lis reads - lis lê choices: years 7-9
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Which LIS Reads - LIS Lê books will you read in 2015?TRANSCRIPT
LIS Reads – LIS Lê
Jan-Feb 2015
Which Relationships titles will you
choose?
Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn't kept her from leading a quietly happy life . . . until now.
Suddenly Willow's world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. The triumph of this book is that it is not a tragedy. This extraordinarily odd, but extraordinarily endearing, girl manages to push through her grief. Her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable surrogate family is a joy and a revelation to read.
LIS Reads – LIS Lê
Jan-Feb 2015
Which Relationships titles will you choose?
Ever since a deeply unfortunate incident earlier this year, Reggie's been known as "Pukey" McKnight at his high-intensity Brooklyn middle school. He wants to turn his image around, but he has other things on his mind as well: his father, who's out of a job; his best friends, Ruthie and Joe C.; his former best friend Donovan, who's now become a jerk; and of course, the beautiful Mialonie.
The elections for school president are coming up, but with his notorious nickname and "nothing" social status, Reggie wouldn't stand a chance, if he even had the courage to run.
LIS Reads – LIS Lê
Jan-Feb 2015
Which Relationships titles will you choose?
LIS Reads – LIS Lê
Jan-Feb 2015
Which Relationships titles will you
choose?Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon Over Mississippi, she's a terrible singer. Instead she's the set designer for the stage crew, and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget.
But how can she, when she doesn't know much about carpentry, ticket sales are down, and the crew members are having trouble working together? Not to mention the onstage AND offstage drama that occurs once the actors are chosen, and when two cute brothers enter the picture, things get even crazier!
Following the success of SMILE, Raina Telgemeier brings us another graphic novel featuring a diverse set of characters that humorously explores friendship, crushes, and all-around drama!
LIS Reads – LIS Lê
Jan-Feb 2015
Which Relationships titles will you
choose?Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school—but no one knows it. Most people—her teachers and doctors included—don't think she's capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons again and again and again.
If only she could speak up, if only she could tell people what she thinks and knows . . . but she can't, because Melody can't talk. She can't walk. She can't write. Being stuck inside her head is making Melody go out of her mind—that is, until she discovers something that will allow her to speak for the first time ever. At last Melody has a voice . . . but not everyone around her is ready to hear it.
LIS Reads – LIS Lê
March-April 2015
Which fantasy/SciFi titles will you
choose?
LIS Reads – LIS Lê
March-April 2015
Which fantasy/SciFi titles will you
choose?
Maddy should have died in a plane crash. Liam should have died at sea when the Titanic sank. Sal should have died in a tragic fire. But a mysterious man whisked them away to safety.
Maddy, Liam, and Sal quickly learn that time travel is no longer just a hope for the future; it is a dangerous reality. And they weren't just rescued from their terrible fates. . . they were recruited for the agency of TimeRiders created to protect the world from those seeking to alter the course of history for personal gain. By reliving the highly documented events in New York City on 9/11, they can closely monitor history for any deviations—large or small. When just such a change is detected, they are alerted that a threat is at hand unleashing the evil of the Nazis to wreak havoc with Earth's present and future. Can Maddy, Liam, and Sal fulfill their destinies as keepers of time to save the world from utter destruction?
LIS Reads – LIS Lê
March-April 2015
Which fantasy/SciFi titles will you
choose?
In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young. There are teens, but not one single adult. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened. Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents—unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers—that grow stronger by the day.
It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: on your birthday, you disappear just like everyone else. . . .
LIS Reads – LIS Lê
March-April 2015
Which fantasy/SciFi titles will you
choose?Young Wataru Mitani's life is a mess. His father has abandoned him and his mother has been hospitalized after a suicide attempt. Desperately he searches for some way to change his life—a way to alter his fate.
To achieve his goal, he must navigate the magical world of Vision, a land filled with creatures both fierce and friendly. And to complicate matters, he must outwit a merciless rival from the real world.
Wataru's ultimate destination is the Tower of Destiny where a goddess of fate awaits. Only when he has finished his journey and collected five elusive gemstones will he possess the Demon's Bane—the key that will unlock his future.
Charity, bravery, faith, grace and the power of darkness and light: these are the provinces of each gemstone. Brought together, they have the immeasurable power to bring Wataru's family back together again.
LIS Reads – LIS Lê
May-June 2015
Which funny titles will you choose?
LIS Reads – LIS Lê
May-June 2015
Which funny titles will you choose?
Twelve-year-old Owen Birnbaum is the fattest kid in school. But he’s also a genius who invents cool contraptions like a TV that shows the past. Something happened two years ago that he needs to see. But genius or not, there is much Owen can’t outthink. Like his gym coach, who’s on a mission to humiliate him. Or the way his Oreos keep disappearing from his lunch.
He’s sure that if he can only get the TV to work, things will start to make sense. But it will take a revelation for Owen, not science, to see the answers not in the past, but the present. That no matter how large he is on the outside, he doesn’t have to feel small on the inside.
LIS Reads – LIS Lê
May-June 2015
Which funny titles will you choose?
When Donovan Curtis pulls a major prank at his middle school, he thinks he's finally gone too far. But thanks to a mix-up by one of the administrators, instead of getting in trouble, Donovan is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students.
Although it wasn't exactly what Donovan had intended, the ASD couldn't be a more perfectly unexpected hideout for someone like him. But as the students and teachers of ASD grow to realize that Donovan may not be good at math or science (or just about anything), he shows that his gifts may be exactly what the ASD students never knew they needed.
LIS Reads – LIS Lê
May-June 2015
Which funny titles will you choose?
Kevin doesn't mean to make trouble when he lies. He's just really good at it, and it makes life so much easier.
But as his lies pile up, he finds himself in big--and funny--trouble with his friends, family, and teachers.
He's got to find a way to end his lying streak--forever.
LIS Reads – LIS Lê
Jan-June 2015
Which Portuguese titles will you
choose?
LIS Reads – LIS Lê
Jan-June 2015
Which Portuguese relationships
titles will you choose?Margarida Fonseca Santos, em Uma questão de azul-escuro, aborda de uma forma bastante sensível e intimidativa um tema muito actual, o Bullying, que é um comportamento consciente, intencional, deliberado, hostil e repetido, de uma ou mais pessoas, cuja intençãoé ferir os outros.
Luís é um menino do primeiro ciclo que, um dia, aopassar no Beco da Agonia, um local pouco iluminado, foisurpreendido por dois rapazes mais velhos que o agrediram, deixando-lhe o corpo cheio de manchas azuis.
Toda a história se desenrola a partir do momento em quea professora de ginástica descobre…
LIS Reads – LIS Lê
Jan-June 2015
Which Portuguese relationships
titles will you choose?Um homem desconhecido tenta salvar da morte um suicida. De seguida, espalha a mensagem que a sociedade moderna se tornounum manicómio global. O seu discurso fresco e irreverente conquistaas pessoas, habituadas a frases feitas e ao «politicamente correcto», ao mesmo tempo que as assusta. O que pensar de um estranho com ar de pedinte que fala da importância de vender sonhos ao serhumano? Uma ideia maravilhosa, mas invulgar… Numa época em quenos habituamos ao ritmo e às exigências desmesuradas de um relógio que não pára, libertarmo-nos das grilhetas da rotina e recuperarmos a consciência do que é, de facto, importante nesta vidapode ser assustador. Mas é fundamental!
Ao longo deste romance poderá seguir os passos de um Vendedor de Sonhos, uma personagem fascinante que nos deixa na dúvida se se trata de um sábio ou do mais louco dos seres?! Uma história que o fará chorar, rir, e, certamente, mudar a sua vida.
LIS Reads – LIS Lê
Jan-June 2015
Which Portuguese fantasy title will
you read?A acção desenrola-se em torno de um pacatodistribuidor de pizas e de uma misteriosarapariga ruiva que de repente se vêem no outro lado da cidade [do Porto] e que acabam porchegar a uma ilha em forma de chifre que nãovem em mapa nenhum - a Ilha do Chifre de Ouro!
Uma aventura empolgante e enternecedora, a confirmar as (re)conhecidas qualidadesliterárias de Álvaro Magalhães.
LIS Reads – LIS Lê
Jan-June 2015
Which Portuguese funny title will
you read?
Vivaldo Bonfim é um escriturário entediado queleva romances e novelas para a repartição de finanças onde está empregado. Um dia, enquantofinge trabalhar, perde-se na leitura e desaparecedeste mundo.
Esta é a sua verdadeira história — contada naprimeira pessoa pelo filho, Elias Bonfim, que irá àprocura do seu pai, percorrendo clássicos da literatura cheios de assassinos, paixõesdevastadoras, feras e outros perigos feitos de letras.