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2007-2008 Lone Star Reading List

2007-2008 Lone Star Reading List. Gideon the Cutpurse by Linda Buckley-Archer.

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2007-2008 Lone Star Reading List

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  1. 2007-2008Lone Star Reading List

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. I’d Tell You I Love You, but Then I’d 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.

  6. 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.

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

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. Born to RockbyGordon Korman High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. Shackleton’s 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.

  15. 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 familyand its history.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

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