New Books SEptember 2010
After the kiss
McVoy, Terra Elan.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2010.
In alternating chapters, two high school senior girls in Atlanta reveal their thoughts and frustrations as they go through their final semester of high school.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MCV
Alice in charge
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2010.
Along with the usual concerns of senior year in high school, Alice faces some very difficult situations, including vandalism by a group of Neo-Nazis and a friend's confession that a teacher has been taking advantage of her.
Agawam YA Fiction - T NAY
Amy & Roger's epic detour
Matson, Morgan.
New York : Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2010.
After the death of her father, Amy, a high school student, and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a carefully planned road trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking many detours, forcing Amy to face her worst fears and come to terms with her grief and guilt.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MAT
The Bolshevik Revolution
Davenport, John, 1960-
New York : Chelsea House, c2010.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T947.0841 DAV
The Boneshaker
Milford, Kate.
Boston : Clarion Books, c2010.
When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines make her the only one who can set things right.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MIL
Brilliant
Vail, Rachel.
New York : HarperTeen, 2010.
Sixteen-year-old Quinn struggles to maintain her image as a brilliant, good girl when her mother's major error at work leads to financial and legal troubles that turn Quinn's and her younger sisters' world upside-down.
Agawam YA Fiction - T VAI
By the time you read this, I'll be dead
Peters, Julie Anne.
New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, 2010.
High school student Daelyn Rice, who has been bullied throughout her school career and has more than once attempted suicide, again makes plans to kill herself, in spite of the persistent attempts of an unusual boy to draw her out.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PET
The cardturner
Sachar, Louis, 1954-
New York : Delacorte Press, 2010.
When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SAC
Chasing Orion
Lasky, Kathryn.
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010.
In 1952, when Georgie is eleven years old, her family moves to a new Indiana neighborhood where her teenaged neighbor has polio and is in an iron lung.
Agawam YA Fiction - T LAS
Clockwork angel
Clare, Cassandra.
New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2010.
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CLA
The clone codes
McKissack, Pat, 1944-
New York : Scholastic Press, 2010.
On the run from a bounty hunter who arrested her mother for being part of a secret society devoted to freeing clones, thirteen-year-old Leanna learns amazing truths about herself and her family as she is forced to consider the value of freedom and what it really means to be human in 2170 America.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MCK
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
Dark life
Falls, Kat.
New York : Scholastic Press, 2010.
When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FAL
The daughters
Philbin, Joanna.
New York : Little, Brown, c2010.
In New York City, three fourteen-year-old best friends who are all daughters of celebrities watch out for each other as they try to strike a balance between ordinary high school events, such as finding a date for the homecoming dance, and family functions like walking the red carpet with their famous parents.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PHI
Deep and dark and dangerous
Hahn, Mary Downing.
Boston : Sandpiper/Hougton Mifflin Harcourt, [2008], c2007.
When thirteen-year-old Ali spends the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home, she stumbles upon a secret that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP HAH
Dread locks
Shusterman, Neal.
New York : Scholastic, Inc., 2006, c2005.
Accustomed to a carefree existence, fifteen-year-old Parker Baer meets the girl next door and finds his life taking a menacing turn as he begins to absorb some of her terrible powers.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP SHU
Eclipse
Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2009, c2007..
Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob, a werewolf, and her relationship with Edward, a vampire, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP MEY
Eco-craft : recycle-recraft-restyle
Wasinger, Susan.
New York : Lark Books, 2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T745.5 WAS
Everlasting
Frazier, Angie.
New York : Scholastic Press, c2010.
In 1855, seventeen-year-old Camille sets out from San Francisco, California, on her last sea voyage before entering a loveless marriage, but when her father's ship is destroyed, she and a friend embark on a cross-Australian quest to find her long-lost mother who holds a map to a magical stone.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FRA
Forget-her-nots
White, Amy Brecount.
New York : Greenwillow Books, c2010.
At a Charlottesville, Virginia, boarding school, fourteen-year-old Laurel realizes that she shares her deceased mother's connection with flowers, but as she begins to learn their ancient language and share it with other students, she discovers powers that are beyond her control.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WHI
Free? : stories celebrating human rights
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010.
An anthology of fourteen stories by young adult authors from around the world, on such themes as asylum, law, education, and faith, compiled in honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP FRE
Frostbite
Mead, Richelle.
Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2010.
While on a school skiing trip, guardian-in-training Rose faces everything from misunderstandings between friends to fights among factions of Moroi as reports of horrific Strigoi attacks raise tensions, ultimately leading Rose and some of those closest to her into a battle that teaches her much about life, death, and love.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MEA
Getting revenge on Lauren Wood
Cook, Eileen.
New York : Simon Pulse, c2010.
In eighth grade, Lauren publicly betrayed her best friend Helen and humiliated her so badly that Helen moved away, but as Lauren starts her senior year of high school, Helen returns with a new appearance and a plot to get revenge.
Agawam YA Fiction - T COO
Ghostopolis
TenNapel, Doug.
New York : Graphix/Scholastic, c2010.
"Garth Hale is a s good as dead...The only problem is he's still alive. When Garth Hale is accidentally zapped into the ghost world by Frank Gallows, a washed-up ghost wrangler, he discovers that he has special powers. Soon he finds himself on the run from the evil ruler of Ghostopolis, who wants to use Garth's newfound abilities to tighten his grip on the spirit world. After Garth meets Cecil, his grandfather's ghost, the two search for a way to get Garth back home, nearly losing hope until Frank Gallows shows up to fix his mistake."--P.[4] of cover.
Agawam YA Paperback - GRAPHIC TP TEN
Green energy : crucial gains or economic strains?
Doeden, Matt.
Minneapolis, MN : Twenty-First Century Books, c2010.
Discusses issues pertaining to green energy, covering the history of energy; global warming; nuclear, solar, and wind power; electric cars; biomass; biofuels; and other related topics, and includes quotes, anecdotes, and discussion which were originally published in "USA Today."
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T333.794 DOE
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Rowling, J. K.
New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2003.
When the government of the magic world and authorities at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry refuse to believe in the growing threat of a freshly revived Lord Voldemort, fifteen-year-old Harry Potter finds support from his loyal friends in facing the evil wizard and other new terrors.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ROW
He forgot to say good-bye
Sáenz, Benjamin Alire.
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008.
Two teenaged boys with very different lives find that they share a common bond--fathers they have never met who left when they were small boys--and in spite of their differences, they become close when they each need someone who understands.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SAE
The Hindenburg disaster
Sherman, Jill.
Edina, Minn. : ABDO, c2010.
Relates the story of the tragic loss of the Hindenburg, one of the most famous disasters of the 20th century.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T363.124 SHE
The Hunger Games
Collins, Suzanne.
New York : Scholastic Inc., [2009], c2008.
"In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before - and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love"--Cover.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP COL
If a tree falls at lunch period
Choldenko, Gennifer, 1957-
Boston : Sandpiper, c2007.
Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate, even as they are uncovering a long-kept secret about themselves.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP CHO
Infinity
Kenyon, Sherrilyn, 1965-
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, c2010.
Streetwise, tough, and savvy, Nick and his quick sarcasm are the stuff of legend... until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity. With his fellow students turning into flesh-eating zombies, how can he stop them... without getting grounded by his mom?
Agawam YA Fiction - T KEN
Invisible girl
Stone, Mary Hanlon.
New York : Philomel Books, c2010.
Stephanie, whisked from Boston to Encino, California, to stay with family friends after her abusive, alcoholic mother abandons her, tries desperately to fit in with her "cousin's" popular group even as she sees how much easier it would be to remain invisible.
Agawam YA Fiction - T STO
Jekel loves Hyde
Fantaskey, Beth.
Boston [Mass.] : Harcourt, 2010.
As seventeen-year-old Jill Jekel and classmate Tristen Hyde work together on a chemistry project, hoping to win a scholarship for her and a cure for his curse, they also uncover family secrets and a chemistry of their own.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FAN
The Joshua files : invisible city
Harris, M. G. (Maria G.).
New York : Walker & Co. : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2010., c2008.
When his father is reported murdered in Mexico, supposedly by the husband of his lover, thirteen-year-old Josh refuses to believe it and sets out to get the true story, which he believes involves UFOs and alien abduction.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HAR
Jump
Carbone, Elisa Lynn.
New York : Viking, 2010.
Two teenaged runaways meet at a climbing gym and together embark on a dangerous and revealing journey.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAR
The Karma Club
Brody, Jessica.
New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c2010.
When high school senior Maddy catches her boyfriend cheating on her, she devises a complicated plan to get revenge.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BRO
The knife that killed me
McGowan, Anthony.
New York : Delacorte Press, 2010.
Paul Varderman, a secondary student in an English Catholic School, is a loner until, just as he is becoming friends with "the freaks," the school bully encourages Paul to join his gang and gives him a knife to carry as an incentive.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MCG
The lightning thief
Riordan, Rick.
New York : Disney Hyperion Books, 2010, c2005.
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP RIO
Linger
Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981-
New York : Scholastic Press, 2010.
As Grace hides the vast depth of her love for Sam from her parents and Sam struggles to release his werewolf past and claim a human future, a new wolf named Cole wins Isabel's heart but his own past threatens to destroy the whole pack.
Agawam YA Fiction - T STI
Little vampire women
Messina, Lynn (Lynn Ann), 1972- LOCATION = Agawam YA Paperback.
New York : HarperTeen, c2010.
In this twist on Louisa May Alcott's classic tale that chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid- nineteenth-century New England, the girls are vampires and neighbor Laurie wants to join them.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP MES
Living dead girl
Scott, Elizabeth, 1972-
New York : Simon Pulse, c2008.
When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends: her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over. Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her, but he speaks more and more of her death. He does not know it is what she longs for. She does not know he has something more terrifying than death in mind for her. This is Alice's story.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SCO
A love story starring my dead best friend
Horner, Emily.
New York : Dial Books, 2010.
As she tries to sort out her feelings of love, seventeen-year-old Cass, a spunky math genius with an introverted streak, finds a way to memorialize her dead best friend.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HOR
Mockingjay
Collins, Suzanne.
Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2010.
The Capitol is angry that Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice, stirring unrest by having defied the rules, and President Snow has made it clear that she, her family and friends, and the people of District 12 may all be held accountable.
Agawam YA Fiction - T COL
New moon
Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-
New York : Little, Brown, 2008.
Bella befriends Jacob, a sophomore from her school with a penchant for motorcycles, that both the pace and her disposition begin to take off. Their adventures are wild, dare-devilish, and teeter on the brink of romance, but memories of Edward pervade Bella's emotions, and soon their fun quickly morphs into danger, especially when she uncovers the true identities of Jacob and his pack of friends.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP MEY
Perchance to dream
Mantchev, Lisa.
New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2010.
Bertie, who is blessed with word magic, and her fairy sidekicks seek to save Nate, who has been kidnapped by the Sea Witch, but Bertie is torn between Nate and Ariel, an air spirit who loves Bertie enough to die for her.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MAN
Plus
Chambers, Veronica.
New York : Razorbill, 2009.
After being dumped by her boyfriend and gaining twenty-five pounds during her freshman year at Columbia University, Bee Wilson becomes a world-famous supermodel when a prestigious modeling agency hires her for its plus-size division.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP CHA
The Prince of Mist
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos, 1964-
New York : Little, Brown, 2010.
In 1943, in a seaside town where their family has gone to be safe from war, thirteen-year-old Max Carver and sister, fifteen-year-old Alicia, with new friend Roland, face off against an evil magician who is striving to complete a bargain made before he died.
Agawam YA Fiction - T RUI
Reel culture : 50 classic movies you should know about (so you can impress your friends)
O'Connor, Mimi.
San Francisco, CA : Zest Books, 2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T791.437 OCO
Restoring harmony
Anthony, Joëlle.
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2010.
Ten years after the Great Collapse of 2031, sixteen-year-old Molly McClure, with only her fiddle for company, leaves the safety of her family's island home to travel through a dangerous and desolate wasteland on her way to Oregon to find her grandparents and persuade them to return with her to Canada.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ANT
Runaway
Cabot, Meg.
New York, NY : Point, 2010.
When sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts learns the truth about Nikki, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted, she finds that there is only one person to turn to for help--especially since her loved ones seem to be furious with her.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAB
Secret speakers and the search for Selador's Gate
Kingworth, K. S. R.
Canada : Rawle & Windsor, 2010.
Thirteen year-old Fair O'Nelli has lived in a cellar for the last nine years. She knows her father and brother are missing or possibly dead. Set free on her day of maidenhood when it's safe to be seen, Fair sets off in the company of three guardians to find Selador's Gate. Along the watyshe discovers the key to survival is learning to see things as they are.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP KIN
Shadow
Moss, Jenny, 1958-
New York : Scholastic Press, 2010.
When Shadow, whose job all her life has been to stay close to the young queen and prevent her prophecied death at the age of sixteen, fails in her task and the castle is thrown into chaos, she escapes along with a young knight, embarking upon a journey that eventually reveals her true identity.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MOS
She walks in beauty
Mitchell, Siri L., 1969-
Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House, c2010.
For a young society woman seeking a favorable marriage in the late 1890s, debutante Clara Carter has been given one goal: secure the affections of the city's most eligible bachelor. But when a man appears who seems to love her simply for who she is, and gossip backlash turns ugly, Clara realizes it's not just her heart at stake-- the future of her family depends on how she plays the game.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP MIT
Skeleton Key
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
New York : Philomel Books, 2003.
Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP HOR
Something like fate
Colasanti, Susane.
New York : Viking, c2010.
Lani and Jason, who is her best friend's boyfriend, fall in love, causing Lani tremendous anguish and guilt.
Agawam YA Fiction - T COL
Sorta like a rockstar
Quick, Matthew, 1973-
New York : Little, Brown, 2009, c2010.
Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.
Agawam YA Fiction - T QUI
Sources of light
McMullan, Margaret.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Fourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, and during the year they spend there Sam encounters both love and hate as she learns about photography from a new friend of her mother's and witnesses the prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MCM
The space between trees
Williams, Katie, 1978-
San Francisco [Calif.] : Chronicle Books, c2010.
When the body of a classmate is discovered in the woods, sixteen-year-old Evie's lies wind up involving her with the girl's best friend, trying to track down the killer.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WIL
Spooky little girl : a novel
Notaro, Laurie.
New York : Villard Trade Paperbacks, c2010.
Agawam YA Fiction - T NOT
Stolen
Christopher, Lucy.
New York : Chicken House, 2010.
Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CHR
The tempest
Wright, Susan.
New York : Pocket Books, c1997.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP STA
Thirteen days to midnight
Carman, Patrick.
New York : Little, Brown, 2010.
In the aftermath of the accident that killed his foster father, high school student Jacob Fielding discovers that he has acquired the power of indestructibility, and the more he learns about it the more he realizes that it is a heavy burden, if not a curse.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAR
This gorgeous game
Freitas, Donna.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Seventeen-year-old Olivia Peters, who dreams of becoming a writer, is thrilled to be selected to take a college fiction seminar taught by her idol, Father Mark, but when the priest's enthusiasm for her writing develops into something more, Olivia shifts from wonder to confusion to despair.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FRE
The Titan's curse
Riordan, Rick.
New York : Scholastic, 2008, c2007.
When the goddess Artemis disappears while hunting a rare, ancient monster, a group of her followers joins Percy and his friends in an attempt to find and rescue her before the winter solstice, when her influence is needed to sway the Olympian Council regarding the war with the Titans.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP RIO
To kill a mockingbird
Lee, Harper.
New York : HarperLuxe, 2010, c1960.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP LEE
To kill a mockingbird
Lee, Harper.
New York : HarperLuxe, 2010, c1960.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP LEE
Toads and diamonds
Tomlinson, Heather.
New York : Henry Holt, 2010.
A retelling of the Perrault fairy tale set in pre-colonial India, in which two stepsisters receive gifts from a goddess and each walks her own path to find her gift's purpose, discovering romance along the way.
Agawam YA Fiction - T TOM
Twilight
Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2006, c2005.
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP MEY
We hear the dead
Salerni, Dianne K.
Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, 2010, c2007.
"It starts as a harmless prank...then one lie quickly grows into another. Soon Kate and Maggie Fox are swept into a dizzying flurry of national attention for their abilities to communicate with the dead. But living a lie is sometimes too much to handle, even if you have the best intentions. Based on a true story, 'We Hear the Dead' reveals how secrets and lies can sometimes lead you to what's real and what's right. And how sometimes talking with the dead is easier than talking with the people around you."--P. [4] of cover.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP SAL
Whisper
Kitanidis, Phoebe.
New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, c2010.
Although fifteen-year-old Joy, who uses her mind-reading ability to grant wishes for people, and her older sister Jessica, who uses the same ability to bring misery into the lives of others, do not get along, Joy tries to find and protect Jessica when she goes missing.
Agawam YA Fiction - T KIT
Wish : a novel
Bullen, Alexandra.
New York : Point, 2010.
After her vivacious twin sister dies, a shy teenaged girl moves with her parents to San Francisco, where she meets a magical seamstress who grants her one wish.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BUL
Wolves, boys, & other things that might kill me
Chandler, Kristen.
New York : Viking, 2010.
Two teenagers become close as the citizens of their town fight over the packs of wolves that have been reintroduced into the nearby Yellowstone National Park.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CHA
You can do a graphic novel
Slate, Barbara.
Indianapolis, IN : Alpha Books, 2010.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T741.5 SLA
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