Battle of the Books competitors As winners of this year's Battle of the Books, Delphi team members are pictured holding the traveling skillet. They are (left to right): Front - Grace Currie, Abbey Mose, Jordan Hudelson, Payton Windell and Grace Mears. 2nd Row - Chloe Fivecoate, Denise Kendall, Jimmy Reed, Amanda Payne and Autumn Britton. 3rd Row (Carroll team members) - Samantha Pickens, Emma Packard, Holly Peters, Aaron Spesard, Tavish Matthews and Rachel Parker. 4th row (Carroll) - Susanna Taylor, Blake Mills, Jackie Tussinger and Alyssa Ingram. Photo provided The Battle of the Books season ended Feb. 26 with the Delphi team being victorious and retaining the prized Bacon Bowl skillet for the third year in a row.

"Teen Read Week" kicked off the season in October with students receiving a list of 10 selected reading books. Competitions were held Feb. 23 at Delphi Community High School and Carroll Jr.- Sr. High School. Teams answered 150 questions chosen from books which appeared on the reading list. A total of 250 students were involved this year.

The winning teams from Carroll and Delphi faced each other for the championship round at Delphi, with Delphi winning 111 to 101.

The county middle school competitions will be March 10 and the Bacon-Bits Bowl will be March 16 at Carroll.