East Longmeadow Public Library
New Young Adult Books for September 2008
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Being Muslim : a groundwork guide / by Haroon Siddiqui
Siddiqui, Haroon.
Toronto : Groundwood Books, 2006.
East Longmeadow YA - 297 SID
Reparations for slavery / Cherese Cartlidge
Cartlidge, Cherese.
Detroit : Lucent Books, c2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 305.896 CAR
Is the U.S. ready for a minority president? / Amanda Hiber, book editor
Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 324.973 IS
Getting from college to career : 90 things to do before you join the real world / Lindsey Pollak
Pollak, Lindsey.
New York : Collins, c2007.
East Longmeadow YA - 378.1 POL
The teenage body book / Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman ; illustrations by Bob Stover and Kelly Grady
McCoy, Kathy, 1945-
New York : Hatherleigh, 2008.
A handbook for teenagers discussing nutrition, health, fitness, emotions, and sexuality, including such topics as body image, drugs, STDs, fad diets and hazards and benefits of the Internet.
East Longmeadow YA - 613.0433 MCC
The "what's happening to my body?" book for boys / Lynda Madaras with Area Madaras ; drawings by Simon Sullivan
Madaras, Lynda.
New York : Newmarket Press, c2007.
Discusses the changes that take place in a boy's body during puberty, including information on the body's changing size and shape, the growth spurt, reproductive organs, pubic hair, beards, pimples, voice changes, wet dreams, and puberty in girls.
East Longmeadow YA - 613.9 MAD
My body, my self for girls / Lynda Madaras and Area Madaras
Madaras, Lynda.
New York : Newmarket Press, c2007.
East Longmeadow YA - 613.9 MAD
Basic cooking [braille]
Los Angeles, CA : Braille Institute Press, [nd].
A basic cookery course.
East Longmeadow YA - 641.5 BAS
American Shaolin : flying kicks, buddhist monks, and the legend of iron crotch : an odyssey in the new China / Matthew Polly
Polly, Matthew.
New York : Gotham Books, c2007.
East Longmeadow YA - 796.815 POL
Digging for the truth : one man's epic adventure exploring the world's greatest archaeological mysteries / Josh Bernstein
Bernstein, Josh.
New York : Gotham Books, c2006.
The host of the History Channel's "Digging for the Truth" presents a behind-the-scenes tour of some of his most interesting and physically challenging adventures.
East Longmeadow YA - 910.4 BER
The real Benedict Arnold / by Jim Murphy
Murphy, Jim, 1947-
New York : Clarion Books, c2007.
"Drawing on Arnold's surviving writings and on the letters, memoirs, and political documents of his contemporaries ... a fascinating portrait of a brilliant man, consistently undervalued by his peers, who made a choice that continues to reverberate through American history."
East Longmeadow YA - 920 ARN
Painting the wild frontier : the art and adventures of George Catlin / Susanna Reich
Reich, Susanna.
New York : Clarion Books, c2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 920 CAT
A dangerous engine : Benjamin Franklin, from scientist to diplomat / Joan Dash ; pictures by Du{233}san Petri{233}ci{226}c
Dash, Joan.
New York : Frances Foster Books, 2006.
At the time of his famous kite experiment, Benjamin Franklin was unaware that his theories about electricity had already made him a celebrity all over Europe, especially in France, where fashionable circles loved to discuss scientific discovery. Admired by the French court and beloved by French citizens, Franklin effectively became America's first foreign diplomat, later helping to enlist France's military and financial support for the American Revolution. A father of the revolution and a signer of the Constitution, Franklin was a lightning rod in political circles - "a dangerous Engine," according to a critic. And although he devoted the last twenty-five years of his life to affairs of state, his first love was always science. Handsome pen-and-ink drawings highlight moments in this revolutionary thinker's life. NOTE = <>.
East Longmeadow YA - 920 FRA
In defiance of Hitler : the secret mission of Varian Fry / Carla Killough McClafferty
McClafferty, Carla Killough, 1958-
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2008.
At a time when most Americans ignored the atrocities going on in Europe in 1940, American journalist Varian Fry put himself in great danger to save strangers in a foreign land. He was instrumental in the rescue of more than 2, 000 refugees, including novelist Heinrich Mann and artist Marc Chagall.
East Longmeadow YA - 920 FRY
Lang Lang : playing with flying keys / by Lang Lang with Michael French ; introduction by Daniel Barenboim
Lang, Lang, 1982-
New York : Delacorte Press, c2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 920 LAN
The complete pyramids / Mark Lehner
Lehner, Mark.
London : Thames & Hudson, 2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 932 LEH
Cherry Heaven / by L.J. Adlington
Adlington, L. J. (Lucy J.), 1970-
New York : Greenwillow Books, 2008.
Kat and Tanka J leave the war-torn city, move with their adoptive parents to the New Frontier, and are soon settled into a home called Cherry Heaven, but Luka, an escaped factory worker, confirms their suspicion that New Frontier is not the utopia it seems to be.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC ADL
Flight : a novel / Sherman Alexie
Alexie, Sherman, 1966-
New York : Black Cat : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2007.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC ALE
Clay / David Almond
Almond, David, 1951-
New York : Delacorte Press, [2008], c2006.
The developing relationship between teenager Davie and a mysterious new boy in town morphs into something darker and more sinister when Davie learns firsthand of the boy's supernatural powers.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC ALM
The sight / David Clement-Davies
Clement-Davies, David, 1961-
New York : Firebird, 2007, c2002.
In Transylvania during the Middle Ages, a pack of wolves sets out on a perilous journey to prevent their enemy--an embittered lone wolf named Morgra- - from calling upon the legendary Evil One that will give her the power to control all animals.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC CLE
Artemis Fowl : the time paradox / Eoin Colfer
Colfer, Eoin.
New York : Hyperion Books for Children, 2008.
Artemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease -- and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save them. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet...his younger self.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC COL
Afrika / Colleen Craig
Craig, Colleen, 1956-
Toronto : Tundra Books, 2007.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC CRA
Ten cents a dance / Christine Fletcher
Fletcher, Christine, 1964-
New York, NY : Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2008.
In 1940s Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby hopes to escape poverty by becoming a taxi dancer in a nightclub, but the work has unforeseen dangers and hiding the truth from her family and friends becomes increasingly difficult.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC FLE
Sun and moon, ice and snow / Jessica Day George
George, Jessica Day, 1976-
New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.
A girl travels east of the sun and west of the moon to free her beloved prince from a magic spell.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC GEO
Death by bikini / by Linda Gerber
Gerber, Linda C.
New York : Sleuth/Speak, 2008.
Sixteen-year-old Aphra Behn Connolly investigates why her father let an unknown family stay at their exclusive tropical island resort, who strangled a famous rock star's girlfriend with her own bikini top, and what a smoldering teenaged guest is hiding.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC GER
Would you / Marthe Jocelyn
Jocelyn, Marthe.
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, 2008.
When her beloved sister, Claire, steps in front of a car and winds up in a coma, Nat's anticipated summer of working, hanging around with friends, and seeing Claire off to college is transformed into a nightmare of doctors, hospitals, and well-meaning neighbors.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC JOC
House of many ways / by Diana Wynne Jones
Jones, Diana Wynne.
New York : Greenwillow Books, 2008.
When Charmain is asked to housesit for Great Uncle William, the Royal Wizard of Norland, she is ecstatic to get away from her parents, but finds that his house is much more than it seems.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC JON
Saga / by Conor Kostick
Kostick, Conor, 1964-
New York : Viking, 2008.
On Saga, a world based on a video role-playing game, fifteen-year-old Ghost lives to break rules, but the Dark Queen who controls Saga plans to enslave its people and those of New Earth, and Ghost and her airboarding friends, along with Erik and his friends from Epic, try to stop her.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC KOS
Angel / by Cliff McNish
McNish, Cliff.
Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Books, 2008.
An unlikely friendship develops between fourteen-year-olds Stephanie, an angel-obsessed social outcast, and Freya, a popular student whose visions of angels sent her to a mental institution and who is now seeing a dark angel at every turn.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC MCN
Sunrise over Fallujah / Walter Dean Myers
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-
New York, NY : Scholastic Press, 2008.
Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC MYE
The mystery of the third Lucretia / Susan Runholt
Runholt, Susan.
New York : Viking, 2008.
While traveling in London, Paris, and Amsterdam, fourteen-year-old best friends Kari and Lucas solve an international art forgery mystery.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC RUN
The magician / Michael Scott
Scott, Michael, 1959-
New York : Delacorte Press, c2008.
Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman continue their magical training in Paris with Nicholas Flamel, Scatty, and the Comte de Sant Germaine, pursued by Doctor Dee and the immortal Niccolo Machiavelli.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC SCO
The year Nick McGowan came to stay / Rebecca Sparrow
Sparrow, Rebecca, 1972-
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
In her final year of high school in 1989, Australian teenager Rachel has her world turned upside down when the most popular (and disturbed) boy in school comes to live with her family for a semester.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC SPA
Chanda's wars / Allan Stratton ; with an afterword by Roméo Dallaire
Stratton, Allan.
New York, NY : Harper Teen, c2008.
Chandra Kabelo, a teenaged African girl, must save her younger siblings after they are kidnapped and forced to serve as child soldiers in General Mandiki's rebel army.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC STR
Mariah Mundi : the Midas Box / G.P. Taylor
Taylor, G. P.
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2008.
In 1886 England, when fifteen-year-old Mariah begins working at the Prince Regent Hotel and discovers many previous workers have disappeared, he tries to solve the mystery, only to find that nothing is as it appears.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC TAY
Sand chronicles / story & art by Hinako Ashihara ; [translation, Kinami Watabe ; English adaptation, John Werry]
Ashihara, Hinako.
San Francisco, CA : Viz Media, 2008-
After her parents get divorced, Ann Uekusa and her mother move from Tokyo to rural Shimane. Accustomed to the anonymity of city living, Ann can't get used to the almost overbearing kindness of the people in her mother's hometown. But when personal tragedy strikes, Ann discovers how much she needs that kindness.
East Longmeadow YA - Pb A v.3
Inu-yasha / story and art by Rumiko Takahashi
Takahashi, Rumiko, 1957-
San Francisco : Viz Comics, c2003-
East Longmeadow YA - Pb T v.2
Updated 10/03/08
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