Novi Public Library's Tenth Annual Battle of the Books is Full of Win.

Novi Public Library's tenth annual Battle of the Books held Saturday, March 23rd was a huge success, as always. Twelve teams of 65 fifth and sixth graders from Novi participated, reading six books and answering questions from each of those books. After intense competition the winning team was Reading Ops 2.0.

This event would not be possible without the generosity of the Friends of the Novi Library. Also, Cold Stone Creamery generously donated coupons for all participants.

The names of the teams and their members are as follows:

1^st Place:  Reading Ops 2.0:  Shiven Acharya, Advay Muchoor, Megha Patri, Eshwar Pitchiah, Ananya Prayagai, Lahari Vavilala. Coach Pitchiah Balasubramanian and Co-Coaches Minu Pitchiah and Mahati Vavilala

2^nd Place:  Invincible Bookworms:  Saketh Addanki, Raveena Joshi, Nishtha Kakar, Suhas Navada, Vinay Panyam, and Ankith Udupa. Coach Vidya Panyam.

 3^rd Place:  Rockin’ Readers:  Nikita Balson, Shivani Bongu, Haarika Karlapati, Saranya Nistala, Neha Surapaneni, Nishika Uppala. Coach Kavitha Karlapati.

Between the Lions: Shrey Devulapalli, Srihari Ganesh, Alvin Li, Parth Nakirkanti, Hardeek Nichanametla, Nikhil Suraparaju. Coaches Sheetal and Shravan Devulapalli

FIM: Naomi Davis, Lily Evans, Lynette Lee, Sherrye Ye. Coach Shalaka Tipnis.

Flying Penguins: Bradley Gamm, Mathew Gamm, Serdar Karahann, Arnav Talukder. Coach Mousumi Sarkar

THE Immortals: Vishnu Bhupathiraju, Rohan Deme, Shishir Kareddy, Meghansh Poreddy, Kishore Sirigiri, Brian Tsang. Coach Venu Bhupathi.

Pageturners: Domenic DeLibero, Ethan DeLibero, Lukas DeLibero, Nicolas DeLibero, Brendan Ireland, Daniel Netter. Coaches Nahed DeLibero and Julie Netter

Reading Warriors: Ajay Arora, Sahas Dandapantula, Michael Hu, Nikhil Mantena, Anika Qureshi, Dhairya Shah. Coach Indira Dandapantula

Team Birds: Johnathan Hong, Ben Wang, Jason Zhang. Coaches Xu Feng and Jin Yang

Team Name: Katie Blaszkiewicz, Carol Dai, Maddie Donberger, Lauren Krill, Linda Weng, Stacey Zeng. Coach Michelle Donberger

The Titans: Jacob Kurkowski, Krish Magal, Jayesh Mate, Sidhak Pawa, Rishabh Rai, Ishan Thaker. Coach Chitra Kandhari

The Novi Public Library regrets to inform you that we transposed the 2^nd and 3^rd place teams. – The 2^nd Place team should have been listed as Invincible Bookworms, and the 3^rd place team the Rockin’ Readers.

 2^nd Place:  Invincible Bookworms:  Saketh Addanki, Raveena Joshi, Nishtha Kakar, Suhas Navada, Vinay Panyam, and Ankith Udupa. Coach Vidya Panyam.

 3^rd Place:  Rockin’ Readers:  Nikita Balson, Shivani Bongu, Haarika Karlapati, Saranya Nistala, Neha Surapaneni, Nishika Uppala. Coach Kavitha Karlapati.

We sincerely apologize for this error.