LibGuides: Lone Star Reading List: 2020

Lone Star Reading List 2020

2020 Reading List

Complete Lone Star list for 2020. The Library owns the ones in blue. Those in orange are on order.

Arden, Katherine—Small Spaces
Barnes, Jennifer Lynn—The Lovely and the Lost
Blake, Ashley Herring—The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James
Donnelly, Jennifer—Stepsister
Doyle, Catherine—The Storm Keeper’s Island
Gemeinhart, Dan—The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
Gibbs, Stuart—Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation
Giles, Lamar—Spin
Greenwald, Tommy—Game Changer
Hernandez, Carlos—Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
Hutton, Keely—Secret Soldiers
Kemmerer, Brigid—A Curse So Dark and Lonely
Magoon, Kekla—The Season of Styx Malone
Messner, Kate—Breakout
Murphy, Julie—Dear Sweet Pea
Nobel, Julia—The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane
Ramèe, Lisa Moore—A Good Kind of Trouble
Richmond, Caroline Tung—Live in Infamy
Rogerson, Margaret—Sorcery of Thorns
Warga, Jasmine—Other Words for Home

Breakout

Breakout by Messner, Kate
Call Number: YA F MES-K (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781681195360
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
From multiple perspectives, tells of a time capsule project and the middle schoolers who contribute, including future journalist Nora Tucker and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison.

Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation

Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation by Stuart Gibbs
Call Number: YA F GIB-S (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781534424760
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
The CIA forces twelve-year-old Charlotte "Charlie" Thorne, a rebellious genius, to use her code-breaking skills on an epic global chase to locate Einstein's last equation before dangerous agents discover it and unlock the solution to harnessing energy

A Curse So Dark and Lonely

A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreaker #1) by Brigid Kemmerer
Call Number: YA F KEM-B C1 (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781681195087
Publication Date: 2019-01-29
Eighteen for the three hundred twenty-seventh time, Prince Rhen despairs of breaking the curse that turns him into a beast at the end of each day until feisty Harper enters his life.

Dear Sweet Pea

Dear Sweet Pea by Julie Murphy
Call Number: YA F MUR-J (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062473073
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
Thirteen-year-old Patricia, widely known as Sweet Pea, navigates her parents' unconventional divorce and finds herself in the unlikely role of her town's advice columnist.

Game Changer

Game Changer by Tommy Greenwald
Call Number: YA F GRE-T (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781419731433
Publication Date: 2018-09-11
Thirteen-year-old Teddy Youngblood is in a coma fighting for his life after an unspecified football injury at training camp. His family and friends flock to his bedside to support his recovery--and to discuss the events leading up to the tragic accident. Was this an inevitable result of playing a violent sport, or was something more sinister happening on the field that day? Told in an innovative, multimedia format combining dialogue, texts, newspaper articles, transcripts, an online forum, and Teddy's inner thoughts, Game Changer explores the joyous thrills and terrifying risks of America's most popular sport.

A Good Kind of Trouble

A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
Call Number: YA F RAM-LM (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062836687
Publication Date: 2019-03-12
After attending a powerful protest, Shayla starts wearing an armband to school to support the Black Lives Matter movement, but when the school gives her an ultimatum, she is forced to choose between her education and her identity.

Live in Infamy

Live in Infamy by Caroline Tung Richmond
Call Number: YA F RIC-CT (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781338111095
Publication Date: 2018-03-27
It has been eighty years since the Axis won World War II, and America was divided between the victors: the Nazis in the East and Imperial Japan in the West; but now resistance is growing in the Eastern territories and sixteen-year-old Chinese American Ren Cabot, who has every reason to hate the Japanese who executed his mother, finds himself drawn into a resistance group and confronted with choices that could lead to freedom--or death.

The Lovely and the Lost

The Lovely and the Lost by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Call Number: YA F BAR-JJL (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781484776209
Publication Date: 2019-05-07
When a little girl is lost in a 750,000-acre national park, a family of search-and-rescue professionals reunites and three generations of secrets are uncovered.

The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James

The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake
Call Number: YA F BLA-AH (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316515535
Publication Date: 2019-03-26
Twelve-year-old Sunny St. James must navigate heart surgery, reconnections with a lost mother, the betrayal of a former best friend, first kisses, and emerging feelings for another girl. When Sunny St. James receives a new heart, she decides to set off on a "New Life Plan": 1) do awesome amazing things she could never do before; 2) find a new best friend; and 3) kiss a boy for the first time. Her "New Life Plan" seems to be racing forward, but when she meets her new best friend Quinn, Sunny questions whether she really wants to kiss a boy at all. With the reemergence of her mother, Sunny begins a journey to becoming the new Sunny St. James.

The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane

The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane by Julia Nobel
Call Number: YA F NOB-J (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781492664642
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Twelve-year-old Emmy investigates the connection between her father's disappearance and a secret society at her prestigious English boarding school.

Other Words for Home

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
Call Number: YA F WAR-J (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062747808
Publication Date: 2019-05-28
Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian hometown is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the family members who were left behind as she adjusts to a new life with unexpected surprises.

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
Call Number: YA F GEM-D (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781250196705
Publication Date: 2019-01-08
Twelve-year-old Coyote and her father rush to Poplin Springs, Washington, in their old school bus save a memory box buried in a park that will soon be demolished.

Sal and Gabi Break the Universe

Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (a Sal and Gabi Novel, Book 1) by Carlos Hernandez
Call Number: YA F HER-CAP (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781368022828
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things--and people--from other universes.

Season of Styx Malone

The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon
Call Number: Juv F MAG (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9781524715953
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
Caleb Franklin and his younger brother, Bobby Gene, spend an extraordinary summer with their new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, a foster boy from the city.

Secret Soldiers

Secret Soldiers by Keely Hutton
Call Number: YA F HUT-K (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780374309039
Publication Date: 2019-06-11
In 1917, Thomas, a thirteen-year-old coal miner seeking his missing brother, James, joins the Claykickers, who tunnel beneath the battlefields of the Western Front as they learn to be men.

Small Spaces

Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
Call Number: YA F ARD-K (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780525515029
Publication Date: 2018-09-25
After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't think--she just acts, stealing the book and running away. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with "the smiling man," a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish, but only for the ultimate price. Ollie is captivated by the tale until her school trip the next day to Smoke Hollow, a local farm with a haunting history all its own. There she stumbles upon the graves of the very people she's been reading about. Could it be the story about the smiling man is true? Ollie doesn't have too long to think about the answer to that. On the way home, the school bus breaks down, sending their teacher back to the farm for help. But the strange bus driver has some advice for the kids left behind in his care: "Best get moving. At nightfall they'll come for the rest of you."

Sorcery of Thorns

Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
Call Number: YA F ROG-M (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781481497619
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
When apprentice librarian Elisabeth is implicated in sabotage that released the library's most dangerous grimoire, she becomes entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy that could mean the end of everything.

Spin

Spin by Lamar Giles
Call Number: YA F GIL-L (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781338219210
Publication Date: 2019-01-29
When DJ ParSec (Paris Secord), rising star of the local music scene, is found dead over her turntables, the two girls who found her, Kya (her pre-fame best friend) and Fuse (her current chief groupie) are torn between grief for Paris and hatred for each other--but when the lack of obvious suspects stalls the investigation, and the police seem to lose interest, despite pressure from social media and ParSec's loyal fans, the two girls unite, determined to find out who murdered their friend.

Stepsister

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
Call Number: YA F DON-J (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781338268461
Publication Date: 2019-05-14
Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and the opportunity to change her fate--there will be blood and danger, but also the possibility of redemption and triumph, and most of all the chance to find her true self.

The Storm Keeper's Island

The Storm Keeper's Island by Catherine Doyle
Call Number: Juv F DOY B1 (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9781681199597
Publication Date: 2019-01-22
Fionn Boyle, terrified of the sea, must spend the summer with this older sister, Tara, and their grandfather on Arranmore, an island that has been known to make people disappear, and seems to be restless again.