I was thrilled to hear this week that Little Blog was selected for the Texas Lone Star reading list. This is great news and I felt appropriate with the frontier connection to Texas. The list goes out to middle school librarians all across the state, which means that kids in Texas are likely to get exposed to the book. Hooray.

It was just simply wonderful to feel this validation all week, whenever I put my head up for air––I’ve been organizing a pie sale at school. We were planning for 20-30 pies and ended up selling 74 and having to find people to bake all of them!

Here’s a link to the list.

http://www.txla.org/groups/lone-star

The other authors and books are:

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