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Potter, Ellen. Slob. Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed. |
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| Stead, Rebecca. When you reach me. As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, “The $20,000 Pyramid,” a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space. |
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| Taylor, Greg. Killer pizza: a novel. While working as summer employees in a local pizza parlor, three teenagers are recruited by an underground organization of monster hunters. |
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| Walker, Sally M. Written in bone: buried lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland. Reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s; and uncovers the lives of a teenage boy, a ship’s captain, a colonial officer, an African slave girl, and others. |
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| Williams, Suzanne Morgan. Bull rider. not yet owned | |
| Zielin, Lara. Donut days. not yet owned | |
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Zink, Michelle. Prophecy of the sisters. In late nineteenth-century New York state, wealthy sixteen-year-old twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe find that they are on opposite sides of an ancient prophecy that has destroyed their parents and seeks to do even more harm. |
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| Kantor, Melissa. Girlfriend material. not currently owned | |
| Kelly, Jacqueline. The evolution of Calpurnia Tate. In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery. |
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| Korman, Gordon. Pop. Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water. |
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MacLean, Sarah. The season. Showing no interest in the sumptuous balls, lavish dinner parties, and country weekends enjoyed by the rest of early nineteenth-century London society, seventeen-year-old Lady Alexandra Stafford seeks adventure as she investigates the puzzling murder of the Earl of Blackmoor, father of devilishly handsome Gavin. |
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| Morton-Shaw, Christine. The Hunt for the seventh. Twelve-year-old Jim moves with his dad and sister to Minerva Hall where a ghostly voice urging him to “find the Seventh” draws him into a sort of macabre treasure hunt for clues to an ancient prophecy that threatens them all. |
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Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
I must confess, I became a solid Maggie Stiefvater fan after reading Lament so, when I was lucky enough to grab an advanced readers copy of Shiver this summer, I was thrilled to death. And definitely not disappointed.
If you love the Twilight series and consider yourself a die hard member of Team Jacob, I think you’ll love Sam and Grace’s story. Shiver bubbles with the kind of chemistry that will have you craving more and more and more. If you read it and loved it like I did, you will be happy to know that Miss Maggie is planning more books in the series! And it looks like someone has just acquired the movie rights to boot!
Okay, before I pass out from hyperventilation, I must recommend that you also check out Maggie Stiefvater’s website. There are all manners of delicious tidbits to be discovered there.
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Chima, Cinda Williams. The Demon King. Relates the intertwining fates of former street gang leader Han Alister and headstrong Princess Raisa, as Han takes possession of an amulet that once belonged to an evil wizard and Raisa uncovers a conspiracy in the Grey Wolf Court. |
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Clayton, Emma. The roar. In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search for her in spite of the dangers he faces in doing so. |
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Dashner, James. The maze runner. Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape. |
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Headley, Justina Chen. North of beautiful. Terra, a sensitive, artistic high school senior born with a facial port-wine stain, struggles with issues of inner and outer beauty with the help of her Goth classmate Jacob. |
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The 2010 Lone Star list has FINALLY been announced! I thought I’d give you a chance to better savor the titles by posting a few of the books each day. (And to stretch the post out for as long as I can hee hee). Here’s the first batch for your viewing pleasure.
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Alexander, Jill S. The sweetheart of Prosper County. In a small East Texas town largely ruled by prejudices and bullies, fourteen-year-old Austin sets out to win a ride in the next parade and, in the process, grows in her understanding of friendship and helps her widowed mother through her mourning. |
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Beil, Michael D. The red blazer girls: The ring of rocamadour. Catholic-schooled seventh-graders Sophie, Margaret, Rebecca, and Leigh Ann help an elderly neighbor solve a puzzle her father left for her estranged daughter twenty years ago. |
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Burg, Ann E. All the broken pieces: a novel in verse. Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin, age 12, is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past. |
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Cashore, Kristin. Graceling. In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace of killing and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. |
