Texas Lone Star

Books 2011

Compiled by Rhonda Thomas, Strickland Middle School, Denton ISD

In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer

scavenges copper wiring from

grounded oil tankers for a living, but when

he finds a beached clipper ship with a

girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship

for its wealth or rescue the girl.

Thirteen-year-old Genevieve's summer

at a frontier family history camp in

Laramie, Wyoming, with her parents and brother is filled with surprises, which she

reports to friends back home on the cell phone she sneaked in, and which they turn

into a blog. Book Trailer by Gloria Smith, Strickland MS

Overweight teenage Catherine embarks

on a high school science project in which she must

emulate the ways of hominids, the

earliest ancestors of human beings, by

eating an all-natural diet and foregoing

technology.

Fifteen-year-old Kat schemes her way into the best

boarding school, hoping to leave the thieving antics of her family behind her, but

Hal, a former co-conspirator, appears on campus to tell Kat

that a powerful mobster believes her father stole art from a priceless collection,

and in order to save him, Kat will have to recover the

paintings.

Book Trailer by Sandy Noles, Calhoun MS

Seventeen-year-old Lily, half-mermaid

and half-human, has been living on land and attending high school, where she

develops a crush on a boy but is afraid to tell him of her true

destiny as the ruler of the undersea kingdom of Thalassinia.

Cassia has always had complete trust in the

Society to make decisions for her, but

when she is being paired with her ideal mate, a second face flashes on the screen, and Cassia

begins to doubt the Society's infallibility as

she tries to decide which man she truly

loves.

Hamlet's attempts to be a "normal"

eighth grader become increasingly

difficult when her genius seven-year-old sister and her

eccentric Shakespeare scholar parents both begin

to attend her school.

In a near-future New York City, fourteen-year-old computer genius Sam Wilson manages to hack

into the AT&T network and sets off

a chain of events that have a profound

effect on human activity throughout

the world. Book Trailer by Donna Kearley, Lib. Serv. Director, Denton ISD

To free herself from an upcoming

arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter

of the Warden of Incarceron, a

futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner

escape.

When eleven-year-old David Greenberg's best friend makes the start of middle school even

worse than he feared it could be, David

becomes friends with Penny, who shares his

love of television shows and posts one of their

skits on YouTube, making them wildly popular--online, at

least.

When Tashi, the rigidly formal sixteen-year-old

Fourth Crown Princess of the Blue Crescent

Islands, reluctantly weds roguish eighteen-year-

old Prince Ramil of Gerfal, their religious, cultural, and personal

differences threaten to end their political

alliance and put both countries at the mercy of

a fearsome warlord. Book Trailer by Rhonda Thomas, Strickland MS

At a boarding school in Switzerland,

fourteen-year-old Alex Van Helsing learns

that vampires are real, that he has a natural ability to sense them,

and that an agency called Polidorium ha

been helping his family fight them

since 1821.

On a secret mission to evaluate

whether the human race should be

annihilated, a space alien inhabits the body of a bullied fourteen-year-old

boy. A comedy that is Out of this World.

New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page

at the "New-York Circulating Material

Repository," and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and

the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening

adventures involving mythical creatures and

stolen goods.

Inexplicable events start to occur when

sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Bronte befriend a

troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly

nicknamed Bruiser, and his little

brother, Cody.

Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new

friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one

another overcome aftereffects of their

cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from

his older brother Stephen, who is

studying drums in Africa.

Seventeen-year-old Pancho is bent on

avenging the senseless death of his sister, but after he meets D.Q, who is dying of cancer,

and Marisol, one of D.Q.'s caregivers,

both boys find their lives changed by

their interactions.

As eleven-year-old Franny Chapman deals

with drama at home and with her best friend in 1962, she tries to understand

the larger problems in the world after

President Kennedy announces that Russia

is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba.

In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his

apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a

scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they

discover and attempt to destroy a pod of

Anthropophagi.

Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he is determined to be a writer, but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand out on the field--or to discuss his past.

Works Cited

• Follett Library Resources, Inc. “Titlewave®.” 1994. http://www.flr.follett.com. Accessed 11/16/10.