Pride of Lions


Pride of Lions is a program where Washburne students read books from a list of twenty great titles. In the spring, students vote in an official election to choose Washburne’s favorite book—The Pride of Lions!

How can you participate?
  • Read four or more of the twenty Pride of Lions books in the Resource Center.
  • Draw a Pride of Lions logo for the Pride of Lions Logo Contest in February.
  • Write a book review of a Pride of Lions book for the Resource Center blog.
  • Vote for your favorite book during the spring election.
  • Nominate books for next year’s Pride of Lions list.

Here are this year’s titles:

Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer

The Boy Who Couldn’t Die by William Sleator

Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson

Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food by Eric Schlosser

Dead Girls Don't Write Letters by Gail Giles

Drums, Girls, And Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman

Flight 116 is Down by Caroline B. Cooney

High Heat by Carl Deuker

Life as we knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Lion Boy by Zizou Corder

The Loud Silence of Francine Green by Karen Cushman

Murder of Bindy Mackenzie by Jaclyn Moriarty

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes

Sweetblood by Pete Hautman

The Teacher’s Funeral by Richard Peck

Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

Witch Child by Celia Rees