READ ACROSS AMERICA
Alabama
Claudette Colvin—Hoose
Inside Out & Back Again—Lai
Birmingham 1963—Tougas
Alaska
Blessings Bead—Edwardson
Impossible Rescue—Sandler
Revolver—Sedgwick
My Name is Not Easy—Edwardson
Cruelest Miles—Salisbury
Into the Wild—Krakauer
Touching Spirit Bear—Mikaelson
Arizona
Crossing the Wire—Hobbs
In the Path of Falling Objects—Smith
Muckers—Wallace
They Call Me a Hero—Hernandez
Arkansas
Lions of Little Rock—Levine
Where Things Come Back—Whaley
Fire From the Rock—Draper
Heart of the Game—Price
Homestretch—Volponi
Little Rock Girl, 1957—Tougas
California
We Were Here—de la Pena
Warp Speed—Yee
Summer I Learned to Fly—Reinhardt
Going Vintage—Leavitt
Angel Island—Freedman
Al Capone…--Choldenko
But I Don’t Want to Be a Movie Star—
Pinder
Grayson—Cox
Counting by 7s—Sloan
Secrets of My Hollywood Life—Calonita
Migrant Mother—Nardo
Wish—Monninger
Colorado
White Gates—Ramthun
Great Turkey Walk—Karr
Downriver—Hobbs
Finding My Place—Jones
Connecticut
One for the Murphys—Hunt
Five 4ths of July—Hughes
Crossroads—Grabenstein
Forbidden Schoolhouse—Jurmain
They Never Came Back—Cooney
Delaware
The Crossing—Murphy
Florida
Chomp—Hiaasen
Hoot—Hiaasen
Cloaked—Flinn
Kiss in Time—Flinn
Turtle in Paradise—Holm
90 Miles to Havana—Flores-Galbis
Great Wide Sea—Herlong
Roots & Wings—Ly
When You Wish—Harmel
Marley & Me—Grogan
Tangerine—Bloor
Georgia
Outcasts United—St. John
Hex Hall—Hawkins
Peaches—Anderson
Day of Tears—Lester
Hawaii
Iron Heart—Boyle
House of the Red Fish—Salisbury
Boy No More—Mazer
Islands at the End of the World—Aslan
Idaho
Princess for Hire—Leavitt
Compromised—Ayarbe
King of the Mild Frontier—Crutcher
Illinois
Divergent—Roth
Hold Fast—Balliett
Ashfall—Mullin
A Long Way from Chicago—Peck
Project Mulberry—Park
Is it Night or Day?—Chapman
River Between Us—Peck
Steelheart—Sanderson
Lincoln’s Grave Robbers—Sheinkin
Indiana
Fault in our Stars—Green
Viola in Reel Life—Trigiani
Here Lies the Librarian—Peck
Teacher’s Funeral—Peck
Iowa
Zombie Baseball Beatdown—Bacigalupi
Mostly True Story of Jack—Barnhill
Ashfall—Mullin
Project—Falkner
Kansas
Out of Patience—Meehl
100 Cupboards—Wilson
We Could Be Brothers—Barnes
Moon Over Manifest—Vanderpool
Thing About Luck—Kadahota
Wizard of Oz—Baum
Kentucky
Coffin Quilt—Rinaldi
Queen of Kentucky—Whitaker
Louisiana
Rules for Disappearing—Elston
My Louisiana Sky—Holt
Ninth Ward—Rhodes
Ruined—Morris
Orleans—Smith
Maine
SYLO—MacHale
This is What Happy Looks Like—Smith
Delirium—Oliver Touch Blue—Lord
Romeo & Juliet Code—Stone
Mostly True Story of Homer P. Figg—
Philbrick
Navigating Early—Vanderpool
Maryland
Blindsided—Cummings
3 Willows—Brashares
Written in Bone—Walker
Avalon High—Cabot
Mind Games—Grunwell
Massachusetts
Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing—
Anderson
Great Molasses Flood—Kops
Wicked Girls—Hemphill
Becoming Ben Franklin—Freedman
Small as an Elephant—Jacobson
Miracle on 49th Street—Lupica
Boston Jane—Holm
Michigan
Hidden—Frost
Danger Box—Balliett
Bucking the Sarge—Curtis
Radioactive Boy Scout—Silverstein
Sign Language—Ackley
Wake—McMann
Minnesota
Survivors—Weaver
Stork—Delsol
Dead to You—McMann
How Angel Peterson Got His Name—
Paulsen
Necessary Roughness—Lee
Woodsong—Paulsen
Shiver—Stiefvater
Mississippi
Sources of Light—McMullan
Mississippi Trial, 1955—Crowe
Simeon’s Story—Wright
Wreath for Emmett Till—Nelson
Spies of Mississippi—Bowers
Missouri
Crossing the Tracks—Stuber
Suspect—Nitz
Gateway—Shinn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—Twain
Montana
Hattie Big Sky—Larson
Cryer’s Cross—McMann
Nebraska
Worth—LaFaye
Nevada
Case of the Deadly Desperados—Lawrence
Zach’s Lie—Smith
Survive!—DeLeo
New Hampshire
Carlos is Gonna Get It—Emerson
Wintergirls—Anderson
New Jersey
Guy Langman, Crime Scene Procrastinator—
Berk
Kick—Myers
After Ever After—Sonnenblick
If I Could Fly—Cofer
War & Watermelon—Wallace
Everything Asian—Woo
Jack: secret histories—Wilson
Penny from Heaven—Holm
White Cat—Black
New Mexico
Variant—Wells
Last Summer of the Death Warriors—Stork
Z. Rex—Cole
Bomb—Sheinkin
Kokopelli’s Flute—Hobbs
New York
Also Known As—Benway
Better Nate than Ever—Federle
Mack Slater vs the City—Bancks
Beastly—Flinn
Suite Scarlett—Johnson
Code Orange—Cooney
Can’t Get There From Here—Strasser
Dead and the Gone—Pfeifer
Princess Diaries—Cabot
Chains—Anderson
Lightning Thief—Riordan
North Carolina
anything by Sarah Dessen
Ten Miles Past Normal—Dowell
Cate of the Lost Colony—Klein
Surviving the Applewhites—Tolan
Dovey Coe—Dowell
Three Times Lucky—Turnage
Jump into the Sky—Pearsall
North Dakota
Out of the Blue—Rottman
Beet Fields—Paulsen
Ohio
Doll Bones—Black
I am Number Four—Lore
Takeoffs and Landings—Haddix
Forged by Fire—Draper
Oklahoma
Out of the Dust—Hesse
Searching for Sarah Rector—Bolden
Legend of Bass Reeves—Paulsen
Outsiders—Hinton
Marked—Cast
Oregon
If I Stay—Forman
River—Beaufrand
Bat 6—Wolff
Night She Disappeared—Henry
Day Before—Schroeder
Girl from Yamhill—Cleary
Pennsylvania
Boy 21—Quick
Forge—Anderson
Curveball—Sonnenblick
Breaker Boys—Burgan
Absolute Value of Mike—Erskine
Dead End in Norvelt—Gantos
Ghetto Cowboy—Neri
Sean Griswold’s Head—Leavitt
Three Rivers Rising—Richards
Woods Runner—Paulsen
Rhode Island
Backyard Giants—Warren
Aftershock—Easton
Art of Keeping Cool—Lisle
South Carolina
Beautiful Creatures—Garcia
Etched in Clay—Cheng
Copper Sun—Draper Glory Field—Myers
South Dakota
Go Big or Go Home—Hobbs
Tennessee
Paperboy—Vawtor
Ringside, 1925—Bryant
Somebody Everybody Listens To—Supplee
They Called Themselves the KKK—Bartoletti
Artichoke’s Heart—Supplee
Texas
QB1—Lupica
Take Me to the River—Hobbs
Under the Mesquite—McCall
How Not to be Popular—Ziegler
Truth About Sparrows—Hale
Holes—Sachar
Life is so Good—Dawson
Utah
Missing in Action—Hughes
Between a Rock & a Hard Place—Ralston
Maze—Hobbs
Sweethearts—Zarr
Vermont
Education of Hailey Kendrick—Cook
Fixing Delilah—Ockler
Return to Sender—Alvarez
Witness—Hesse
Virginia
Girl from the Tar Paper School—Kanefield
Rebel McKenzie—Ransom
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer—Swanson
Washington
Body Finder—Derting
Mysterious Bones—Kirkpatrick
many titles by Carl Deuker
Absolutely True Diary…Alexie
Twilight—Meyer
Project Sweet Life—Hartinger
One Small Sparrow—Leeland
North of Beautiful—Chen
West Virginia
October Sky—Hickam
Body of Water—Dooley
Close to Famous—Bauer
Black Angels—Brown
Wisconsin
Hope Was Here—Bauer
Dairy Queen—Murdock
Heaven is Paved with Oreos—Murdock
I, Emma Freke—Atkinson
Wyoming
Little Blog on the Prairie—Bell
Unearthly—Neely
Washington, DC
Girl in Blue—Rinaldi
Things a Brother Knows—Reinhardt
Ethan Suspended—Ehrenberg
Siren’s Cry—Kogler