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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Popular Susanna makes a bet with her quiet best friend, Cassidy, that she can give up guys--but can she prove it?
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.
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.
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.
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The Lone Star Reading Lists 1994 |
Ghost Cadet by Elaine Marie Alphin | The Giver by Lois Lowry
Goodbye, Vietnam by Gloria Whelan | Haymeadow by Gary Paulsen
Ghost Cadet by The Giver by 
The Giver [OverDrive E-Book] by 
The Giver [OverDrive Audiobook] by Goodbye, Vietnam by The Haymeadow by 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 Just Like Martin by Liars by The Man Who Loved Clowns by 
The Man WHo Loved Clowns by Overkill by Alane Ferguson | Seventh-Grade Weirdo by Lee Wardlaw
Short Circuits by Donald R. Gallo, ed. | Squashed by Joan Bauer
Overkill by 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 Take a Chance, Gramps by There's a Girl in My Hammerlock by 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