New Books January 2010
Access denied : (and other eighth grade error messages) : a novel
Vega, Denise.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
In eighth grade, computer whiz Erin Swift learns a lot about friendship, relationships with boys, maturity, guilt, and forgiveness.
Agawam YA Fiction - T VEG
Alyzon Whitestarr
Carmody, Isobelle.
New York : Random House, [2009], c2005.
When Alyzon, the ordinary member of an extraordinary family, develops enhanced senses, she becomes aware of an evil virus that preys on people's spirits, and realizes that the sickness and its disseminators are aware of her and are a menace to her family.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAR
Bad apple
Ruby, Laura.
New York, NY : HarperTeen, c2009.
Tola Riley, a high school junior, struggles to tell the truth when she and her art teacher are accused of having an affair.
Agawam YA Fiction - T RUB
Beautiful creatures
Garcia, Kami.
Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GAR
Between us Baxters
Hegedus, Bethany.
Lodi, NJ : WestSide Books, [c2009].
'It's hard to be a "Black Sheep Baxter," at least for 12-year-old Polly. From a poor white family, Polly's best friend, Timbre Ann Biggs, is black, making them the only "salt-and-pepper" friends in town. But in that fall of 1959, life in quiet Holcolm County starts to heat up as one by one, thriving colored businesses burn to the ground. ... A vivid portrait of the Jim Crow South, Polly's inspiring story captures the defiant spirit of youth in an oppressive small town, just as the seeds of the Civil Rights Movement begin to sprout'-- Jacket.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HEG
Bite me!
Francis, Melissa McKenzie.
New York : HarperTeen, 2009.
AJ, a teenage vampire, hides her identity from her new stepfamily--among which is her ex-boyfriend--and investigates the secrets of her heritage.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP FRA
Bleach
Kubo, Tite.
San Francisco, Calif. : VIZ Media, 2004-
Agawam YA Paperback - GRAPHIC TP KUB V.1
A brief history of Montmaray
Cooper, Michelle, 1969-
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in a fictional island country off the coast of Spain, where she is among the last descendants of an impoverished royal family trying to hold their nation together on the eve of the second World War.
Agawam YA Fiction - T COO
Bug boy
Luper, Eric.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
In 1934 Saratoga, New York, just as fifteen-year-old Jack Walsh finally realizes his dream of becoming a jockey, complications arise in the form of a female bookie, an unexpected visit from his father, and a man who wants him to "fix" a race.
Agawam YA Fiction - T LUP
Cat among the pigeons
Golding, Julia.
New York, N.Y. : Roaring Brook Press, 2008.
Catherine "Cat" Royal, an orphan who lives at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s London, rallies her friends to try to save Pedro from the clutches of Mr. Hawkins, a slavemaster who considers Pedro his property.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GOL
Causes of the Civil War : the differences between the North and South
Mountjoy, Shane, 1967-
New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T978.711 MOU
Claim to fame
Haddix, Margaret Peterson.
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2009.
Sixteen-year-old Lindsay, a former child star whose career ended when she developed the ability to hear what anyone, anywhere says about her and apparently suffered a nervous breakdown, comes to see this as an asset when, after her father's death, she learns that she is not alone.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HAD
Confessions of a First Daughter
Calloway, Cassidy.
New York : HarperTeen, 2009.
High school senior Morgan Abbott pretends to be her mother, the President of the United States, as a decoy, while she also tries to lead the life of a normal teenager.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP CAL
Dark calling
Shan, Darren.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
The Disciples are being manipulated by beings older than time, and only Kernel Fleck knows that something is wrong.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SHA
Dark Dude
Hijuelos, Oscar.
New York, NY : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2008.
In the 1960s, Rico Fuentes, a pale-skinned Cuban American teenager, abandons drug-infested New York City for the picket fence and apple pie world of Wisconsin, only to discover that he still feels like an outsider and that violent and judgmental people can be found even in the wholesome Midwest.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HIJ
Death's Shadow
Shan, Darren.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
As Bec's relationship with Dervish improves, werewolves and demons attack and she sends Shark and Meera through a window to another universe to seek Beranabus, and soon all must face an even greater force of evil, the Shadow.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP SHA
The Demon King : a seven realms novel
Chima, Cinda Williams.
New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, c2009.
Relates the intertwining fates of former street gang leader Han Alister and headstrong Princess Raisa, as Han takes possession of an amulet that once belonged to an evil wizard and Raisa uncovers a conspiracy in the Grey Wolf Court.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CHI
The devil's kiss
Chadda, Sarwat.
New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, 2009.
Fifteen-year-old Billi SanGreal has grown up knowing that being a member of the Knights Templar puts her in danger, but if she is to save London from catastrophe she must make sacrifices greater than she imagined.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CHA
The doom machine : a novel
Teague, Mark.
New York : Blue Sky Press, c2009.
When a spaceship lands in the small town of Vern Hollow in 1956, juvenile delinquent Jack Creedle and prim, studious Isadora Shumway form an unexpected alliance as they try to keep a group of extraterrestrials from stealing eccentric Uncle Bud's space travel machine.
Agawam YA Fiction - T TEA
Dragonfly
Golding, Julia.
Tarrytown, NY : Marshall Cavendish, 2009, c2008.
When Tashi, the rigidly formal sixteen-year-old Fourth Crown Princess of the Blue Crescent Islands, reluctantly weds roguish eighteen-year-old Prince Ramil of Gerfal, their religious, cultural, and personal differences threaten to end their political alliance and put both countries at the mercy of a fearsome warlord.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GOL
DWEEB : burgers, beasts, and brainwashed bullies
Starmer, Aaron, 1976-
New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
After being framed for stealing bake sale money, the five smartest boys in the eighth grade are imprisoned in a small room beneath their junior high school in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, and must use their nerdish powers to expose a conspiracy involving fast food, standardized testing, and a school full of overachieving zombies.
Agawam YA Fiction - T STA
The elements
Miller, Ron, 1947-
Minneapolis, Minn. : Twenty-First Century Books, c2006.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T546 MIL
The end of forever : two novels
McDaniel, Lurlene.
New York : Laurel Leaf Books, 2007.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP MCD
Eternal
Smith, Cynthia Leitich.
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009.
When Miranda's guardian angel Zachary recklessly saves her from falling into an open grave and dying, the result is that she turns into a vampire and he is left to try to reinstate his reputation by finally doing the right thing.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SMI
Everwild
Shusterman, Neal.
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2009.
Nick, known as the dreaded "Chocolate Ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SHU
The final warning : a Maximum Ride novel
Patterson, James, 1947-
New York : Little, Brown, 2008.
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PAT
Flash burnout : a novel
Madigan, L. K.
Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 2009.
"Telephoto lens. Zoom. In a shutter release millisecond, Blake's world turns upside down. The nameless woman with the snake tattoo is not just another assignment. 'That's my mom!' gasps Marissa. Saturated self-portrait: Blake, nice guy, class clown, always trying to gget a laugh, not sure where to focus. Contrast. Shannon, Blake's GF. Total. Babe. Marissa, just a friend and fellow photographer. Shannon loves him; Marissa needs him. How is he supposed to frame them both in one shot?"--dust cover flap.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MAD
Funny how things change
Wyatt, Melissa.
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009.
Remy, a talented, seventeen-year-old auto mechanic, questions his decision to join his girlfriend when she starts college in Pennsylvania after a visiting artist helps him to realize what his family's home in a dying West Virginia mountain town means to him.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WYA
Ghost huntress. Book 2, The guidance
Gibson, Marley.
Boston : Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2009.
Coutney Langdon doesn't appreciate the new popularity of Kendall and her ghost hunting team or Kendall's relationship with Jason, Courtney's ex. to draw attention away from Kendall, Courtney begins dabbling in the paranormal world but Courtney doesn't realize what she's getting into and things began to go horribly wrong.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP GIB
Girl stays in the picture
De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971-
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009.
On a movie set in Saint Tropez, France, several teenaged members of the Hollywood elite come together in an explosion of scenes shot and reshot, friendships formed and cast aside, and romances begun and destroyed, all duly reported by paparazzi.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DEL
Girlfriend material
Kantor, Melissa.
New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, c2009.
Kate has never had a boyfriend. But while crashing at her mother's wealthy friends' home at Cape Cod for the summer, Kate meets Adam. But when her breezy summer romance with Adam becomes more complicated, Kate asks herself if she is girlfriend material.
Agawam YA Fiction - T KAN
Going bovine
Bray, Libba.
New York : Delacorte Press, 2009.
Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BRA
Going bovine
Bray, Libba.
New York : Delacorte Press, 2009.
Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BRA
Green Lantern : rage of the Red Lanterns
Johns, Geoff, 1973-
New York : DC Comics 2009.
Agawam YA Fiction - GRAPHIC T GRE
Gringolandia
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn, 1956-
Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, 2009.
In 1986, when seventeen-year-old Daniel's father arrives in Madison, Wisconsin, after five years of torture as a political prisoner in Chile, Daniel and his eighteen-year-old "gringa" girlfriend, Courtney, use different methods to help this bitter, self-destructive stranger who yearns to return home and continue his work.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MIL
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Rowling, J. K.
New York : Scholastic, [2002], c1999.
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.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP ROW
Hazel : a novel
Hearn, Julie, 1958-
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009.
Thirteen-year-old Hazel leaves her comfortable, if somewhat unconventional, London home in 1913 after her father has a breakdown, and goes to live in the Caribbean on her grandparents' sugar plantation where she discovers some shocking family secrets.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HEA
The Hollow
Verday, Jessica.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2009.
High-school junior Abbey struggles with the loss of her best friend Kristen, who vanished on a legendary bridge, but her grief is eased by Caspian, an attractive and mysterious stranger she meets in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery.
Agawam YA Fiction - T VER
Homestretch
Volponi, Paul.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009.
Five months after losing his mother, seventeen-year-old Gas runs away from an abusive father and gets a job working at an Arkansas race track, surrounded by the illegal Mexican immigrants that he and his father blame for her death.
Agawam YA Fiction - T VOL
How to say goodbye in Robot
Standiford, Natalie.
New York : Scholastic, 2009.
After moving to Baltimore and enrolling in a private school, high school senior Beatrice befriends a quiet loner with a troubled family history.
Agawam YA Fiction - T STA
Hush, hush
Fitzpatrick, Becca.
New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, c2009.
High school sophomore Nora has always been very cautious in her relationships, but when Patch, who has a dark side she can sense, enrolls at her school, she is mysteriously and strongly drawn to him, despite warnings from her best friend, the school counselor, and her own instincts.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FIT
I can't keep my own secrets : six-word memoirs by teens famous & obscure
New York : HarperTeen ; Enfield : Publishers Group UK [distributor], 2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T808.066 I
Ice
Durst, Sarah Beth.
New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2009.
A modern-day retelling of "East o' the Sun, West o' the Moon" in which eighteen-year-old Cassie learns that her grandmother's fairy tale is true when a Polar Bear King comes to claim her for his bride and she must decide whether to go with him and save her long-lost mother, or continue helping her father with his research.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DUR
Inkheart
Funke, Cornelia Caroline.
New York : Scholastic : Somerset(England): Chicken House, 2003.
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FUN
Intertwined
Showalter, Gena.
Don Mills, Ont. : Harlequin Teen, c2009.
"Most sixteen-year-olds have friends. Aden Stone has four human souls living inside him: one can time travel, one can raise the dead, one can tell the future, and one can possess another human...and then he meets a girl who quiets the voices..."--Dust jacket.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SHO
Into the wild nerd yonder
Halpern, Julie, 1975-
New York, NY : Feiwel and Friends, 2009.
When high school sophomore Jessie's long-term best friend transforms herself into a punk and goes after Jessie's would-be boyfriend, Jessie decides to visit "the wild nerd yonder" and seek true friends among classmates who play Dungeons and Dragons.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HAL
Invisible I
Kantor, Melissa.
New York : Harper Teen, 2009.
When new and unconventional high school student Amada Valentino disappears, her three closest friends, who are all from vastly different circles, band together and, using enigmatic clues that seem to come from Amanda herself, try to find her.
Agawam YA Fiction - T KAN
Last night I sang to the monster : a novel
Sáenz, Benjamin Alire.
El Paso, Tex. : Cinco Puntos Press, c2009.
Eighteen-year-old Zach does not remember how he came to be in a treatment center for alcoholics, but through therapy and caring friends, his amnesia fades and he learns to face his past while working toward a better future.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SAE
The latent powers of Dylan Fontaine
Lurie, April.
New York : Delacorte Press, 2008.
Fifteen-year-old Dylan's friend Angie is making a film about him while he is busy trying to keep his older brother from getting caught with drugs, to deal with his mother having left the family, and to figure out how to get Angie to think of him as more than just a friend.
Agawam YA Fiction - T LUR
Liar
Larbalestier, Justine.
New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2009.
Compulsive liar Micah promises to tell the truth after revealing that her boyfriend has been murdered.
Agawam YA Fiction - T LAR
Lifting the sky
D'Arge, Mackie.
New York : Bloomsbury, 2008.
Twelve-year-old Blue, always on the move with her ranch-hand mother, yearns for a real home where her father can find them, and on a remote ranch on a Wyoming reservation she finds that and more, including a mystical ability to heal injuries.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DAR
Lips touch : three times
Taylor, Laini.
New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009.
Three short stories about kissing, featuring elements of the supernatural.
Agawam YA Fiction - T TAY
Locked up : a history of the U.S. prison system
Edge, Laura Bufano, 1953-
Minneapolis, MN : Twenty-First Century Books, c2009.
A history of the United States prison system and its many changes over the years.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T365.973 EDG
Looking for Alaska
Green, John, 1977-
New York : Speak, 2007, c2005.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP GRE
The Midnight Charter
Whitley, David.
New York : Roaring Brook Pr., 2009.
"In the tower of Count Stelli in the ancient city-state of Agora, two children meet, apparently by chance. Mark has escaped the plague ravaging the city's slums. Lily is the servant who cares for him. At first, their only goal is survival: In Agora, everything can be bought and sold, debt is death, and Mark and Lily must barter their labor for their lives. Then comes an opportunity for them to exchange destinies: for Lily to escape the tower for the city outside, and for Mark to find refuge inside by taking a serving position with the Count. The exchange will set them on divergent paths: Mark's toward fame and fortune as an astrologer, Lily's as the founder of an almshouse for the city's poor and destitute. Yet their lives remain strangely intertwined, and it is Lily who will discover the role that each of them is destined to play in fulfilling the prophecy and challenge of the secret Midnight Charter devised by Agora's founders..."--dust cover flap.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WHI
My life from air-bras to zits
Haworth-Attard, Barbara, 1953-
Woodbury, Minn. : Flux, 2009.
Desperate to be popular, fourteen-year-old Teresa shares her uncertainties with her old Ken and Barbie dolls as she learns that her mother is pregnant, her grandfather has Alzheimers, and having a boyfriend does not automatically solve all her problems.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP HAW
My soul to save
Vincent, Rachel.
Don Mills, Ont. : Harlequin Teen, c2010.
"When Kaylee Cavanaugh screams, someone dies. So when teen pop star Eden croaks onstage and Kaylee doesn't wail, she knows something is dead wrong. She can't cry for someone who has no soul. The last thing Kaylee needs right now is to be skipping school, breaking her dad's ironclad curfew and putting her too- hot-to-be-real boyfriend's loyalty to the test. But starry-eyed teens are trading their souls: a flickering lifetime of fame and fortune in exchange for eternity in the Netherworld--a consequence they can't possibly understand. Kaylee can't let that happen, even if trying to save their souls means putting her own at risk...."--P. [4] of cover.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP VIN
My soul to take
Vincent, Rachel.
Don Mills, Ontario : Harlequin Teen, c2009.
Kaylee has become a "soul screamer"--she knows when someone is going to die and is compelled to scream, as if in warning. But her classmates keep dying!
Agawam YA Paperback - TP VIN
Never cry werewolf
Davis, Heather, 1970-
New York : HarperTeen, 2009.
Forced to attend a camp for teens with behavior problems, sixteen-year- old Shelby Locke's attempts to follow the rules go astray when she meets a handsome British werewolf.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DAV
Ninth key
Cabot, Meg.
New York : Avon Books, 2005, c2001.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP CAB
No choirboy : murder, violence, and teenagers on death row
Kuklin, Susan.
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T364.66 KUK
Once was lost
Zarr, Sara.
New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
As the tragedy of a missing girl enfolds in her small town, fifteen-year- old Samara, who feels emotionally abandoned by her parents, begins to question her faith.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ZAR
The pale assassin
Elliott, Patricia, 1946-
New York : Holiday House, 2009.
In early 1790s' Paris, as the Revolution gains momentum, young and sheltered Eugenie de Boncoeur finds it difficult to tell friend from foe as she and the royalist brother she relies on become the focus of "le Fantome," the sinister spymaster with a long-held grudge against their family.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ELL
Partly cloudy : poems of love and longing
Soto, Gary.
Boston : Harcourt, 2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T811.6 SOT
Pastworld
Beck, Ian.
New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2009.
In 2050, while visiting Pastworld, a Victorian London theme park, teenaged Caleb meets seventeen-year-old Eve, a Pastworld inhabitant who has no knowledge of the modern world, and both become pawns in a murderer's diabolical plan that reveals disturbing truths about the teenagers' origins.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BEC
Pop
Korman, Gordon.
New York : Balzer + Bray, c2009.
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
Agawam YA Fiction - T KOR
Predator : big game
Schofield, Sandy.
New York : Bantam Books, c1999.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP PRE
Predator : concrete jungle
Archer, Nathan.
New York : Bantam Books, 1995.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP PRE
The prophecy
Ewing, Lynne.
New York : Volo, 2004.
Catty draws close to the Scroll's secrets that will allow her to destroy the evil Atrox, but she fears the aftermath.
Agawam YA Fiction - T EWI
Pure
McVoy, Terra Elan.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2009.
Fifteen-year-old Tabitha and her four best friends all wear purity rings to symbolize their pledge to remain virgins until they marry, but when one admits that she has broken the pledge each girl must reexamine her faith, friendships, and what it means to be pure.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MCV
Purple Heart
McCormick, Patricia, 1956-
New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, c2009.
While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MCC
Queen of Sheba
Lucks, Naomi.
New York : Chelsea House, c2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - TB SHE
Raven summer
Almond, David, 1951-
New York : Delacorte Press, 2009.
Led to an abandoned baby by a raven, fourteen-year-old Liam seems fated to meet two foster children who have experienced the world's violence in very different ways as he struggles to understand war, family problems, and friends who grow apart.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ALM
Reunion
Cabot, Meg.
New York : Avon Books, 2005, c2001.
The RLS Angels are out for blood, and only Suze can stop them - since she's the only one who can see them. The four ghostly teenagers died in a terrible car accident, for which they blame Suze's classmate Michael... and they'll stop at nothing until he's joined them in the realm of the dead.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP CAB
Sacred scars
Duey, Kathleen.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2009.
In alternate chapters, Sadima works to free captive boys forced to copy documents in the caverns of Limori, and Hahp makes a pact with the remaining students of a wizards' academy in hopes that all will survive their training, as both learn valuable lessons about loyalty.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DUE
Salt
Gee, Maurice.
Victoria, B.C. : Orca Book Publishers, 2009.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GEE
The scoop on what to eat : what you should know about diet and nutrition
Gay, Kathlyn.
Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T613.2 GAY
Shadowland
Cabot, Meg.
New York : Avon Books, 2005.
After moving from New York to California with her newly married mother, 16-year-old Susannah has to cope not only with her new stepbrothers, but also with the handsome ghost sitting in her new bedroom and the angry girl ghost haunting her new school.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP CAB
The Silver Blade
Gardner, Sally.
New York : Dial Books, 2009.
As the Revolution descends into the ferocious Reign of Terror, Yann, now an extraordinary practioner of magic, uses his skills to confound his enemies and help spirit refugees out of France, but the question of his true identity and the kidnapping of his true love, Sido, expose him to dangers that threaten to destroy him.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GAR
Snap
Snow, Carol, 1965-
New York : HarperTeen, 2009.
When fifteen-year-old Madison's parents, who are having problems, bring her to a seedy beachside town, she relies on some quirky new friends for help figuring out how her camera is taking pictures of people who are not there, and who later suffer tragedies.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SNO
Solace of the road
Dowd, Siobhan.
New York : David Fickling Books, c2009.
While running away from a London foster home just before her fifteenth birthday, Holly has ample time to consider her years of residential care and her early life with her Irish mother, whom she is now trying to reach.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DOW
South China Sea
VanderMeer, Jeff.
Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2008.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP PRE
The squire's quest
Morris, Gerald, 1963-
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Terence worries about the lengthy absence of his faery friends as he travels to Greece to aid the Emperor Alexander and attempts to thwart a nefarious plot by Mordred to assume the throne held by King Arthur.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MOR
The tear collector
Jones, Patrick, 1961-
New York : Walker & Company, 2009.
As one of an ancient line of creatures who gain energy from human tears, seventeen-year-old Cassandra offers sympathy to anyone at her school or the hospital where she works, but she yearns to be fully human for the boy she loves, even if it means letting her family down.
Agawam YA Fiction - T JON
This family is driving me crazy : ten stories about surviving your family
New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2009.
Agawam YA Fiction - T THI
Tillmon County fire
Ehrenberg, Pamela.
Grand Rapids, MI : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2009.
An act of arson commited as an anti-gay hate crime affects the lives of several teenagers from a small town.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP EHR
Time of the witches
Myers, Anna.
New York : Walker & Co., 2009.
Orphaned Drucilla finds a home with the beautiful but troubled Mistress Putnam as accusations of witchcraft start to swirl in Salem Village.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MYE
A troubled peace
Elliott, Laura.
New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, c2009.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ELL
Turnabout : a novel
Perry, Steve.
Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse ; [London : Diamond, distributor], c2008.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP PRE
Twilight
Cabot, Meg.
New York : Avon Books, 2006, c2005.
Sixteen-year-old Carmel, California teenager Suze Simon is a typical high school student except for the fact that she is a "shifter" who can mediate between the living and the dead, and she is in love with a ghost from the nineteenth century.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP CAB
The uninvited
Wynne-Jones, Tim.
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009.
After a disturbing freshman year at New York University, Mimi is happy to get away to her father's remote Canadian cottage only to discover a stranger living there who has never heard of her or her father and who is convinced that Mimi is responsible for leaving sinister tokens around the property.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WYN
Wake : [your dreams are not your own]
McMann, Lisa.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2009, c2008.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP MCM
The waters and the wild
Block, Francesca Lia.
New York : HarperTeen, 2009.
Thirteen-year-old Bee realizes that she is a fairy who has been switched at birth with another girl who now wants her life back.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BLO
Wish you were dead
Strasser, Todd.
New York : Egmont USA, 2009.
Madison, a senior at a suburban New York high school, tries to uncover who is responsible for the disappearance of her friends, popular students mentioned in the posts of an anonymous blogger, while she, herself, is being stalked online and in-person.
Agawam YA Fiction - T STR
Worst enemies, best friends
Bryant, Annie.
Lexington, MA : B*tween Productions, c2005.
Charlotte Ramsey is the new girl in 7th grade and ready to make friends and stay in one place. After causing the biggest cafeteria blunder in the history of Abigail Adams Junior High School, Charlotte's assigned lunch partners, Katani, Avery and Maeve, can't wait to dump her. Can it get any worse?
Agawam YA Paperback - TP BRY
You'd be so pretty if-- : teaching our daughters to love their bodies-- even when we don't love our own
Chadwick, Dara.
Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Lifelong, 2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T306.4613 CHA
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