Read Your Way Across the USA
 
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Alabama

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Breathe My Name by R.A. Nelson
Alabama Moon by Watt Key
Summer of Kings by Han Nolan
Looking For Alaska by John Green
Bird by Angela Johnson
Sonny’s House of Spies by George Lyon
Send Me Down a Miracle by Han Nolan
Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
Watsons go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis

Alaska

No End in Sight: My Life as a Blind Iditarod Racer by Rachael Sedaris
Upstream by Melissa Lion
Leaving Protection by Will Hobbs
Wild Man Island by will Hobbs
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
To the Summitt by Claire Rudolf Murphy
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Iditarod Dreams by Lew Freedman
Woodsong by Gary Paulsen
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Arizona

Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden by Robert Avrech
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
The Last Lobo by Roland Smith

Arkansas

Fire From the Rock by Sharon Draper
Summer of my German Soldier by Bette Greene
Falling form Grace by Ann McNichols

California

Suckerpunch by David Hernandez
The Day I Killed James by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty by Jody Elizabeth Gehrman
So Totally Emily Embers by Lisa Yee
Mexican Whiteboy by Matt de la Pena
Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg
Gone by Michael Grant
Courtin’ Jayd by L. Divine
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
California Dreaming-an A-List Novel by Zoey Dean
Honey Blonde Chica and Scandalosa by Michele M. Serros
Love Meg by Leigh Purtill

Colorado

Undone by Brooke Taylor
Freestyle with Avery by Annie Bryant
Much Ado about Grubstake by Jean Ferris
Last Dance on Holladay Street by Elisa Lynn Carbone
Fast and Brutal Wing by Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson
Rough Waters by S.L. Rottman

Connecticut

All We Know of Love by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Basketball (or something like it) by Nora Raleigh Baskin
My Tiki Girl by Jennifer McMahon
Patron Saint of Butterflies by Cecilia Galanta
When the Black Girl Sings by Bil Wright
Secrets of my Suburban Life by Lauren Baratz-Lagsted
Burning Up by Caroline Cooney
Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline Cooney
The Other Half of Me by Emily Franklin
Hearts of Iron by Kathleen Benner Duble
Open Ice by Pat Hughes
Beast by Walter Dean Myers

Delaware

Contents Under Pressure by Lara M. Zeises

Florida

Paper Towns by John Green
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightening by Danette Haworth
Sorority 101: The New Sisters by Kate Harmon
Sorority 101: Zeta or Omega by Kate Harmon
Death of Jayson Porter by Jamie Adoff
Total Constant Order by Crissa-Jean Chappell
Flush by Carl Hiaasen
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Nothing to Lose by Alex Flinn
I was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader by Kieran Scott
House on the Gulf by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Devil on My heels by Joyce McDonald

Georgia

Bliss by Lauren Myracle
Thirteen by Lauren Myracle
Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin
Peaches: a Novel by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Secret of Peaches: A Novel by Jodi Lynn Anderson
The Liberation of Gabriel King by K.L. Going
47 by Walter Mosley
Moonpie and Ivy by Barbara O’Connor

Hawaii

Dylan: A Clique Novel by Lisi Harrison
Strange Relations by Sonia Levitin
House of the Red Fish by Graham Salisbury
To Hawaii with Love by Michael Spradlin
A Boy At War: A Novel of Pearl harbor by Harry Mazar

Idaho

Sledding Hill by Chris Crutcher
King of Slippery Falls by Sid Hite
King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill Advised Autobiography by Chris Crutcher
Big Burn by Jeanette Ingold
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher

Illinois

Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher
Comeback Season by Jennifer Smith
Now You See Her by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Deliver Us From Normal by Kate Klise
River Between Us by Richard Peck

Indiana

When Lightning Strikes by Jenny Carroll
Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
Learning the Game by Kevin Waltman
Pig Boys Wicked Bird: A Memoir by Doug Crandell
Teen Idol by Meg Cabot

Iowa

Blue Jasmine By Kashmira Sheth

Kansas

The Middle of Somewhere by J.B. Cheaney
Airball: my life in briefs by Lisa Harkrader

Kentucky

Poor is Just a Starting Place by Leslie Wyatt
Making the Run by Heather Henson
The Coffin Quilt: the Feud between the Hatfields
    and the McCoys
Lena by Jacqueline Woodson

Louisiana

Love Cajun Style by Diane Les Becquets
Haunting by Joan Lowery Nixon
Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
Locked in Time by Lois Duncan
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines

Maine

Tempted: An It Girl Novel by Cecily Von Ziegesar
Converting Kate by Beckie Weinheimer
Sand Dollar Summer by Kimberly Jones
Rainy by Sis Deans
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt
Golden Hour by Maiya Williams
Canning Season by Polly Horvath
Welcome Home or Someplace Like it by Charlotte Agell
Soldier Mom by Alice Mead

Maryland

Hero-Type by Barry Lyga
M&O 4evr by Tonya Hegamin
Alice Series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Avalon High by Meg Cabot
Shakespeare’s Secret by Elise Broach

Massachusetts

Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing Traitor to the Nation:   
   the Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson
Love & Lies by Ellen Wittlinger
Vampire High by Douglas Rees
Bounce by Natasha Friend
President’s Daughter by Ellen Emerson White
Hex education by Emily Gould
Poison Apples by Lily Archer
Edenville Owls by Robert Parker
The Bridesmaid by Hailey Abbott
Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline Cooney

Michigan

No Cream Puffs by Karen Day
Cheated by Patrick Jones
Chasing Tail Lights by Patrick Jones
Going for the Record by Julie A. Swanson
The Watsons go to Birmingham—1963 by Christopher
    Paul Curtis

Minnesota

Grow by Juanita Havill
Hit by a Farm by Catherine Friend
Blackwater Ben by William Durbin
Mr. Was by Pete Hautman
Farm Team by Will Weaver
Striking Out by Will Weaver
Woodsong by Gary Paulsen

Mississippi
A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg
When I Crossed No-Bob by Margaret McMullan
Mississippi Jack by L.A. Meyer
Grierson’s Vaid by Tom Lalicki
Summer Secrets by Patricia Hermes
How I Found the Strong: a civil war story by    
   Margaret McMullan
Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe
Black Boy: a Record of Childhood and Youth by
    Richard Wright

 

Missouri

Joy School by Elizabeth Berg
A Place to Belong by Joan Lowery Nixon

Montana

The Last Exit to Normal by Michael B. Harmon
Ghost Town by Annie Bryant
Flash Point by Sneed B. Collard
Mountain Solo by Jeanette Ingold
A Perfect Snow by Nora Martin
The Big Burn by Jeanette Ingold

Nebraska

The Decoding of Lana Morris by Laura McNeal
Worth by A. LaFaye
My Antonia by Willa Cather

Nevada

Burned by Ellen Hopkins
Slide or Die by Todd Strasser

New Hampshire

Nineteen Minutes: a novel by Jodi Picoult
First Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
The Trouble with Jeremy Chance by George Harrar
Out Town: A play in three acts by Thornton Wilder
A Separate Peace by John Knowles

New Jersey

Football Hero by Tim Green
Streams of Babel by Carol Plum-Ucci
Absolute Brightness by James Lecesne
Dumped by Popular Demand by P.G. Kain
Pinned by Alfred C. Martino
Sloppy Firsts: a novel by Megan McCafferty
Second Helpings: a novel by Megan McCafferty

New Mexico

The Brothers Torres by Coert Voorhees
Desert Crossing by Elise Broach
Blood Secret by Kathryn Lasky
Bless me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya

New York

Ask Me No Questions by Marina Tamar Budhos
The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Missing Girl by Norma Fox Mazer
Jinx by Meg Cabot
Your Eyes in Stars: a novel by M.E. Kerr
Two Suns in the Sky by Miriam Bat-Ami
Honor to the Hills by Eileen Charbonneau
They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Away by Amy Bloom

North Carolina

Pretty is by Elizabeth Ann Holmes
Scrambled Eggs at Midnight by Brad Barkley
Get Real by Betty Hicks
Blue by Joyce Hostetler
Accidents of Nature by Harriet McBryde Johnson
Buttermilk Hill by Ruth White
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
Strom Warriors by Elisa Lynn Carbone

North Dakota

Blizzard’s Wake by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Ohio

A Little Friendly Advice by Siobhan Vivian
Every Crooked Pot by Renee Rosen
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Crooked River by Shelley Pearsall
Double Dutch by Sharon M. Draper
Grass Angel by Julie Schumacher
Beloved: a novel by Toni Morrison

Oklahoma

Where the Heart is by Billie Letts
Stop the Train! by Geraldine McCaughrean
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

Oregon

Paranoid Park by Blake Nelson
My 13th Season by Kristi Roberts
New Rules of High School by Blake Nelson

Pennsylvania

M+O 4evr by Tonya Hegamin
Charmed Forces by Melissa J. Morgan
Zen and the Art of Faking it by Jordan Sonnenblick
Quaking by Kathryn Erskine
Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Iris, Messenger by Sarah Deming
Going Nowhere Faster by Sean Beadoin
Sweetgrass Basket by Marlene Carvell
Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
Losing in Not and Option: stories by Rich Wallace
Macaroni Boy by Katherine Ayres
Summerhawk by Deborah Savage
Knots in my Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid by Jerry Spinelli

Rhode Island

Devilish by Maureen Johnson
Whisper in the Dark by Joseph Burchac
Where I Want to Be by Adele Griffin
The Crying Rocks by Janet Taylor Lisle
Tangled Threads: a Hmong Girl’s Story by Pegi Deitz Shea

South Carolina

Spelldown: the Big-time Dreams of a Small-town Word Whiz by Karon Luddy
Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor

South Dakota

Lakota Women by Mary Brave Bird

Tennessee

Artichoke’s Heart by Suzanne Supplee
How to Build a House by Dana Reinhardt
Monkey Town: the summer of the Scopes Trial by Ronald Kidd
Harmony by Rita Murphy

Texas

Isabel’s Texas two-step by Annie Bryant
One Small Step by Philip Kerr
How Not to be Popular by Jennifer Ziegler
Throwing Like a Girl by Weezie Kerr Mackey
Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The Tequila Worm by Viola Canales
Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg
Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Shadowmaker by Joan Lowery Nixon
Canyons by Gary Paulsen

Utah

Sweethearts by Sara Zarr
Finding Daddy by Louise Plummer
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
The Maze by Will Hobbs

Vermont

Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop
VT Vermont by Emily Costello
Where the Great Hawk Flies by Liza Ketchum
The Game of Sunken Places by M.T. Anderson
How Tia Lola Came to Visit Stay by Julia Alvarez
A Part of the Sky by Robert Newton Peck
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck

Virginia

Red Moon at Sharpsburg by Rosemary
Give Me Liberty by Laura Elliott
Annie, Between the States by Laura Elliott
Sarah’s Ground by Ann Rinaldi
Taking Liberty: the Story of Oney Judge, George Washington’s Runaway Slave by Ann Rinaldi

Washington

Swiss Mist by Randy Powell
Gym Candy by Carl Deuker
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye by Deb Caletti
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
No Right Turn by Terry Trueman
Wild Roses by Deb Caletti
Still Waters by Jennifer Lauck
Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie

West Virginia

Project Princess by Meg Cabot
The Coffin Quit: the Feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys
     by Rinaldi Ann

Wisconsin

The Teashop Girls by Laura Schaefer
Dark Dude by Oscar Hijuelos
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer

Wyoming

My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara

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