New Books July 2009
The Amaranth enchantment
Berry, Julie.
New York : Bloomsbury, 2009.
Orphaned at age five, Lucinda, now fifteen, stands with courage against the man who took everything from her, aided by a thief, a clever goat, and a mysterious woman called the Witch of Amaranth, while the prince she knew as a child prepares to marry, unaware that he, too, is in danger.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BER
At the crossing-places
Crossley-Holland, Kevin.
New York, NY : Scholastic, 2004, c2002.
In late twelfth-century England, the thirteen-year-old Arthur goes to begin his new life as squire to Lord Stephen at Holt, where crusaders ready themselves.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP CRO
Bloodhound
Pierce, Tamora.
New York : Random House, 2009.
Having been promoted from "Puppy" to "Dog," Beka, now a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, and her former partner head to a neighboring port city to investigate a case of counterfeit coins.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PIE
Burn my heart
Naidoo, Beverley.
New York : Amistad, 2009, c2007.
Two boys--one white, one black--share an uneasy friendship in Kenya in the 1950s, a country shaken by a rebellion of Africans against white landowners, but suspicions and accusations are escalating, and an act of betrayal could change everything.
Agawam YA Fiction - T NAI
The carbon diaries 2015
Lloyd, Saci.
New York : Holiday House, 2009.
In 2015, when England becomes the first nation to introduce carbon dioxide rationing in a drastic bid to combat climate change, sixteen-year-old Laura documents the first year of rationing as her family spirals out of control.
Agawam YA Fiction - T LLO
The cracked mirror
Keaney, Brian.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
In his efforts to rally against the repressive regime of Doctor Sigmundus, whose rule is reliant upon drug-induced mind-control, revelations concerning Dante's heritage unfold.
Agawam YA Fiction - T KEA
Cricket man
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2008.
Thirteen-year-old Kenny secretly calls himself "Cricket Man" after a summer of rescuing creatures from his family's Bethesda, Maryland, pool, which gives him more self-confidence and an urge to be a hero, especially for his depressed sixteen-year-old neighbor, Jodie.
Agawam YA Fiction - T NAY
Dear First Lady : letters to the White House : from the collections of the Library of Congress & National Archives
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2008.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T973.099 DEA
Denim revolution : dozens of ways to turn denim cast-offs into fashion must-haves
Minsky, Nancy.
New York : Potter Craft, c2008.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T646.2 MIN
The devil's breath
Gilman, David.
New York : Delacorte Press, 2007.
When fifteen-year-old Max Gordon's environmentalist-adventurer father goes missing while working in Namibia and Max becomes the target of a would-be assassin at his school in England, he decides he must follow his father to Africa and find him before they both are killed.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GIL
Dope sick
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-
New York, NY : Amistad/HarperTeen, 2009.
Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made better choices.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MYE
Drop
Papademetriou, Lisa.
New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Sixteen-year-old math prodigy Jerrica discovers she has the ability to predict outcomes in blackjack and roulette, and joins forces with Sanjay and Kat to develop her theories while helping them get the money they desperately need.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PAP
The Fetch
Whitcomb, Laura.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
After 350 years as a Fetch, or death escort, Calder breaks his vows and enters the body of Rasputin, whose spirit causes rebellion in the Land of Lost Souls while Calder struggles to convey Ana and Alexis, orphaned in the Russian Revolution, to Heaven.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WHI
Firebirds soaring : an anthology of original speculative fiction
New York, N.Y. : Firebird, 2009.
Original stories by some of today's finest writers of fantasy and science fiction.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FIR
Fortune's folly
Fagan, Deva.
New York : Henry Holt, 2009.
Ever since her mother died and her father lost his shoemaking skills, Fortunata has survived by pretending to tell fortunes, but when she is tricked into telling the fortune of a prince, she is faced with the impossible task of fulfilling her wild prophecy to save her father's life.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FAG
Genius squad
Jinks, Catherine.
Orlando : Harcourt, c2008.
After the Axis Institute is blown up, fifteen-year-old Cadell Piggot is unhappily stuck in foster care with constant police surveillance to protect him from the evil Prosper English until he gets an offer to join a mysterious group called Genius Squad.
Agawam YA Fiction - T JIN
Getting the girl
Juby, Susan, 1969-
New York : HarperTeen, 2008.
Ninth-grader Sherman Mack investigates the "Defilers," a secret group at his British Columbia high school that marks certain female students as pariahs, at first because he is trying to protect the girl he has a crush on, but later as a matter of principle.
Agawam YA Fiction - T JUB
The ghosts of Kerfol
Noyes, Deborah.
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2008.
Over the centuries, the inhabitants of author Edith Wharton's fictional mansion, Kerfol, are haunted by the ghosts of dead dogs, fractured relationships, and the taste of bitter revenge.
Agawam YA Fiction - T NOY
The good girl
Hoffmann, Kerry Cohen.
New York : Delacorte Press, c2008.
After the death of her brother and the divorce of her parents, overachieving, high school sophomore Lindsey resorts to petty thievery as she struggles under tremendous pressure to keep everything going smoothly at home and at school.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HOF
The hand you're dealt
Volponi, Paul.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2008.
When seventeen-year-old Huck's vindictive math teacher wins the town poker tournament and takes the winner's watch away from Huck's father while he's in a coma, Huck vows to get even with him no matter what it takes.
Agawam YA Fiction - T VOL
Hidden voices : the orphan musicians of Venice
Collins, Pat Lowery.
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009.
Anetta, Rosalba, and Luisa, find their lives taking unexpected paths while growing up in eighteenth century Venice at the orphanage Ospedale della Pieta, where concerts are given to support the orphanage as well as expose the girls to potential suitors.
Agawam YA Fiction - T COL
Hippie chick
Monninger, Joseph.
Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, 2008.
After her sailboat capsizes, fifteen-year-old Lolly Emmerson is rescued by manatees and taken to a mangrove key in the Everglades, where she forms a bond with her aquatic companions while struggling to survive.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MON
The hobbit or there and back again
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.
New York, Ballantine, c1996.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP HOB
If I stay : a novel
Forman, Gayle.
New York : Dutton Books, c2009.
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
Agawam YA Fiction - T FOR
Imaginary enemy
Gonzalez, Julie, 1958-
New York : Delacorte Press, c2008.
Although her impetuous behavior, smart-mouthed comments, and slacker ways have landed her in trouble over the years, sixteen-year-old Jane has always put the blame on her "imaginary enemy," until a new development forces her to decide whether or not to assume responsibility for her actions.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GON
Jumped
Williams-Garcia, Rita.
New York : HarperTeen, 2009.
The lives of Leticia, Dominique, and Trina are irrevocably intertwined through the course of one day in an urban high school after Leticia overhears Dominique's plans to beat up Trina and must decide whether or not to get involved.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WIL
Just one wish
Rallison, Janette, 1966-
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009.
Seventeen-year-old Annika tries to cheer up her little brother Jeremy before his surgery to remove a cancerous tumor by bringing home his favorite television actor, Steve Raleigh, the star of "Teen Robin Hood."
Agawam YA Fiction - T RAL
Kendra
Booth, Coe.
New York : PUSH, 2008.
High schooler Kendra longs to live with her mother who, unprepared for motherhood at age fourteen, left Kendra in the care of her grandmother.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BOO
King of the screwups
Going, K. L. (Kelly L.).
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
After getting in trouble yet again, popular high school senior Liam, who never seems to live up to his wealthy father's expectations, is sent to live in a trailer park with his gay "glam-rocker" uncle.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GOI
Kisses and lies
Henderson, Lauren, 1966-
New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
Orphaned British teenager Scarlett Wakefield postpones her romance with the handsome son of the school groundskeeper in order to travel to Scotland with her American sidekick, Taylor, in search of clues to the murder of a boy who dropped dead after kissing Scarlett.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HEN
Losers
Roth, Matthue.
New York : Scholastic/Push c2008.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP ROT
Love & lies : Marisol's story
Wittlinger, Ellen.
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008.
When Marisol, a self-confident eighteen-year-old lesbian, moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work and try to write a novel, she falls under the spell of her beautiful but deceitful writing teacher, while also befriending a shy, vulnerable girl from Indiana.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WIT
Maximum Ride : the final warning
Patterson, James, 1947-
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2009.
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PAT
The midnight twins
Mitchard, Jacquelyn.
New York : Razorbill, 2008.
Identical twins Meredith and Mallory Brynn have always shared one another's thoughts, even as they dream, but their connection diminishes as they approach their thirteenth birthday, and one begins to see the future, the other the past, leading them to discover that a high school student they know is doing horrible things that place the twins, and others, in grave danger.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MIT
The musician's daughter
Dunlap, Susanne Emily.
New York : Bloomsbury, 2009.
In eighteenth-century Vienna, Austria, fifteen-year-old Theresa seeks a way to help her mother and brother financially while investigating the murder of her father, a renowned violinist in Haydn's orchestra at the court of Prince Esterhazy, after his body is found near a gypsy camp.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DUN
Nevermore : a photobiography of Edgar Allan Poe
Lange, Karen E.
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, 2009.
Nevermore brings one of America's most enigmatic writers to the attention of a new generation of children. This intriguing photobiography examines the life and times of the author and poet who would have a huge influence on future generations of writers, poets, artists, and even songwriters. Poe pioneered the psychological horror story, the detective story, and the emerging genre of science fiction. Through his dark tales and unforgettable verse, as well as his literary criticism, he made major contributions to the development of the modern short story and modern poetry in America. Thanks to the translations of the French writer Charles Baudelaire, Poe also gained a wide audience throughout Europe. His work influenced not only writers, but also avant-garde artists, who saw in him a kindred soul.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - TB POE
New moon
Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2006.
When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year- old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MEY
The other side of the island
Goodman, Allegra.
New York, N.Y. : Razorbill, 2008.
Born in the eighth year of Enclosure, ten-year-old Honor lives in a highly regulated colony with her defiant parents, but when they have an illegal second child and are taken away, it is up to Honor and her friend Helix, another "Unpredictable," to uncover a terrible secret about their Island and the Corporation that runs everything.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GOO
Out of the pocket
Konigsberg, Bill.
New York, NY : Dutton Children's Books, 2008.
As Bobby Framingham, quarterback of his high school football team, finally acknowledges to himself that he is gay, events start to spin out of control when his sexual orientation is revealed in the student newspaper and then in the local press, and he learns that his father has cancer.
Agawam YA Fiction - T KON
Paisley Hanover acts out
Tuttle, Cameron.
New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2008.
When Pleasant Hill High School sophomore Paisley Hanover becomes disgusted with her school's social hierarchy, she starts writing a newspaper column under the name "Miss UnPleasant," and it shakes things up more than she ever expected.
Agawam YA Fiction - T TUT
Passion for fashion : careers in style
Beker, Jeanne.
Toronto : Tundra Books, 2008.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T746.92 BEK
Pemba's song : a ghost story
Hegamin, Tonya.
New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
As fifteen-year-old Pemba adjusts to leaving her Brooklyn, New York, home for small-town Connecticut, a Black history researcher helps her understand the paranormal experiences drawing her into the life of a mulatto girl who was once a slave in her house.
Agawam YA Fiction - T NEL
Perpetual check
Wallace, Rich.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Brothers Zeke and Randy participate in an important chess tournament, playing against each other while also trying to deal with their father's intensely competetive tendencies.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WAL
Persistence of memory
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia.
New York : Delacorte Press, c2008.
Diagnosed with schizophrenia as a child, sixteen-year-old Erin has spent half of her life in therapy and on drugs, but now must face the possibility of weird things in the real world, including shapeshifting friends and her "alter," a centuries-old vampire.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ATW
Possession
Humphreys, Chris.
New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Sky and Kristin travel to the seventeenth century to learn secrets from their ancestor, the witch Meg, then to the Battle of Hastings to use that knowledge to prevent their evil grandfather Sigurd from ever possessing another person.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HUM
The pretty one
Klam, Cheryl.
New York : Delacorte Press, c2008.
Transformed by cosmetic surgery into a beauty following a car accident, formerly unattractive Megan feels a bit overwhelmed as she returns to her performing arts high school in Baltimore and competes with her popular and naturally gorgeous sister for the lead role in a student production written by Megan's secret love.
Agawam YA Fiction - T KLA
Private : a novel
Brian, Kate, 1974-
New York : Simon Pulse, 2006.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP BRI
Project Sweet Life
Hartinger, Brent.
New York : HarperTeen, 2009.
When their fathers insist that they get summer jobs, three fifteen-year- old friends in Tacoma, Washington, dedicate their summer vacation to fooling their parents into thinking that they are working, which proves to be even harder than having real jobs would have been.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HAR
Puppet
Wiseman, Eva, 1947-
Toronto : Tundra Books, 2008.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WIS
Reality check
Abrahams, Peter, 1947-
New York : HarperTeen, 2009.
After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town, but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross- country to join the search.
Agawam YA Fiction - T ABR
The revolution of Sabine
Ain, Beth Levine.
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2008.
During Benjamin Franklin's visit to Paris in 1776, sixteen-year-old Sabine Durand rails against the strict rules of society and her social-climbing mother by rejecting her arranged marriage and spending more time with servants and others who accept Franklin's political ideals and those she read in Voltaire's Candide while having her portrait painted by the renowned artist, Fragonard.
Agawam YA Fiction - T AIN
The rule of claw
Brindley, John, 1954-
Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, 2009, c2007.
Ash and her friends live in a future where they are the only human teenagers left, but when Ash is kidnapped and becomes a pawn in a power struggle among the formidable Raptors who captured her, she begins to reconsider her own humanity.
Agawam YA Fiction - T BRI
The Rule of Won
Petrucha, Stefan.
New York : Walker & Co., 2008.
Caleb Dunne, the quintessential slacker, is pressured by his girlfriend to join a high school club based on The Rule of Won, which promises to fulfill members' every "crave," but when nonbelievers start being ostracized and even hurt, Caleb must act.
Agawam YA Fiction - T PET
Seaborn
Moodie, Craig.
New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2008.
Craving "the Big Freedom," sixteen-year-old Luke resents being cooped up with his father on a small sailboat just after his mother walked out on them, but a sudden storm sweeps his father overboard, leaving Luke to figure out how to survive on a damaged boat in the Gulf Stream while dealing with his feelings of guilt.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MOO
Slant
Williams, Laura E.
Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, 2008.
Thirteen-year-old Lauren, a Korean-American adoptee, is tired of being called "slant" and "gook," and longs to have plastic surgery on her eyes, but when her father finds out about her wish--and a long-kept secret about her mother's death is revealed--Lauren starts to question some of her own assumptions.
Agawam YA Fiction - T WIL
Something, maybe
Scott, Elizabeth, 1972-
New York : Simon Pulse, 2009.
Seventeen-year-old high school student Hannah is trying to lead a normal life, despite the fact that both her parents are famous for their wild lifestyles, which means getting her secret crush to notice her.
Agawam YA Fiction - T SCO
Speak
Anderson, Laurie Halse.
New York : Speak, 2009, c1999.
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP AND
Stargazer
Gray, Claudia.
New York : HarperTeen, 2009.
Teenage vampire Bianca finds herself the target when evil wraiths attack her boarding school, Evernight Academy.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GRA
Storyteller
Myers, Edward, 1950-
New York : Clarion Books, 2008.
Jack, a seventeen-year-old storyteller, goes to the royal city seeking his fortune and soon attracts the attention of the grief-stricken king, his beautiful eldest daughter, and his cruel young son, and he attempts to help them --and the entire kingdom--through his stories.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MYE
The summer I turned pretty
Han, Jenny.
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009.
Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
Agawam YA Fiction - T HAN
Total constant order
Chappell, Crissa-Jean.
New York : Katherine Tegen Books, 2007.
Resentful and upset when her family moves from Vermont to Miami, Florida, and her parents' fighting escalates, high-schooler Fin develops OCD (Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder) and becomes consumed with numbers, counting, irrational worrying, and avoiding germs.
Agawam YA Fiction - T CHA
Two parties, one tux, and a very short film about the Grapes of wrath
Goldman, Steven, 1964-
New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.
Mitch, a shy and awkward high school junior, negotiates the difficult social situations he encounters, both with girls and with his best friend David, after David reveals to him that he is gay.
Agawam YA Fiction - T GOL
A voice of her own : becoming Emily Dickinson : a novel
Dana, Barbara.
New York : HarperCollins, 2009.
A fictionalized first-person account of revered American poet Emily Dickinson's girlhood in mid-nineteenth-century Amherst, Massachusetts.
Agawam YA Fiction - T DAN
The way of the warrior
Matthews, Andrew, 1948-
New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2008.
"When Jimmu was ten years old, his father woke him in the middle of the night to explain that he had brought shame to the family. He then committed seppuku, a form of suicide. Jimmu is left in the care of his father's most trusted samurai swordsman, Nichiren, who explains that the charges that brought shame to his family were false. His father was set up by his enemy, Lord Ankan. Striken by the injustice of his father's death, Jimmu develops a deep hatred. He decides to train as a samurai warrior and vows to one day avenge his father's death by killing Lord Ankan."--dust cover.
Agawam YA Fiction - T MAT
We the students : Supreme Court cases for and about students
Raskin, Jamin B.
Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2008.
Agawam YA Nonfiction - T344.73 RAS
What would Emma do?
Cook, Eileen.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2009.
While juggling friendship issues, a love triangle-turned-square, and escalating mayhem in her small religious town, Emma realizes she has to stop trying to please everyone around her and figure out what she wants for herself.
Agawam YA Paperback - TP COO
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