New Books
4-H guide to digital photography
Johnson, Daniel, 1984-
Minneapolis, MN : Voyageur Press, 2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T 775 JOH
4-H guide to raising chickens
Kindschi, Tara, 1970-
Minneapolis, MN : Voyageur Press, 2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T636.5 KIN
Bamboo people : a novel
Perkins, Mitali.
Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, 2010.
Two Burmese boys, one a Karenni refugee and the other the son of an imprisoned Burmese doctor, meet in the jungle and in order to survive they must learn to trust each other.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PER
The body finder
Derting, Kimberly.
New York : Harper, c2010.
High school junior Violet uses her uncanny ability to sense murderers and their victims to try to stop a serial killer who's terrorizing her town, and although her best friend and would-be boyfriend Jay promises to keep her safe, she becomes a target.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DER
The clearing
Davis, Heather, 1970-
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Amy, a sixteen-year-old girl recovering from an abusive relationship, moves to the country in Washington to live with her great-aunt, and there she discovers a mysterious clearing in the woods where she meets Henry, a boy stuck in the summer of 1944.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP DAV
Countdown
Wiles, Deborah.
New York : Scholastic, c2010.
"Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems the whole country is living in fear..."--Dust jacket flap.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WIL
Crossing stones
Frost, Helen, 1949-
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
In their own voices, four young people, Muriel, Frank, Emma, and Ollie, tell of their experiences during the first World War, as the boys enlist and are sent overseas, Emma finishes school, and Muriel fights for peace and women's suffrage.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FRO
Deathwatch
White, Robb, 1909-1990.
New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1973, c1972.
Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP WHI
Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
[S.l.] : Ægypan Press, [2006?].
Agawam YA Paperback - TP WHA
The fledging of Az Gabrielson
Amory, Jay.
London : Gollanz, 2006.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP AMO
The Grimm Legacy
Shulman, Polly.
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2010.
New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository," and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SHU
Invasion of the boy snatchers : a Clique novel
Harrison, Lisi.
New York : Little, Brown, 2005.
Following Christmas break, the girls are back together, but everything seems different with the addition of Alicia's cousin from Spain who is spending the semester at Octavian Country Day School.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP HAR
The iron daughter
Kagawa, Julie.
New York : Harlequin, 2010.
Summer faery princess, half human, Meghan is deserted by the Winter prince she thought loved her, becomes a prisoner of the Winter faery queen, and loses her own fey powers. As war looms between Summer and Winter, Meghan knows that the real danger comes from the Iron fey--ironbound faeries that only she and her absent prince have seen. But no one believes her--and trusting a seeming traitor could be deadly.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP KAG
Is it night or day?
Chapman, Fern Schumer.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience, includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CHA
Lies : a Gone novel
Grant, Michael, 1954-
New York : Katherine Tegen Books, 2010.
As conditions worsen in the FAYZ, where supernatural forces have trapped children under the age of fifteen and resources are running out, it becomes tempting to heed the words of a prophet who says that only death will set them free.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GRA
The light
MacHale, D. J.
New York : Aladdin, 2010.
Sixteen-year-old Marshall Seaver is expecting a boring summer when his best friend goes away, but instead he finds himself haunted--and hunted--by ghosts that want something from him which he cannot decipher.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MAC
Little blog on the prairie
Bell, Cathleen Davitt.
New York : Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books, c2010.
Thirteen-year-old Genevieve's summer at a frontier family history camp in Laramie, Wyoming, with her parents and brother is filled with surprises, which she reports to friends back home on the cell phone she sneaked in, and which they turn into a blog.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BEL
Marcelo in the real world
Stork, Francisco X.
Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2010.
Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
Agawam YA Fiction - T STO
The mark
Nadol, Jen.
New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan Publishers, 2010.
While in Kansas living with an aunt she never knew existed and taking a course in philosophy, sixteen-year-old Cass struggles to learn what, if anything, she should do with her ability to see people marked to die within a day's time.
Agawam YA Fiction - T NAD
Mockingjay
Collins, Suzanne.
New York : Scholastic Press, 2010.
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe.
The Capitol wants revenge ... and President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe!
Agawam YA Fiction - T COL
Princess for hire
Leavitt, Lindsey.
New York : Disney/Hyperion, c2010.
Desi Bascomb has been longing for a bit of glamour in her Idaho life. So when a flawlessly dressed woman steps out of an iridescent bubble and wants to know if Desi would like to become a substitute princess, Desi of course agrees. But being a subsitute princess is harder than Desi thought. But she desires to make a positive impact and does, one royal fiasco at a time.
Agawam YA Fiction - T LEA
Skin : the bare facts
Bergamotto, Lori.
San Francisco, CA : Orange Avenue Pub. , 2009.
Presents an overview on skin types, methods for treating common problems, and tips for skin care and makeup application.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T646.726 BER
Stephenie Meyer : the unauthorized biography of the creator of the Twilight saga
Shapiro, Marc, 1949-
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2010, c2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - TB MEY
The war to end all wars : World War I
Freedman, Russell.
Boston : Clarion Books, 2010.
A narrative history of World War I for young readers that features archival photographs, and describes how advanced military weaponry impacted the course of the war.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T940.3 FRE
Warriors in the crossfire
Flood, Bo.
Honesdale, Pa. : Front Street, c2010.
Based on historical events on the South Pacific island of Saipan during World War II, this story unfolds through the eyes of Joseph, the son of the Chamorro chief, and, his half-Japanese cousin, Kento. For Joseph the war brings mounting pressure to take responsibility for the survival of his family during the invasion. Forced to experience the unimaginable horrors of Suicide Cliff, the boys begin to learn the true practices of a warrior.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FLO
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