20062007 Lone Star Reading List

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2006-2007Lone Star Reading List
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AirbornbyKenneth 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 Earth's surface.

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Blood Red Horseby K.M. Grant

• A special horse named Hosanna changes the
  lives of two English brothers and those around
  them as they fight with King Richard I against
  Saladin's armies during the Third Crusades.

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BridesmaidbyHailey Abbott

• Having vowed as children never to marry after
  witnessing many disastrous weddings and obnoxious
  brides in their parents' wedding planning
  business, fifteen-year-old Abby is dismayed when
  her older sister Carol suddenly gets engaged and
  turns into "Bridezilla."

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Code OrangebyCaroline B. Cooney

• While conducting research for a school paper on
  smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing
  100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has
  infected himself and all of New York City.

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The Cryptid HuntersbyRoland Smith

• Twins, Grace and Marty, along with a
  mysterious uncle, are dropped into the middle of
  the Congolese jungle in search of their missing
  photojournalist parents.

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Drums, Girls, Dangerous PiebyJordan
Sonnenblick

• When his younger brother is diagnosed with
  leukemia, thirteen-year-old Steven tries to deal
  with his complicated emotions, his school life,
  and his desire to support his family.

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The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred
KroppbyRick Yancey

• Through a series of dangerous and violent
  misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues
  King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur from the
  forces of evil.

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First BoybyGary Schmidt

• Dragged into the political turmoil of a
  presidential election year, fourteen-year-old
  Cooper Jewett, who runs a New Hampshire dairy
  farm since his grandfather's death, stands up for
  himself and makes it clear whose first boy he
  really is.

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FlushbyCarl Hiaasen

• With their father jailed for sinking a river
  boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister,
  Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of
  this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks
  into the protected waters around their Florida
  Keys home.

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KeeperbyMal Peet

• South American journalist Paul Faustino begins
  his interview with World Cup Soccer star El Gato
  and learns a fantastic story of a young, lonely
  boy growing up in the middle of a rain forest who
  wandered upon a mysterious soccer field and an
  apparition that appeared to him daily.

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Last Shot A Final Four MysterybyJohn Feinstein

• After winning a basketball reporting
  contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol
  are sent to cover the Final Four tournament,
  where they discover that a talented player is
  being blackmailed into throwing the final game.

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Missing AbbybyLee Weatherly

• As the last one to see thirteen-year-old Abby,
  Emma is determined to discover the truth about
  her mysterious disappearance, spurred in part by
  her feelings of guilt over ending their
  friendship in order to ensure popularity at her
  new school.

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Never Mind A Twin NovelbyAvi

• Twelve-year-old New York City
  twins Meg and Edward have nothing in common, so
  they are just as shocked as everyone else when
  Meg's hopes for popularity and Edward's
  mischievous schemes coincidentally collide in a
  hilarious showdown.

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Rangers Apprentice Ruins of GorlanbyJohn
Flanagan

• When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by
  battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice
  to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up
  protecting the kingdom from danger.

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RunnerbyCarl Deuker

• Living with his alcoholic father on a
  broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard
  on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his
  love of running leads to a high-paying job, he
  quickly learns that the money is not worth the
  risk.

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Serious KissbyMary Hogan

• Relates the angst-ridden life of
  fourteen-year-old Libby Madrigal as she tries to
  deal with her unhappily married alcoholic father
  and overeating mother, moving to a new town, and
  finding the perfect boy to "seriously" kiss.

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Shakespeares SecretbyElise Broach

• Named after a character in a Shakespeare
  play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested
  in exploring this unusual connection because of a
  valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new
  house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected
  attention of the most popular boy in school.

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Shark Life True Stories about SharksbyPeter
Benchley

• Contains fifteen stories, adapted for young
  people, in which Peter Benchley describes his
  encounters with sharks, and discusses what he has
  learned about the sea.

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TwilightbyStephenie Meyer

• When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to
  live with her father in Forks, Washington, she
  meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for
  whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who
  she comes to realize is not wholly human.

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UgliesbyScott Westerfeld

• Tally is faced with a difficult choice when
  her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the
  outside rather than submit to the forced
  operation that turns sixteen year old girls into
  gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a
  whole new side to the pretty world that she
  doesn't like.