New Books May 2010
All unquiet things
Jarzab, Anna.
New York : Delacorte Press, 2010.
After the death of his ex-girlfriend Carly, northern California high school student Neily joins forces with Carly's cousin Audrey to try to solve her murder.
Agawam YA Fiction - T JAR
As easy as falling off the face of the earth
Perkins, Lynne Rae.
New York : Greenwillow Books, c2010.
A teenaged boy encounters one comedic calamity after another when his train strands him in the middle of nowhere, and everything comes down to luck.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PER
Beautiful stranger
Dean, Zoey.
New York : Little Brown and Company ; Hatchette Book Group ; Alloy Entertainment [producer] ; c2007.
When Anna moves from Manhattan to Hollywood, she experiences a culture shock and quickly learns that beautiful girls are not always welcome in the inner circle.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP DEA
Before I fall
Oliver, Lauren, 1982-
New York : Harper, c2010.
After she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.
Agawam YA Fiction - T OLI
Best friends for never : a Clique novel
Harrison, Lisi.
New York : Little, Brown, 2004.
A bet about wardrobes between the wealthy Massie and middle-class Claire results in a testing of old friendships, a forging of new ones, and a change for the student body at Octavian Country Day School.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP HAR
Borderline
Stratton, Allan.
New York : HarperTeen, 2010.
Despite the strained relationship between them, teenaged Sami Sabiri risks his life to uncover the truth when his father is implicated in a terrorist plot.
Agawam YA Fiction - T STR
Borrowed names : poems about Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C. J. Walker, Marie Curie, and their daughters
Atkins, Jeannine, 1953-
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2010.
Agawam YA Fiction - T811.6 ATK
Bratfest at Tiffany's : a clique novel
Harrison, Lisi.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2008.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP HAR
Bullet point
Abrahams, Peter, 1947-
New York : HarperTeen, c2010.
The only thing seventeen-year-old Wyatt knew about his biological father was that he was serving a life sentence, but circumstances and a new girlfriend bring them together and soon Wyatt is working to prove his father's innocence.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ABR
Candy
Brooks, Kevin.
New York : Scholastic, [2006].
Agawam YA Paperback - TP BRO
Civil unrest in the 1960s : riots and their aftermath
Mara, Wil.
New York : Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2009.
"Provides comprehensive information on civil unrest during the 1960s and the factors that drove these events"--Provided by publisher.
Agawam YA Fiction - T303.62 MAR
Cosmetic surgery
Lüsted, Marcia Amidon.
Edina, Minn. : ABDO Pub., c2010.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T617.95 LUS
Dragonsong
McCaffrey, Anne.
New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2003.
Forbidden by her father to indulge in music in any way, a girl on the planet Pern runs away, taking shelter with the planet's fire lizards who, along with her music, open a new life for her.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP MCC
Dreamland
Dessen, Sarah.
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Speak, 2004, c2000.
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP DES
Evermore
Noël, Alyson.
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2009.
Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year -old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP NOE
Evermore
Noël, Alyson.
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2009.
Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year -old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP NOE
Gimme a call
Mlynowski, Sarah.
New York : Delacorte Press, c2010.
After accidentally dropping her cell phone into a fountain at the mall, fourteen-year-old Devi Banks starts to get phone calls--and an earful of advice on how to live her life to avoid making disastrous choices--from her seventeen- year-old self.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MLY
Go ask Alice
New York : Simon Pulse, 2006.
A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP GO
Guardian angel house
Clark, Kathy, 1953-
Toronto : Second Story Press, c2009.
When Mama decides to send Susan and Vera to a Catholic convent to hide from the Nazi soldiers, Susan is shocked. Will the two Jewish girls be safe in a building full of strangers?
Agawam YA Paperback - TP CLA
Hearts at stake
Harvey, Alyxandra.
New York : Walker, 2010.
As her momentous sixteenth birthday approaches, Solange Drake, the only born female vampire in 900 years, is protected by her large family of brothers and her human best friend Lucy from increasingly persistent attempts on her life by the powerful vampire queen and her followers.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HAR
Heist society
Carter, Ally.
New York : Disney/Hyperion, c2010.
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAR
Hell's heroes
Shan, Darren.
New York : Little Brown and Company, 2010.
Bec, Kernel, and Grubbs gear up for the fight of their lives as the final battle between Earth and the hoardes of the Demonata draws near.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SHA
Hiroshima : birth of the nuclear age
Burgan, Michael.
New York : Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2009.
"Provides comprehensive information on the Manhattan Project, the bombing of Hiroshima, and its legacy"--Provided by the publisher.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T940.54 BUR
Hourglass
Gray, Claudia.
New York : HarperTeen, 2010.
Star-crossed lovers Lucas and Bianca are on the run, pursued not only by Black Cross vampire hunters but also by the powerful vampires of Evernight, when Bianca learns that her destiny is tied to that of the wraiths.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GRA
How to deal
Dessen, Sarah.
New York, New York : Speak, c2003.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP DES
Hunted
Cast, P. C.
[Waterville, Me.] : Thorndike Press, 2010.
What if the hottest guy in the world was hiding a nameless evil, and all he wanted was you? At the start of this heart-pounding new installment of the bestselling House of Night series, Zoey's friends have her back again and Stevie Rae and the red fledglings aren't Neferet's secrets any longer. But an unexpected danger has emerged. Neferet guards her powerful new consort, Kalona, and no one at the House of Night seems to understand the threat he poses. Kalona looks gorgeous, and he has the House of Night under his spell. A past life holds the key to breaking his rapidly spreading influence, but what if this past life shows Zoey secrets she doesn't want to hear and truths she can't face? On the run and holed up in Tulsa's Prohibition-era tunnels, Zoey and her gang must discover a way to deal with something that might bring them all down. Meanwhile, Zoey has a few other little problems. The red fledglings have cleaned up well - they've even managed to make the dark, creepy tunnels feel more like home - but are they really as friendly as they seem? On the boyfriend front, Zoey has a chance to make things right with super-hot ex-, Eric, but she can't stop thinking about Stark, the archer who died in her arms after one unforgettable night, and she is driven to try to save him from Neferet's sinister influence at all costs. Will anyone believe the power evil has to hide among us?
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAS
In a heartbeat
Ellsworth, Loretta.
New York : Walker Books for Young Readers : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan Publishers, 2010.
Told in their separate voices, Eagan, who has died in a figure-skating accident, becomes a heart donor for Amelia, who then begins taking on some aspects of Eagan's personality.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ELL
Inkspell
Funke, Cornelia Caroline.
Frome, Somerset [England] : Chicken House ; New York : Scholastic, 2005.
When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind. Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book. Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of Inkheart, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the ability to read him back, Dustfinger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and plunges into the medieval world of his past. Distraught, Farid goes in search of Meggie, and before long, both are caught inside the book, too. But the story is threatening to evolve in ways neither of them could ever have imagined.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP FUN
Inner circle : a novel
Brian, Kate, 1974-
New York : Simon Pulse, c2007.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP BRI
It's not easy being mean : a Clique novel
Harrison, Lisi.
New York : Little, Brown & Co., 2007.
Five girls in the Clique each face challenges during eighth grade -- from the soccer field to getting the key to the secret room at OCD from a Briarwood boy.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP HAR
Legacy of blood
Ford, Michael, 1980-
New York : Walker, 2009.
When Lysander and his barracks are sent to Taras, Italy, to protect a vital trading post threatened by a local uprising, he spies a statue of a figure wearing the Fire of Ares and sets out to discover his connection to the city, hoping to learn more of his mysterious heritage.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FOR
Leviathan
Westerfeld, Scott.
Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2010, c2009.
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WES
Lock and key
Dessen, Sarah.
New York, N.Y. : Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2009.
When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP DES
The Lonely Hearts Club
Eulberg, Elizabeth.
New York : Point, 2010.
Fed up with boys and the way they have treated her and her friends, high school junior Penny Lane--named after the Beatles song--forms a club whose members vow to stop dating, but the repercussions are surprising.
Agawam YA Fiction - T EUL
The luxe
Godbersen, Anna.
New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, 2008, c2007.
In Manhattan in 1899, five teens of different social classes lead dangerously scandalous lives, despite the strict rules of society and the best- laid plans of parents and others.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP GOD
Magic under glass
Dolamore, Jaclyn.
New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan Publishers, 2010.
A wealthy sorcerer's invitation to sing with his automaton leads seventeen-year-old Nimira, whose family's disgrace brought her from a palace to poverty, into political intrigue, enchantments, and a friendship with a fairy prince who needs her help.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DOL
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
Ostrich boys
Gray, Keith.
New York : Random House, 2010.
After their best friend Ross dies, English teenagers Blake, Kenny, and Sim plan a proper memorial by taking his ashes to Ross, Scotland, an adventure- filled journey that tests their loyalty to each other and forces them to question what friendship means.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GRA
The other side : a teen's guide to ghost hunting and the paranormal
Gibson, Marley.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T130 GIB
Pants on fire
Cabot, Meg.
New York : HarperTeen, c2007.
Having become a proficient liar in order to keep everyone happy, rising high school senior Katie Ellison is stunned when her old middle school friend and local pariah Tommy Sullivan returns to town, and suddenly things start looking a lot different to her.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAB
Pants on fire
Cabot, Meg.
New York : HarperTeen, c2007.
Having become a proficient liar in order to keep everyone happy, rising high school senior Katie Ellison is stunned when her old middle school friend and local pariah Tommy Sullivan returns to town, and suddenly things start looking a lot different to her.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAB
Peak performance : sports nutrition
Shryer, Donna.
New York : Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2010.
"An introduction to nutrition for athletes. Explains how adding excellent nutrition to training programs will help an athlete's performance"--Provided by publisher.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T613.2 SHR
Possessed
Cann, Kate.
New York, NY : Point, 2010.
Sixteen-year-old Rayne escapes London, her mother, and boyfriend for a job in the country at Morton's Keep, where she is drawn to a mysterious clique and its leader, St. John, but puzzles over whether the growing evil she senses is from the manor house or her new friends.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAN
The Pretty Committee strikes back : a Clique novel
Harrison, Lisi.
New York : Little, Brown, 2006.
While on a seventh-grade school trip, Claire attempts to mend her relationship with Cam while Massie seeks to maintain her high social standing and receive her first kiss.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP HAR
Revelation : a novel
Brian, Kate, 1974-
New York : Simon Pulse, 2008.
After rumors begin to circulate that Reed killed Cheyenne, Reed is kicked out of Billings. She knows the only way to get her life back is to figure out who really murdered Cheyenne.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP BRI
Revenge of the wannabes : a Clique novel
Harrison, Lisi.
New York : Little, Brown, 2005.
Friendships are tested when Alicia, a seventh grader at Octavian Country Day School, decides to break away from the exclusive clique led by her best friend to start her own group.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP HAR
The river
Beaufrand, Mary Jane.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010.
Teenager Ronnie's life is transformed by the murder of a ten-year-old neighbor for whom she babysat, and who had helped Ronnie adjust to living at a country inn on the banks of the Santiam River in Hoodoo, Oregon.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BEA
The secret year
Hubbard, Jennifer R.
New York : Viking, 2010.
Reading the journal of the high-society girl he was secretly involved with for a year helps high school senior Colt cope with her death and come closer to understanding why she needed him while continuing to be the girlfriend of a wealthy classmate.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HUB
The Shadow Project
Brennan, Herbie.
New York : Balzer + Bray, c2010.
A young English thief stumbles on, and subsequently is recruited for, a super-secret operation that trains teenagers in remote viewing and astral projection techniques in order to engage in spying.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BRE
Shadowland
Noël, Alyson.
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2009.
Ever and Damen have traveled through countless past lives and fought off the world's darkest enemies to be together forever, but just as their long- awaited destiny is finally within reach, a powerful curse threatens them.
Agawam YA Fiction - T NOE
The sisterhood of the traveling pants
Brashares, Ann.
New York : Delacorte Press, 2003, c2001.
During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP BRA
The six rules of maybe
Caletti, Deb.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2010.
Scarlet, an introverted high school junior surrounded by outcasts who find her a good listener, learns to break old patterns and reach for hope when her pregnant sister moves home with her new husband, with whom Scarlet feels an instant connection.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAL
The sniper
Riordan, James, 1936-
London : Frances Lincoln Children's, 2008.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP RIO
Some girls are
Summers, Courtney.
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2010.
Regina, a high school senior in the popular--and feared--crowd, suddenly falls out of favor and becomes the object of the same sort of vicious bullying that she used to inflict on others, until she finds solace with one of her former victims.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP SUM
Spirit bound
Mead, Richelle.
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Razorbill, c2010.
Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir's and to her best friend, Lissa. But Rose's heart still aches for Dimitri, and she knows he's out there, somewhere. He has tasted her blood, and now he is hunting her. Only this time, he won't rest until Rose joins him--forever.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MEA
Summer boys
Abbott, Hailey.
New York : Scholastic, c2004.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP ABB
Sweet little lies : an L.A. Candy novel
Conrad, Lauren.
New York : Harper, c2010.
Now a reality show celebrity, nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts learns that not all of her new friends are trustworthy.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CON
Teen cyberbullying investigated : where do your rights end and consequences begin?
Jacobs, Thomas A.
Minneapolis, MN : Free Spirit Pub., c2010.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T345.73025 JAC
This lullaby : a novel
Dessen, Sarah.
New York : Speak, 2004, c2002.
Raised by a mother who's had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP DES
Time you let me in : 25 poets under 25
New York : Greenwillow Books, c2010.
A collection of poems from 25 poets.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T811.6 TIM
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire : its legacy of labor rights
Marsico, Katie, 1980-
New York : Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, c2010.
"Provides comprehensive information on industry and immigration, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, its aftermath, and labor rights"--Provided by publisher.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T 974.71 MAR
The truth about forever
Dessen, Sarah.
New York, N.Y. : Speak, 2006, c2004.
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP DES
Vintage Veronica
Perl, Erica S.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
After getting a job at a vintage clothing shop and quickly bonding with two older girls, fifteen-year-old Veronica finds herself making bad decisions in order to keep their friendship.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PER
The Vinyl Princess
Prinz, Yvonne.
New York : HarperTeen, 2010.
Allie, a sixteen-year-old who is obsessed with LPs, works at the used record store on Telegraph Ave. and deals with crushes--her own and her mother's- -her increasingly popular blog and zine, and generally grows up over the course of one summer in her hometown of Berkeley, California.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PRI
Voices of dragons
Vaughn, Carrie.
New York : HarperTeen, 2010.
In a parallel world where humans and dragons live in a state of cold war, seventeen-year-old Kay and her dragon friend, Artegal, struggle to find a way to show that dragons and humans can co-exist.
Agawam YA Fiction - T VAU
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Green, John, 1977-
New York : Dutton, c2010.
When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GRE
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