New Books February 2010
Buffy the vampire slayer. Season eight
Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse, 2007-
Agawam YA Paperback - GRAPHIC TP BUF V.5 PREDATORS AND PREY V.5 PREDATORS AND PREY
Captivate
Jones, Carrie.
New York : Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books, 2010.
High school junior Zara and her friends continue to try to contain the pixies that threaten their small Maine town, but when a Valkyrie takes Zara's boyfriend, Nick, to Valhalla, the only way to save him is to trust a pixie king, Astley.
Agawam YA Fiction - T JON
Chicken soup for the teenage soul on love & friendship
Canfield, Jack, 1944-
Deerfield Beach, Fla. : Health Communications, 2002.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T158.1 CHI
Crazy beautiful
Baratz-Logsted, Lauren.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
In this contemporary retelling of "Beauty and the Beast," a teenaged boy whose hands were amputated in an explosion and a gorgeous girl whose mother has recently died form an instant connection when they meet on their first day as new students.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BAR
The dark pond
Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-
New York : HarperCollins, c2004.
After he feels a mysterious pull drawing him toward a dark, shadowy pond in the woods, Armie looks to old Native American tales for guidance about the dangerous monster lurking in the water.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP BRU
Dawn
Wiesel, Elie, 1928-
New York : Hill and Wang, 2006.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP WIE
Day of the assassins : a Jack Christie novel
O'Brien, Johnny.
Somerville, Mass. : Templar Books, 2009.
Fifteen-year-old Jack is sent to 1914 Europe as a pawn in the battle between his long-lost father, who has built a time machine, and a secret network of scientists who want to prevent him from trying to use it to change history for the better. Includes historical notes.
Agawam YA Fiction - T OBR
The eternal kiss : 13 vampire tales of blood and desire
Philadelphia : Running Press Kids, c2009.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP ETE
The everafter
Huntley, Amy.
New York : Balzer & Bray, 2009.
After her death, seventeen-year-old Maddy finds a way to revisit moments in her life by using objects that she lost while she was alive, and by so doing she tries to figure out the complicated emotions, events, and meaning of her existence.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HUN
Fallen
Kate, Lauren.
New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
Suspected in the death of her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Luce is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her.
Agawam YA Fiction - T KAT
Haunted
Cabot, Meg.
New York : Avon Books, 2005, c2003.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP CAB
The hobbit or there and back again
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.
New York, Ballantine, c1996.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP TOL
Hold still
LaCour, Nina.
New York : Dutton ; London : Turnaround [distributor], 2009.
Ingrid didn't leave a note. Three months after her best friend's suicide, Caitlin finds what she left instead: a journal, hidden under Caitlin's bed.
Agawam YA Fiction - T LAC
The hunchback assignments
Slade, Arthur G. (Arthur Gregory).
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2009.
In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SLA
If I had a hammer : building homes and hope with Habitat for Humanity
Rubel, David.
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T363.583 RUB
The indigo notebook
Resau, Laura.
New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
Fifteen-year-old Zeeta comes to terms with her flighty mother and their itinerant life when, soon after moving to Ecuador, she helps an American teenager find his birth father in a nearby village.
Agawam YA Fiction - T RES
Kith
Black, Holly.
New York : Graphix, 2009.
While sixteen-year-old Rue Silver travels into the faerie realm to find her mother, faerie creatures are entering the human world and wreaking havoc, forcing Rue to ponder where her loyalty should lie.
Agawam YA Fiction - GRAPHIC T BLA
Knight Hospitaller. 2, 1306-1565
Nicolle, David, 1944-
Oxford : Osprey Military, 2001.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T940.1 NIC
Lady Macbeth's daughter
Klein, Lisa M., 1958-
New York : Bloomsbury, 2009.
In alternating chapters, ambitious Lady Macbeth tries to bear a son and win the throne of Scotland for her husband, and Albia, their daughter who was banished at birth and raised by three weird sisters, falls in love, learns of her parentage, and seeks to free Scotland from tyranny in this tale based on Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Agawam YA Fiction - T KLE
Lockdown : escape from Furnace
Smith, Alexander Gordon, 1979-
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2009.
When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SMI
The maze runner
Dashner, James, 1972-
New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DAS
Meridian
Kizer, Amber.
New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
On her sixteenth birthday, Meridian is whisked off to her great-aunt's home in Revelation, Colorado, where she learns that she is a Fenestra, the half- human, half-angel link between the living and the dead, and must learn to help human souls to the afterlife before the dark forces reach them.
Agawam YA Fiction - T KIZ
My anxious mind : a teen's guide to managing anxiety and panic
Tompkins, Michael A.
Washington, DC : Magination Press, c2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T618.928522 TOM
Parallel journeys
Ayer, Eleanor H.
New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2000.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T943.086 AYE
Red is for remembrance
Stolarz, Laurie Faria, 1972-
St. Paul, Minn. : Llewellyn, 2005.
Soon after beginning her freshman year at Beacon University, Stacey, a hereditary witch, befriends the college president's fourteen-year-old daughter and tries to help her cope with nightmares that foretell murder.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP STO
Runaway twin
Kehret, Peg.
New York : Dutton Children's Books, 2009.
Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington, to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.
Agawam YA Fiction - T KEH
Schooled
Langan, Paul.
West Berlin, NJ : Townsend Press, Inc., 2009.
There's no backing down for Lionel Shepard. With a dream of joining the NBA, all he wants to do at Bluford High is play Basketball. But everyone's trying to stop him. Bad grades, bad advice from family members and friends. Will he pursue his dream or get caught in a nightmare?
Agawam YA Fiction - T LAN
Uncle Tom's cabin
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
New York : Dover Publications, 2005.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP STO
Wake : [your dreams are not your own]
McMann, Lisa.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2009, c2008.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP MCM
Wings
Pike, Aprilynne.
Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2010.
When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel's back, it leads her to discover the fact that she is a faerie and that she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from the encroaching enemy trolls.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PIK
Wuthering Heights
Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848.
New York : Penguin Books, 2009.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP BRO
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