The Lone Star Reading List
The Texas Library Association (TLA) began the Lone Star Reading List in 1990 as
a two-year pilot program to encourage reading for middle school students.
This list represents a wide variety of reading subjects and tastes. The
books are chosen by a committee of school and public librarians appointed by
TLA's Young Adult Round Table.
2009 Texas 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, Siobhan. 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.
