All tweens and teens entering grades 6-10 in September 2016 are invited to join the Edge team for the Battle of the Books competition! Teams from libraries throughout Westchester will compete by answering trivia questions based on 5 different books. Participants will read the pre-selected books over the summer, attend weekly team meetings in September and October, and compete (as a team) in the Westchester Library System Battle of the Books tournament. The tournament takes place on October 15, 2016, at Ossining High School. Team members must agree to read the books and attend team meetings. At the first meeting, commitment forms and parent permission slips will be available. This year, we’re reading the following books: Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan, Every Day by David Levithan, Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer, Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee, Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos  Please email Kathlyn Carroll at with any questions.