LONE STAR TITLES 20042005

1
LONE STAR TITLES 2004-2005

• Recommended by the Texas Library Association for
  Grades 6-8

2
Sponsored by Texas Library Association

• The Lone Star list is a list of 20 fiction
  books specifically recommended for readers in
  grades 68. It includes a variety of different
  types of fiction such
• as historical, science fiction, fantasy,
• realistic fiction and more.

3
Suspense

• A suspense novel by Elaine Alphin
• Ian was the last person to see his friend
  aliveand he cant remember what happened. Why
  is there a bruise on his face? How can he find
  out what really happened, and who his father
  really is?

4
Romance

• When a 14 year old princess finds herself
  transformed into a frog, she and the frog prince
  must make a zany journey to return themselves to
  human form!
• Written by E.D. Baker

5
Humor / Realistic Fiction

• By Rachel Cohn
• Seventh grader Annabel travels to Australia to
  meet her new stepsand to try to convince her
  father to move back to the States.

6
Like Sports?

• By Carl Deuker
• Shanes life fell apart when his father was
  arrested. Starting at a new school, Shane falls
  in with a bad crowd. Can his baseball coach help
  him improve his game and his life?

7
Science Fiction

• Author Jeanne DuPrau
• Ember, an underground city of the future, is
  dying as the source of electricity is almost used
  up. Lina gets a job as a messenger in order to
  find a way to save her city.

8
Realistic Fiction

• Fourteen-year-old Logan develops a strong bond
  with Jack, a stray dog, but their relationship is
  threatened when a deadly disease emerges which
  causes canines to turn vicious before they die -
  and has humans reacting in a typically irrational
  manner.
• By Daniel Ehrenhaft

9
Do You Like Your Fairy Tales with a
Touch of Humor?

• By Jean Ferris
• Christian becomes part of castle life just to be
  near Princess Marigoldand then has to save her
  from her evil mother, who would like to see her
  dead!

10
Is Stealing the Answer?

• Raspberrys obsession with money has gotten
  worseand now her mother is in the hospital and
  her father shows up begging for money. Will
  stealing from her friend Zora solve her problems?
• Is a sequel to Money Hungry and both are by
  Sharon Flake

11
Realistic Fiction

• For Jes, normal life is slipping away. Her mother
  is getting married and is preoccupied with
  planning the perfect wedding. And if one fool in
  love is not enough, Jess best girlfriend has
  fallen for a complete jerk. To make matters
  worse, Jes also has to deal with her soon-to-be
  stepsister, who has come to stay for a month
  before the wedding. A half-crazed mother, a
  lovesick friend, a perfectly evil stepsister
  could things for Jes get any worse?
• Written by Gayle Friesen

12
Biography and Humor

• Before daredevil reality TV shows, there was 13
  year-old Gary Paulsen and his friendssnow skiing
  behind a car, wrestling a bear, crashing over
  waterfalls in a barrel and more. You will laugh
  until your sides hurt!
• By Gary Paulsen, author of Hatchet

13
Baseball

• By John H. Ritter, author of Over the Wall and
  Choosing Up Sides
• The fate of the towns baseball field falls to
  Tom Gallagher and the outcome of a single game.
  Into town rides mysterious Cruz de la Cruz, a
  baseball legend who raises the hopes of the
  townies and brings a pro baseball hermit out of
  hiding to help.

14
Science Fiction

• When Darryl, a twelve-year-old orphan, is adopted
  by a technology genius, he finds himself the star
  of his very own life-threatening video game.
• By Tor Seidler

15
Do you like Fantasy?

• Eragon tells the story of a farm boy who
  discovers a dragon's egg. When it hatches, he
  becomes friends with the beast. After a gang of
  evil creatures ransack the farm and kill his
  uncle, he sets out on a quest for revenge. The
  plot includes an empire ruled by a tyrant, a wise
  old magician, elves, dwarves, a secret kingdom,
  bloody battles and beautiful maidens.
• By Christopher Paolini, who started the book when
  he was fourteen years old.

16
Thrills and Chills

• By writer Neal Shusterman
• When Blake goes to a mysterious carnival he
  somehow knows that it could save his comatose
  brother, but soon learns that much more is at
  stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented
  there.

17
Virtual Reality Gaming

• By Vivian Vande Velde
• In Heir Apparent there are as many ways to win as
  there are to get killed. To survive, Giannine has
  to get the magic ring, find the stolen treasure,
  answer the dwarf's dumb riddles, come up with a
  poem for the head-chopping statue, cope with the
  army of ghosts, outmaneuver her half brothers,
  and defeat the man-eating dragon.
• If she can do all of that, why, she just might
  save her own life!

18
Part Mystery / Part Animal Fiction!

• Written by Michael Hoye, and continues the
  adventures of Hermux Tantamoq, mouse and
  watchmaker
• Despite fierce opposition from mouse supremacists
  and other residents of Pinchester, three mice
  team up with an old chipmunk to prove that there
  existed, long before the time of mice, a Cat
  Kingdom.

19
Want to Laugh?

• Jake Semple is notorious. Rumor has it he burned
  down his old school and got kicked out of every
  school in his home state.
• Only one place will take him now, and that's
  a home school run by the Applewhites, a chaotic
  and hilarious family of artists.
• Jake thinks surviving this one will be a breeze
  . . . but is he really as tough or as bad as he
  seems?
• Written by Stephanie Tolan

20
So, You Like Suspense and Action

• Reluctant fourteen-year-old spy Alex Rider faces
  a desperate man who has lost his country and his
  son - and has a nuclear weapon and a serious
  grudge against the free world. To see his beloved
  Russia once again be a dominant power, he will
  stop at nothingunless Alex can stop him first.
• By Anthony Horowitz, author of Point Blank and
  Stormbreaker

21
An Enchanted World

• Princess Anidori, on her way to marry a prince
  she has never met, is betrayed by her guards and
  her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl
  to survive until she can reveal her true identity
  and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers.
• By Shannon Hale

22
Poems That Tell a Story

• Written by Ron Koertge
• Kevin is a 14-year-old baseball star temporarily
  sidelined by a case of mono. After Kevin's father
  gives him a journal, Kevin honestly and sometimes
  comically muses on his baseball ambitions, former
  girlfriends, teammates, and his budding romance
  with a young girl. This book is about lots more
  than just baseball.