Nov 15, 2010

2011 TAYSHAS Reading List

UPDATE: Due to a huge over site on my part, this is now the complete list. Thx Lisa, and congrats! I'm sure you were wondering where your name was! 




The Texas Tayshas High School Reading List is a recommended reading list developed by public and school librarians from the Young Adult Round Table (YART).

The purpose of the list is to encourage students in grades 9-12 to explore a variety of current books. Due to the diversity of this age range, Texas librarians should purchase titles on this list according to their individual collection policies. Each book on the list has been favorably reviewed for grades 9-12 in a professional review source.


 Title
Author
Pub
Publisher
An Unspeakable Crime: the Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank
Alphin, Elaine Marie
2010
Carolrhoda Books
Freefall
Anhalt, Ariela
2010
Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin
Candor
Bachorz, Pam
2009
Egmont USA
Ship Breaker
Bacigalupi, Paolo
2010
Little, Brown
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: the Birth of an American Terrorist Group
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
2010
Houghton Mifflin
Zombies vs. Unicorns
Black, Holly & 
Justine Larbalestier, 
editors.
2010
Margaret K. McElderry Books
The Hate List
Brown, Jennifer
2009
Little, Brown
Six Rules of Maybe
Caletti, Deb
2010
Simon Pulse
Fire
Cashore, Kristin
2009
Dial
Broken Memory:
 A Novel of Rwanda
Combres, Elisabeth
2009
Groundwood Books/ House of Anansi Press
Accomplice
Corrigan, Eireann
2010
Scholastic Press
We Were Here
De La Pena, Matt
2009
Delacorte Press
The Musician's Daughter
Dunlap, Susanne
2009
Bloombury
Happyface
Emond, Stephen
2010
Little, Brown
The Firefly Letters:      
A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba
Engle, Margarita
2010
Henry Holt & Co.
Incarceron
Fisher, Catherine
2010
Dial
You Don't Even Know Me: Stories and Poems About Boys
Flake, Sharon G.
2010
Jump at the Sun
The Morgue and Me
Ford, John C.
2009
Viking
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Green, John &
Levithan, David
2010
Dutton
Fallout
Hopkins, Ellen
2010
McElderry Books
Eli the Good
House, Silas
2009
Candlewick
The Secret Year
Hubbard, Jennifer
2010
Viking
Almost Perfect
Katcher, Brian
2009
Delacorte Press
Jumping Off Swings
Knowles, Jo
2009
Candlewick Press
A Sweet Disorder
Kolosov, Jacqueline 
2009
Disney Hyperion
Hold Still
LaCour, Nina
2009
Dutton
Tangled
Mackler, Carolyn
2010
Harper Teen
Flash Burnout
Madigan, L.K.
2009
Houghton Mifflin
The Rock and The River
Magoon, Kekla
2009
Aladdin/Simon & Schuster
Finnikin of the Rock
Marchetta, Melina
2010
Candlewick
Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl
Marrin, Albert
2009
Dutton Children's Books
Purple Heart
McCormick, Patricia
2009
Harper Collins
Shooting Star
McKissack Jr., Frederick
2009
Atheneum Books
Gringolandia: A Novel
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn
2009
Curbstone Press
The Secret to Lying
Mitchell, Todd
2010
Candlewick
The Sky is Everywhere
Nelson, Jandy
2010
Dial
Birthmarked
O'Brien, Caragh M.
2010
Roaring Brook Press
Before I Fall
Oliver, Lauren
2010
HarperCollins
Dirty Little Secrets
Omololu, C.J.
2010
Walker & Co
Marching for Freedom: Walk together, children, and don't you grow weary
Partridge, Elizabeth
2009
Viking
The Interrogation of Gabriel James
Price, Charlie
2010
Farrar Straus Giroux
Sorta Like a Rockstar
Quick, Matthew
2010
Little, Brown
Diary of a Witness
Ryan Hyde, Catherine
2009
Knopf
Chasing Brooklyn
Schroeder, Lisa
2010
Simon Pulse
Revolver
Sedgwick, Marcus
2010
Roaring Brook Press
Shiver
Stiefvater, Maggie
2009
Scholastic
Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Stork, Francisco X
2010
Arthur A Levine
Wish You Were Dead
Strasser, Todd
2009
Egmont
Borderline
Stratton, Allan
2010
Harper Teen
Lips Touch Three Times
Taylor, Laini
2009
Scholastic
Num8ers
Ward, Rachel
2010
Chicken House / Scholastic
Leviathan
Westerfeld, Scott
2009
Simon Pulse
Glimpse
Williams, Carol Lynch
2010
Simon & Schuster
Jumped
Williams-Garcia, Rita
2009
HarperTeen/Amistad
Cold Hands, Warm Heart
Wolfson, Jill
2009
Henry Holt & Co.
The Monstrumologist
Yancey, Rick
2009
Simon & Schuster
Once Was Lost
Zarr, Sara
2009
Little, Brown


To view last years selections and more information about the TAYSHAS list and committee go HERE
(please note that the website has not been updated with the 2011 list)

Recognize any? I sure do! Most notably; Freefall, Candor, Happyface, Incarceron, Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and Fallout. Great list and I hope it serves an inspiration for reading and gift buying this season!

Happy Reading!