Eleven teams of Clallam County fourth-graders will do battle in a trivia-style competition at 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 25, at the Port Angeles Library in “Battle of the Books 2016.”

The event is the culmination of a year-long collaborative project among the North Olympic Library System, the Sequim, Port Angeles, Quillayute Valley and Crescent School districts and Queen of Angels.

Throughout the year, more than 180 fourth-graders participated in the program, each of whom received free copies of the five books read as part of the project.

The students also received a T-shirt featuring art created by a fellow student during a design contest held last year.

This year’s participating schools include Greywolf, Helen Haller, Olympic Peninsula Academy, Franklin, Roosevelt, Jefferson, Forks Intermediate, Queen of Angels, Crescent, Dry Creek and Hamilton elementary schools.

For five months prior to the final competition, library staff led book club discussions at each of the schools to help support and encourage student reading. Books read during the year included “Flora and Ulysess” by Kate DiCamillo; “Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library” by Chris Grabenstein; “Bud, Not Buddy” by Christopher Paul Curtis; “Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key” by Jack Gantos and “Fortunately, the Milk” by Neil Gaiman.

The competition will include trivia questions about each book.

“The program is designed to encourage kids to be lifelong readers,” youth services librarian Jennifer Knight said. “We want reading to be fun — having a Battle of the Books program is a way to cultivate that.”

For information, see www.nols.org, call 417-8500 ext. 7705, or send an e-mail to youth@nols.org.