New Books
The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian
Alexie, Sherman, 1966-
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2008.
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other
Indian is the school mascot.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ALE
Astonishing X-Men. Vol. 2, Dangerous
Whedon, Joss, 1964-
New York : Marvel Comics, c2005.
A death at Xavier Institute reveals an enemy within the Institute and the X-Men must depend on each other more than ever as their world goes crazy around
them. Meanwhile, an alien race watches and waits to see if they will have to
move in and finish annhilating the X-Men themselves.
Agawam YA Paperback - GRAPHIC TP WHE
Autopsies : pathologists at work
Jeffrey, Gary.
New York : Rosen Central, 2008.
Pathologists interpret what the dead are saying using post-mortem examinations. Three stories of actual crimes solved via autopsies are presented
here in comic form. Includes overviews of how a crime is investigated and of how
a post-mortem exam is conducted.
Agawam YA Fiction - GRAPHIC T614.5 JEF
Before I die
Downham, Jenny.
New York : David Fickling Books, 2007.
A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DOW
Big fat manifesto
Vaught, Susan, 1965-
New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck
Publishers, 2008.
Overweight, self-assured, high school senior Jamie Carcaterra writes in the school newspaper about her own attitude to being fat, her boyfriend's
bariatric surgery, and her struggles to be taken seriously in a very thin world.
Agawam YA Fiction - T VAU
Book of a thousand days
Hale, Shannon.
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2008.
Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings
her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as
they work as kitchen maids.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HAL
The brothers' war : Civil War voices in verse
Lewis, J. Patrick.
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, 2007.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T811.54 LEW
Dark wraith of Shannara
Brooks, Terry.
New York : Ballantine Books, 2008.
Agawam YA Paperback - GRAPHIC TP BRO
Down a dark hall
Duncan, Lois, 1934-
New York : Dell Pub. Co., c1974.
Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, fourteen-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at
the school were selected.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DUN
Faerie Lord
Brennan, Herbie.
New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by
Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007.
When a terrible plague takes over the faerie realm and causes its inhabitants to age unnaturally quickly, Henry and Blue must find a cure in order
to save the realm.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BRE
Fell
Clement-Davies, David, 1961-
New York : Amulet Books, 2007.
In Transylvania during the Middle Ages, Fell, a lone wolf with unusual abilities, learns that his destiny is entwined with that of one human, fifteen-
year-old Alina, whose mysterious origins have villagers believing she is a
changeling.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CLE
Fruits basket
Takaya, Natsuki, 1973-
Los Angeles, Calif. : Tokyopop, 2004-
Agawam YA Paperback - GRAPHIC TP TAK V. 19
Fullmetal alchemist
Arakawa, Hiromu, 1973-
San Francisco : Viz, 2005-
As young boys, Edward & Alphonse Elric dabbled in alchemy to try to resurrect their dead mother. As a result, Ed lost one arm and one leg, while Al
lost his entire body and had his spirit sealed into a suit of armor. Now, they
are searching for the fabled Philosopher's Stone to restore what they've lost.
Agawam YA Paperback - GRAPHIC TP ARA 16
General Winston's daughter
Shinn, Sharon.
New York : Viking, 2007.
Seventeen-year-old heiress Averie Winston travels with her guardian to faraway Chiarrin, a country her father's army has occupied, and once she arrives
and is reunited with her fiance, she discovers that her notions about politics,
propriety, the military, and even her intended have changed.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SHI
The golden compass
Pullman, Philip, 1946-
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome
experiments in the Far North.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP PUL
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Rowling, J. K.
New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 1999.
When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in
danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school. In this
highly celebrated sequel to Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter
spends a second, very eventful year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft &
Wizardry. During his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry,
Harry is baffled when he hears noises no one else can.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ROW
The hollow people
Keaney, Brian.
New York : Knopf, 2007.
On an island that houses the asylum where law-breakers are imprisoned, two teenagers rebel against a rigidly controlled society where dreams are
considered antisocial and all citizens over the age of fourteen take a drug to
control their behavior.
Agawam YA Fiction - T KEA
Icecore : a Carl Hobbes thriller / Matt Whyman
Whyman, Matt.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2007.
Seventeen-year-old Englishman Carl Hobbes meant no harm when he hacked into Fort Knox's security system, but at Camp Twilight in the Arctic Circle,
known as the Guantanamo Bay of the north, he is tortured to reveal information
about a conspiracy of which he was never a part.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WHY
Into the ravine
Scrimger, Richard, 1957-
Toronto : Tundra Books, 2007.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP SCR
John Steinbeck : a twentieth-century life
Meltzer, Milton, 1915-
New York : Viking, 2008.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - TB STE
The lost queen
Jones, Frewin.
New York : Eos, 2007.
After discovering her true identity as Princess Tania of the Faerie Realm, a sixteen-year-old British girl returns to the Mortal World, in search of her
mother, Queen Titania, who disappeared 500 years ago.
Agawam YA Fiction - T JON
The Lottery rose
Hunt, Irene.
New York : Berkley Jam Books, 2002, c1976.
A young victim of child abuse gradually overcomes his fears and suspicions when placed in a home with other boys.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP HUN
My best friend, the Atlantic Ocean, and other great bodies standing between me and my life with Giulio
Harrington, Jane.
Plain City, OH : Darby Creek Pub., [2008].
As a class assignment, Delia keeps a journal and records her life and her fantasies about the Italian exchange student Giulio, who also happens to be
Brady's boyfriend. And, oh, by the way, Brady is Delia's best friend.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HAR
Nightrise
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
New York : Scholastic Press, 2007.
As fourteen-year-old telepathic twins struggle to escape the clutches of the Nightrise Corporation, one of them travels through dreams to a time when the
evil Old Ones ruled and learns the role that he, his brother, and three other
Gatekeepers must play to keep the world safe from the Old Ones' return.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HOR
Runemarks
Harris, Joanne, 1964-
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Maddy Smith, who bears the mysterious mark of a rune on her hand, learns that she is destined to join the gods of Norse mythology and play a role in the
fate of the world.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HAR
The starry rift : tales of new tomorrows : an original science fiction anthology
New York, N.Y. : Viking, c2008.
Truly successful science fiction does two things: it gives credible glimpses into the future while entertaining the reader. With this in mind,
anthologist Jonathan Strahan asked sixteen of today's most inventive, compelling
writers to look past the horizon of the present day and to the future of science
fiction.
Agawam YA Fiction - T STA
Such a pretty face : short stories about beauty
New York : Amulet Books, 2007.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SUC
Things hoped for
Clements, Andrew, 1949-
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2008.
Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school, joins up with another music student to
solve the mystery of her grandfather's sudden disappearance.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CLE
Trouble
Schmidt, Gary D.
New York : Clarion Books, c2008.
Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog. But
fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring
Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SCH
Unwind
Shusterman, Neal.
New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007.
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others,
three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save
their own lives.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SHU
Vendetta
Humphreys, Chris.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2007.
After realizing the enormity of his Norwegian grandfather's betrayal, fifteen-year-old Sky leaves England to follow his visions to Corsica, the
homeland of his other ancestors, hoping to find some ways to defeat his
grandfather's powers and restore his cousin Kristin's free will.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HUM
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