Texas Lone Star Books 2011 Compiled by Rhonda Thomas, Strickland Middle School, Denton ISD.
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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.
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