LibGuides: Lone Star Reading List: 1994

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The Lone Star Reading Lists

1994

1994 Titles

Ghost Cadet by Elaine Marie Alphin | The Giver by Lois Lowry
Goodbye, Vietnam by Gloria Whelan | Haymeadow by Gary Paulsen

Ghost Cadet by Elaine Marie Alphin
Call Number: YA F ALP-EM (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780805016147
Publication Date: 1991-05-01
Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting the grandmother he has never met, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864.

The Giver by Lois Lowry
Call Number: J-Fiction LO (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780395645666
Publication Date: 1993-04-26
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
The Giver [OverDrive E-Book] by Lois Lowry
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book (2nd copy)
ISBN: 9780547946962
Publication Date: 2011-10-25
The Giver [OverDrive Audiobook] by Lois Lowry
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook
ISBN: 9780739344569
Publication Date: 2006

Goodbye, Vietnam by Gloria Whelan
Call Number: YA F WHE-G (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780679822639
Publication Date: 1992-07-07
Thirteen-year-old Mai and her family embark on a dangerous sea voyage from Vietnam to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government.

The Haymeadow by Gary Paulsen
Call Number: YA F PAU-G (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780385306218
Publication Date: 1992-05-01
Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-reliance during the summer he spends up in the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep.

I Am Regina by Sally M. Keehn | Just Like Martin by Ossie Davis
Liars by P. J. Petersen | The Man Who Loved Clowns by June Rae Wood

I Am Regina by Sally M. Keehn
Call Number: YA F KEE-SM (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780399217975
Publication Date: 1991-05-24
In 1755, as the French and Indian War begins, ten-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians in central Pennsylvania and grows up under the name of Tskinnak.

Just Like Martin by Ossie Davis
Call Number: YA F DAV-O (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780671732028
Publication Date: 1992-10-01
Following the deaths of two classmates in a bomb explosion at his Alabama church, fourteen-year-old Stone organizes a children's march for civil rights in the autumn of 1963.

Liars by P. J. Petersen
Call Number: YA F PET-PJ (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780671750350
Publication Date: 1992-06-01
Life in the remote town of Alder Creek, California, is boring for eighth-grader Sam and his friends until his newly awakened ability to tell when a person is lying involves him in a series of mysterious events.

The Man Who Loved Clowns by June Rae Wood
Call Number: YA F WOO-JR (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780399218880
Publication Date: 1992-10-21
Thirteen-year-old Delrita, whose unhappy life has caused her to hide from the world, loves her uncle Punky but sometimes feels ashamed of his behavior because he has Down's syndrome.
The Man WHo Loved Clowns by June Rae Wood
Call Number: YA F WOO-JR Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781101078082
Publication Date: 2005

Overkill by Alane Ferguson | Seventh-Grade Weirdo by Lee Wardlaw
Short Circuits by Donald R. Gallo, ed. | Squashed by Joan Bauer

Overkill by Alane Ferguson
Call Number: YA F FER-A (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780027345230
Publication Date: 1992-10-31
Seventeen-year-old Lacey is seeing a therapist to help her cope with her problems at school and with her lawyer sister, but she needs even more help when she is charged with the murder of a friend.

Susanna Siegelbaum Gives Up Guys by June Foley | Take a Chance, Gramps! by Jean Davies Okiomoto
There's a Girl in my Hammerlock by Jerry Spinelli | Tunafish Thanksgiving by C. S. Adler

Susanna Siegelbaum Gives up Guys by June Foley
Call Number: YA F FOL-J (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780590436991
Publication Date: 1991-10-01
Popular Susanna makes a bet with her quiet best friend, Cassidy, that she can give up guys--but can she prove it?

Take a Chance, Gramps by Jean Davies Okimoto
Call Number: YA F OKI-JD (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780316638128
Publication Date: 1990-11-01
Twelve-year-old Jane and her grandfather, both of whom have suffered losses, help each other reach out, make new friends, and change their lives.

There's a Girl in My Hammerlock by Jerry Spinelli
Call Number: YA F SPI-J (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780671746841
Publication Date: 1991-09-01
Thirteen-year-old Maisie joins her school's formerly all-male wrestling team and tries to last through the season, despite opposition from other students, her best friend, and her own teammates.

The Twinkie Squad by Gordon Korman | When Heroes Die by Penny Durant
Where Are You When I Need You? by Suzanne Newton | Winter of Fire by Sherryl Jordan

The Twinkie Squad by Gordon Korman
Call Number: YA F KOR-G (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780590452496
Publication Date: 1992-10-01
Chaos spreads when Douglas, the most eccentric sixth-grader in Thaddeus G. Little Middle School, joins the Twinkie Squad, a special counseling group for problem students.