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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Virginia Reader's Choice Middle School List

This is the middle school list for Virginia State Reading Association's Virginia Reader's Choice:

Blood on the River: James Town 1607 by Elisa Carbone

Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester

Free Baseball by Sue Corbett

Ghost Girl: A Blue Ridge Mountain Story by Delia Ray

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt

Sacrifice by Kathleen Benner Duble

Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach

Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time by Lisa Yee
Posted by Marcie Flinchum Atkins at 8:43 PM
Labels: Virginia Readers' Choice, VSRA

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