December '08 Books
Airhead
Cabot, Meg.
New York : Point, 2008.
Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds
herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAB
The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation. v. #2 The kingdom on the waves
Anderson, M. T.
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2008.
After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, persuaded
by Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his
counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment, Octavian and his friends soon
find themselves engaged in naval raids on the Virginia coastline as the
Revolutionary War breaks out in full force.
Agawam YA Fiction - T AND
Audrey, wait!
Benway, Robin.
New York : Razorbill, 2008.
While trying to score a date with her cute co-worker at the Scooper Dooper, sixteen-year-old Audrey gains unwanted fame and celebrity status when
her ex-boyfriend, a rock musician, records a breakup song about her that soars
to the top of the Billboard charts.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BEN
Better days
Whedon, Joss, 1964-
Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2008.
Agawam YA Paperback - GRAPHIC TP WHE
Bleach
Kubo, Tite.
San Francisco, Calif. : VIZ Media, 2004-
Agawam YA Paperback - GRAPHIC TP KUB V.25
Bog child
Dowd, Siobhan.
Oxford, [UK] : New York, NY : David Fickling Books, 2008.
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger
strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered
girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DOW
Bog child
Dowd, Siobhan.
Oxford, [UK] : New York, NY : David Fickling Books, 2008.
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger
strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered
girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DOW
Boost
Mackel, Kathryn, 1950-
New York : Dial Books, 2008.
Thirteen-year-old Savvy's dreams of starting for her elite basketball team are in danger when she is accused of taking steroids.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MAC
The brothers torres
Voorhees, Coert.
New York, N.Y. : Hyperion, 2008.
Sophomore Frankie finally finds the courage to ask his long-term friend, Julianne, to the Homecoming dance, which ultimately leads to a face-off between
a tough senior whose family owns most of their small, New Mexico town, and
Frankie's soccer-star older brother and his gang-member friends.
Agawam YA Fiction - T VOO
Buffy the vampire slayer. Season eight
Whedon, Joss, 1964-
Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse, 2007-
Agawam YA Paperback - GRAPHIC TP BUF VOLUME 3
Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty
Gehrman, Jody Elizabeth.
New York : Dial Books, c2008.
Sixteen-year-olds Geena, Hero, and Amber spend the summer working at a Sonoma, California coffee shop, where they experience romance, identity crises,
and newfound friendships.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GEH
Crossing to Paradise
Crossley-Holland, Kevin.
New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2008.
When fifteen-year-old Gatty, an illiterate field-girl who sings beautifully, is selected for a pilgrimage, she travels from her home on an
English estate to London, Venice, and eventually Jerusalem, and experiences
great changes in her circumstances and in herself.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CRO
Cybele's secret
Marillier, Juliet.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Scholarly eighteen-year-old Paula and her merchant father journey from Transylvania to Istanbul to buy an ancient pagan artifact rumored to be charmed,
but others, including a handsome Portuguese pirate and an envoy from the magical
Wildwood, want to acquire the item, as well.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MAR
The dangerous days of Daniel X
Patterson, James, 1947-
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2008.
Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma,
but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence Earth and
another planet are at stake.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PAT
Death by bikini
Gerber, Linda C.
New York : Sleuth/Speak, 2008.
Sixteen-year-old Aphra Behn Connolly investigates why her father let an unknown family stay at their exclusive tropical island resort, who strangled a
famous rock star's girlfriend with her own bikini top, and what a smoldering
teenaged guest is hiding.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP GER
The diamond of Drury Lane
Golding, Julia.
New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2008.
Orphan Catherine "Cat" Royal, living at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s London, tries to find the "diamond" supposedly hidden in the theater, which
unmasks a treasonous political cartoonist, and involves her in the street gangs
of Covent Garden and the world of nobility.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GOL
Dingo
De Lint, Charles, 1951-
New York : Firebird, 2008.
Seventeen-year-old Miguel Schreiber and a long-term enemy are drawn into a strange dream world when they fall in love with shapeshifting sisters from
Australia--twins hiding from a cursed ancestor who can only be freed with the
girls' cooperation.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DEL
Dishes
Wallace, Rich.
New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2008.
Nineteen-year-old Danny spends an eventful summer in Maine, looking for romance, working as a "straight" dishwasher in a gay bar, and trying to
reconnect with his estranged father.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WAL
Double or die : a James Bond adventure
Higson, Charles, 1958-
New York, NY : Hyperion Books for Children, c2007.
Teenage James has forty-eight hours to rescue a kidnapped professor and to keep a powerful weapon from falling into the wrong hands.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HIG
The dragons of Babel
Swanwick, Michael.
New York : Tor, 2008, c2007.
Transforming himself into king of a post-industrialized Faerie after a crash landing, a war-dragon of Babel sets up young Will as his lieutenant,
sending Will on a strange quest.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SWA
Ever
Levine, Gail Carson.
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2008.
Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a
rash promise her father made--through a series of quests that might make her
immortal.
Agawam YA Fiction - T LEV
Evernight
Gray, Claudia.
New York : HarperTeen, 2008.
Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Jared, but dark forces threaten
to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GRA
Gay America : struggle for equality
Alsenas, Linas.
New York : Amulet Books, 2008.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T306.776 ALS
Geek abroad
Banks, Piper.
New York, N.Y. : NAL Jam, 2008.
While in London visiting her mother, fifteen-year-old Miranda guiltily enjoys the company of a British boy while wondering why Dex is out of touch, but
she returns home to find her friendships, love life, family, and math team are
all in turmoil.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP BAN
Gem X
Singer, Nicky, 1956-
New York : Holiday House, 2008.
Sixteen-year-old Maxo Strang, the most perfect human ever made, suddenly discovers a "crack" in his face, which leads him to expose his community's dark
underworld of secret scientific research and the city's corrupt supreme leader.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SIN
The graveyard book
Gaiman, Neil.
New York : HarperCollins Pub., c2008.
An orphaned boy is raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GAI
House of many ways
Jones, Diana Wynne.
New York : Greenwillow Books, 2008.
When Charmain is asked to housesit for Great Uncle William, the Royal Wizard of Norland, she is ecstatic to get away from her parents, but finds that
his house is much more than it seems.
Agawam YA Fiction - T JON
The hunger games
Collins, Suzanne.
New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each
of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills
are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Agawam YA Fiction - T COL
Identical
Hopkins, Ellen.
New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2008.
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne
Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their
family apart.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HOP
Ivy
Hearn, Julie, 1958-
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2008.
In mid-nineteenth-century London, young, mistreated, and destitute Ivy, whose main asset is her beautiful red hair, comes to the attention of an
aspiring painter of the pre-Raphaelite school of artists who, with the
connivance of Ivy's unsavory family, is determined to make her his model and
muse.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HEA
The knife of never letting go
Ness, Patrick, 1971-
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009.
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true
past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old
World.
Agawam YA Fiction - T NES
Larry and the meaning of life
Tashjian, Janet.
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
Larry (otherwise known as Josh) is in the doldrums, but after meeting a spiritual guru at Walden Pond who convinces him to join his study group, he
starts to question his grasp of reality.
Agawam YA Fiction - T TAS
Merlin's dragon
Barron, T. A.
New York, NY : Philomel Books, c2008.
Basil, a small, flying lizard who is searching for others like himself, discovers that there is more to him than he knows, as he becomes engaged in
Avalon's great war between the evil Rhita Gawr and the forces of good.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BAR
Oddest of all : stories
Coville, Bruce.
Orlando, FL : Harcourt, c2008.
A collection of nine short stories featuring ghosts, half-humans, unicorns, and other unusual creatures.
Agawam YA Fiction - T COV
Outside beauty
Kadohata, Cynthia.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2008.
Thirteen-year-old Shelby and her three sisters must go to live with their respective fathers while their mother, who has trained them to rely on their
looks, recovers from a car accident that scarred her face.
Agawam YA Fiction - T KAD
La petite four
Scott, Regina, 1959-
New York : Razorbill, c2008.
In London in 1815, sixteen-year-old Lady Emily Southwell, who aspires to be an artist, enlists the aid of her three best friends from the Barnsley School
for Young Ladies, in helping her out of an unwanted betrothal to a man she
suspects of evil intentions, even as she is drawn to a mysterious stranger.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP SCO
The possibilities of sainthood
Freitas, Donna.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
While regularly petitioning the Vatican to make her the first living saint, fifteen-year-old Antonia Labella prays to assorted patron saints for
everything from help with preparing the family's fig trees for a Rhode Island
winter to getting her first kiss from the right boy.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FRE
Princess Ben : being a wholly truthful account of her various discoveries and misadventures, recounted to the best of her recollection, in
four parts
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
A girl is transformed, through instruction in life at court, determination, and magic, from sullen, pudgy, graceless Ben into Crown Princess
Benevolence, a fit ruler of the kindgom of Montagne as it faces war with
neighboring Drachensbett.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MUR
Quest
Duble, Kathleen Benner.
New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2008.
Relates events of explorer Henry Hudson's final voyage in 1602 from four points of view, those of his seventeen-year-old son aboard ship, a younger son
left in London, a crewmember, and a young English woman acting as a spy in
Holland in hopes of restoring honor to her family's name.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DUB
The red necklace : a story of the French Revolution
Gardner, Sally.
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2008.
In the late eighteenth-century, Sido, the twelve-year-old daughter of a self-indulgent marquis, and Yann, a fourteen-year-old Gypsy orphan raised to
perform in a magic show, face a common enemy at the start of the French
Revolution.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GAR
Saga
Kostick, Conor, 1964-
New York : Viking, 2008.
On Saga, a world based on a video role-playing game, fifteen-year-old Ghost lives to break rules, but the Dark Queen who controls Saga plans to
enslave its people and those of New Earth, and Ghost and her airboarding friends,
along with Erik and his friends from Epic, try to stop her.
Agawam YA Fiction - T KOS
Snakehead
Halam, Ann.
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, 2008.
Compelled by his father Zeus to accept the evil king Polydectes's challenge to bring the head of the monstrous Medusa to the Aegean island of
Serifos, Perseus, although questioning the gods' interference in human lives,
sets out, accompanied by his beloved Andromeda, a princess with her own harsh
destiny to fulfill.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HAL
Stonehenge
Allman, Toney.
San Diego, CA : ReferencePoint Press, c2008.
Explore the incredible place called Stonehenge, and learn of some of the mysteries that still baffle us today.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T936.2 ALL
Sunrise over Fallujah
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2008.
Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MEY
Teen Titans Teen Titans : year one Things that are Vamps What it is Would you Write naked Updated Fri Jan 9 16:52:28 2009
Johns, Geoff, 1973-
New York : DC Comics, c2004-
Agawam YA Paperback - GRAPHIC TP MCK #9 V. 9
Wolfram, Amy.
New York, NY : DC Comics 2008.
Agawam YA Paperback - GRAPHIC TP WOL
Clements, Andrew, 1949-
New York, NY : Philomel Books, 2008.
Still adjusting to being blind, Alicia must outwit an invisible man who is putting her family and her boyfriend, who was once invisible himself, in
danger.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CLE
Collins, Nancy A.
New York : HarperTeen, 2008.
At an elite vampire prep school in Manhattan, sixteen-year-old vampire socialite Lilith seeks revenge against Cally, a new student and "New Blood"
Lilith holds responsible for the death of her close friend during a dispute that
attracted heavily-armed Van Helsings.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP COL
Barry, Lynda, 1956-
Montréal : Drawn & Quarterly, 2008.
Agawam YA Fiction - GRAPHIC T BAR
Jocelyn, Marthe.
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, 2008.
When her beloved sister, Claire, steps in front of a car and winds up in a coma, Nat's anticipated summer of working, hanging around with friends, and
seeing Claire off to college is transformed into a nightmare of doctors,
hospitals, and well-meaning neighbors.
Agawam YA Fiction - T JOC
Gould, Peter L.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
When Victor finds an old Royal typewriter at a yard sale and takes it to his uncle's isolated cabin in the Vermont woods to attempt to write, he meets up
with an unusual girl, and together they explore their concerns about the world,
themselves, and each other.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GOU
