New Books October 2010
Almost to die for : a vampire princess novel
Hallaway, Tate.
New York : New American Library, 2010.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP HAL
Along for the ride : a novel
Dessen, Sarah.
New York, N.Y. : Viking, c2009.
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DES
Black mirror
Boylan, Jennifer Finney, 1958-
New York : Katherine Tegen Books, 2010.
Thirteen-year-old Quinn believes he is fairly normal until he is spirited away from his grandmother's house to the Academy for Monsters, where he leads his new friends in rebelling against the faculty's agenda of suppressing students' true natures.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BOY
Boarder patrol
Thomas, E. L. (Erin L.).
Victoria, B.C. : Orca Book Publishers, c2010.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP THO
By the time you read this, I'll be dead
Peters, Julie Anne.
New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, 2010.
High school student Daelyn Rice, who has been bullied throughout her school career and has more than once attempted suicide, again makes plans to kill herself, in spite of the persistent attempts of an unusual boy to draw her out.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PET
The complete history of why I hate her
Jacobson, Jennifer, 1958-
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2010.
Wanting a break from being known only for her sister's cancer, seventeen- year-old Nola leaves Boston for a waitressing job at a summer resort in Maine, but soon feels as if her new best friend is taking over her life.
Agawam YA Fiction - T JAC
The compound
Bodeen, S. A. (Stephanie A.), 1965- LOCATION = Agawam YA Fiction.
New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2008.
After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BOD
Crossing the tracks
Stuber, Barbara, 1951-
New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2010.
In Missouri in 1926, fifteen-year-old Iris Baldwin discovers what family truly means when her father hires her out for the summer as a companion to a country doctor's invalid mother.
Agawam YA Fiction - T STU
The dark Divine
Despain, Bree, 1979-
New York : Egmont USA, 2010.
Grace Divine, almost seventeen, learns a dark secret when her childhood friend--practically a brother--returns, upsetting her pastor-father and the rest of her family, around the time strange things are happening in and near their small Minnesota town.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DES
Drugs and sports
Parks, Peggy J., 1951-
San Diego, CA : ReferencePoint Press, 2010.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T362.29 PAR
The end of apartheid in South Africa
Sonneborn, Liz.
New York : Chelsea House, c2010.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T968.064 SON
The eternal ones
Miller, Kirsten, 1973-
New York : Razorbill, c2010.
Seventeen-year-old Haven Moore leaves East Tennessee to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where she meets playboy Iain Morrow, whose fate may be tied to hers through a series of past lives.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MIL
The extraordinary secrets of April, May, and June : a novel
Benway, Robin.
New York : Razorbill, 2010.
After their parents' divorce, teenaged sisters April, May, and June recover special powers from childhood and use them to cope with moving to a new home and high school, but wonder if the gifts have a greater purpose.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BEN
The family Greene : a novel
Rinaldi, Ann.
Boston : Harcourt, 2010.
Follows Caty and her daughter Cornelia through the latter half of the eighteenth century as they mingle with the heroes of the Revolutionary War, discovering that a woman's only means of power, flirting, can cause trouble and confusion.
Agawam YA Fiction - T RIN
Finding my place
Jones, Traci L.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
After moving to an affluent suburb of Denver in 1975, ninth-grader Tiphanie feels lonely at her nearly all-white high school until she befriends another "outsider" and discovers that prejudice exists in many forms.
Agawam YA Fiction - T JON
God is in the pancakes
Epstein, Robin, 1972-
New York, NY, U.S.A. : Dial Books, c2010.
Fifteen-year-old Grace, having turned her back on religion when her father left, now finds herself praying for help with her home and love life, and especially with whether she should help a beloved elderly friend die with dignity.
Agawam YA Fiction - T EPS
The graveyard book
Gaiman, Neil.
New York : Harper, 2010.
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP GAI
Green witch
Hoffman, Alice.
New York : Scholastic Press, 2010.
A year after her world was nearly destroyed, sixteen-year-old Green has become the one villagers turn to for aid, especially to record their stories, but Green will need the help of other women who, like herself, are believed to be witches if she is to find her best friend and her one true love.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HOF
Guardian of the dead
Healey, Karen.
New York : Little, Brown, 2010.
Eighteen-year-old New Zealand boarding school student Ellie Spencer must use her rusty tae kwon do skills and new-found magic to try to stop a fairy-like race of creatures from Maori myth and legend that is plotting to kill millions of humans in order to regain their lost immortality.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HEA
Halo
Adornetto, Alexandra.
New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2010.
When three angels are sent from heaven to protect the town of Venus Cove against the gathering forces of darkness, their mission is threatened as the youngest angel, Bethany, enrolls in high school and falls in love with another student.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ADO
Halt's peril
Flanagan, John (John Anthony).
New York, NY : Philomel Books, 2010.
Tennyson, the false prophet of the Outsider cult, has escaped and Halt is determined to stop him before he crosses the border into Araluen, but Genovesan assassins put Will and Halt's extraordinary archery skills to the test.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FLA
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Rowling, J. K.
New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2003.
When the government of the magic world and authorities at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry refuse to believe in the growing threat of a freshly revived Lord Voldemort, fifteen-year-old Harry Potter finds support from his loyal friends in facing the evil wizard and other new terrors.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ROW
Hothouse
Lynch, Chris.
New York, NY : HarperTeen, c2010.
Teens D.J. and Russell, life-long friends and neighbors, had drifted apart but when their firefighter fathers are both killed, they try to help one another come to terms with the tragedy and its aftermath.
Agawam YA Fiction - T LYN
I am number four
Lore, Pittacus.
New York : HarperTeen, 2010.
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
Agawam YA Fiction - T LOR
If I stay
Forman, Gayle.
New York : Speak, 2010, c2009.
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP FOR
The Keepers' tattoo
Arbuthnott, Gill.
New York : Chicken House, 2010.
Months before her fifteenth birthday, Nyssa learns that she is a special member of a legendary clan, the Keepers of Knowledge, as she and her uncle try to escape from Alaric, the White Wolf, who wants to use lines tattooed on her to destroy the rest of her people.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ARB
Kisses from hell
New York : HarperTeen, 2010.
Five stories of teen vampire romance.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP KIS
The left hand of God
Hoffman, Paul, 1953-
New York : Dutton, 2010.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HOF
Legacies
Lackey, Mercedes.
New York : Tor, 2010.
After her family is killed, Spirit White is taken to Oakhurst Academy, a combination orphanage and school for those with magical powers, where she and her new friends investigate when students start mysteriously disappearing.
Agawam YA Fiction - T LAC
The melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Tanigawa, Nagaru.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
On the first day at a Japanese high school, an irrepressible girl announces her lack of interest in "ordinary humans" and proceeds to form a club dedicated to finding aliens, time travelers, and other forms of supernatural life, with the intention of having fun with them.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP TAN
Mistwood
Cypess, Leah.
New York : Greenwillow Books, 2010.
Brought back from the Mistwood to protect the royal family, a girl who has no memory of being a shape-shifter encounters political and magical intrigue as she struggles with her growing feelings for the prince.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CYP
My ultimate sister disaster
Mendle, Jane.
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2010.
Fourteen-year-old Franny barely copes with high school, having a crush on the school newspaper's editor, and practically being parentless, and then her sister, a promising ballerina, breaks her leg and complicates everything.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP MEN
Night world. No. 1
Smith, L. J. (Lisa J.).
New York : Simon Pulse, 2008.
Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters -- they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World. In "Secret Vampire", Poppy thought the summer would last forever. Then
she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Now Poppy's only hope for survival is James, her friend and secret love. A vampire in the Night World, James can make Poppy immortal. But first they both must risk everything to go against the laws of Night World. Their brother, Ash, is sent to bring the girls back, but he falls in love with their beautiful friend.
NOTE = Fugitives from Night World, three vampire sisters leave their isolated home to live among humans in "Daughters of Darkness".
NOTE = Two witch cousins fight over their high school crush. It's a battle between black magic and white magic in "Spellbinder".
Agawam YA Paperback - TP SMI
No moon
Watts, Irene N.
Toronto : Tundra Books, 2010.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP WAT
Out with it : gay and straight teens write about homosexuality
New York, NY : Youth Communication, c2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T306.766 OUT
The outside of a horse
Rorby, Ginny.
New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2010.
When her father returns from the Iraq War as an amputee with post- traumatic stress disorder, Hannah escapes by volunteering to work with rescued horses, never thinking that the abused horses could also help her father recover.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ROR
Pablo Picasso
Kallen, Stuart A., 1955-
Detroit : Lucent Books, 2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - TB PIC
Payback time
Deuker, Carl.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he is determined to be a writer, but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand out on the field--or to discuss his past.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DEU
Plain Kate
Bow, Erin.
New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2010.
Plain Kate's odd appearance and expertise as a woodcarver cause some to think her a witch, but friendship with a talking cat and, later, with humans help her to survive and even thrive in a world of magic, charms, and fear.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BOW
Poetry speaks-- who I am
Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, c2010.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T808.81 POE
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Barbour, Scott, 1963-
San Diego, Calif. : ReferencePoint Press, c2010.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T616.8521 BAR
Princess of glass
George, Jessica Day, 1976-
New York : Bloomsbury, c2010.
In the midst of maneuverings to create political alliances through marriage, sixteen-year-old Poppy, one of the infamous twelve dancing princesses, becomes the target of a vengeful witch while Prince Christian tries to save her.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GEO
The queen's daughter
Coventry, Susan.
New York : Henry Holt, 2010.
A fictionalized biography of Joan of England, the youngest child of King Henry II of England and his queen consort, Eleanor of Aquitaine, chronicling her complicated relationships with her warring parents and many siblings, particularly with her favorite brother Richard the Lionheart, her years as Queen consort of Sicily, and her second marriage to Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse.
Agawam YA Fiction - T COV
Radiance : a novel
Noël, Alyson.
New York : Square Fish/St. Martin's Griffin, 2010.
After crossing the bridge into the afterlife, a place called Here where the time is always Now, Riley's existence continues in much the same way as when she was alive until she is given the job of Soul Catcher and, together with her teacher Bodhi, returns to earth for her first assignment, a ghost called the Radiant Boy who has been haunting an English castle for centuries and resisted all previous attempts to get him across the bridge.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP NOE
The reason
Gibson, Marley.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
When seventeen-year-old psychic Kendall arrives at the mayor's house in her small Georgia town to investigate a haunting, she recognizes the scene of her precognitive dream which foretold her death.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP GIB
Revolution
Donnelly, Jennifer.
New York : Delacorte Press, 2010.
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DON
Rot & Ruin
Maberry, Jonathan.
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2010.
In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MAB
Scars
Rainfield, C. A. (Cheryl A.).
Lodi, NJ : WestSide Books, c2010.
Fifteen-year-old Kendra, a budding artist, has not felt safe since she began to recall devastating memories of childhood sexual abuse, especially since she cannot remember her abuser's identity, and she copes with the pressure by cutting herself.
Agawam YA Fiction - T RAI
Shadow Hills
Hopcus, Anastasia.
New York : Egmont USA, 2010.
Enrolling in a New England boarding school after her sister's mysterious death, sixteen-year-old Phe Archer uncovers a secret that could answer all her questions, but could also cost her her life.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HOP
Ship breaker
Bacigalupi, Paolo.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010.
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BAC
Sisters red
Pearce, Jackson.
New York : Little, Brown, 2010.
After a Fenris, or werewolf, killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the beasts that prey on teenaged girls, learning how to lure them with red cloaks and occasionally using the help of their old friend, Silas, the woodsman's son.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PEA
Sleepless
Balog, Cyn.
New York : Delacorte Press, 2010.
Eron, a supernatural being known as a Sandman whose purpose is to seduce humans to sleep, falls in love with a sad teenaged girl who is mourning her boyfriend's death.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BAL
The thin executioner
Shan, Darren.
New York : Little, Brown, 2010.
In a nation of warriors where weakness is shunned and all crimes, no matter how minor, are punishable by beheading, young Jebel Rum, along with a slave who is fated to be sacrificed, sets forth on a quest to petition the Fire God for invincibility, but when the long and arduous journey is over, Jebel has learned much about fairness and the value of life.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SHA
The truth about rape
New York, NY : Facts On File, c2010.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T362.883 TRU
Vampire rising
Henderson, Jason, 1971-
New York : HarperTeen, 2010.
At a boarding school in Switzerland, fourteen-year-old Alex Van Helsing learns that vampires are real, that he has a natural ability to sense them, and that an agency called the Polidorium has been helping his family fight them since 1821.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HEN
The wager
Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-
New York : Henry Holt and Co., c2010.
Having lost everything in a tidal wave in 1169 Sicily, nineteen-year-old Don Giovanni makes a simple-sounding wager with a stranger he recognizes as the devil but, while desperate enough to surrender his pride and good looks for three years, he is not willing to give up his soul.
Agawam YA Fiction - T NAP
Watersmeet
Abbott, Ellen Jensen.
New York : Marshall Cavendish, 2009.
Fourteen-year-old Absina escapes the escalating violence, prejudice, and religious fervor of her home town, Vranille, and sets out with a dwarf, Haret, to seek the father she has never met in a place called Watersmeet.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ABB
Wereling
Feasey, Steve.
New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2010, c2009.
Is he a boy-- or is he a beast? Demons are closing in on every side, and the most psychopathic bloodsucker to rock the Netherworld wants to destroy him. And Trey is falling for a girl who is half vampire, half human, and insanely pretty.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP FEA
The white cat
Black, Holly.
New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2010.
When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BLA
X-Isle
Augarde, Steve.
Oxford : David Fickling, 2010.
Baz and Ray, survivors of an apocalyptic flood, win places on X-Isle, an island where life is rumored to be better than on the devastated mainland, but they find the island to be a violent place ruled by religious fanatic Preacher John, andthey decide they must come up with a weapon to protect themselves from impending danger.
Agawam YA Fiction - T AUG
You
Benoit, Charles.
New York, NY : HarperTeen, c2010.
Fifteen-year-old Kyle discovers the shattering ramifications of the decisions he makes, and does not make, about school, the girl he likes, and his future.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BEN
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