Deeply unhappy about her family's separation because of poverty, Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family.
Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in northern Wisconsin.
A poignant novel about the joys and pains of first love. Set on Fire Island, this moving story reveals the difficulty a young girl has when a summer romance is sparked between her and a boy who is a teen heartthrob.
The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.
After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs.
Sixteen-year-old twins Harry and Barry stumble across a gateway to another universe, where a distortion in time and space causes a dramatic change in their competitive relationship.
Two boys stumble upon the remains of an ancient underground civilization.
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The Lone Star Reading Lists 1990 |
Beyond the Reef by Todd Strasser | Born Into Light by Paul Samuel Jacobs
In the Face of Danger by Joan Lowery Nixon | The Island by Gary Paulsen
Just a Summer Romance by Ann M Martin | Last Act by Christopher Pike
Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle | My Mother Got Married by Barbara Park
Nightmare by Willo Davis Roberts | Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
Singularity by William Sleator
Through the Hidden Door by Rosemary Wells | Voice After Midnight by Richard Peck
Whispers from the Dead by Joan Lowery Nixon