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2010-11 Contest Dates :
March 7-11, 2011 Congratulations winners of the 09-10 Contest!
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2010-11 NAME THAT BOOK
MIDDLE SCHOOL READING LIST
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| 2010-11 Middle School Name That Book Title List | ||||
| Title | Author |
Lexile |
Genre | Summary |
| All the broken pieces: A novel in verse | Burg, Ann E. | 680 | Historical fiction | Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past. |
| At her majesty's request: an African princess in Victorian England | Myers, Walter Dean | 1070 | Biography | Biography of the African princess saved from execution and taken to England where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary. |
| Bull Rider | Williams, Suzanne Morgan | 650 | Realistic fiction | When his older brother, a bull-riding champion, returns from the Iraq War partially paralyzed, fourteen-year-old Cam takes a break from skateboarding to enter a bull-riding contest, in hopes of winning the $15,000 prize and motivating his depressed brother to continue with his rehabilitation. |
| Claim to Fame | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | 770 | Fiction-extrasensory perception | Sixteen-year-old Lindsay, a former child star whose career ended when she developed the ability to hear what anyone, anywhere says about her and apparently suffered a nervous breakdown, comes to see this as an asset when, after her father's death, she learns that she is not alone. |
| Deeper | Gordon, Roderick | 950 | Fiction-archaelogy | As Will Burrows continues to search for his lost archaeologist father in the strange underground world he has discovered, he stumbles across a sinister plot with terrible implications for the world above. |
| Demon King | Chima, Cinda Williams | 760 | Fantasy | Relates the intertwining fates of former street gang leader Han Alister and headstrong Princess Raisa, as Han takes possession of an amulet that once belonged to an evil wizard and Raisa uncovers a conspiracy in the Grey Wolf Court. |
| Donut Days | Zielin, Lara | 830 | Realistic fiction | During a camp-out promoting the opening of a donut shop in a small Minnesota town, sixteen-year-old Emma, an aspiring journalist, begins to connect an ongoing pollution investigation with the turmoil in the evangelical Christian church where her parents are pastors. |
| The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate | Kelly, Jacqueline | 830 | Historical fiction | In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery. |
| Fire | Cashore, Kristin | 870 | Fantasy | In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world. |
| The Girl Who Could Fly | Forester, Victoria | 920 | Fantasy | When homeschooled farm girl Piper McCloud reveals her ability to fly, she is quickly taken to a secret government facility to be trained with other exceptional children, but she soon realizes that something is very wrong and begins working with brilliant and wealthy Conrad to escape. |
| The Girlfriend Material | Kantor, Melissa | 860 | Realistic fiction | When Kate and her mother stay in Cape Cod for the summer, Kate falls for Adam, but is afraid he might consider her merely as a carefree fling. |
| The Great Fire | Murphy, Jim | 790 | Nonfiction | An account of the Great Chicago Fire combines archival photographs and drawings with personal accounts by its survivors and historical documents. |
| Heist Society | Carter, Ally | 870 | Fiction-crime | A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector. |
| The Hunt for the Seventh | Morton-Shaw, Christine | 660 | Horror | When his father starts a new job at Minerva Hall as gardener, twelve-year-old Jim discovers an ancient curse that needs to be unraveled before disaster happens. |
| Hush, Hush | Fitzpatrick, Becca | 640 | Supernatural Thriller | High school sophomore Nora has always been very cautious in her relationships, but when Patch, who has a dark side she can sense, enrolls at her school, she is mysteriously and strongly drawn to him, despite warnings from her best friend, the school counselor, and her own instincts. |
| Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark side | Fantaskey, Beth | 700 | Fantasy | Seventeen-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her. |
| Killer Pizza: A Novel | Taylor, Greg | 770 | Horror | While working as summer employees in a local pizza parlor, three teenagers are recruited by an underground organization of monster hunters. |
| A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier | Beah, Ishmael | 920 | Autobiography | In a heart-wrenching, candid autobiography, a human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army. |
| Maze Runner | Dashner, James | 770 | Science fiction | Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape. |
| My Antonia | Cather, Willa | 1010 | Classic novel | My Antonia is a classic tale of pioneer life in the American Midwest. The novel details daily life in the newly settled plains of Nebraska through the eyes of Jim Burden, who recounts memories of a childhood shared with a girl named Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of a family who have emigrated from Bohemia. |
| North of Beautiful | Headley, Justina Chen | 850 | Realistic fiction | Terra, a sensitive, artistic high school senior born with a facial port-wine stain, struggles with issues of inner and outer beauty with the help of her Goth classmate Jacob. |
| Notes from the Dog | Paulsen, Gary | 760 | Realistic fiction | When Johanna shows up at the beginning of summer to house-sit next door to Finn, he has no idea of the profound effect she will have on his life by the time summer vacation is over. |
| Pop | Korman, Gordon | 740 | Realistic fiction | Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water. |
| Prophecy of the Sisters | Zink, Michelle | 5.4 | Fantasy | In late nineteenth-century New York state, wealthy sixteen-year-old twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe find that they are on opposite sides of an ancient prophecy that has destroyed their parents and seeks to do even more harm. |
| The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour | Bell, Michael D. | 720 | Realistic fiction | Catholic-schooled seventh-graders Sophie, Margaret, Rebecca, and Leigh Ann help an elderly neighbor solve a puzzle her father left for her estranged daughter twenty years ago. |
| The Roar | Clayton, Emma | 910 | Science fiction | In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search for her in spite of the dangers he faces in doing so. |
| School of Fear | Daneshvari, Gitty | 880 | Realistic fiction | Twelve-year-olds Madeleine, Theo, and Lulu, and thirteen-year-old Garrison, are sent to a remote Massachusetts school to overcome their phobias, but tragedy strikes and the quartet must work together--with no adult assistance--to face their fears. |
| Season | MacLean, Sarah | 900 | Mystery/historical | Showing no interest in the sumptuous balls, lavish dinner parties, and country weekends enjoyed by the rest of early nineteenth-century London society, seventeen-year-old Lady Alexandra Stafford seeks adventure as she investigates the puzzling murder of the Earl of Blackmoor, father of devilishly handsome Gavin. |
| Slob | Potter, Ellen | 740 | Mystery | Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed. |
| Someone Named Eva | Wolf, Joan M. | 820 | Historical fiction | From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history. |
| Sweetheart of Prosper County | Alexander, Jill S. | 710 | Realistic fiction | In a small East Texas town largely ruled by prejudices and bullies, fourteen-year-old Austin sets out to win a ride in the next parade and, in the process, grows in her understanding of friendship and helps her widowed mother through her mourning. |
| Tentacles | Smith, Roland | 740 | Science fiction | After the mysterious disappearance of their parents, Marty and Grace go to live with their scientist uncle and accompany him on what soon becomes an increasingly dangerous expedition to New Zealand to track a giant squid. |
| When You Reach Me | Stead, Rebecca | 750 | Realistic fiction | As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The 20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space. |
| Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Marlyland | Walker, Sally M. | 1140 | Nonfiction | Takes readers through the process of investigating human remains found at colonial-era sites to reveal causes of death, match remains with the names on the historical records, and determine the skeletons' gender, age at death, nationality, and even economic standing. |
| Years of Dust | Marrin, Albert | 7.4 | Nonfiction | Offers a review of the events that led up to and took place during this natural disaster in the Great Plains during the 1930s, and discusses the changes that were instituted in farming and land conservation as a result of it. |
This is the official list that will be used for the Middle School Name That Book Contest.
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