Every year around this time I become completely obsessed with the School Library Journal Battle of the Books competition. If you aren't familiar with it, it's a nearly month long contest that rounds up elite children's/YA authors to judge head-to-head contests between a variety of books ranging from Middle Grade to Non-fiction to YA. The books are assigned to brackets, and one book from each bracket is eliminated, the other advancing to the next round and so forth until the final battle.