Mrs. Staheli’s Class Recommended Books 2010-2011

At the end of every school year I have my students (grades 7 & 9) make a list of books they have read in the past year to recommend to each other and future students as MUST READ. Here is the list for this school year. A couple of titles/series* are recommended from ARC copies.

13^th Reality * – Dashner

30 Seconds Over Tokyo –  Lawson

39 Clues, The *  – various

90 Minutes in Heaven –  Piper

Adventurers Wanted * – Forman

Air Head – Cabot

Air Man – Colfer

Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians * – Sanderson

Alchemyst * – Scott

Along for the Ride – Dessen

Also Known as Harper – Leal

Amazing Gracie – Cannon

Among the Hidden * - Haddix

Artemis Fowl series – Colfer

Beautiful Tragedies – Patterson

Because of Winn-Dixie – DiCamillo

Behind Enemy Lines – Cohn

Being Sixteen – Condie

Beyonders * – Mull

Bfg, The – Dahl

Big Girl – Steel

Big Red – Kjelgaard

Big, Bad Wolf, The – Patterson

Bigfoot: Man, Monster or Myth – Carmichael

Black Beauty – Sewell

Blood is Thicker – Langan

Bloomability – Creech

Bourne Identity -- Ludlum

Boxcar Children The * – Warner

Boy Who Drank Too Much, The – Greene

Brian’s Hunt – Paulsen

Bright Blue Miracle – Wilhite

Bud, Not Buddy – Curtis

Burned – Hopkins

Candy Shop War, The – Mull

Captain Underpants * – Pickney

Car, The – Paulsen

Change of Heart, A – Picoult

Charlie Bone * – Nimmo

Chasing Redbird – Creech

Child Called It * – Peltzer

Children of the Lamp * – Kerr

Chosen One, The – Williams

Christmas Box, The – Evans

Christmas Secret, The -- Canlierre

Chronicles of Narnia – Lewis

Cirque du Freak * – Shan

City of Ember * – DePrau

Clicque, The * – Harrison

Code Talker – Bruchac

Come Thirsty – Lucado

Conspiracies 365 * – Lord

Corner of the Universe, A – Martin

Crack in the Sky – Hughes

Crank – Hopkins

Crispin * – Avi

Cure, The – Levitin

Cut – McCormick

Dar John – Sparks

Dark Divine * – Despain

DaVinci Code, The – Brown

Day the Earth Stood Still, The – Bates

Dead is the New Black * – Perez

Death of a Hired Man – Wright

Deathwatch – White

Deep, Dark & Dangerous – Hahn

Demonata * – Shan

Desperado – Palmer

Divinely Designed – Anderson

Do You Like Me Julie Sloan – Smurthwaite

Down a Dark Hall – Duncan

Dragon Keeper- Wilkinson

Dragon Rider – Funke

East – Pattou

Eddy and the Habs – Gostick

Elantris * – Sanderson

Elephant Run – Smith

Enchanted – Lowell

Eragon * – Paolini

Eternal * – Smith

Everlost * – Shusterman

Evernight *- Gray

Fablehaven * – Mull

Fallen -- Kate

Far Blue Mountains – L’Amour

Far World * – Savage

Farmer Boy – Wilder

First Love and Forever * – Stansfield

First Step to Forever – Beiber

Five People You Meet in Heaven – Albom

Flygirl – Smith

Football Hero – Green

Forbidden Sea – Nielsen

Forest Born * – Hale

Forget Me Not – Lowell

Found * – Haddix

Fruit’s Basket – Takaya

Full Tilt – Shusterman

Gate Keepers, The * – Horowitz

Glass – Hopkins

Gone with the Wind – Mitchell

Goose Girl * – Hale

Goosebumps * – Stine

Grace – Evans

Great and Terrible, The * -- Stewart

Great Brain * – Fitzgerald

Guardian, The – Sparks

Guardians of Ga’Hoole * – Lasky

Gun, The – Langan

Handle with Care – Picoult

Harry Potter *– Rowling

Hatchet *– Paulsen

Having Hope – Ferran

He’s with Me – Summers

Here’s to Rachel Robinson – Blume

Hidden Girl – Kaufman

Hobbit—Tolkien

Holes – Sacher

Hoops – Myers

Hoot – Haiasen

Horns and Wrinkles – Helgerson

Host, The – Meyer

Hourglass Door, The * – Mangum

House of Night * – Cast

How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days – Alexander

Hunger Games * – Collins

Hush Hush * – Fitzpatrick

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden -- Greene

Icefire – D’Lacey

Ida B. –  Hannigan

Identical – Hopkins

Incredible Journey, The – Buford

Inkheart * – Funke

Invention of Hugo Cabret, The – Selznik

Iron King, The * – Kawaga

It’s a Mall World After All – Rallison

It’s Not About the Money – Flake

Jimmy Fincher * – Dashner

Journey to the Center of the Earth – Verne

Just Listen – Dessen

Keepers, The * - Koller

Key Maker, The – Porter

Keys to the Kingdom, The * - Nix

Last Apprentice, The * – Delaney

Last Song, The – Sparks

Leven Thumps * – Skye

Leviathan * – Westerfeld

Life As We Knew It * – Pfieffer

Light on Snow – Shreeve

Little Britches – Moody

Lord of the Rings * – Tolkien

Loser – Spinelli

Lost Hero, The * – Riordan

Luck of the Draw – Anderson

Lucky One, The – Sparks

Magyk * – Sage

Marked * – Cast

Marley & Me – Groban

Matched *– Condie

Maximum Ride * – Petterson

Maze Runner, The * – Dashner

Maze, The – Hobbs

Metro 2033 – Glukhovsky

Mexican White Boy – de la Pena

Miles from Ordinary – Williams

Mistborn * – Sanderson

Misty of Chincoteague – Henry

Mostly Ghostly* – Stine

Mother to Embarrass Me, A – Williams

Mr. Monster *– Wells

Mustang Man – L’Amour

My Fair Godmother* – Rallison

No More Dead Dogs – Korman

North - Napoli

North to the Rails – L’Amour

Notebook, The – Sparks

Old Yeller – Gipson

One Tattered Angel – Yorgason

Outsiders, The – Hinton

Over the Wall – Ritter

Palace of Mirrors, The – Haddix

Paranormalcy *– White

Pathfinder – Card

Pendragon * – MacHale

Percy Jackson * – Riordan

Perfect – Friend

Pictures of Hollis Woods – Giff

Pillage * – Skye

Pirate Latitudes – Crichton

Porter Rockwell Chronicles, The * – Dewey

Pretty Little Liars – Shepard

Princess Academy – Hale

Princess Diaries * – Cabot

Project Sweet Life – Hartinger

Radagan – L’Amour

Rag & Bone Shop, The – Cormier

Ranger’s Apprentice * – Flannigam

Red Midnight – Mikaelson

Red Pyramid, The * – Riordan

Replay – Creech

Roar, The – Clayton

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry * – Taylor

Romeo & Juliet – Shakespeare

Sackett * – L’Amour

Safe Haven – Sparks

Santa Maybe – Mace

Save Me from Myself – Welch

Say Goodnight Gracie – Deaver

Search and Destroy – Hughes

Search for Safety – Langan

Secret Garden, The – Burdett

Secret Journal of Brett Colton, The – Mangum

Series of Unfortunate Events * – Snicket

Shadow Riders – L’Amour

Shiver – Steifvater

Short Second Life of Bree Tanner – Meyer

Silent to the Bone – Konesburg

Simarillion, The – Tolkien

Sister Pact – Checketts

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants * – Brashares

Sisters Grimm * – Buckley

Skeleton Creek * - Carman

Sky Liners, The – L’Amour

Smiles to Go – Spinelli

Soldier Boys – Hughes

Someone Named Eva – Wolf

Spare Change – Mace

Speak – Anderson

Splintercell – Clancy

Star Wars * – various

Stolen Children – Karhet

Stormbreaker * – Horowitz

Stowaway – Hesse

Sun & Moon, Ice & Snow – George

Supernaturalist, The – Colfer

Tales of the Beedle Bard – Rowling

Tangerine – Bloor

Tarzan * –Burroughs

Tempted – Cast

Tennis Shoes among Nephites * – Heimerdinger

Tenth Circle, The – Picoult

There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom – Sachar

Thief Lord, The – Funke

Thief, The * - Turner

Thousand Tomorrows – Kingsbury

Truth About Forever, The – Dessen

Tunnels * – Gordon

Twilight * - Meyers

Tyrell – Booth

Uglies – Westerfeld

Under a War-Torn Sky – Elliott

Under the Same Stars – Hughes

Uprising – Haddix

Vampire Diaries * – Smith

Vampire Night -  Hino

Vampirytes * – Sump

Variant – Wells

Vertical Limit – Odom

Vladmir Tod * – Brewer

Wait Til Helen Comes – Hahn

Walk to Remember, A – Sparks

Walk Two Moons – Creech

Wanderer, The – Creech

War horse – Morpurgo

Warrior Heir, The * – Williams

Warriors * – Hunter

Way to Be – Hinckley

Wedding, The – Sparks

Weed Flower – Kodataha

Westing Game, The – Raskin

What I Saw and How I Lied – Blundell

When the Bough Breaks – Mangum

Where the Red Fern Grows – Rawles

Who Killed My Daughter – Duncan

Willie Wonka * – Dahl

Without a Flaw – Bell

Wolf Brother – Paver

Wolves Boys Other Things. . . Chandler

Words in the Dust – Reedy

Work & the Glory * – Lund

Year My Sister Got Lucky, The – Friedman

You Don’t Know Me – Klass

Zach’s Lie – Smith

Student Book Recommendations

One of the last things I ask my students to do at the end of the school year is to make a list of books they would recommend to their peers. I give a copy of this list to each student as a place to start their summer reading. I'm also happy to share this year's list with all of you. I've read 90 of them already. How did you do?

Recommended Books 2009-2010

13th Reality series – Dashner
39 Clues series – various
Alcatraz and the Librarian series – Sanderson
Alchemist, The series – Scott
Alex Rider series – Horowitz
Aliens series – various
All-American Girl – Cabot
Among the Hidden series – Haddix
Antsy Does Time – Schusterman
Artemis Fowl – Colfer
Bear Dancer – Wyss
Bella at Midnight – Stanley
Body Finder, The – Derting
Breath - Winton
Candy Shop Wars, The – Mull
Charlie Bone series – Nimmo
Chasing Vermeer - Ballitt
Children of the Lamp series – Kerr
Chosen One, The – Williams
Christmas Jar, The – Wright
Christmas List, The – Evans
Christmas Sweater, The – Beck
Chronicles of Vladmire Tod, The series – Brewer
Cirque du Freak – Shan
Cleopatra VI - Gregory
Climbing the Stairs – Venkatraman
Clique series – Harrison
Cold Service – Parker
Counting Stars – Holmes
Courting Miss Lancaster – Eden
Crooked Kind of Perfect – Urban
Cry of the Icemark series – Hill
Cut – McCormick
Daniel X series – Patterson
Dark Hills Divide - Carmer
Darklight – Livingston
Deadly Little Secret – Stolarz
Deathwatch – White
Deep & Dark & Dangerous – Hahn
Deep Down Popular – Stone
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series - Kinney
Don’t Don’t Tell Jokes – Sachar
Double Identity – Haddix
Dragon Keeper - Wilkinson
Dragon Slippers series – George
Dune series – Herbert
Dusty Britches – McClure
Elantris – Sanderson
Ella Enchanted – Levine
Ender’s Game series – Card
Eragon series – Paolini
Esperanza Rising – Ryan
Ever – Levine
Everest series – Korman
Extraordinary Adventures Alfred Kropp – Yancy
Fablehaven series – Mull
Face, The – Koonz
Fairest – Levine
Farworld series – Savage
Giver, The – Lowry
Going Postal – Pratchett
Goose Girl series – Hale
Guardians of Ga’Hoole series – Lasky
Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie – Shaffer
Harry Potter series – Rowling
Heart Only Knows, The – Blair
Heat – Lupica
Heir Apparent – Van Velde
Hoot – Haaisen
Host, The – Meyers
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Ford
Hourglass Door, The series – Mangum
House of Night, The series – Cast
How to Survive Middle School – Gephart
Huckleberry Finn – Twain
Hunger Games, The series – Collins
I’d Tell You I Love You series – Carter
Ice – Durst
Ida B. – Hannigan
Immortals series, The – Noel
Inkheart series – Funke
Island series – Korman
Jinx – Cabot
Just One Wish – Rallison
Kate’s Turn series – Crane
Key to Rondo, The – Rodda
Keys to the Golden Firebird – Johnson
Last Song, The – Sparks
Lean on Me – Weyland
Lemon Tart – Kilpack
Levan Thumps series – Skye
Leviathan – Westerfeld
Lightning Thief, The series – Riordan
Line, The – Hall
Lord of the Rings trilogy – Tolkien
Luxe, The series –Godberson
Magician Trilogy, The – Nimmo
Maximum Ride series – Patterson
Maze Runner, The – Dashner
Missing series – Haddix
Molly Moon series – Byng
Morganville Vampires series - Caine
My Fair Godmother – Rallison
My Life in Pink and Green – Greenwald
Mysterious Benedict Society, The – Stewart
Notebook, The – Sparks
Number the Stars – Lowry
Old Willis Place, The - Hahn
Of Mice and Magic series – Farland
Once Upon a Marigold – Fern
Out of the Dust – Hesse
Peak series – Smith
Pendragon series – MacHale
Persuasion – Austen
Peter and the Starcatchers series – Berry/Pearson
Predator series – various
Prelude to Glory series – Carter
Pride and Prejudice – Austen
Princess Bride, The – Goldman
Princess Diaries, The series – Cabot
Princess of the Midnight Ball – George
Rag and Bone Shop, The – Cormier
Ranger’s Apprentice – Flanagan
Raymond & Graham – Knudson
Rebel Angels – Bray
Rune Lords series Farland
Running Out of Time – Haddix
Sammy Keyes series – Van Draanen
Santa Maybe – Mace
Secret Life of Bees, The – Kidd
Secret, The – Byrne
Shiver – Stiefvater
Silverfin – Higson
Small Gods – Pratchett
Stolen Children – Kehret
Stop Pretending – Sones
Summer Ball – Lupica
Summer of the Monkeys – Rawls
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow – George
Sunflower, The – Evans
Sunrise Over Fallujah – Meyers
Surgeon, The – Gerritsen
Surviving Antarctica 2086 – White
Switch – Horowitz
Tale of Despereaux, The – DiCamillo
Tantalize – Smith
Teens at War – Zullo
Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites series – Heimerdinger
Tower of Strength - Lyon
Traitor -Gray
Tunnels – Williams
Two Little Girls in Blue - Clark
Twlight series – Meyers
Uglies series – Westerfeld
Un Lun Dun – Mieville
Undaunted, The – Lund
Uprising – Haddix
Vampire Diaries, The series – Smith
Vampirates series – Somper
Variant – Wells
Walk to Remember, A – Sparks
Walk Two Moons – Creech
Ways to Live Forever – Nicholls
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town – Holt
Where the Red Fern Grows – Rawls
Where the River Runs North – Morton
Witch & Wizard series – Patterson
Witch Child – Rees
Witness – Hesse
Wuthering Heights – Bronte

Hidden Treasures: Great Books Overlooked by the National Awards

I was a presenter at the Utah Educators Library Media Association (UELMA) conference on Friday. This is the list of books I recommended to the librarians during my presentation. Since readers are always asking me for a list of great books, I thought I'd share this one here for all of you.

Hidden Treasures: Great Books Overlooked by the National Awards

Lu Ann Brobst Staheli, M.Ed.

The 13^th Reality: The Journal of Curious Secrets – James Dashner (Aladdin, 2009)

The 13^th Reality: The Hunt for Dark Infinity – James Dashner (Aladdin, 2010)

The Alchemyst: Secrets of Immortal Nicholas Flamel -- Michael Scott (Del

acorte, 2008)

Antsy Does Time – Neal Schusterman (Dutton Juvenile, 2008)

The Body Finder – Kimberly Dertney (HarperCollins, 2010)

The Chosen One – Carol Lynch Williams (St. Martin's Griffin, 2009)

The Dangerous Days of Daniel X – James Patterson (Grand Central Publishing, 2009)

Dragon Spear – Jessica Day George (Bloomsbury, 2009)

Everything is Fine – Ann Dee Ellis (Little Brown, 2009)

Far World: Water Keep – J. Scott Savage (Shadow Mountain, 2008)

Far World: Land Keep – J. Scott Savage (Shadow Mountain, 2009)

Forest Born – Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury, 2009)

The Hourglass Door – Lisa Mangum (Shadow Mountain, 2009)

How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend – Janette Rallison (Putnam Juvenile, 2007)

Ice – Sarah Beth Durst (Margaret K. McElderry, 2009)

I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You – Ally Carter (Hyperion, 2007)

If I Stay – Gayle Forman (Dutton, 2009)

Just One Wish – Janette Rallison (Putnam Juvenile, 2009)

Leviathan – Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse, 2009)

Life as We Know It – Susan Beth Pfeffer (Harcourt, 2008)

Lily Dale: Awakening – Wendy Corsi Staub (Walker Books, 2009)

Lily Dale: Connecting – Wendy Corsi Staub (Walker Books, 2009)

The Line – Teri Hall (Dial, 2010)

The Loser’s Guide to Life and Love: A Novel – A.E. Cannon (Harper Teen, 2008)

The Luxe: Envy – Anna Godberson (Harper Collins, 2009)

The Luxe: Splendor – Anna Godberson (Harper Collins, 2009)

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment – James Patterson (Little Brown, 2007)

Missing: Found – Margaret Peterson Haddix (Simon & Schuster, 2009)

Missing: Sent – Margaret Peterson Haddix (Simon & Schuster, 2009)

My Fair Godmother – Janette Rallison (Walker Books, 2009)

Peter and the Starcatchers – Dave Berry & Ridley Pearson (Disney Editions, 2004)

Pillage – Obert Skye (Shadow Mountain, 2008)

Princess of the Midnight Ball – Jessica Day George (Bloomsbury, 2009)

A Season of Gifts – Richard Peck (Dial, 2009)

The Secret to Teen Power – Paul Harrington (Simon Pulse, 2009)

Shiver – Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic, 2009)

Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow – Jessica Day George (Bloomsbury, 2008)

Sunrise Over Fallujah – Walter Dean Meyers (Scholastic, 2009)

This Is What I Did – Ann Dee Ellis (Little Brown, 2009)

Uprising – Margaret Peterson Haddix (Simon & Schuster, 2007)

Wings – Aprilynn Pike (HarperTeen, 2009)

Wonderous Strange – Lesley Livingston (HarperTeen, 2009)

NATIONAL BUZZ

Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press, 2009)

The Maze Runner – James Dashner (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2009)

The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press, 2008)

BONUS: Books that Never Fail to Hook Reluctant Readers

The Christmas Box – Richard Paul Evans (Simon & Schuster, 1995)

Deathwatch – Robb White (Laurel Leaf, 1973)

The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp – Richard Yancy (Bloomsbury, 2008)

The Luxe – Anna Godberson (Harper Collins, 2008)

The Luxe: Rumors – Anna Godberson (Harper Collins, 2008)

On Wings of Heroes – Richard Peck (Puffin, 2008)

The Rag and Bone Shop – Robert Cormier (Laurel Leaf, 2003)

Tantalize – Cynthia Leitich Smith (Candlewick, 2008)

The Warrior Heir – Cinda Williams Chima (Hyperion, 2007)

When Santa Fell to Earth – Cornelia Funke (Scholastic. 2009)

Professional Reading

This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save us All – Marilyn Johnson (Harper, 2010)

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It – Kelly Gallagher (Stenhouse, 2009)

The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything – Ken Robinson (Penguin, 2009)

Books for YOU!

Band of Sisters – Annette Lyon (Covenant, 2010)

Christmas Jars Reunion – Jason F. Wright (Shadow Mountain, 2009)

The Christmas List – Richard Paul Evans (Simon & Schuster, 2009)

Courting Miss Lancaster – Sarah M. Eden (Covenant, 2010)

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Schaffer (Dial Press, 2009)

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Jamie Ford (Ballentine, 2009)

Lemon Tart: A Culinary Mystery – Josi Kilpack (Deseret Book, 2009)

Sarah’s Key – Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008)

Traitor – Sandra Gray (Covenant, 2008)

Lu Ann Brobst Staheli is the author of:

When Hearts Conjoin (Richard Paul Evans Publishing)

Jim Karol: Psychic Madman (Sourced Media)

Coming Soon:

The Business of Marriage with Dino Watt

From Showbiz to Starbiz with Alan Osmond

A Year Book in Review

To know me at all is to know I’m a voracious reader. I’m one of those people who has about ten books going at once. There’s a stack of books on my bedside table big enough to damage my head if we had even a mild earthquake. Five rooms and two hallways in the house have book shelves that are stuffed full. I have cases of books stored in the shed, several audio books on my computer, and even a couple of my iPod. My car usually has at least one audio book to keep me company as I travel. My desk at school will sometimes collect three or four books that are currently “in progress,” and yet I still make regular trips to the public and school libraries.

Okay, so I’m addicted to reading. I know it; my students know it; my sons and husband know it—although they might not always like it. I’ve tried to cut back on the number of books I own, but those little buggers just seem to multiple! I’ve sold books on eBay, given books as gifts, and donated them by the sackful to not only my classroom at school, but to other teachers, public libraries, and charitable causes as well. Yet I never seem to make a real dent on the number of books stashed away in every nook and cranny—oh, and there the chest of drawers stuff with paperbacks I failed to mention.

If I were to retire today from everything I do and spend all my time doing nothing but reading, I doubt I’d make it through them all before my time was through. But that doesn’t stop me from the thrill of pursuing a bookstore, surfing through Amazon, or welcoming books sent to me for review.

With all this reading going on, I often get asked to give my opinion about books, books, and more books. I’ll be speaking in March at the UELMA conference; I review regularly for The ALAN Review, LMC Magazine, and The Signal Journal; and my students, friends, and family as always asking me what they should read. Heck, I even hear from students from years ago: “Mrs. Staheli, Can you tell me a good book to read?” I give them a half-dozen titles and they are off and running.

I were to give a long report on every book I loved this year you’d be here all night reading this blog, so I’m just going to list the best books I’ve read in the past year out of the nearly 150 books I completed. Maybe you’ll find something here you will add to your reading list for this year. As for mine, the list is already full and it’s still only January!

The Loser’s Guide to Life and Love – Ann Cannon

Search and Destroy – Dean Hughes

Legend of the Jewel – N.C. Allen

Wolf Rider – Avi

Might As Well Laugh About It Now – Marie Osmond

The Chosen One – Carol Lynch Williams

Cash in a Flash - Allen & Hansen

Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society - Shaffer

The Christmas List - Evans

Far World: Land Keep - Savage

Christmas Jars Reunion - Wright

Uprising - Haddix

The Hourglass Door - Mangum

Oh, and I can't forget the one that could possible get me out of all this book mess:

Enough Already - Walsh

2008-2009 Student Book Recommendations

Every year I ask my students to give me the titles of Ten books they have read this year that they liked well enough to recommend to other readers. This list is LONG (278 titles---I listed series as titles), but I thought some of you might find it interesting, especially if you are writing for middle grade students. Maybe you'll want to copy the list and print it out for a reading list of your own, or to share with your middle grade students. The kids who listed their books are all 7th graders. Some of you will find your own books among the titles!

Anderson - Maybird series

Anderson - Peaches

Anderson – Speak

Anderson - Teacher’s Pet

Anderson – Twisted

Anderson – Wintergirls

Armstrong - The Summoning

Avi – Wolf Rider

Baillet - The Calder Game

Balliet - The Wright 3

Banks – The Indian in the Cupboard series

Barklem - The Secret Staircase

Barry & Pearson – Peters and the Starcatchers series

Baxter – Sunstorm

Bellow – Michael Jordan

Benz – Grey Griffins series

Bettes – Where the Heart Is

Bierce - Civil War Stories

Blume - Superfudge

Bosch – The Name of This Book is Secret

Brashares – The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series

Brown – Angels & Demons

Buckley – Chickens in the Headlights

Buckley – Sisters Grimm series

Burnford - The Incredible Journey

Byng - Molly Moon series

Cabot – Aithead

Cabot – The Princess Diaries series

Carter – I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have to Kill You series

Cashore - Graceling

Cast – Betrayed

Cast – Marked

Chima – The Warrior series

Choldenko - Al Capone Does My Shirts

Clements – Frindle

Clements – The School Story

Clements – Things Not Seen

Clements - Room One

Colfer – Airman

Colfer – Artemis Fowl series

Colfer – Benny & Oman

Colfer – The Supernaturalist

Collins - Gregor series

Condie – Reunion

Covey – 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Creech – Bloomability

Creech – Heartbeat

Creech – Ruby Holler

Creech – Walk Two Moons

Crichton – Airframe

Crichton – Jurassic Park

Crutcher – Iron Man

Curtis – Bud, Not Buddy

Dahl – George’s Marvelous Medicine

Daley - Star Wars: Han Solo trilogy

Dashner – The 13^th Reality series

David & Draper - We Beat the Street

Davis – Garfield series

De la Cruz – Bluebloods

De la Cruz – Masquerade

De Mari - The Last Dragon

Delaney - The Last Apprentice series

Dessen – Just Listen

Dessen - Keeping the Moon

Dessen – Lock and Key

Dessen – The Truth About Forever

Di Camillo – The Tale of Despereaux

Dickens – David Copperfield

D'lacey - The Fire Within series

Elliott - Under a War Torn Sky

Evans – The Christmas Box

Fairstein – Entombed

Farmer - Sea of Trolls

Ferris – Once Upon a Marigold

Fitzgerald – The Great Brain series

Fletcher - Stoneheart trilogy

Forman – Adventurer’s Wanted: Slathbog’s Gold

Frank – Diary of a Young Girl

Friend – Perfect

Funke – Inkheart series

Gardner - Stone Fox

Gibson – Old Yeller

Gies - Anne Frank Remembered

Giff - Pictures of Hollis Woods

Goldman – The Princess Bride

Haddam - Cheating at Solitaire

Haddix - Palace of Mirrors

Haddix – Running Out of Time

Haddix – The Missing: Found

Haddix – Turnabout

Hale – Austenland

Hale – Book of a Thousand Days

Hale – Enna Burning

Hales – Goose Girl

Hales – The Princess Academy

Hansen – Macady

Heimerdinger – Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites series

Heinlein – The Final Frontier

Hiaasen - Scat

Hiaisen – Hoot

Hickam – October Sky

Hinton – Rumble Fish

Hinton – The Outsiders

Hobbs – Far North

Hobbs – Ghost Canoe

Hobbs – Jason’s Gold

Hobbs – Wild Man Island

Holt – Part of Me

Holt – When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

Hopkins – Burned

Hopkins – Crank

Hopkins – Glass

Horowitz - Groosham Grange

Horowitz – Alex Rider series

Horowitz – The Gatekeepers series

Hunter - Warriors series

Ibbotson – The Great Ghost Rescue

Johnson - 13 Little Blue Envelopes

Jones – King James: The Real Story

Jordan – The Eye of the World series

Kadohata - Kira – Kira

Kehret - The Blizzard Disaster

Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid series

Klein - Con Ed

Koonz – Velocity

Korman - Kidnapped

Korman - Schooled

Kostick - Epic

Landy - Skulldugery Pleasant series

Lasky - Guardians of Ga’hoole series

Levine – Dave at Night

Levine – Ella Enchanted

Levine – Princess series

Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia series

Logue – Dancing with an Alien

London – White Fang

Lord – A Night to Remember

Lubar - Hidden Talents

Lund – Fire of the Covenant

Lund – The Alliance

Lund – The Work and the Glory series

Lupica – Heat

Lupica – The Big Field

Mac Hale - Pendragon series

Mangum - The Secret Journal of Brett Colton

Martin - Missing Since Monday

Martinez - Parrot in the Oven

Mazer - The Missing Girl

McCormick – Cut

Meyers – Twilight saga

Mikaelsen – Tree Girl

Montague – Fireweed

Moody - Best Friends

Moore – Out of Jerusalem series

Mull – The Candy Shop War

Mulle – Fablehaven series

Myers - The Mouse Rap

Naylor – Shiloh

Nichols - A Walk Out of the World

Nimmo – Charlie Bone series

Nimoy – I Am Spock

Nix – Keys to the Kingdom series

O’Dell – Island of the Blue Dolphins

Osborn – The Magic Treehouse series

Palahniuk - Haunted

Paolini – Eragon series

Patterson – Maximum Ride series

Paulsen – Soldier Heart

Paulsen – The Car

Paulson – Hatchet

Pelzer – A Child Called It series

Peretti – Monster

Perez - Dead is the New Black

Peterson - Jip

Petterson – Max series

Pfeffer - Life as We Knew It series

Pratchet – Going Postal

Pratchet – Thud

Qualey - Hometown

Raskin – The Westing Game

Rawls – Summer of the Monkeys

Rawls – Where the Red Fern Grows

Reeder - Foster’s War

Rees – Pirates

Riordan – Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

Rodgers - Freaky Friday

Rottman – Stetson

Rowling – Harry Potter series

Roy - Yellow Star

Sachar – Holes

Sachar – Tales from the Wayside Schools series

Sachar – The Boy Who Lost His Face

Sage – Magyk series

Sanderson – Mistborn series

Savage – Far World series

Schreiber - Vampire Kisses

Selznik - The Invention of Hugo Caret

Sewell – Black Beauty

Shan – Cirque du Freak series

Shan – The Dementor series

Shreve – Light on Snow

Shrieber – Teenage Mermaid

Shusterman - Everlost

Shusterman - The Schwa Was Here

Skye – Leven Thumps series

Slaughter – Indelible

Smith – Elephant Run

Smith – Everest series

Smith – I.Q.

Smith – Island series

Smith – On the Run

Smith – Peak

Smith – Sasquatch

Smith – Tantalize

Smith – Zach’s Lie series

Snickett – The Series of Unfortunate Events

Somper - Vampirates series

Soto – Taking Sides

Sparks - The Wedding

Speare – The Sign of the Beaver

Spinelli – Milkweed

Staheli – When Hearts Conjoin

Stansfield – Christmas Melody; The Three Gifts of Christmas

Stansfield – A Promise of Forever

Stansfield – Barington Family series

Stansfield – Gables Face East series

Stansfield – The Eternal Bond

Stansfield – The Miracle

Stansfield – The Silver Linings

Stansfield – The Sound of Rain series

Stansfield –Stansfield – Towers of Brierly

Stansfield – Where the Heart Leads series

Stansfield –First Love and Forever series

Staub – Lily Dale series

Stine – Goosbumps series

Stine – The Evil Moon

Stine – The New Boy

Stine – The Overnight

Strasser - Help! I’m Trapped in Obedience School

Tarkington – Penrod

Taylor – Walking Up a Rainbow

Temple - Grab Hands and Run

Timlonson - Extreme Sports

Tolkien – The Hobbit

Traditional - The Arabian Nights

Trueman - Inside Out

Turner - Hard Hit

Updale - Montmorency series

Van Draanen - Runaway

Van Draasen – Flipped

Van Draasen – Sammy Keyes series

Various – The 39 Clues series

Wallace - Trapped in Death Cave

Warner - The Box Car Children series

Waterson – Calvin & Hobbes series

Weeks - Jumping the Scratch

Wells - Chance Encounters

Wells – The War of the Worlds

Westerfeld - Uglies series

Weyland – Ashley & Jen

Weyland – Charley

Weyland – Emily

Weyland – Megan

Weyland- Brittany

White - Surviving Antarctica

Wilhite - Bright Blue Miracle

Wilkinson - Dragon Keeper

Wright – Christmas Jars

Wright – The Eyes of the World

Wright – The Mine with the Iron Door

Wright – The Printer of Udells

Wright – The Re-Creation of Brian Kent

Wright – The Shepherd of the Hills

Wright – The Wednesday Letters

Yancey - The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp

Yorgason – Charlie’s Monument

Yorgason – One Tattered Angel

Zevin - Elsewhere