20072008 Lone Star Reading List

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2007-2008Lone Star Reading List
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Gideon the CutpursebyLinda Buckley-Archer

Ignored by his father and sent to Derbyshire
for the weekend, twelve-year-old Peter and his
new friend, Kate, are accidentally transported
back in time to 1763 England where they are
befriended by a reformed cutpurse.
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The Lambkinsby Eve Bunting

Kyle finds himself shrunk to the size of a
doll and living with three other children in a
dollhouse from which there seems to be no escape.
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Avalon HighbyMeg Cabot

Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with
her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie
enrolls at Avalon High School where several
students may or may not be reincarnations of King
Arthur and his court.
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Id Tell You I Love You, but Then Id Have to
Kill YoubyAlly Carter

As a sophomore at a secret spy school and
the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is
sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she
meets a local boy while on a class surveillance
mission.
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The Warrior HeirbyCinda Williams Chima

After learning about his magical ancestry
and his own warrior powers, sixteen-year-old Jack
embarks on a training program to fight enemy
wizards.
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ShugbyJenny Han

• A twelve-year-old girl learns about
  friendship, first loves, and self-worth in a
  small town in the South.

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Airball My Life in BriefsbyLisa Harkrader
Uncoordinated Kansas seventh-grader Kirby
Nickel braves his coach's ire and becomes captain
of the basketball team in order to help him prove
that NBA star Brett McGrew is the father he has
never known.

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La LineabyAnn Jaramillo
When fifteen-year-old Miguel's time finally comes
to leave his poor Mexican village, cross the
border illegally, and join his parents in
California, his younger sister's determination to
join him soon imperils them both.

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Born to RockbyGordon Korman

High school senior Leo Caraway, a
conservative Republican, learns that his
biological father is a punk rock legend.
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Black DuckbyJanet Taylor Lisle

Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story
of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family
and his best friend's family were caught up in
the violent competition among groups trying to
control the local rum-smuggling trade.
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HeatbyMike Lupica
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the
run from social services after being banned from
playing Little League baseball because rival
coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he
has no parents to offer them proof.

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Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of LifebyWendy Mass

Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink
receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his
father before his death five years earlier--that
purportedly contains the meaning of life.
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Shackletons StowawaybyVictoria McKerman
A fictionalized account of the adventures of
eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed
away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic
expedition. After their ship Endurance was
crushed by ice, he endured many hardships,
including the loss of his toes to frostbite,
during the nearly two-year return journey across
sea and ice.

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Out of PatiencebyBrian Meehl
Twelve-year-old Jake Waters cannot wait to
escape the small town of Patience, Kansas, until
the arrival of a cursed toilet plunger causes him
to reevaluate his feelings toward his family and
its history.

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Dairy Queen a NovelbyCatherine Gilbert Murdock

After spending her summer running the family
farm and training the quarterback for her
school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old
D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not
anticipating the reactions of those around her.
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The Wizard, the Witch, and Two Girls from
JerseybyLisa Papademetriou

Bookworm Veronica Lopez and high school
royalty Heather Simms must find their way back
home to New Jersey after being zapped into the
pages of a fantasy novel.
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Notes from the Midnight DriverbyJordan
Sonnenblick

After being assigned to perform community
service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex
befriends a cantankerous old man who has some
lessons to impart about jazz guitar playing,
love, and forgiveness.
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RunawaybyWendelin Van Draanen
After running away from her fifth foster
home, Holly, a twelve-year-old orphan, travels
across the country, keeping a journal of her
experiences and struggle to survive.

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Home, and Other Big, Fat LiesbyJill Wolfson

Eleven-year-old Termite, a foster child with
an eye for the beauty of nature and a talent for
getting into trouble, takes on the loggers in her
new home town when she tries to save the biggest
tree in the forest.