan: Zayd, a fourth grader, would love to be on the basketball team called the Gold Team. He practices a lot, but when he skips orchestra rehearsal to practice, his parents forbid anything that is basketball relented and tryouts are coming up fast.

-Small Spaces by Katherine Arden: When 10-year-old Ollie’s school bus suddenly breaks down in the middle of nowhere, she and her friends, Brian and Coco, venture away from the bus and into the woods where they are forced to stick to small spaces and use their own wits to survive.

-Space Case by Stuart Gibbs: dashiel Gibson lives on Moon Base Alpha and now has to solve a murder mystery of the Moon’s most important docter.

-Unusual Chickens For The Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly Jones: 12-year-old Sophie Brown tells about the big movie to Great-Uncle-Jim’s farm and how she manages to take of some very unusual chickens, all through letters.

-The Vanderbeekers at 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser: When the Vanderbeekers are told they must move out of their Harlem Brownstone right after Christmas, all five of the Vanderbeeker children, age 4-12, decide to try and change their landlord’s mind.

-A Wolf Called Wander by Rosanne Perry: one young wolf gets separated from his pack and he has to journey 1,000 miles across the Pacific Northwest while facing dangers like forest fires, angry hunters, highways, and hunger before settling into a new home.

Those are all the 3rd-5th grade OBOB books. Maybe you found some books that you just want to read for fun! I have already read Small Spaces, A Boy Called Bat, and Unusual Chickens For The Exceptional Poultry Farmer. They were all really good. Bye for now!