FUEL hosted their annual Battle of the Books last month, with 25 teams in competition. The winning team of Battle was the Knights of the Periodic Table (Blake Gokey, Leo Heydel, Jonathan Oatley, Soren Tess) They scored 32 points out of 40 possible points. They were beyond happy! Special note that they each had a sticky note on their shirt with a different element: Na (Sodium), Ri (Rhodium), Au (Gold), and Ne (Neon). The runner up team was Starbook's Frappuccino (Alma Cohoon, August Molnar, Zara Peterson), with a close 29 points. The winning team will have their names engraved on a Battle plaque that hangs at the school.

The winner of Best Team Name was The Three Flufferoony's (Phoebe Duncan, Evie Takashima, Ariana Vultaggio). They each got a Best Team Name button and as you can see from the picture they were very excited to have won.

This year's book list included:

• Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff (Realistic fiction)

• Frizzy by Claribel Ortega (Graphic novel)

• Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun by Tola Okogwu (Fantasy)

• Aniana del Mar Jumps In by Jasminne Mendez (Novel in verse)

• Nikhil Out Loud by Maulik Pancholy (Realistic fiction)

• Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Fantasy)