The Texas Lone Star Reading List Committee and the Young Adult Round Table are proud to announce the 2009 20th Anniversary Lone Star Reading List!
Bodeen, S.A. The Compound. Feiwel and Friends, 2008.
Brande, Robin. Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature. Knopf, 2007.
Colfer, Eoin. Airman. Hyperion, 2008.
Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. Scholastic, 2008.
Connor, Leslie. Waiting for Normal. Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, 2008.
Deuker, Carl. Gym Candy. Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Dowd, Siobahn. The London Eye Mystery. David Fickling Books/Random House, 2008.
Freitas, Donna. The Possibilities of Sainthood. Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 2008.
Frost, Helen. Diamond Willow. Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 2008.
Gardner, Sally. The Red Necklace: A Story of the French Revolution. Dial, 2008.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Found (The Missing, Book One). Simon & Schuster, 2008.
Herlong, M.H. The Great Wide Sea. Viking, 2008.
Higgins, F.E. The Black Book of Secrets. Feiwel and Friends, 2007.
Meehl, Brian. Suck It Up. Delacorte, 2008.
Pearson, Mary E. The Adoration of Jenna Fox. Henry Holt, 2008.
Pfeffer, Susan Beth. the dead and the gone. Harcourt, 2008.
Shusterman, Neal. Antsy Does Time. Dutton, 2008.
Shusterman, Neal. Unwind. Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Smith, Roland. I, Q.: Independence Hall. Sleeping Bear, 2008.
Ziegler, Jennifer. How Not to be Popular. Delacorte, 2008.
The Texas Lone Star list is 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. Due to the diversity of this age range, Texas librarians should purchase titles on this list according to their individual collection policies. Each book on the list has been favorably reviewed for grades 6, 7, or 8 in a professional review source.
The annotated 2009 Lone Star Reading list and the past Lone Star Reading Lists are located at: http://www.txla.org/groups/yart/lonestarlists.html (The 2009 annotated list will be posted in a few days.)
We hope you and your teens enjoy the books.
Happy Reading!
Jennifer Smith
Texas Lone Star Reading List
Committee Chair 2007-2009
