New Books
Alice in lace
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.
New York : Aladdin Mix, 2009.
While planning a wedding as part of an assignment for her eighth-grade health class, Alice thinks about her father's and older brother's love lives and learns that you cannot prepare for all of life's decisions.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP NAY
Boys, bears, and a serious pair of hiking boots
McDonald, Abby.
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010.
Seventeen-year-old Jenna, an ardent vegetarian and environmentalist, is thrilled to be spending the summer communing with nature in rural Canada, until she discovers that not all of the rugged residents there share her beliefs.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MCD
Breaking dawn
Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-
New York : Little, Brown, and Co., 2008.
In the fourth and final book in the #1 bestselling teen vampire Twilight Saga, questions will be answered and the fate of Bella and Edward will be revealed.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MEY
Brightly woven
Bracken, Alexandra.
New York : Egmont USA, c2010.
Sixteen-year-old Sydelle Mirabel, an unusually talented weaver, must master her mysterious power and join a young wizard in stopping an imminent war in land.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BRA
The carbon diaries 2017
Lloyd, Saci.
New York : Holiday House, 2010.
In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.
Agawam YA Fiction - T LLO
The Carrie diaries
Bushnell, Candace.
New York : Balzer + Bray, c2010.
Tells the story of Manhattan columnist Carrie Bradshaw's high school years, her relationships with her peers, and how she became a writer.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BUS
Center field
Lipsyte, Robert.
New York, NY : HarperTeen, c2010.
Mike lives for baseball and hopes to follow his idol into the major leagues one day, but he is distracted by a new player who might take his place in center field, an ankle injury, problems at home, and a growing awareness that something sinister is happening at school.
Agawam YA Fiction - T LIP
The Cinderella Society
Cassidy, Kay, 1971-
New York : Egmont USA, 2010.
After winning a coveted spot on the high school cheerleading squad, sixteen-year-old newcomer, Jess Parker, is still treated as an "outsider" by the majority of the student body thanks to the harassment campaign led by the popular cheerleader she displaced.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAS
Claire de Lune
Johnson, Christine, 1978-
New York : Simon Pulse, c2010.
On her sixteenth birthday Claire discovers strange things happening and when her mother reveals their family secret which explains the changes, Claire feels her world, as she has known it to be, slowly slipping away.
Agawam YA Fiction - T JOH
A conspiracy of kings
Turner, Megan Whalen.
New York : Greenwillow Books, c2010.
Kidnapped and sold into slavery, Sophos, an unwilling prince, tries to save his country from being destroyed by rebellion and exploited by the conniving Mede empire.
Agawam YA Fiction - T TUR
Craftcycle : 100+ eco-friendly projects and ideas for everyday living
Boyd, Heidi, 1966-
Cincinnati, Ohio : North Light Books, c2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T745.5 BOY
Eat fresh food : awesome recipes for teen chefs
Gold, Rozanne, 1954-
New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T641.5 GOL
Epitaph Road
Patneaude, David.
New York : Egmont USA, 2010.
In 2097, men are a small and controlled minority in a utopian world ruled by women, and fourteen-year-old Kellen must fight to save his father from an outbreak of the virus that killed ninety-seven percent of the male population thirty years earlier.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PAT
Every bone tells a story : hominin discoveries, deductions, and debates
Rubalcaba, Jill.
Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, c2010.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T930.1 RUB
Fever Crumb
Reeve, Philip.
New York : Scholastic Press, 2010.
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
Agawam YA Fiction - T REE
Fire ship
Carey, Diane.
New York : Pocket Books, c1998.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP STA
Fire will fall
Plum-Ucci, Carol, 1957-
Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Moved to a mansion in the South Jersey Pine Barrens, four teenagers, trying to recover from being poisoned by terrorists, struggle with health issues, personal demons, and supernatural events, as operatives try to track down the terror cell.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PLU
Food as foe : nutrition and eating disorders
Favor, Lesli J.
New York : Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, c2010.
"An introduction to nutrition and eating disorders. Discusses information about eating disorders and ways to develop a healthy relationship with food"-- Provided by publisher.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T616.8526 FAV
Goldstrike : a thriller
Whyman, Matt.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2010.
After escaping Camp Twilight, eighteen-year-old Carl Hobbes and Beth, his girlfriend, begin a new life in London, England, where he attempts to program Sphynx Cargo's highly intelligent supercomputer to help protect them from the CIA and assassins.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WHY
Green career$ : you can make money and save the planet
Power Scott, Jennifer, 1968-
Montreal, Quebec : Lobster Press, c2010.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T333.72 POW
Hard love
Wittlinger, Ellen.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2001.
After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP WIT
The iron king
Kagawa, Julie.
Don Mills, Ont. : Harlequin Teen, c2010.
"Meghan Chase has a secret destiny--one she could never have imagined...Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan's life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in at school...or at home. When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she's known is about to change. But she could never have guessed the truth--that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and is a pawn in a deadly war. Now Meghan will learn just how far she'll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil no faery creature dare face...and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart."--p.[4] of cover.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP KAG
The kings of Clonmel
Flanagan, John (John Anthony).
New York, NY : Philomel Books, 2010.
Halt, Will, and Horace set out for Hibernia, where a quasi-religious group, the Outsiders, is sowing confusion and sedition, and they find that secrets from Halt's past may hold the key to restoring order before the last kingdom is undermined.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FLA
The last great getaway of the Water Balloon Boys
Carter, Scott William.
New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2010.
When sixteen-year-old Charlie, an excellent student, and his former best friend Jake take off on an ill-conceived trip from Oregon to Denver in their principal's car, the results of the choices they make while on the road have profound effects on both their futures.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAR
Max Cassidy in-- Shadow Island
Adam, Paul, 1958-
New York : Walden Pond Press, 2010.
British fourteen-year-old Max Cassidy calls on his skills and training as a professional escape artist when he attempts to clear his mother of murdering his father, who disappeared two years earlier in the Central American country of Santo Domingo.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ADA
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Kesey, Ken.
New York : Penguin Books, 2003.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP KES
The perks of being a wallflower
Chbosky, Stephen.
New York : Pocket Books, 1999.
A tale of adolescence whose hero is Charlie, a high school freshman in Pennsylvania. The novel follows Charlie as he is introduced to love, literature and pot. A debut in fiction by a filmmaker.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP CHB
Revolver
Sedgwick, Marcus.
New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2010.
Finland, 1910: Fifteen-year-old Sig is shocked to see a hole in the frozen lake outside his family's cabin and to find his father's corpse nearby. Why did Einar steer his dog sled across the lake instead of taking the safer land route? Sig's sister and stepmother go for help, leaving Sig alone with Einar's body in the cabin. Soon after, an armed stranger barges in, demanding a share of Einar's stolen gold.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SED
The ruins of Gorlan
Flanagan, John (John Anthony).
New York : Puffin Books, 2006, c2005.
When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP FLA
She's so dead to us
Scott, Kieran, 1974-
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2010.
Told in two voices, high school juniors Allie, who now lives on the poor side of town, and Jake, the "Crestie" whose family bought her house, develop feelings for one another that are complicated by her former friends, his current ones, who refuse to forgive her for her father's bad investment that cost them all.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SCO
Shiver
Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981-
Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2010.
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.
Agawam YA Fiction - T STI
The short second life of Bree Tanner : an Eclipse novella
Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-
New York : Little Brown, 2010.
In this devastating story, Bree Tanner--a character introduced in Eclipse --and the newborn vampire army prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to its unforgettable conclusion.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MEY
The short second life of Bree Tanner : an Eclipse novella
Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-
New York : Little Brown, 2010.
In this devastating story, Bree Tanner--a character introduced in Eclipse --and the newborn vampire army prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to its unforgettable conclusion.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MEY
The siege of Macindaw
Flanagan, John (John Anthony).
New York : Philomel Books, 2009.
Now a full-fledged Ranger, Will must rescue his friend Alyss from a rogue knight and uncover vital information needed to ward off a Scotti invasion.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP FLA
The sorcerer of the north
Flanagan, John (John Anthony).
New York : Puffin Books, 2009.
Will is finally a full-fledged Ranger with his own fief to look after. The fief seems boring until Lord Syron, master of a castle far in the north, is struck down by a mysterious illness. Joined by his friend Alyss, Will is suddenly thrown headfirst into an extraordinary adventure.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP FLA
A spy in the house
Lee, Ying S.
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010.
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
Agawam YA Fiction - T LEE
Teen smoking
Bjornlund, Lydia D.
San Diego, CA : ReferencePoint Press, 2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T362.29 BJO
This world we live in
Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 1948-
Boston : Harcourt, 2010.
When the moon's gravitational pull increases, causing massive natural disasters on earth, Miranda and her family struggle to survive in a world without cities or sunlight, and wonder if anyone else in still alive.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PFE
Three rivers rising : a novel of the Johnstown flood
Richards, Jame.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2010.
Sixteen-year-old Celestia is a wealthy member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, where she meets and falls in love with Peter, a hired hand who lives in the valley below, and by the time of the torrential rains that lead to the disastrous Johnstown flood of 1889, she has been disowned by her family and is staying with him in Johnstown. Includes an author's note and historical timeline.
Agawam YA Fiction - T RIC
To kill a mockingbird
Lee, Harper.
New York : Perennial, 2002.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP LEE
Twilight and history
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2010.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T813.6 TWI
Twilight : the graphic novel. Volume 1
Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-
New York, NY : Yen Press, 2010.
"When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep his true identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret"--Dust jacket flap.
Agawam YA Fiction - GRAPHIC T MEY
Witch & wizard
Patterson, James, 1947-
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty, music and books.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PAT
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