New Books November 2009
Betrayals : a strange angels novel
St. Crow, Lili.
New York : Razorbill, 2009.
For her own protection, sixteen-year-old Dru is taken to a secret training facility that feels more like a prison, but she faces great danger there and learns that a traitor who was involved in her mother's death now wants Dru dead.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP STC
Bless me, Ultima
Anaya, Rudolfo A.
New York : Warner Books, c1999.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP ANA
Blood promise
Mead, Richelle.
New York : Razorbill, 2009.
Just days before graduating from St. Vladimir's Academy, guardian-in- training Rose travels to Siberia to drive a stake into the heart of the boy she loves, the monstrous vampire Dimitri.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MEA
Chasing the bear : a young Spenser novel
Parker, Robert B., 1932-
New York : Philomel Books, c2009.
Spenser reflects back to when he was fourteen-years-old and how he helped his best friend Jeannie when she was abducted by her abusive father.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PAR
China : land of dragons and emperors
Mah, Adeline Yen, 1937-
New York : Delacorte Press, [2009].
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T951 MAH
Cleopatra : Egypt's last and greatest queen
Blackaby, Susan.
New York, NY : Sterling Pub., 2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - TB CLE
Demon princess : reign or shine
Rowen, Michelle.
New York : Walker Books for Young Readers : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan Publishers, 2009.
In small-town Canada after her mother's fourth marriage, sixteen-year-old Nikki learns that her long-lost father is king of the demons, a fact that threatens to destroy her newfound popularity and sense of belonging.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP ROW
The duel : the parallel lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
St. George, Judith, 1931-
New York : Viking, c2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T973.46 STG
Ernest Hemingway : a writer's life
Reef, Catherine.
Boston : Clarion Books, 2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - TB HEM
Fade out
Caine, Rachel.
Penguin, 11/09.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP CAI
Geek charming
Palmer, Robin, 1969-
New York : Speak, 2009.
Rich, spoiled, and popular high school senior Dylan is coerced into doing a documentary film with Josh, one of the school's geeks, who leads her to realize that the world does not revolve around her.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP PAL
Geektastic : stories from the nerd herd
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
A collection of twenty-nine short stories about geeks.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GEE
Gentlemen
Northrop, Michael.
New York : Scholastic Press, 2009.
When three teenaged boys suspect that their English teacher is responsible for their friend's disappearance, they must navigate a maze of assorted clues, fraying friendships, violence, and Dostoevsky's "Crime and punishment" before learning the truth.
Agawam YA Fiction - T NOR
The giver
Lowry, Lois.
New York, N.Y. : Bantam Books, 1999, c1993.
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP LOW
Gregorian chant and polyphony : Jerusalem, Holy Week, Easter, Pentecost, Psalm for the Office of Advent, Mass of Advent
Foil, David.
New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, c1995.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T782.3222 FOI
Immigration policy
Allport, Alan, 1970-
New York : Chelsea House, c2009.
Presents diverse viewpoints on immigration and on making English the official language of the United States.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T325.73 ALL
A kiss in time
Flinn, Alex.
New York, NY : HarperTeen, c2009.
Sixteen-year-old Princess Talia persuades seventeen-year-old Jack, the modern-day American who kissed her awake after a 300-year sleep, to take her to his Miami home, where she hopes to win his love before the witch who cursed her can spirit her away.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FLI
Kiss of life
Waters, Daniel, 1969-
New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, c2009.
Adam's return from death has made Phoebe's love life even weirder. Now she has to choose between two zombie boys. She knows how Adam needs her, but she still has feelings for Tommy. Meanwhile, the zombie population of Oakville, Conn., continues to grow. As their numbers rise, the undead community is becoming increasingly divided.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WAT
L.A. Candy
Conrad, Lauren.
New York : HarperCollins, 2009.
When nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts is cast in a new reality show, she discovers that the fame and fortune of her new life come at a high price to herself and her friendships.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CON
Leviathan
Westerfeld, Scott.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2009.
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
Looks
George, Madeleine.
New York, N.Y. : Speak, 2009, c2008.
Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP GEO
Riot
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-
New York : Egmont USA, 2009.
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MYE
Rock 'n' roll soldier : a memoir
Kohler, Dean Ellis.
New York : HarperTeen, 2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - TB KOH
Signing their lives away : the fame and misfortune of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence
Kiernan, Denise.
Philadelphia : Quirk Books ; San Francisco, CA : Distributed in North America by Chronicle Books, c2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T973.313 KIE
Starclimber
Oppel, Kenneth, 1967-
New York, NY : Eos, c2009.
As members of the first crew of astralnauts, Matt Cruse and Kate De Vries journey into outer space on the Starclimber and face a series of catastrophes that threaten the survival of all on board.
Agawam YA Fiction - T OPP
Theodore Roosevelt : a twentieth-century life
Cooper, Michael L., 1950-
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 2009.
A biography of the president includes his interest in conservation, his presidency, his winning of the Nobel Prize, his career as a solider and author and his role as a devoted family man.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - TB ROO
Women Making America
Hemming, Heidi.
Silver Spring, MD : Clotho Press, 2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T305.4 HEM
The young inferno
Agard, John, 1949-
London : Frances Lincoln Children's, 2008.
Agawam YA Fiction - T AGA
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