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2007/2008 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.

Gideon The Cutpurse: Being the First Part of the Gideon Trilogy	Linda Buckley-Archer (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing) Y FIC BUC
The Lambkins	Eve Bunting (Joanna Cotler) Y FIC BUN
Avalon High	Meg Cabot (Harper Collins Publishers) Y FIC CAB
I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You	Ally Carter (Hyperion) Y FIC CAR
Warrior Heir	Cinda Williams Chima (Hyperion Books for Children) Y FIC CHI
Black Tattoo	Sam Enthoven (Razorbill) Y FIC ENT
Shug	Jenny Han (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) Y FIC HAN
Airball: My Life in Briefs	Lisa Harkrader (Roaring Brook Press) Y FIC HAR
La Linea	Ann Jaramillo (Roaring Brook Press) Y FIC JAR
Born to Rock	Gordon Korman (Hyperion Books for Children) Y FIC KOR
Black Duck	Janet Taylor Lisle (Sleuth/Philomel) Y FIC LIS
Heat	Mike Lupica (Philomel Books) Y FIC LUP
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life	Wendy Mass (Little, Brown & Company) Y FIC MAS
Shackleton’s Stowaway	Victoria McKernan (Random House) Y FIC MAC
Out of Patience	Brian Meehl (Delacorte) Y FIC MEE
Dairy Queen: A Novel	Catherine Gilbert Murdock (Houghton Mifflin) Y FIC MUR
The Wizard, the Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey	Lisa Papademetriou (Razorbill) Y FIC PAP
Notes from the Midnight Driver	Jordan Sonnenblick (Scholastic Press) Y FIC SON
Runaway	Wendelin Van Draanen (Knopf Books for Young Readers) Y FIC VAN
Home, and Other Big, Fat Lies	Jill Wolfson (Scholastic Press) Y FIC WOL

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

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