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LIONS’ NIFTY FIFTY
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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
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•PLEASE CHECK OUT ONE NIFTY FIFTY BOOK AT A TIME.
•WHEN YOU’VE READ ONE, CHECK ANOTHER ONE OUT!
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NONFICTION
Catastrophic events never looked so good!
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REALISTIC FICTION
13 reasons why Hanna committed suicide.
Mature theme
2010 Evergreen Award
Grades 7 and up
Lexile 550
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2010 YRC Award
FANTASY
Secret eternal life, twins in deadly struggle
Cliffhanger ending prepare for second novel
Grades 6-9
Lexile 890
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ROMANCE AND FANTASY
Witch changes Lucinda’s life forever, exciting!
Grade 6-10
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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
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YRC Award
Sequel to "Hunger Games"
Grade 7 and up
SCIENCE FICTION
Won by defying the rules, starts rebellion
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NONFICTION
Historical thriller
Grades 5 and up
12 day search for Lincoln’s killer
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FICTION
AUTHOR VISIT OCT. 26
Evangeline begins quest for perfect kiss!
Grades 8 -11
Lexile 680
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WORKBOOK
Twilight, vocabulary worthy of the SAT
Who’d a thought
Grades 6-12
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FICTION/HUMOROUS
Summer video games, TV, then mom’s ideas.
4th in series
Grades 4-8
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Grade 8 and up
Clairvoyant foretells the sinking of the Titanic and daughters are aboard
HISTORICAL FICTION
Era when spiritualism and science were colliding
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Who will free the slaves? Loyalists? Revolutionaries?
HISTORICAL FICTION
Lexile 780
Grades 6-10
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NONFICTION
EXPLORERS
Scientists battle earth’s most intense conditions
Grades 4-8
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Grades 6-9
Author visit Oct. 26th
Girl gaga, boy bla bla, flip!
REALISTIC FICTION ROMANCE
Lexile 720
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Grades 6-10
1941, challenges of black woman pilot
HISTORICAL FICTION
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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
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Grades 5 and up
FANTASY
Stubby-legged, dark haired boy Norse hero!
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Author Visit February 16
REALISTIC SPORTS FICTION
Grade 7 and up
Shane's personal story of loss, recovery and renewal
Lexile 620
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NONFICITON
DECISION MAKING
The Basics of teen choices: Moral and ethical.
Good ideas for focus class discussions:
Grade 6 and up
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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
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Dad comes back, everything not fine
Grade 5-8
Realistic Fiction
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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
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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
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AUTHOR VISIT IN SPRING!
3rd visit for our mother daughter tea
REALISTIC FICTION
3RD BOOK IN SERIES
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REALISTIC FICTION
SPORTS
AUTHOR VISIT FEBRUARY 16
Grades 8-10
Basketball makes difference in upside-down life
Lexile 630
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GRAPIC NOVEL
Robin Hood retold
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REALISTIC FICTION
SPORTS
AUTHOR VISIT FEBRUARY 16
Grade 8 and up
Josh: heart and mind
Ryan: ability and deviousness
Lexile 670
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Grade 4-6
Companion volume to the National Book Award finalist "Locomotion
FICTION
Letters from a foster child
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YRC NOMINEE
Grade 6 and up
high-altitude adventure
great appeal to survival adventure fans
FICTION ADVENTURE
Lexile 780
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YRC NOMINEE
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Recommended for teens up.-
Young Jane's life is drastically changed after a terrorist attack
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GRAPHIC NOVEL
Firemen burn books
Society controlled
Grades 10 and up
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AUTHOR VISIT OCT. 26
FICTION
Grades 6-8
Holly, homeless for 5 months
Lexile 740
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AUTHOR VISIT FEBRUARUY 16
Grades 7 and up
FICTION
Chance takes a job that proves dangerous
Lexile 670
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YRC NOMINEE
Grades 6-9
FICTION
Cap Anderson biggest nerd in school
Lexile 640
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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.
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Become vampire or stay mortal?
FICTION VAMPIRES
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Graphic Novel
Mom disappears, adventurous kids seek her
Intense mystery-adventure
Grades 5-8
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Well-adjusted kid raised by the dead
Grade 5-8
FICTION SUPERNATURAL
Lexile 820
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Grades 6-8
Lexile: 640L
HUMOROUS FICTION
Middle school organized crime wave stopped
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Food can be cute and tasty!
GRAPHIC NOVEL/COOKBOOK
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SCIENCE FICTION
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze
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Grades 5-9
boarding-school-set fantasy-adventure
Lexile 840
FICTION / ADVENTURE
secret mission for intelligent and inventive children
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YRC NOMINEE
Grades 4-8
Lexile 740
FANTASY/SCIENCE FICTION
Who knew the end of the world could be so hilarious
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Irresponsible mom; who is the grown-up?
Lexile 570
Grades 6-8
FICTION
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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
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Grades 7 and up
FANTASY / FAIRIES
Lexile 700
Aislinn, ability to see faeries is put in power struggle
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Grades 7-10
Gate opens once a year, nightmarish Fae are unleashed on an unsuspecting world
FANTASY
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Adults mysteriously disappear, kids in charge
Grades 7 and up
LEXILE 620
FICTION / GOOD AND EVIL
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NONFICTION
Nine graves are detailed, recreates the lives of colonial settlers.
Grades 6-9
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YRC NOMINEE
Lexile 840
FICTION
Boy tries to fit in a new school