State Award Reading List
Texas State Reading Lists
- Texas 2X2 Reading List
- Triple Crown Awards
- Texas Lone Star Reading List
- Writers' League of Texas Book Award
- Tayshas High School Reading List
Texas 2X2 Reading List
2011 Texas 2X2 Reading List
Age 2 - Grade 2
One Pup's Up
By: Marsha Wilson Chall
Illustrated by: Henry Cole
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: June 15, 2010
Ages: 1 - 4
When one pup’s up, the other nine are sure to follow! Young readers will love counting along as ten pups gradually wake up to nuzzle, wiggle, dine, and play. Count back down as the puppies fall asleep again, all in a...
Other Formats: eBook
Who Said Coo?
By: Deborah Ruddell
Illustrated by: Robin Luebs
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: June 8, 2010
Ages: 3 - 7
Lulu is one seriously sleepy pig. But every time she snuggles in her cozy bed, she’s disturbed by the noises of two naughty birds outside her window. Whoooooo…Coooooo….Lulu must find a way to get her...
Triple Crown Awards
2011 - 2012 Childrens' Gallery Award Nominee
Grades 1 - 3
The True Gift
A Christmas Story
By: Patricia MacLachlan
Illustrated by: Brian Floca
This edition: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publication date: October 6, 2009
Ages: 7 - 11
All year long Lily and Liam look forward to Christmas on their grandparents' farm. It's always the perfect trip -- walking to the lilac library, trimming the tree, giving gifts. But this year, thanks to a white cow alone in...
2011 - 2012 Childrens' Crown Award Nominee
Grades 4-6
Extra Credit
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Mark Elliott
This edition: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publication date: June 23, 2009
Ages: 8 - 12
It isn’t that Abby Carson can’t do her schoolwork. She just doesn’t like doing it. And in February a warning letter arrives at her home. Abby will have to repeat sixth grade—unless she meets some...
2011 - 2012 Lamplighter Award Nominee
Grades 6 - 8
Ashley Bryan
Words to My Life's Song
By: Ashley Bryan
Illustrated by: Ashley Bryan / Photographer: Bill McGuinness
This edition: Hardcover, 64 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2009
Ashley's autobiography is full of art, photographs, and the poignant never-say-never tale of his rich life, a life that has always included drawing and painting. Even as a boy growing up during the Depression, he painted --...
Texas Lone Star Reading List
2012 Texas Long Star Reading List
Grades 6 - 8
Belly Up
By: Stuart Gibbs
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: May 18, 2010
Ages: 8 - 12
12 year old Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Fitzroy has got a murder on his hands and trouble on his tail. Henry, the hippopatamus at the brand-new nationally known FunJungle, has gone belly up. Even though it's claimed he died of...
Blood Red Road
(Part of Dust Lands)
By: Moira Young
This edition: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publication date: June 7, 2011
Ages: above 14
Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That's fine...
Rot & Ruin
(Part of Rot & Ruin)
By: Jonathan Maberry
This edition: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publication date: September 14, 2010
Ages: above 12
In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn't want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with...
Writers' League of Texas Book Award
2011 Writers' League of Texas Book Award Finalist
Children's Books
A Million Shades of Gray
By: Cynthia Kadohata
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: January 5, 2010
Ages: 10 - 14
A boy and his elephant escape into the jungle when the Viet Cong attack his village immediately after the Vietnam war.
Tayshas High School Reading List
2012 Tayshas High School Reading List
Forge
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: October 19, 2010
Ages: 10 - 14
In this compelling sequel to Chains, a National Book Award Finalist and winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson shifts perspective from Isabel to Curzon and brings...
Pathfinder
By: Orson Scott Card
This edition: Hardcover, 672 pages
Publication date: November 23, 2010
Ages: above 12
A powerful secret. A dangerous path. Rigg is well trained at keeping secrets. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg's strange talent for seeing the paths of people's pasts. But when his father dies, Rigg is stunned to...
Between Here and Forever
By: Elizabeth Scott
This edition: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publication date: May 24, 2011
Ages: above 14
A romantic but dark coming-of-age teen novel by the author of Perfect You and Living Dead Girl.
Blank Confession
By: Pete Hautman
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: November 16, 2010
Ages: above 12
Shayne Blank is the new kid in town--but that doesn't stop him from getting into a lot of trouble very quickly. The other kids don't understand him. He's not afraid of anything. He seems too smart. And his background doesn't...
This Dark Endeavor
The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein
By: Kenneth Oppel
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: August 23, 2011
Ages: above 12
Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein. They are nearly inseparable. Growing up, their lives are filled with imaginary adventures...until the day their adventures turn all too real. They stumble upon The Dark...
White Cat
(Part of Curse Workers, The)
By: Holly Black
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: May 4, 2010
Ages: above 14
The first in a trilogy, this gritty, fast-paced fantasy is rife with the unexpected. Cassel comes from a shady, magical family of con artists and grifters. He doesn’t fit in at home or at school, so he’s used to...
