Team members for the Battle of the Books competed January 27, placing fourth overall out of ten schools.  The individual teams did not place, however, the team learned new strategies for next year.

Earlier in the year, the team read different books.  The competition quizzes them on information from the books.  The members are as follows:  Shirley Liu, Mina Shabaz, Armando Hernadez,Mariela Velis, Rocio Guevara, Lorenzo Rubio, Mansi Patel, Melany Ricardo, Yasmine Flores, Rachel Gokay, Matthew Dearing, Leticia Barcenas, and Elena Gutierrez Ramirez.

The Battle of the Books is a Merced High School district event. The competition involves a competitive Educated Reader test requiring some persons within a six person group to know a list of books by heart and answer sometimes obscure questions about the listed books.

The book list will be released around April for next year.  If interested, please see Mrs. DeGough in room 33.