Search Your Library for Lonestar Titles
Below is the 2008-09 Texas Lone Star Reading List. Recommended for grades 6-8 by a committee within the Texas Library Association, these titles represent some of the best recently published literature for young persons. Click here to find out more about the Lone Star list. .
Berryhill, Shane. Chance Fortune and the Outlaws. Starscape, 2006.
Bryant, Jen. Pieces of Georgia: a Novel Knopf, 2006.
Flinn, Alex. Beastly. HarperTeen, 2007.
Hale, Marian. Dark Water Rising. Holt, 2006.
Halls, Kelly Milner. Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures that May or May not Exist. Darby Creek, 2006.
Harper, Suzanne. The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney. Greenwillow, 2007.
Haydon, Elizabeth. The Floating Island: The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme. Starscape, 2006.
Holm, Jennifer L. Middle School is Worse than Meathloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff. Atheneum, 2007.
Korman, Gordon. Schooled. Hyperion, 2007.
Kostick, Conor. Epic. Viking, 2007.
Lurie, April. Brogher, Boyfriends, & Other Criminal Minds. Delacorte, 2007.
McNish, Cliff. Breathe: A Ghost Story. Carolrhoda, 2006.
Resau, Laura. What the Moon Saw: A Novel. Delacorte, 2006.
Salisbury, Graham. Night of the Howling Dogs.Wendy Lamb, 2007.
Schmidt, Gary D.. The Wednesday Wars. Clarion, 2007.
Scott, Michael. Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. Delacorte, 2007.
Smith, Roland. Peak. Harcourt, 2007.
Sonneblick, Jordan. Zen and the Art of Faking It. Scholastic, 2007.
Stead, Rebecca. First Light. Wendy Lamb, 2007.
Stewart, Trenton Lee. The Mysterious Benedict Society. Little, Brown, 2007.