Texas Lone Star Reading List - Young Adult

Awards List

2016

The Battle of Darcy Lane
(Commended)
Tara Altebrando

I Become Shadow
(Commended)
Joe Shine

Pennyroyal Academy
(Commended)
M.A. Larson

The Boy in the Black Suit
(Commended)
Jason Reynolds

Death Date
(Commended)
Victoria Laurie

The Truth about Twinkie Pie
(Commended)
Kat Yeh

The Unlikely Hero of Room 13b
(Commended)
Teresa Toten

Undertow
(Commended)
Michael Buckley

We Are All Made of Molecules
(Commended)
Susin Nielsen

I Am Princess X
(Commended)
Cherie Priest

Ink and Ashes
(Commended)
Valynne E. Maetani

Lost in the Sun
(Commended)
Lisa Graff

Sweet
(Commended)
Emmy Laybourne

Ink and Bone
(Commended)
Rachel Caine

Rebel Mechanics
(Commended)
Shanna Swendson

Con Academy
(Commended)
Joe Schreiber

How Lunchbox Jones Saved Me from Robots, Traitors, and Missy the Cruel
(Commended)
Jennifer Brown

Moving Target
(Commended)
Christina Diaz Gonzalez

A Night Divided
(Commended)
Jennifer A. Nielsen

2015

In the After
(Commended)
Demitria Lunetta

Proxy
(Commended)
Alex London

The Haunting of Gabriel Ashe
(Commended)
Dan Poblocki

The Great Trouble
(Commended)
Deborah Hopkinson

Steelheart
(Commended)
Brandon Sanderson

Unbreakable
(Commended)
Kami Garcia

The Crossover
(Commended)
Kwame Alexander

The Boundless
(Commended)
Kenneth Oppel

The Nethergrim
(Commended)
Matthew Jobin

There Will Be Bears
(Commended)
Ryan Gebhart

Buzz Kill
(Commended)
Beth Fantaskey

A Path Begins
(Commended)
J.A. White

The Great Greene Heist
(Commended)
Varian Johnson

The Fire Wish
(Commended)
Amber Lough

The Kiss of Deception
(Commended)
Mary E. Pearson

A Blind Spot for Boys
(Commended)
Justina Chen / Justina Chen Headley

Forget Me
(Commended)
K.A. Harrington

Tut: The Story of My Immortal Life
(Commended)
P.J. Hoover

2014

For Darkness Shows the Stars
(Commended)
Diana Peterfreund

Ungifted
(Commended)
Gordon Korman

The Last Dragonslayer
(Commended)
Jasper Fforde

Summer of the Mariposas
(Commended)
Guadalupe Garcia McCall

The Vengekeep Prophecies
(Commended)
Brian Farrey

Colin Fischer
(Commended)
Ashley Edward Miller; Zack Stentz

Navigating Early
(Commended)
Clare Vanderpool

One Came Home
(Commended)
Amy Timberlake

Poison
(Commended)
Bridget Zinn

The Reluctant Assassin
(Commended)
Eoin Colfer

The Rithmatist
(Commended)
Brandon Sanderson

School Spirits
(Commended)
Rachel Hawkins

Ask My Mood Ring How I Feel
(Commended)
Diana Lopez

A Matter of Days
(Commended)
Amber Kizer

The Testing
(Commended)
Joelle Charbonneau

Sasquatch in the Paint
(Commended)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Raymond Obstfeld

Screaming Staircase
(Commended)
Jonathan Stroud

2013

An Elephant in the Garden
(Commended)
Michael Morpurgo

Under the Mesquite
(Commended)
Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Legend
(Commended)
Marie Lu

Outlaw
(Commended)
Stephen Davies

Every Other Day
(Commended)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Cinder
(Commended)
Marissa Meyer

The Lions of Little Rock
(Commended)
Kristin Levine

Bewitching
(Commended)
Alex Flinn

Wonder
(Commended)
R.J. Palacio

Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
(Commended)
Jordan Sonnenblick

Ripper
(Commended)
Stefan Petrucha

The False Prince
(Commended)
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Planet Tad
(Commended)
Tim Carvell

Keeping the Castle
(Commended)
Patrice Kindl

Shadow and Bone
(Commended)
Leigh Bardugo

Insignia
(Commended)
S.J. Kincaid

Smart Girls Get What They Want
(Commended)
Sarah Strohmeyer

Almost Home
(Commended)
Joan Bauer

2012

Belly Up
(Commended)
Stuart Gibbs

Paranormalcy
(Commended)
Kiersten White

Rot & Ruin
(Commended)
Jonathan Maberry

A Tale Dark and Grimm
(Commended)
Adam Gidwitz

The Fourth Stall
(Commended)
Chris Rylander

Take Me to the River
(Commended)
Will Hobbs

Between Shades of Gray // Ashes in the Snow
(Commended)
Ruta Sepetys

Okay for Now
(Commended)
Gary D. Schmidt

Divergent
(Commended)
Veronica Roth

Hidden
(Commended)
Helen Frost

Ruby Red
(Commended)
Kerstin Gier

Blood Red Road
(Commended)
Moira Young

Notes from an Accidental Band Geek
(Commended)
Erin Dionne

This Dark Endeavor
(Commended)
Kenneth Oppel

A Monster Calls
(Commended)
Patrick Ness

2011

Incarceron
(Commended)
Catherine Fisher

The Monstrumologist
(Commended)
Rick Yancey

The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet
(Commended)
Erin Dionne

After Ever After
(Commended)
Jordan Sonnenblick

The Last Summer Of The Death Warriors
(Commended)
Francisco X. Stork

Stuck on Earth
(Commended)
David Klass

How to Survive Middle School
(Commended)
Donna Gephart

Fall Out
(Commended)
Deborah Wiles

Little Blog on the Prairie
(Commended)
Cathleen Davitt Bell

Ship Breaker
(Commended)
Paolo Bacigalupi

Vampire Rising
(Commended)
Jason Henderson

Forgive My Fins
(Commended)
Tera Lynn Childs

Bruiser
(Commended)
Neal Shusterman

The Grimm Legacy
(Commended)
Polly Shulman

Matched
(Commended)
Ally Condie

2010

Graceling
(Commended)
Kristin Cashore

North of Beautiful
(Commended)
Justina Chen / Justina Chen Headley

Bull Rider
(Commended)
Suzanne Morgan Williams

The Season
(Commended)
Sarah MacLean

All the Broken Pieces
(Commended)
Ann E. Burg

The Roar
(Commended)
Emma Clayton

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
(Commended)
Jacqueline Kelly

Slob
(Commended)
Ellen Potter

When You Reach Me
(Commended)
Rebecca Stead

Pop
(Commended)
Gordon Korman

The Demon King
(Commended)
Cinda Williams Chima

2009

Unwind
(Commended)
Neal Shusterman

How Not to Be Popular
(Commended)
Jennifer Ziegler

Waiting for Normal
(Commended)
Leslie Connor

The Adoration of Jenna Fox
(Commended)
Mary E. Pearson

The Compound
(Commended)
S.A. Bodeen

Found
(Commended)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Independence Hall
(Commended)
Roland Smith; Michael P. Spradlin

The Hunger Games
(Commended)
Suzanne Collins

2008

The Mysterious Benedict Society
(Commended)
Trenton Lee Stewart

Peak
(Commended)
Roland Smith

The Alchemyst
(Commended)
Michael Scott

The Wednesday Wars
(Commended)
Gary D. Schmidt

Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf
(Commended)
Jennifer L. Holm

Beastly
(Commended)
Alex Flinn

Zen And The Art Of Faking It
(Commended)
Jordan Sonnenblick

Breathe: A Ghost Story
(Commended)
Cliff McNish

2007

Heat
(Commended)
Mike Lupica

Shug
(Commended)
Jenny Han

Dairy Queen
(Commended)
Catherine Gilbert Murdock

2006

Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie
(Commended)
Jordan Sonnenblick

Blood Red Horse
(Commended)
K.M. Grant

Airborn
(Commended)
Kenneth Oppel

The Ruins of Gorlan
(Commended)
John Flanagan

Flush
(Commended)
Carl Hiaasen

Twilight
(Commended)
Stephenie Meyer

Keeper
(Commended)
Mal Peet

2005

The Amulet of Samarkand
(Commended)
Jonathan Stroud

The Wish List
(Commended)
Eoin Colfer

Iqbal
(Commended)
Francesco D'adamo

Al Capone Does My Shirts
(Commended)
Gennifer Choldenko

Travel Team
(Commended)
Mike Lupica

The Sea of Trolls
(Commended)
Nancy Farmer

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
(Commended)
E.L. Konigsburg

2004

The Frog Princess
(Commended)
E.D. Baker

Picture Perfect
(Commended)
Elaine Marie Alphin

The City of Ember
(Commended)
Jeanne Duprau

Skeleton Key
(Commended)
Anthony Horowitz

The Goose Girl
(Commended)
Shannon Hale

2003

Point Blank
(Commended)
Anthony Horowitz

Crispin: The Cross of Lead
(Commended)
Avi

This Side of Paradise
(Commended)
Steven L. Layne

2002

Haunting at Home Plate
(Commended)
David Patneaude

Miracle's Boys
(Commended)
Jacqueline Woodson

Hope Was Here
(Commended)
Joan Bauer

Among the Impostors
(Commended)
Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Touching Spirit Bear
(Commended)
Ben Mikaelsen

Artemis Fowl
(Commended)
Eoin Colfer

True Believer
(Commended)
Virginia Euwer Wolff

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