Texas Lonestar Titles

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Texas Lonestar Titles

• 2006-2007

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Bridesmaidby Hailey Abbott

• Abby Carol, sisters, whose parents own and
  operate a hall used for wedding ceremonies
  receptions conclude that within every woman lurks
  Bridezilla so they make a pact to never marry.
• Then Carol falls in love and announces shes
  getting married.
  
• Abby flips.
• All the family is excited and gets involved in
  planning the wedding ,except for Abby.
  
• The family turns out to be their own worst
  customers, bickering over nearly every detail.
  
• Fun read surprise twist ending.

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Never Mind! A Twin NovelBy Avi

• Meg, tall, smart, and pretty, has just been
  invited to join the High Achievers Club at her
  gifted and talented school.
  
• Edward, immature, runty, underachiever, is the
  worlds biggest loser, chooses an alternative
  school.
  
• Meg and Edward are fraternal twins. It is just a
  quirk of fate that we shared a womb way back in
  fetus-hood, says Meg.
  
• Meg, wanting desperately to fit in be popular
  tells friends her brother Ted is tall,
  good-looking and plays in a a rock band.
  
• Edward overhears this and encourages the
  deception by impersonating Ted on the phone.

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Shakespeares Secretby Elise Broach

• Hero Netherfield, named after a character in a
  Shakespearean play, is constantly taunted by
  classmates because of her unusual name.
  
• Heros family moves to Maryland and she meets her
  kindly neighbor Mrs. Roth. She tells Hero that
  they are living in the Murphy Diamond House and
  that a centuries-old, million dollar diamond is
  hidden somewhere in the house.
• Hero, Mrs. Roth and Danny Cordova (the cutest boy
  in the eighth grade) set out to find the
  mysterious hidden diamond piecing together clues
  and becoming fast friends.

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Code Orangeby Caroline Cooney

• Mitty is a gregarious New York City teenager. His
  is also an underachiever as dedicated to avoiding
  study as he is to getting closer to classmate,
  Olivia.
• The night before his biology project, a research
  paper on the infectious disease smallpox, is due
  he stumbles across an old book with an envelope
  containing smallpox scabs tucked inside.
• Worried that he may have been infected with the
  virus Mitty asks Olivia to help him by searching
  for information on the Internet.
  
• This alerts a terrorist group which kidnaps Mitty
  with the intention of using him as a human
  biological weapon.

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Runnerby Carl Deuker

• Seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor and his
  alcoholic father live on a sailboat in a marina
  on Puget Sound.
  
• Chance takes on a 250.00 a week job picking up
  mysterious packages on his daily running route
  and delivering them to the marina. He realizes
  that what he is doing is probably wrong or
  illegal, and most likely very dangerous but the
  money pays for their mooring fees and puts food
  on the table.
• The story unfolds with sinister goings-on,
  murder, last minute heroism and a new life rich
  with possibility

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Last Shotby John Feinstein

• Eighth graders Steven Thomas and Susan Carol
  Anderson are winners of a writing contest. Their
  prize is getting to travel free to the NCAA Final
  Four as journalists.
• Friction develops between the pair until they
  overhear one of the players from Minnesota State
  being blackmailed into throwing the game.
  
• Stevie and Susan Carol team up and try to decide
  what to do with their unexpected knowledge.
  
• A fast-paced tale of celebrity, big business, and
  corruption in basketball arena.
  

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The Ruins of Gorlanby John Flanagan

• Fifteen-year-old Will, an orphan, is rejected by
  battleschool because of his slight build. Instead
  he is apprenticed to the grim-faced , mysterious
  Ranger.
• Will soon learns that becoming a ranger is more
  difficult, dangerous and worthwhile than he ever
  imagined.
  
• In the Rangers secretive corps he learns
  stealth, woodcraft and courage to protect the
  kingdom. Wills aptitude and bravery earn the
  respect and admiration of his gruff master and
  his friends.
• An ancient foe prepares to strike the kingdom and
  launches an epic struggle in the first volume of
  this continuing fantasy.

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Blood Red Horseby K. M. Grant

• This is a story of loyalty, honor, and nobility
  and centers around the lives of two brothers
  Gavin William the fair maiden Eleanor whom
  they leave behind and Williams beloved red horse
  Hosanna, a blood red stallion that is a fierce,
  intelligent, and graceful animal who carries his
  owner William de Granville to Jerusalem and back
  during the Crusaders battles with the leader
  Saladin.
• Characters are caught up in bloody battles as the
  story brings to life the realization that war is
  futile and that as with all wars whether in the
  12th century or the present the consequences are
  devastating.

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Flushby Carl Hiaasen

• Noah and Abbey Underwoods dad sinks a casino
  boat, the Coral Queen , in the coastal waters of
  the Florida Keys and is jailed for the crime. Dad
  believes that the boat owner is illegally dumping
  human waste and raw sewage into these protected
  waters, however he has been unable to prove it.
• Noah and Abbey set out to defend their Dad by
  trying to prove that the casino owner, Dusty
  Muleman is indeed guilty of the dumping. One of
  Dustys former employees, Lice is willing to
  testify against his former boss for a price and
  Shelly, Dustys ex-girlfriend agrees to help by
  putting dye in the ships holding tanks which
  eventually brings the matter to court.

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The Serious Kissby Mary Hogan

• Libby Madrigal, from San Fernando Valley and a
  high school freshman is like most teens,
  mortified by her family. Dad is an alcoholic, mom
  is loud fat and relentlessly cheerful. Older
  brother Rif smokes on the sly and little brother
  Dirk drools. To make matters worse the family
  moves to a Barstow, CA trailer park community
  that is actually a retirement center in the
  desert town.
• Libby is convinced that that one serious kiss
  will help change her life for the better and she
  is in pursuit of that kiss.
  
• Libby forms a new life in this desert town and
  the story ends on a positive note.
  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!

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Twilightby Stephenie Meyer

• Bella has just moved to Forks, Washington to live
  with her father. At her new school she meets an
  aloof, gorgeous and wealthy boy named Edward
  Cullen. His behavior towards her wavers wildly
  between apparent distaste and seductive
  flirtation.
• Edward and his family are vampires. He warns
  Bella away, but it is too late she ignores all
  the other boys and pursues Edward. Edward reveals
  that his clan preys on wildlife rather than
  humans and they resolve to make their
  relationship work.
• A rival clan infiltrates the Cullens territory
  and head straight for Bella. Can Edward save her
  or will he follow suit?

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Airbornby Kenneth Oppel

• Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and
  Kate a wealthy young girl traveling with her
  chaperone, team up to search for the existence of
  mysterious winged creatures reportedly living
  hundreds of feet above the Earths surface, that
  Kates grandfather spoke of before he died.
• Pirates board and attack the airship robbing the
  wealthy passengers and then a severe storm forces
  an emergency landing on an uncharted island in
  the Pacific ocean.
• The island happens to be the hideout of the
  pirates and Matt Kate are captured. Can they
  escape in time to save the airship prove the
  existence of the cloud cats?

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Keeperby Mal Peet

• Soccer reporter Paul Faustino retains an
  interview with brilliant goal-keeper El Gato,
  whose team just won the World Cup.
  
• El Gato, as a child was terrible at sports in a
  soccer-mad town. He retreats to the jungle his
  fellow South American villagers find frightening
  where he encounters a mysterious goalkeeper who
  drills him mercilessly for 2 years.
• When El Gato finishes his training he sets off to
  become a logger like his father but realizes that
  hes become a world-class goalie.
  
• Sports story, adventure story, ghost story? Maybe
  all.

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First Boyby Gary D. Schmidt

• When 14 year-old Cooper Jewetts grandfather dies
  hes left alone on the dairy farm where his
  grandparents had raised him.
  
• He stays and kindly neighbors help out so that he
  manages to get to school and do the daily
  chores.
  
• However, someone is setting fires in his barn and
  big black sedans are cruising in his small town.
  The local senator wants Cooper on his campaign
  trail, but why? Who were Coopers parents and why
  did they abandon him?
• Political intrigue in a quiet thriller.

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Cryptid Huntersby Roland Smith

• This jungle adventure begins when twins Marty
  Grace OHara discover that their parents have
  gone missing.
  
• They join their mysterious uncle, Travis Wolfe,
  on his island in Washington State.
  
• Wolfe is one of the worlds foremost authorities
  on cryptids and is scheduled to look for
  dinosaurs in the African jungle.
  
• Things go awry when an accident plunges Marty
  Grace in to the middle of the Congolese jungle.
  
• The action continues as the twins are pursued by
  the henchmen of the evil Noah Blackwood.

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Drums, Girls, Dangerous Pieby Jordan
Sonnenblick

• Typical 8th grader, Steven Alper is smarter than
  some, a better drummer than most, but with the
  usual girl problems and family trials.
  
• When his 5 year-old brother falls and has a
  nosebleed that wont quit and is diagnosed with
  leukemia things begin to fall apart. His moms
  time is consumed with taking Jeffrey for
  chemotherapy treatments and his dad retreats into
  a shell.
• Steven becomes the forgotten child, so he throws
  himself into his drumming.
  
• Many details about cancer and treatments but
  mostly a story about regrouping, solidarity, love
  hope.

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Missing Abbyby Lee Weatherly

• Thirteen year-old Emma is sad to hear that her
  former friend Abby is missing even though the
  girls had grown apart.
  
• Emma had outgrown the Dungeons Dragons fantasy
  games and Goth dress while Abby became even more
  involved in it.
  
• After Abby mysteriously disappears, Emma becomes
  involved in the search for her and begins to
  question her past treatment of Abby.
  
• Emma slowly becomes involved with Abbys punk
  friends and finds herself slipping back into the
  Goth mode. Ski, a guy she can talk to teams up
  with her and they find themselves in a real live
  action game in their search for Abby.

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Ugliesby Scott Westerfield

• Everyone in Tallys futuristic society is
  considered ugly. At age 16 they all receive the
  same gift. The gift is cosmetic surgery or an
  extreme makeover that will turn each individual
  into a Pretty.
• Tallys best friend Shay suspects that the
  makeover is more than just cosmetic and plans to
  run away. Tally is then blackmailed by the secret
  police (they threaten to leave her ugly) unless
  she locates and turns in her friend.
• Tally finally realizes herself that looks are not
  the only thing changed by the surgery and must
  decide if she is willing to give up herself in
  order to be beautiful.

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Shark Lifeby Karen Wojtyla

• Peter Benchley, author of Jaws, drawing on forty
  years of exploring the ocean offers advice on
  safety and avoiding the dangers of the deep.
  
• This book contains stories and photos about
  unexpected and near-fatal encounters while
  swimming with sharks, barracudas, morays, and
  other ocean life.
• The reader can clearly see that Mr. Benchley has
  learned the lessons he for the advice he imparts
  from personal true life experiences.

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The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kroppby
Richard Yancey

• Alfred is plunged into a world of adventure,
  assassination, and Arthurian legend when he
  agrees to help his uncle filch an ancient sword
  from the office of a CEO who just happens to be a
  descendent of the Knights of the Round Table.
• The sword turns out to be Excalibur, and the guy
  that Alfred swiped it for is Mogart, a
  knight-gone-bad who hopes to use its magical
  powers to take over the world..
• Enter Bennacio, another descendent of the Round
  Table, who then takes Alfred under his wing on a
  quest across the Atlantic to rescue the sword
  from Mogart.