When, in the winter of 1692, accusations of witchcraft surface in her small New England village, twelve-year-old Mary Chase fights to save her mother from execution.
With the help of her faithful dog Bill and the officer responsible for putting her father in jail, Jessica faces changes in her life when she realizes that her father will not stop drinking.
Billy, a sixteen-year-old boy who becomes reunited with the family he was kidnapped from by his natural father six years earlier, tries to sort out his identity.
The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
After a car accident in a snowy Colorado pass seriously injures their parents, fourteen-year-old Danielle and her brother Jake must scale a mountain to find help.
Three teenagers' lives are changed forever when they thoughtlessly steal a stop sign from a dangerous intersection and a young mother is killed in an automobile accident there.
Slim watches over her father, a disarmingly charismatic man, as his struggle with AIDS reaches its climax.
Fifteen-year-old Kara is summoned by King Orrik, who believes she has the power to call down the dragons that have been plundering his realm, and she is caught up in the fierce rivalry between Orrik and his jealous brother Rog.
When players of their virtual reality computer game fall into a coma, Liz and BJ O'Connor, teenage owners of a computer games company, flee from the police in an attempt to locate a copy of their game and correct the programming.
After transferring to a new high school during his junior year, Hal tries to make friends, gain a starting position on the baseball team, and hide the fact that his dad is a famous ex-major leaguer.
Fifteen-year-old Loch and his younger sister join their father on a scientific expedition searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in a Vermont lake, but it soon becomes obvious that the expedition's leaders aren't interested in preserving the creatures.
Fifteen-year-old Loch and his younger sister join their father on a scientific expedition searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in a Vermont lake, but it soon becomes obvious that the expedition's leaders aren't interested in preserving the creatures.
When she joins her father and several others investigating a strange whirlpool and possible sunken treasure ship off the coast of Baja California, thirteen-year-old Kate is drawn into a centuries-old conflict between Merlin and the evil Nimue.
Two teenage boys are torn between opportunity and danger when they stumble upon $400,000 in drug money.
An eighth grader joins the wrestling team and has his first crush on a teacher.
When he no longer fits into his vagabond mother's life, thirteen-year-old Harley adopts an abandoned dog and falls in with an outspoken old woman, a cantankerous junk collector, and an energetic and loving teenage girl.
Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont farmhouse.
Soon after she and her mother come to the small Texas town of Kluney and experience a series of menacing events, Katie begins to suspect that there is something sinister going on.
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
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The Lone Star Reading Lists 1996 |
Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky | Bill by Chap Reaver
Billy by Laura Roybal | Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Beyond the Burning Time by Bill by Billy by Catherine, Called Birdy by Climb or Die by Edward Myers | Deadly Deception by Betsy Haynes
Driver's Ed by Caroline B. Cooney| Earthshine by Theresa Nelson
Climb or Die by Driver's Ed by Earthshine : a novel by Flight of the Dragon Kyn by Susan Fletcher | Gemini Game by Michael Scott
Infield Hit by Thomas Dygard | Loch by Paul Zindel
Flight of the Dragon Kyn by Gemini Game by Infield Hit by Loch by Lostman's River by Cynthia DeFelice | The Merlin Effect by T. A. Barron
Money to Burn by E. M. Goldman | No Effect by Daniel Hayes
Lostman's River by The Merlin Effect by Money to Burn by No Effect by Out of Nowhere by Ouida Sebestyen | Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse
Shadowmaker by Joan Lowery Nixon | Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Out of Nowhere by Phoenix Rising by Shadowmaker by Walk Two Moons by