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2008/2009 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.

Chance Fortune and the Outlaws	Shane Berryhill (Starscape) Y FIC BER
Pieces of Georgia: A Novel	Jen Bryant (Knopf) Y FIC BRY
Beastly	Alex Flinn (HarperTeen) Y FIC FLI
Dark Water Rising	Marian Hale (Henry Holt) Y FIC HAL
Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures That May or May Not Exist	Kelly Milner Halls (Darby Creek) J 001.944 HA
The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney	Suzanne Harper (Greenwillow Books) Y FIC HAR
The Floating Island: The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme	Elizabeth Haydon (Starscape) Y SCF HAY
Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff	Jennifer L. Holm (Atheneum) Y FIC HOL
Schooled	Gordon Korman (Hyperion) J FIC KOR
Epic	Conor Kostick (Viking) Y SCF KOS
Brothers, Boyfriends, & Other Criminal Minds	April Lurie (Delacorte Press) Y FIC LUR
Breathe: A Ghost Story	Cliff McNish (Carolrhoda Books) Y FIC MAC
What the Moon Saw: A Novel	Laura Resau (Delacorte Press) Y FIC RES
Night of the Howling Dogs	Graham Salisbury (Wendy Lamb) J FIC SAL
The Wednesday Wars	Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion) Y FIC SCH
Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel	Michael Dylan Scott (Delacorte Press) Y FIC SCO
Peak	Roland Smith (Harcourt) Y FIC SMI
Zen and the Art of Faking It	Jordan Sonnenblick (Scholastic) Y FIC SON
First Light	Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books) Y FIC STE
The Mysterious Benedict Society	Trenton Lee Stewart (Little, Brown) J FIC STE

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

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