Tayshas and Lonestar Lists are out!

The 2011 Lonestar List (with PDF) - recommended Middle School reading for the year

Author	Title
Paolo Bacigalupi	Ship Breaker
Cathleen Davitt Bell	Little Blog on the Prairie
Robin Brande	Fat Cat
Ally Carter	Heist Society
Tera Lynn Childs	Forgive My Fins
Ally Condie	Matched
Carl Deuker	Payback Time
Erin Dionne	The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet
Brian Falkner	Brain Jack
Catherine Fisher	Incarceron
Donna Gephart	How to Survive Middle School
Julia Golding	Dragonfly
Jason Henderson	Vampire Rising
David Klass	Stuck on Earth
Polly Shulman	The Grimm Legacy
Neal Shusterman	Bruiser
Jordan Sonnenblick	After  Ever After
Francisco X Stork	The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Deborah Wiles	Countdown
Richard Yancey	The Monstrumologist

The 2011 Tayshas list: (with PDF) - recommended High School Reading for the year

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

And the Maverick List for 2011 will be out shortly after November 12, when I go to Austin to help select the titles that will be on the list... there are some really great nominees, and I can't wait to vote in their favor!