As grown-ups start to shop for summer reading, school kids are laying into the titles they’ll read for next fall’s Oregon Battle of the Books, or OBOB. It’s a statewide competition, in which kids read ...

If you don’t think of reading as a competitive sport, think again. Several hundred school children from third through 12th grades in Central Oregon are in the throes of a fiercely fought annual war of ...

REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Redmond School District is hosting two friendly Oregon Battle of the Books events prior to the official OBOB regional competitions, which take place later this month.

Three mid-valley elementary schools will send teams April 7 to Chemeketa Community College in Salem for the state Oregon Battle of the Books competition. OBOB teams from Holley School in Sweet Home, ...

Contact: Sara Hamler-Dupras 503-559-3986 shamlerd@uoregon.edu Oregon Battle of the Books State Tournament SALEM, Ore. - The third annual Oregon Battle of the Books (OBOB) State Tournament will be held ...

OBOB pits four-person teams against one another to answer questions about the content of 16 books chosen by OBOB volunteers, most of whom are school librarians. Elementary school book choices this ...