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2003/2004 Lone Star Reading List

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A recommended reading list developed by public and school librarians from the Young Adult Round Table. The purpose of the list is to encourage students in grades 6, 7, or 8 to explore a variety of current books. The Lone Star List is intended for recreational reading, not to support a specific curriculum.

Crispin: The Cross of Lead	Avi (Hyperion) Y FIC Avi
What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows	Nora Raleigh Baskin (Little, Brown) Y FIC Bas
A Matter of Profit	Hilari Bell (HarperCollins) Y SCF Bel
All-American Girl	Meg Cabot (HarperCollins) Y FIC Cab
Things Not Seen	Andrew Clements (Philomel) Y SCF Cle
Goddess of Yesterday	Caroline Cooney (Delacorte) Y FIC Coo
Say Yes	Audrey Couloumbis (Putnam) Y FIC Cou
Beatnik Rutabagas from Beyond the Stars	Quentin Dodd (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) Y SCF Dod
Rat Boys: A Dating Experiment	Thom Eberhardt (Hyperion) Y FIC Ebe
Hoot	Carl Hiaasen (Knopf) Y FIC Hia
Point Blank	Anthony Horowitz (Philomel) Y FIC Hor
The Hunting of the Last Dragon	Sherryl Jordan (HarperCollins) Y FIC Jor
This Side of Paradise	Steven L. Layne (Pelican) Y FIC Lay
Dunk	David Lubar (Clarion) Y FIC Lub
How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found	Sara Nickerson (HarperCollins) Y M Nic
Playing the Field	Janette Rallison (Walker & Co.) Y FIC Ral
Straw into Gold	Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion) Y FIC Sch
Black-Eyed Suzie	Susan Shaw (Boyds Mills) Y FIC Sha
What My Mother Doesn't Know	Sonya Sones (Simon & Schuster) Y FIC Son
The Edge on the Sword	Rebecca Tingle (Putnam) Y FIC Tin

For more information about this award visit the Lone Star Reading List Web page.

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