2013 Texas Lone Star Reading List

A recommended reading list for 6th-8th grade students.

Shadow and Bone

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Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Tiger’s Curse by Colleen Houck

Every Other Day

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Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins

Vampire Rising by James Henderson

Almost Home

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Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor

Paintings from the Cave by Gary Paulsen

No Ordinary Day by Deborah Ellis

Steve Jobs:The Man Who Thought Different

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Bill Gates: Entrepreneur and Philanthropist by Jeanne M. Lesiniski

Mr. Sam: how Sam Walton Built Walmart and became America’s Richest Man by Karen Blumenthal

How They Croaked:The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous

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Poop Happened! A History of the World from the Bottom Up by Sarah Albee

You Wouldn’t Want to be Sick in the 16th Century! Diseases You’d Rather Not Catch by Kathryn Senior

Planet Tad

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The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger

Middle School: The Worst Years of my Life by James Patterson

Advice About School: Claudia Cristina Cortez Uncomplicates Your Life by Diana Gallagher

Outlaw: A Novel

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Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz

The Shadow Project by Herbie Brennan

I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter

Bewitching

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Sisters Red by Jackson Pierce

Dead is the New Black by Marlene Perez

Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer

Insignia

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Brain Jack by Brian Falkner

Epic by Conor Kostick

H.I.V.E by Mark Walden

Keeping the Castle:A Tale of Romance, Riches, and Real Estate.

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I was Jane Austen’s Best Friend by Cora Harrison

Enthusiasm by Polly Shulman

In Mozart’s Shadow by Carolyn Meyer

The Lions of Little Rock

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham- 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

Remember Little Rock: the Time, the People, the Stories by Paul Robert Walker

Legend

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Enclave by Ann Aguirre

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Under the Mesquite

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La Linea by Ann Jaramillo

Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan

Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes

Cinder

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The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

The Clockwork Three by Matthew J. Kirby

The Clone Codes by Pat McKissack

An Elephant in the Garden

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The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Brave Deeds: How One Family Saved Many from the Nazis by Ann Alma

Is it Night or Day? by Fern Schumer Chapman

The False Prince

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The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan

Graceling by Kristen Cashore

Dragonfly by Julie Golding

Wonder

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Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper

North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley

Playground by 50 Cent

Ripper

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The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade

The Monstrumologist by Richard Yancy

The Black Book of Secrets by F. E. Higgins

Curveball: The Year I Lost my Grip

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Pop by Gordon Korman

Gym Candy by Carl Deuker

The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen

Smart Girls Get What They Want

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Close to Famous by Joan Bauer

Gossip from the Girl’s Room by Rose Cooper

Clique series by Lisi Harrison

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