New Books October 2009
Airhead
Cabot, Meg.
Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2009.
Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAB
Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942.
New York : Sterling Pub., 2004.
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MON
Bad girls don't die
Alender, Katie.
New York : Hyperion Books, 2009.
When fifteen-year-old Lexi's younger sister Kasey begins behaving strangely and their old Victorian house seems to take on a life of its own, Lexi investigates and discovers some frightening facts about previous occupants of the house, leading her to believe that many lives are in danger.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ALE
Beyond : a solar system voyage
Benson, Michael.
New York, NY : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T523.2 BEN
Bloodline
Moran, Katy (Katy Jane).
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009.
While traveling through early seventh-century Britain trying to stop an impending war, Essa, who bears the blood of native British tribes and of the invading Anglish, discovers that his mother is alive and he, himself, is a prince of the northern kingdom, but he has loyalties and loved ones in the south to whom he is compelled to return.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MOR
Bounce
Friend, Natasha, 1972-
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2009.
Thirteen-year-old Evyn's world is turned upside-down when her father, widowed since she was a toddler, suddenly decides to marry a woman with six children, move with Ev and her brother from Maine to Boston, and enroll her in private school.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FRI
Catching fire
Collins, Suzanne.
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2009.
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
Agawam YA Fiction - T COL
Catching fire
Collins, Suzanne.
New York : Scholastic Press, 2009.
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
Agawam YA Fiction - T COL
Chasing boys
Tayleur, Karen.
New York : Walker & Co. : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2009.
With her father gone and her family dealing with financial problems, El transfers to a new school, where she falls for one of the popular boys and then must decide whether to remain true to herself or become like the girls she scorns.
Agawam YA Fiction - T TAY
The chosen one
Williams, Carol Lynch.
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2009.
In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WIL
David inside out
Bantle, Lee F.
New York : Henry Holt, 2009.
At a Minneapolis high school, a cross-country runner tries to deny his sexual feelings for a male teammate.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BAN
The death of Captain America. [Vol. 1], The death of the dream
Brubaker, Ed.
New York : Marvel, c2008.
Agawam YA Paperback - GRAPHIC TP BRU
Den of thieves
Golding, Julia.
New York, N.Y. : Roaring Brook Pres, 2009.
Asked to become a spy while living a public life as a ballerina, Cat accepts the challenge and leaves the Theater Royal behind; suddenly finding herself in the heart of revolutionary Paris where she must work to save her friends who have been declared traitors and are being held captive for their crimes.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GOL
Den of thieves
Golding, Julia.
New York, N.Y. : Roaring Brook Pres, 2009.
Asked to become a spy while living a public life as a ballerina, Cat accepts the challenge and leaves the Theater Royal behind; suddenly finding herself in the heart of revolutionary Paris where she must work to save her friends who have been declared traitors and are being held captive for their crimes.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GOL
Development of the industrial U.S. Primary sources
Benson, Sonia.
Detroit : UXL, c2006.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T330.973 BEN
Don't judge a girl by her cover
Carter, Ally.
New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, c2009.
When Cammie Morgan arrives at her friend Macey's five-star hotel for the Democratic National Convention, where Macey's father is about to receive the vice presidential nomination, she thinks she's in for an exciting end to her summer break. But if you're a Gallagher Girl, 'exciting' and 'deadly' are never far apart.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAR
Dull boy
Cross, Sarah.
New York : Dutton Childrens Books, 2009.
Avery, a teenaged boy with frightening super powers that he is trying to hide, discovers other teenagers who also have strange powers and who are being sought by the icy and seductive Cherchette, but they do not know what she wants with them.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CRO
Earthgirl
Cowan, Jennifer.
Toronto : Groundwood Books, 2009.
Agawam YA Fiction - T COW
Escape by sea
Lawrence, L. S., 1951-
New York : Holiday House, 2009.
When the city of Carthage falls to the Romans during the Punic Wars, Sara, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a Carthaginian senator, must gather her grief- stricken father and take to the seas, where, with only with a meager cargo to trade, her healing skills, her wits, and her courage, Sara must face a life wildly different from anything she thought possible.
Agawam YA Fiction - T LAW
Eyes like stars
Mantchev, Lisa.
New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2009.
Thirteen-year-old Bertie strives to save Theater Illuminata, the only home she has ever known, but is hindered by the Players who magically live on there, especially Ariel, who is willing to destroy the Book at the center of the magic in order to escape into the outside world.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MAN
Fire
Cashore, Kristin.
New York, NY : Dial Books, c2009.
In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAS
Future tech : from personal robots to motorized monocycles
Piddock, Charles.
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T600 PID
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
Ghostgirl : homecoming
Hurley, Tonya.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
When Petula becomes deathly ill, her sister Scarlet seeks help from former classmate Charlotte, for whom the afterlife has become burdensome, leaving her just as insecure and isolated as she was while she was alive.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HUR
The glass maker's daughter
Briceland, V. (Vance).
Woodbury, Minn. : Flux, 2009.
Sixteen-year-old Risa's disappointment over an unprecedented event is devastating, but the evil and destruction that follows the king's death show her that the god and goddess have special need of her talents and those of her new, lower-class friends.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP BRI
Goddess bootcamp
Childs, Tera Lynn.
New York : Dutton Books, [2009], c2008.
Seventeen-year-old Phoebe, unable to control the powers inherited from her ancestor Nike, must attend summer camp with a group of ten-year-olds, while coping with her boyfriend's apparent betrayal and mysterious messages about her deceased father.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CHI
A great and sublime fool : the story of Mark Twain
Caravantes, Peggy, 1935-
Greensboro, N.C. : Morgan Reynolds Pub., c2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - TB TWA
Green Lantern. The Sinestro Corps war
Johns, Geoff, 1973-
New York : DC Comics, c2007-
Agawam YA Fiction - GRAPHIC T GRE V.1 THE SINESTRO CORPS WAR V.1 THE SINESTRO CORPS WAR
Green Lantern. The Sinestro Corps war
Johns, Geoff, 1973-
New York : DC Comics, c2007-
Agawam YA Fiction - GRAPHIC T GRE V.2 THE SINESTRO CORPS WAR V. 2 THE SINESTRO CORPS WAR
Hamlet : a novel
Marsden, John, 1950-
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009.
Grieving for the recent death of his beloved father and appalled by his mother's quick remarriage to his uncle, Hamlet, heir to the Danish throne, struggles with conflicting emotions, particularly after his father's ghost appeals to him to avenge his death.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MAR
Hunger : a Gone novel
Grant, Michael, 1954-
New York : HarperTeen, c2009.
Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the Darkness underground awakens.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GRA
The Hunger Games
Collins, Suzanne.
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2009.
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Agawam YA Fiction - T COL
The Immortal Realm
Jones, Frewin.
New York : HarperTeen, c2009.
Princess Tania thinks she has finally found a way to unite the world of Faerie with the modern world, but her beloved Immortal Realm is threatened when a grave illness takes hold of the kingdom and she must find a way to save it.
Agawam YA Fiction - T JON
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
Leaving Glorytown : one boy's struggle under Castro
Calcines, Eduardo F.
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009.
When Eduardo Calcines was three years old, Communists took control of Cuba. Eleven years passed before Calcines and his family were finally able to leave the country. Now sixty-three, Calcines, a successful American businessman, recounts what it was like to grow up under Fidel Castro's rule.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - TB CAL
Living with allergies
Ehrlich, Paul M.
New York : Facts On File, 2007.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T616.97 EHR
Mare's war
Davis, Tanita S.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Teens Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and courage when they are forced to take a car trip with their grandmother, who tells about growing up Black in 1940s Alabama and serving in Europe during World War II as a member of the Women's Army Corps.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DAV
Moonlight
Hawthorne, Rachel.
New York : HarperTeen, 2009.
While working as a wilderness guide in the national forest where her parents were killed twelve years earlier, seventeen-year-old Kayla is powerfully drawn to Lucas, who she learns is her appointed guardian--and much more--as she discovers her true identity and destiny.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP HAW
The morgue and me
Ford, John C. (John Christopher), 1971- LOCATION = Agawam YA Fiction.
New York : Viking, 2009.
Eighteen-year-old Christopher, who plans to be a spy, learns of a murder cover-up through his summer job as a morgue assistant and teams up with Tina, a gorgeous newspaper reporter, to investigate, despite great danger.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FOR
Operation Storm City
Mowll, Joshua.
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009.
Siblings Becca and Doug discover important clues to their missing parents' expedition route and the location of Ur-Can, the fabled Storm City, and they embark on a perilous journey to the Takla Makan desert, racing against their Guild enemies by steam train, riverboat, and airship across the Himalayas, trying to save not only their parents, but the entire planet.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MOW
Ruby unscripted
Martinusen-Coloma, Cindy, 1970- LOCATION = Agawam YA Paperback.
Nashville : Thomas Nelson, 2009.
When fifteen-year-old Ruby, along with her mother, stepfather, and younger brother, move to Marin County, California, leaving her older brother back home with her father and stepmother, she feels lost among the wealthier, more sophisticated people she meets, but gradually she begins to see a side of herself that never really fit into her old life, and she opens herself up to the new experiences that God is offering her.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP MAR
Silvertongue
Fletcher, Charlie.
New York : Disney Hyperion Books, 2009.
The battle between the statues and gargoyles of London rages on--and 12- year-old George Chapman and his friend Edie are caught in the middle. With the Walker intent on forcing his evil designs on the city and the world, George realizes that his destiny is inextricably tied to the Walker's destruction.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FLE
The skateboarding field manual
Stutt, Ryan.
Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2009.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T796.22 STU
Sleepaway girls
Calonita, Jen.
New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
When the exceptionally people-pleasing Sam spends a summer as a counselor -in-training, she learns how to say no, to stand up for herself, and what it feels like to have a crush on a great guy.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAL
Sophomore switch
McDonald, Abby.
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2009.
Take an administrative snafu, a bad breakup, and what shall heretofore be known as "The Hot-Tub Incident," and you have got two unprepared sophomores on a semester abroad. For American party girl Tasha, an escape to Oxford may be a chance to ditch her fame as a tabloid temptress, but wading deep in feminist theory is not her idea of a break. Meanwhile, the British half of the exchange, studious Emily, nurses an aching heart amid the bikinis and beer pong of U.C. Santa Barbara. Soon desperation has the girls texting each other tips on fitting in, finding love, and figuring out who they really are.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MCD
The stolen one
Crowley, Suzanne Carlisle.
New York : Greenwillow Books, 2009.
After the death of her foster mother, sixteen-year-old Kat goes to London to seek the answers to her parentage, and surprisingly finds herself invited into Queen Elizabeth's court.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CRO
Stoneheart
Fletcher, Charlie.
New York : Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, [2008].
When twelve-year-old George accidentally decapitates a stone statue in London, England, he falls into a parallel dimension where he must battle ancient "live" statues and solve a dangerous riddle.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FLE
Tales of the Madman Underground : an historical romance 1973
Barnes, John, 1957-
New York : Viking, 2009.
In September 1973, as the school year begins in his depressed Ohio town, high-school senior Kurt Shoemaker determines to be "normal," despite his chaotic home life with his volatile, alcoholic mother and the deep loyalty and affection he has for his friends in the therapy group dubbed the Madman Underground.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BAR
Tempted
Cast, P. C.
New York : St. Martins Griffith, 2009.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAS
Thirteenth child
Wrede, Patricia C., 1953-
New York : Scholastic Press, 2009.
Eighteen-year-old Eff must finally get over believing she is bad luck and accept that her special training in Aphrikan magic, and being the twin of the seventh son of a seventh son, give her extraordinary power to combat magical creatures that threaten settlements on the western frontier.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WRE
Twenty boy summer
Ockler, Sarah.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
While on vacation in California, sixteen-year-old best friends Anna and Frankie conspire to find a boy for Anna's first kiss, but Anna harbors a painful secret that threatens their lighthearted plan and their friendship.
Agawam YA Fiction - T OCK
Untamed : a house of night novel
Cast, P. C.
Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2009.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CAS
The Van Alen legacy : a Blue Bloods novel
De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971-
New York : Disney-Hyperion, 2009.
Once left to live the glamorous life in New York City, the Blue Bloods-- an ancient group of vampires--now find themselves in an epic battle for survival following the stunning revelation of a young socialite's true identity and the growing threat of the sinister Silver Bloods.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DEL
The vast fields of ordinary
Burd, Nick.
New York : Dial Books, 2009.
The summer after graduating from an Iowa high school, eighteen-year-old Dade Hamilton watches his parents' marriage disintegrate, ends his long-term, secret relationship, comes out of the closet, and savors first love.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BUR
Viola in reel life : a novel
Trigiani, Adriana.
New York : HarperTeen, 2009.
When fourteen-year-old Viola is sent from her beloved Brooklyn to boarding school in Indiana for ninth grade, she overcomes her initial reservations as she makes friends with her roommates, goes on a real date, and uses the unsettling ghost she keeps seeing as the subject of a short film--her first.
Agawam YA Fiction - T TRI
Waiting for you
Colasanti, Susane.
New York : Viking Childrens Books, 2009.
Fifteen-year-old high school sophomore Marisa, who has an anxiety disorder, decides that this is the year she will get what she wants--a boyfriend and a social life--but things do not turn out exactly the way she expects them to.
Agawam YA Fiction - T COL
Women in the world of Russia
Libal, Autumn.
Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2005.
Describes the circumstances that have influenced the lives of Russian women, including current trends, and individual women who are impacting their country and the world.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T305.40947 LIB
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