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LIONS’ NIFTY FIFTY

LIONS’ NIFTY FIFTY

• School wide reading program

• All year

• Read a book, discuss it with Mrs. Janzen, and your name will be entered in a drawing

• Win NIFTY prizes

• Random drawings twice a month

•PLEASE CHECK OUT ONE NIFTY FIFTY BOOK AT A TIME.

•WHEN YOU’VE READ ONE, CHECK ANOTHER ONE OUT!

NONFICTION

Catastrophic events never looked so good!

REALISTIC FICTION

13 reasons why Hanna committed suicide.

Mature theme

2010 Evergreen Award

Grades 7 and up

Lexile 550

2010 YRC Award

FANTASY

Secret eternal life, twins in deadly struggle

Cliffhanger ending prepare for second novel

Grades 6-9

Lexile 890

ROMANCE AND FANTASY

Witch changes Lucinda’s life forever, exciting!

Grade 6-10

YRC AWARD

Dashti imprisoned, new suitors, new danger

FANTASY/FAIRY TALE

Grade 5-9

forgotten but classic fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm

Lexile 850

YRC Award

Sequel to "Hunger Games"

Grade 7 and up

SCIENCE FICTION

Won by defying the rules, starts rebellion

NONFICTION

Historical thriller

Grades 5 and up

12 day search for Lincoln’s killer

FICTION

AUTHOR VISIT OCT. 26

Evangeline begins quest for perfect kiss!

Grades 8 -11

Lexile 680

WORKBOOK

Twilight, vocabulary worthy of the SAT

Who’d a thought

Grades 6-12

FICTION/HUMOROUS

Summer video games, TV, then mom’s ideas.

4th in series

Grades 4-8

Grade 8 and up

Clairvoyant foretells the sinking of the Titanic and daughters are aboard

HISTORICAL FICTION

Era when spiritualism and science were colliding

Who will free the slaves? Loyalists? Revolutionaries?

HISTORICAL FICTION

Lexile 780

Grades 6-10

NONFICTION

EXPLORERS

Scientists battle earth’s most intense conditions

Grades 4-8

Grades 6-9

Author visit Oct. 26th

Girl gaga, boy bla bla, flip!

REALISTIC FICTION ROMANCE

Lexile 720

Grades 6-10

1941, challenges of black woman pilot

HISTORICAL FICTION

Grade 7-10

REALISTIC SPORTS FICTION

Young football player struggles for success

Author visit February 16th

All 7th grade football team has read the book

Lexile 710

Grades 5 and up

FANTASY

Stubby-legged, dark haired boy Norse hero!

Author Visit February 16

REALISTIC SPORTS FICTION

Grade 7 and up

Shane's personal story of loss, recovery and renewal

Lexile 620

NONFICITON

DECISION MAKING

The Basics of teen choices: Moral and ethical.

Good ideas for focus class discussions:

Grade 6 and up

Evil space guys

Lots of laughs

GRAPHIC NOVEL

Grade 4-6

popular French comic lands in the U.S.

power-hungry, bloodthirsty aliens determined to rule

Dad comes back, everything not fine

Grade 5-8

Realistic Fiction

Grades 7 and up

SCIENCE FICTION

STEAM PUNK GENRE

(True historical or future time period with interesting twists in technology)

Alternate 1914 Austria, two boys meet against powers

Grade 6-9

FICTION

Twins, Sophi and Josh, once again on the run from Dr. John Dee and the Dark Elders who are trying to obtain the book of Abraham

AUTHOR VISIT IN SPRING!

3rd visit for our mother daughter tea

REALISTIC FICTION

3RD BOOK IN SERIES

REALISTIC FICTION

SPORTS

AUTHOR VISIT FEBRUARY 16

Grades 8-10

Basketball makes difference in upside-down life

Lexile 630

GRAPIC NOVEL

Robin Hood retold

REALISTIC FICTION

SPORTS

AUTHOR VISIT FEBRUARY 16

Grade 8 and up

Josh: heart and mind

Ryan: ability and deviousness

Lexile 670

Grade 4-6

Companion volume to the National Book Award finalist "Locomotion

FICTION

Letters from a foster child

YRC NOMINEE

Grade 6 and up

high-altitude adventure

great appeal to survival adventure fans

FICTION ADVENTURE

Lexile 780

YRC NOMINEE

GRAPHIC NOVEL

Recommended for teens up.-

Young Jane's life is drastically changed after a terrorist attack

GRAPHIC NOVEL

Firemen burn books

Society controlled

Grades 10 and up

AUTHOR VISIT OCT. 26

FICTION

Grades 6-8

Holly, homeless for 5 months

Lexile 740

AUTHOR VISIT FEBRUARUY 16

Grades 7 and up

FICTION

Chance takes a job that proves dangerous

Lexile 670

YRC NOMINEE

Grades 6-9

FICTION

Cap Anderson biggest nerd in school

Lexile 640

YRC NOMINEE

Grade 5-8

FANTASY

Lexile 760

Stephanie is swept into a world of magic, secrets, power, and intrigue as she and Skulduggery try to keep one step ahead of Serpine.

Become vampire or stay mortal?

FICTION VAMPIRES

Graphic Novel

Mom disappears, adventurous kids seek her

Intense mystery-adventure

Grades 5-8

Well-adjusted kid raised by the dead

Grade 5-8

FICTION SUPERNATURAL

Lexile 820

Grades 6-8

Lexile: 640L 

HUMOROUS FICTION

Middle school organized crime wave stopped

Food can be cute and tasty!

GRAPHIC NOVEL/COOKBOOK

SCIENCE FICTION

Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze

Grades 5-9

boarding-school-set fantasy-adventure

Lexile 840

FICTION / ADVENTURE

secret mission for intelligent and inventive children

YRC NOMINEE

Grades 4-8

Lexile 740

FANTASY/SCIENCE FICTION

Who knew the end of the world could be so hilarious

Irresponsible mom; who is the grown-up?

Lexile 570

Grades 6-8

FICTION

Grades 5-8

FICTION / SPACE AND TIME

(Combining smidgens of historical fiction, science fiction and realism)

Miranda suddenly begins receiving mysterious notes that seem to predict the future

Grades 7 and up

FANTASY / FAIRIES

Lexile 700

Aislinn, ability to see faeries is put in power struggle

Grades 7-10

Gate opens once a year, nightmarish Fae are unleashed on an unsuspecting world

FANTASY

Adults mysteriously disappear, kids in charge

Grades 7 and up

LEXILE 620

FICTION / GOOD AND EVIL

NONFICTION

Nine graves are detailed, recreates the lives of colonial settlers.

Grades 6-9

YRC NOMINEE

Lexile 840

FICTION

Boy tries to fit in a new school