Texas Lone Star Reading List

Given by Texas Library Association (TLA)

Other Names: Lone Star Booklist, Texas Lone Star Book, Texas Lone Star Reading List Selection
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The Texas Lone Star list is a recommended reading list developed by public and school librarians from the Young Adult Round Table. The purpose of the list is to encourage students in grades show more 6, 7, or 8 to explore a variety of current books. The Lone Star list is intended for recreational reading, not to support a specific curriculum. Due to the diversity of this age range, Texas librarians should purchase titles on this list according to their individual collection policies. Each book on the list has been favorably reviewed for grades 6, 7, or 8 in a professional review source.

[Needs years added. Master list has 540 titles vs 538 listed (2016-05-16). Reconciliation pending.]
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December 2023: 2024 Recent
WorkYear
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
2024
Moongarden by Michelle A. Barry
2024
The Vanquishers by Kalynn Bayron
2024
Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow
2024
Salt and Sugar by Rebecca Carvalho
2024
We Still Belong by Christine Day
2024
The Probability of Everything by Sarah Everett
2024
The Grace of Wild Things by Heather Fawcett
2024
The Puttermans Are in the House by Jacquetta Nammar Feldman
2024
A Duet for Home by Karina Yan Glaser
2024
Dinged: (A Game Changer companion novel) by Tommy Greenwald
2024
Unraveller by Frances Hardinge
2024
No One Leaves the Castle by Christopher Healy
2024
Wrecker by Carl Hiaasen
2024
The Demon Sword Asperides by Sarah Jean Horwitz
2024
Lumara by Melissa Landers
2024
Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis
2024
Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos) by Diana López
2024
Virtually Me by Chad Morris
2024
You Are Here: Connecting Flights by Ellen Oh
2024
Ghosts Come Rising by Adam Perry
2024
The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn by Sally J. Pla
2024
A Seed in the Sun by Aida Salazar
2024
A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat
2024
The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt
2024
Bhai for Now by Maleeha Siddiqui
2024
What Happened to Rachel Riley? by Claire Swinarski
2024
A Rover's Story by Jasmine Warga
2024
Mascot by Charles Waters
2024
Stateless by Elizabeth Wein
2024
Perfectly Parvin by Olivia Abtahi
2023
Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango
2023
The Swag Is in the Socks by Kelly J. Baptist
2023
The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls by James Bird
2023
The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen by Isaac Blum
2023
Across the Desert by Dusti Bowling
2023
The Drowned Girl by India Hill Brown
2023
Falling Short by Ernesto Cisneros
2023
The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton
2023
Rain Rising by Courtne Comrie
2023
Yusuf Azeem is Not a Hero by Saadia Faruqi
2023
Rules for Vampires by Alex Foulkes
2023
Concealed by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
2023
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
2023
Shinji Takahashi and the Mark of the Coatl by Julie Kagawa
2023
Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone by Tae Keller
2023
Linked by Gordon Korman
2023
One for All by Lillie Lainoff
2023
Flip the Script by Lyla Lee
2023
Hummingbird by Natalie Lloyd
2023
City of Thieves by Alex London
2023
A Forgery of Roses by Jessica S. Olson
2023
Black Bird, Blue Road by Sofiya Pasternack
2023
Tumble by Celia C. Pérez
2023
Children of the Fox by Kevin Sands
2023
The Clackity by Lora Senf
2023
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
2023
Skandar and the Unicorn Thief by A.F. Steadman
2023
The Language of Seabirds by Will Taylor
2023
Dust & Grim by Chuck Wendig
2023
Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston
2022
The Memory Thief by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2022
The In-Between by Rebecca K. S. Ansari
2022
Letters from Cuba by Ruth Behar
2022
The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman
2022
City of the Plague God by Sarwat Chadda
2022
Scritch Scratch by Lindsay Currie
2022
Starfish by Lisa Fipps
2022
Alone by Megan E. Freeman
2022
When Life Gives You Mangos by Kereen Getten
2022
Ground Zero by Alan Gratz
2022
Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon
2022
Lupe Wong Won't Dance by Donna Barba Higuera
2022
When the World Was Ours by Liz Kessler
2022
The Last Fallen Star by Graci Kim
2022
Thanks a Lot, Universe by Chad Lucas
2022
Ten Thousand Tries by Amy Makechnie
2022
From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks
2022
Glitch by Laura Martin
2022
Millionaires for the Month by Stacy McAnulty
2022
Curses by Lish McBride
2022
Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood by Gary Paulsen
2022
Time Villains by Victor Piñeiro
2022
The Great Destroyers by Caroline Tung Richmond
2022
Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls by Kaela Rivera
2022
Hold Back The Tide by Melinda Salisbury
2022
Bump by Matt Wallace
2022
The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga
2022
Turtle Boy by M. Evan Wolkenstein
2022
A Taste for Love by Jennifer Yen
2022
The Companion by Katie Alender
2021
A Match Made in Mehendi by Nandini Bajpai
2021
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
2021
The Canyon's Edge by Dusti Bowling
2021
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
2021
Turning Point by Paula Chase
2021
A Place at the Table by Saadia Faruqi
2021
Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone
2021
This Light Between Us by Andrew Fukuda
2021
The Silence Between Us by Alison Gervais
2021
Wink by Rob Harrell
2021
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
2021
I'll Be the One by Lyla Lee
2021
The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones
2021
Don’t Turn Out the Lights by Jonathan Maberry
2021
Thirteens by Kate Alice Marshall
2021
Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia
2021
Bloom by Kenneth Oppel
2021
Tornado Brain by Cat Patrick
2021
City Spies by James Ponti
2021
Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
2021
The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson
2021
Crown of Coral and Pearl by Mara Rutherford
2021
The June Boys by Court Stevens
2021
Manning up by Bee Walsh
2021
Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
2020
The Lovely and the Lost by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
2020
The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake
2020
Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
2020
The Storm Keeper's Island by Catherine Doyle
2020
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
2020
Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation by Stuart Gibbs
2020
Spin by Lamar Giles
2020
Game Changer by Tommy Greenwald
2020
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
2020
Secret Soldiers: A Novel by Keely Hutton
2020
A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
2020
The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon
2020
Breakout by Kate Messner
2020
Dear Sweet Pea by Julie Murphy
2020
The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane by Julia Nobel
2020
A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
2020
Live in Infamy (a companion to The Only Thing to Fear) by Caroline Tung Richmond
2020
Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
2020
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
2020
A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting by Joe Ballarini
2019
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
2019
Not If I Save You First by Ally Carter
2019
The Storm Runner by J. C. Cervantes
2019
Time Bomb by Joelle Charbonneau
2019
After Zero by Christina Collins
2019
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
2019
Everless by Sara Holland
2019
The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
2019
Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer
2019
Restart by Gordon Korman
2019
Space Runners #1: The Moon Platoon by Jeramey Kraatz
2019
From Twinkle, with Love by Sandhya Menon
2019
Resistance by Jennifer A. Nielsen
2019
In the Shadow of the Sun by Anne Sibley O'Brien
2019
The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez
2019
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
2019
City of Ghosts by V. E. Schwab
2019
Black Panther: The Young Prince by Ronald L. Smith
2019
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
2019
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya
2018
Last Day on Mars (Chronicle of the Dark Star) by Kevin Emerson
2018
Refugee by Alan Gratz
2018
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World by Shannon Hale
2018
The Van Gogh Deception by Deron R. Hicks
2018
Four-Four-Two by Dean Hughes
2018
Warcross by Marie Lu
2018
Heartless by Marissa Meyer
2018
Impyrium by Henry H. Neff
2018
Frogkisser! by Garth Nix
2018
Between Two Skies by Joanne O'Sullivan
2018
Miles Morales: Spider-Man (A Marvel YA Novel) by Jason Reynolds
2018
The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby
2018
Short by Holly Goldberg Sloan
2018
Well, That Was Awkward by Rachel Vail
2018
Wild Bird by Wendelin Van Draanen
2018
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
2018
Beanstalker and Other Hilarious Scarytales by Kiersten White
2018
A Week of Mondays: A Novel by Jessica Brody
2017
Simon Thorn and the Wolf's Den by Aimée Carter
2017
Choosing Courage: Inspiring Stories of What It Means to Be a Hero by Peter Collier
2017
Longbow Girl by Linda Davies
2017
Hour of the Bees by Lindsay Eagar
2017
Court of Fives by Kate Elliott
2017
Zero Day by Jan Gangsei
2017
Code of Honor by Alan Gratz
2017
Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin
2017
Mayday by Karen Harrington
2017
The Girl I Used to Be by April Henry
2017
Max Helsing and the Thirteenth Curse (Max Helsing: Monster Hunter) by Curtis Jobling
2017
The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury
2017
Kalahari by Jessica Khoury
2017
Randoms by David Liss
2017
The Magic Mirror: Concerning a Lonely Princess, a Foundling Girl, a Scheming King and a Pickpocket Squirrel by Susan Hill Long
2017
Shadows of Sherwood (A Robyn Hoodlum Adventure) by Kekla Magoon
2017
Ghost by Jason Reynolds
2017
The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands
2017
Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
2017
The Battle of Darcy Lane by Tara Altebrando
2016
How Lunchbox Jones Saved Me from Robots, Traitors, and Missy the Cruel by Jennifer Brown
2016
Undertow by Michael Buckley
2016
Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
2016
Moving Target by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
2016
Lost in the Sun by Lisa Graff
2016
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose
2016
Pennyroyal Academy by M.A. Larson
2016
When by Victoria Laurie
2016
Sweet by Emmy Laybourne
2016
Ink and Ashes by Valynne E. Maetani
2016
A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen
2016
We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen
2016
I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest
2016
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
2016
Con Academy by Joe Schreiber
2016
I Become Shadow by Joe Shine
2016
Rebel Mechanics: All Is Fair in Love and Revolution by Shanna Swendson
2016
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten
2016
The Truth About Twinkie Pie by Kat Yeh
2016
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
2015
A Blind Spot for Boys by Justina Chen
2015
Buzz Kill by Beth Fantaskey
2015
Unbreakable by Kami Garcia
2015
There Will Be Bears by Ryan Gebhart
2015
Forget Me by K.A. Harrington
2015
Tut: The Story of My Immortal Life by P. J. Hoover
2015
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson
2015
The Nethergrim by Matthew Jobin
2015
The Great Greene Heist by Varian Johnson
2015
Proxy by Alex London
2015
The Fire Wish by Amber Lough
2015
In the After by Demitria Lunetta
2015
The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel
2015
The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson
2015
The Haunting of Gabriel Ashe by Dan Poblocki
2015
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
2015
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
2015
Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek by Maya Van Wagenen
2015
A Path Begins by J. A. White
2015
Streetball Crew Book One Sasquatch in the Paint by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
2014
The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau
2014
The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer
2014
The Vengekeep Prophecies by Brian Farrey
2014
The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde
2014
The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage by Eric Greitens
2014
School Spirits by Rachel Hawkins
2014
A Matter of Days by Amber Kizer
2014
Ungifted by Gordon Korman
2014
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List by Leon Leyson
2014
Ask My Mood Ring How I Feel by Diana Lopez
2014
Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
2014
Colin Fischer by Ashley Edward Miller
2014
For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund
2014
The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
2014
Lincoln's Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin
2014
The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
2014
One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
2014
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
2014
Poison by Bridget Zinn
2014
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
2013
Every Other Day by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
2013
Almost Home by Joan Bauer
2013
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal
2013
How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg
2013
Planet Tad by Tim Carvell
2013
Outlaw by Stephen Davies
2013
Bewitching by Alex Flinn
2013
Insignia by S. J. Kincaid
2013
Keeping the Castle by Patrice Kindl
2013
The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
2013
Legend by Marie Lu
2013
Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
2013
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
2013
An Elephant in the Garden by Michael Morpurgo
2013
The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
2013
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
2013
Ripper by Stefan Petrucha
2013
Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip by Jordan Sonnenblick
2013
Smart Girls Get What They Want by Sarah Strohmeyer
2013
Notes From An Accidental Band Geek by Erin Dionne
2012
The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
2012
Hidden by Helen Frost
2012
Belly Up by Stuart Gibbs
2012
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
2012
Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
2012
Take Me to the River by Will Hobbs
2012
Death Cloud by Andrew Lane
2012
Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
2012
Wish by Joseph Monninger
2012
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
2012
This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel
2012
Paintings from the Cave: Three Novellas by Gary Paulsen
2012
Divergent by Veronica Roth
2012
The Fourth Stall by Chris Rylander
2012
Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
2012
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
2012
The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens
2012
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
2012
Blood Red Road by Moira Young
2012
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
2011
Little Blog on the Prairie by Cathleen Davitt Bell
2011
Fat Cat by Robin Brande
2011
Heist Society by Ally Carter
2011
Forgive My Fins by Tera Lynn Childs
2011
Matched by Ally Condie
2011
Payback Time by Carl Deuker
2011
The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet by Erin Dionne
2011
Brain Jack by Brian Falkner
2011
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
2011
How to Survive Middle School by Donna Gephart
2011
Dragonfly by Julia Golding
2011
Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising by Jason Henderson
2011
Stuck on Earth by David Klass
2011
The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman
2011
Bruiser by Neal Shusterman
2011
After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick
2011
The Last Summer Of The Death Warriors by Francisco Stork
2011
Countdown by Deborah Wiles
2011
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
2011
The Sweetheart of Prosper County by Jill S. Alexander
2010
The Ring of Rocamadour by Michael D. Beil
2010
Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande
2010
All The Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg
2010
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
2010
The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima
2010
The Roar by Emma Clayton
2010
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
2010
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhán Dowd
2010
North Of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
2010
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
2010
Pop by Gordon Korman
2010
The Season by Sarah MacLean
2010
The Hunt for the Seventh by Christine Morton-Shaw
2010
Slob by Ellen Potter
2010
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
2010
Killer Pizza by Greg Taylor
2010
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally M. Walker
2010
Bull Rider by Suzanne Morgan Williams
2010
How Not to Be Popular by Jennifer Ziegler
2010
Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
2010
Night Hoops by Carl Deuker
2009
Girlfriend Material by Melissa Kantor
2009
Donut Days by Lara Zielin
2009
Chance Fortune and the Outlaws (The Adventures of Chance Fortune) by Shane Berryhill
2009
Pieces of Georgia by Jen Bryant
2009
Beastly by Alex Flinn
2009
Dark Water Rising by Marian Hale
2009
Tales from the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures that May or May Not Exist by Kelly Milner Halls
2009
The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney by Suzanne Harper
2009
The Floating Island by Elizabeth Haydon
2009
Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff by Jennifer L. Holm
2009
Schooled by Gordon Korman
2009
Epic by Conor Kostick
2009
Brothers, Boyfriends & Other Criminal Minds by April Lurie
2009
Breathe: A Ghost Story by Cliff McNish
2009
What the Moon Saw by Laura Resau
2009
Night of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury
2009
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
2009
The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
2009
Peak by Roland Smith
2009
Zen And The Art Of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick
2009
First Light by Rebecca Stead
2009
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
2009
The Great Wide Sea by M.H. Herlong
2008
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2008
Antsy Does Time by Neal Shusterman
2008
The Possibilities of Sainthood by Donna Freitas
2008
Independence Hall by Roland Smith
2008
Suck It Up by Brian Meehl
2008
The Compound by S.A. Bodeen
2008
Diamond Willow by Helen Frost
2008
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
2008
The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
2008
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
2008
Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor
2008
Airman by Eoin Colfer
2008
The Time Travelers by Linda Buckley-Archer
2008
The Lambkins by Eve Bunting
2008
Avalon High by Meg Cabot
2008
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
2008
The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima
2008
Runaway by Wendelin Van Draanen
2008
The Black Tattoo by Sam Enthoven
2008
Shug by Jenny Han
2008
Airball: My Life in Briefs by Lisa Harkrader
2008
La Linea by Ann Jaramillo
2008
Born to Rock by Gordon Korman
2008
Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle
2008
Heat by Mike Lupica
2008
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass
2008
Shackleton's Stowaway by Victoria McKernan
2008
Out of Patience by Brian Meehl
2008
Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
2008
The Wizard, the Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey by Lisa Papademetriou
2008
Notes From The Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick
2008
Home, and Other Big, Fat Lies by Jill Wolfson
2008
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
2007
The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner
2007
Gym Candy by Carl Deuker
2007
The Black Book of Secrets by F. E. Higgins
2007
The Bridesmaid by Hailey Abbott
2007
Never Mind!: A Twin Novel by Avi
2007
Shark Life: True Stories About Sharks & the Sea by Peter Benchley
2007
Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach
2007
Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney
2007
Runner by Carl Deuker
2007
Last Shot by John Feinstein
2007
The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan
2007
Blood Red Horse by K. M. Grant
2007
Flush by Carl Hiaasen
2007
The Serious Kiss by Mary Hogan
2007
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
2007
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
2007
Keeper by Mal Peet
2007
First Boy by Gary Schmidt
2007
Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith
2007
Drums, Girls, And Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
2007
Missing Abby by L. A. Weatherly
2007
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
2007
The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey
2007
The Game of Sunken Places by M. T. Anderson
2006
Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
2006
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
2006
The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
2006
The Wish List by Eoin Colfer
2006
Lionboy by Zizou Corder
2006
Iqbal by Francesco D'Adamo
2006
The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer
2006
Eager by Helen Fox
2006
Truesight by David Stahler Jr.
2006
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E. L. Konigsburg
2006
Travel Team by Mike Lupica
2006
The Young Man And The Sea by Rodman Philbrick
2006
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
2006
Letters From Wolfie by Patti Sherlock
2006
The Schwa was Here by Neal Shusterman
2006
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
2006
The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
2006
Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee
2006
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
2005
Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris
2004
The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
2004
Brainboy and the DeathMaster by Tor Seidler
2003
East by Edith Pattou
2003
Begging for Change by Sharon Flake
2003
Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman
2003
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
2003
High Heat by Carl Deuker
2003
The Steps by Rachel Cohn
2003
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup by Ron Koertge
2003
The Last Dog on Earth by Daniel Ehrenhaft
2003
How Angel Peterson Got His Name by Gary Paulsen
2003
Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
2002
Dunk by David Lubar
2002
The Frog Princess by E. D. Baker
2002
The Sands of Time Display by Michael Hoeye
2002
Losing Forever by Gayle Friesen
2002
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
2002
Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
2002
Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney
2002
All-American Girl by Meg Cabot
2002
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
2002
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
2002
The Hunting of the Last Dragon by Sherryl Jordan
2002
Playing the Field by Janette Rallison
2002
How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found by Sara Nickerson
2002
Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements
2002
Black-eyed Suzie by Susan Shaw
2002
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
2002
Rat Boys a Dating Experiment by Thom Eberhardt
2001
What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
2001
Beatnik Rutabagas From Beyond The Stars by Quentin Dodd
2001
Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz
2001
This Side of Paradise by Steven L. Layne
2001
Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac
2001
The Edge on the Sword by Rebecca Tingle
2001
Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot
2001
Among the Impostors by Margaret Peterson Haddix
2001
Straw Into Gold by Gary D. Schmidt
2001
What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows by Nora Raleigh Baskin
2001
You Don't Know Me by David Klass
2001
Goose Chase by Patrice Kindl
2001
A Matter of Profit by Hilari Bell
2001
True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
2001
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
2001
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
2001
Say Yes by Audrey Couloumbis
2001
The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick
2000
Silent to the Bone by E. L. Konigsburg
2000
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
2000
Aria of the Sea by Dia Calhoun
2000
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
2000
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
2000
Christmas in Heaven by Carol Williams
2000
The Girls by Amy Goldman Koss
2000
The Executioner's Daughter by Laura E. Williams
2000
Over the Wall by John H. Ritter
2000
Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
2000
The Seer and the Sword by Victoria Hanley
2000
Define "Normal" by Julie Anne Peters
2000
Never Trust a Dead Man by Vivian Vande Velde
2000
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
2000
Locked Inside by Nancy Werlin
2000
Haunting at Home Plate by David Patneaude
2000
The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John H. Ritter
2000
The Exchange Student by Kate Gilmore
1999
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The Texas Lone Star list is a recommended reading list developed by public and school librarians from the Young Adult Round Table. The purpose of the list is to encourage students in grades 6, 7, or 8 to explore a variety of current books. The Lone Star list is intended for recreational reading, not to support a specific curriculum. Due to the diversity of this age range, Texas librarians should purchase titles on this list according to their individual collection policies. Each book on the list has been favorably reviewed for grades 6, 7, or 8 in a professional review source.

[Needs years added. Master list has 540 titles vs 538 listed (2016-05-16). Reconciliation pending.] (English, Member-written)
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