East Longmeadow Public Library
New Young Adult Books for March 2010
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Nuclear and toxic waste / Stefan Kiesbye, book editor
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2010.
East Longmeadow YA - 363.72 NUC
We are the weather makers : the history of climate change / Tim Flannery ; adapted by Sally M. Walker
Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956-
Someville, MA : Candlewick Press, 2010.
East Longmeadow YA - 551.6 FLA
Climate change : shifting glaciers, deserts, and climate belts / Timothy Kusky
Kusky, Timothy M.
New York : Facts on File, c2009.
East Longmeadow YA - 551.6 KUN
Saving the Baghdad Zoo : a true story of hope and heroes / by Kelly Milner Halls with William Sumner
Halls, Kelly Milner, 1957-
New York : Greenwillow Books, c2009.
East Longmeadow YA - 590.73 HIL
Cyber crime / Louise I. Gerdes, book editor
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2009.
East Longmeadow YA - 634.16 CYB
Eat fresh food : awesome recipes for teen chefs / by Rozanne Gold and her all-star team ; photographs by Phil Mansfield
Gold, Rozanne, 1954-
New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2009.
East Longmeadow YA - 641.5 GOL
Time you let me in : 25 poets under 25 / selected by Naomi Shihab Nye
New York : Greenwillow Books, c2010.
A collection of poems from 25 poets.
East Longmeadow YA - 811.6 TIM
Everything sucks : losing my mind and finding myself in a high school quest for cool / Hannah Friedman
Friedman, Hannah.
Deerfield Beach, Fla. : Health Communications, c2009.
East Longmeadow YA - 920 FRI
Tweak : (growing up on methamphetamines) / Nic Sheff
Sheff, Nic.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007.
The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.
East Longmeadow YA - 920 SHE
Persistence of memory / Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC ATW
Feast of fools / Rachel Caine
Caine, Rachel.
New York : NAL Jam Books, 2008.
In the town of Morganville, vampires and humans live in relative peace. Student Claire Danvers has never been convinced, especially with the arrival of Mr. Bishop, an ancient, old-school vampire who cares nothing about harmony. What he wants from the town living and its dead is unthinkably sinister. It is only at a formal ball, attended by vampires and their human dates, that Claire realizes the evil trap Mr. Bishop has set for Morganville.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC CAI
Midnight Alley / Rachel Caine
Caine, Rachel.
New York : New American Library, 2007.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC CAI
Lord of misrule / Rachel Caine
Caine, Rachel.
New York : NAL Jam, 2009.
"In the college town of Morganville, vampires and humans have coexisted in (relatively) bloodless harmony...until the arrival of Bishop, a master vampire who threatens to put the evil back in evil undead and smash the fragile peace. But Bishop isn't the only threat.... Violent black clouds promise a storm of devastating proportions. As student Claire Danvers and her friends prepare to defend Morganville against the elements--both natural and unnatural--the unexpected happens: Morganville's vampires begin to vanish one by one. Discovering why leads Claire to one last choice: Swear allegiance to Bishop...or die."--p. [4] of cover.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC CAI
The dead girls' dance / Rachel Caine
Caine, Rachel.
New York : NAL Jam Books, c2007.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC CAI
Carpe corpus / Rachel Caine
Caine, Rachel.
New York : NAL Jam, c2009.
"In the small college town of Morganville, vampires and humans lived in (relative) peace until all the rules got rewritten when the evil vampire Bishop arrived, looking for the lost book of vampire secrets. He's kept a death grip on the town ever since. Now an underground resistance is brewing, and in order to contain it, Bishop must go to even greater lengths. He vows to obliterate the town and all its inhabitants the living and the undead. Claire Danvers and her friends are the only ones who stand in his way. But even if they defeat Bishop, will the vampires ever be content to go back to the old rules, after having such a taste of power?"--Publishers description.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC CAI
Fade out / Rachel Caine
Caine, Rachel.
New York : Signet, c2009.
"Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, life has changed--dramatically. The resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again--almost. Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins the local theater company. Yet when one of Eve's cast mates goes missing after starting work on a short documentary, Eve suspects the worst. As she and Claire investigate, they soon realize that not only is the subject of the film the vampires themselves, but that this project is a whole lot bigger--and way more dangerous--than anyone suspected."--p. [4] of cover.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC CAI
Glass houses / Rachel Caine
Caine, Rachel.
New York : NAL Jam Books, c2006.
In Morganville, Texas, a town where evil terrorizes the streets under the cover of darkness, Claire Danvers, who has had enough of her current dorm situation, moves off campus and discovers that her new roommates are vampires.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC CAI
Possessed / Kate Cann
Cann, Kate.
New York, NY : Point, 2010.
Sixteen-year-old Rayne escapes London, her mother, and boyfriend for a job in the country at Morton's Keep, where she is drawn to a mysterious clique and its leader, St. John, but puzzles over whether the growing evil she senses is from the manor house or her new friends.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC CAN
Heist society / Ally Carter
Carter, Ally.
New York : Disney/Hyperion, c2010.
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC CAR
Is it night or day? / Fern Schumer Chapman
Chapman, Fern Schumer.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
In 1938, Edith Westerfeld, a young German Jew, is sent by her parents to Chicago, Illinois, where she lives with an aunt and uncle and tries to assimilate into American culture, while worrying about her parents and mourning the loss of everything she has ever known. Based on the author's mother's experience, includes an afterword about a little-known program that brought twelve hundred Jewish children to safety during World War II.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC CHA
L.A. Candy / Lauren Conrad
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.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC CON
Me, myself and Ike / K.L. Denman
Denman, K. L., 1957-
Victoria, B.C. : Orca Book Publishers, 2009.
Seventeen-year-old Kit is paranoid, confused and alone, but neither he nor his family and friends understand what is happening to him.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC DEN
The dark Divine / Bree Despain
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.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC DES
How to ruin your boyfriend's reputation / Simone Elkeles
Elkeles, Simone.
Woodbury, Minn. : Flux, 2009.
Spoiled Amy Nelson-Barak is excited about going to see her boyfriend, who is in the Israeli Army, until Amy learns that she has to take basic training and her boyfriend is going to be her commanding officer.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC ELK
In a heartbeat / Loretta Ellsworth
Ellsworth, Loretta.
New York : Walker Books for Young Readers : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan Publishers, 2010.
Told in their separate voices, Eagan, who has died in a figure-skating accident, becomes a heart donor for Amelia, who then begins taking on some aspects of Eagan's personality.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC ELL
Happyface / by Stephen Emond
Emond, Stephen.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
After going through traumatic times, a troubled, socially awkward teenager moves to a new school where he tries to reinvent himself.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC EMO
Incarceron / Catherine Fisher
Fisher, Catherine, 1957-
New York, NY : Dial Books, 2010.
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC FIS
Salt / Maurice Gee
Gee, Maurice.
Victoria, B.C. : Orca Book Publishers, 2009.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC GEE
Eagle Strike / Anthony Horowitz
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
New York : Speak, 2006, c2003.
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC HOR
Undead much / Stacey Jay
Jay, Stacey.
New York : Razorbill, c2010.
Sixteen-year-old Megan Berry learns the secret of why she is such a powerful Settler, gets help from a new friend in battling a siege from a zombie army, and tries to reach second base with her boyfriend, Ethan.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC JAY
You are so undead to me / by Stacey Jay
Jay, Stacey.
New York, NY : Razorbill, 2009.
Megan Berry, a Carol, Arkansas, high school student who can communicate with the Undead, must team up with her childhood friend Ethan to save homecoming from an army of flesh-hungry zombies.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC JAY
So not happening / Jenny B. Jones
Jones, Jenny B., 1975-
Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, 2009.
Forced to move from Manhattan to an Oklahoma farm when her mother remarries, sixteen-year-old Bella relies on her faith while investigating a deadly, secret organization for the school newspaper, as she slowly realizes how shallow and spoiled she has been.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC JON
Standing against the wind / Traci L. Jones
Jones, Traci L.
New York, NY : Square Fish, 2010, c2006.
As she tries to escape her poor Chicago neighborhood by winning a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, shy and studious eighth-grader Patrice discovers that she has more options in life than she previously realized.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC JON
Slayers. Vol. 5. Silver beast / written by Hajime Kanzaka ; illustrated by Rui Araizumi
Kanzaka, Hajime.
Los Angeles, Calif. : Tokyopop, 2005.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC KAN
Slayers. Vol. 4. the battle of Saillune / written by Hajime Kanzaka ; illustrated by Rui Araizumi
Kanzaka, Hajime.
Los Angeles, Calif. : Tokyopop, 2005.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC KAN
The ghost of Sairaag / written by Hajime Kanzaka ; illustrated by Rui Araizumi
Kanzaka, Hajime.
Los Angeles : Tokyopop, c2005.
Lina, Gourry and Zelgadiss thought they had killed the Red Priest, but he is still alive. Now, the three have a bounty on their heads as they flee to Sairaag.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC KAN
Fallen / Lauren Kate
Kate, Lauren.
New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
Suspected in the death of her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Luce is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC KAT
Back home / Julia Keller
Keller, Julia.
New York : Egmont USA, 2009.
Thirteen-year-old Rachel Browning understands that her father will be different after being injured in the Iraq War, but no one is prepared for the impact that his traumatic brain injury and other wounds have on the entire family.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC KEL
Lady Macbeth's daughter / by Lisa Klein
Klein, Lisa M., 1958-
New York : Bloomsbury, 2009.
In alternating chapters, ambitious Lady Macbeth tries to bear a son and win the throne of Scotland for her husband, and Albia, their daughter who was banished at birth and raised by three weird sisters, falls in love, learns of her parentage, and seeks to free Scotland from tyranny in this tale based on Shakespeare's Macbeth.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC KLE
Hold still / by Nina LaCour
LaCour, Nina.
New York : Dutton ; London : Turnaround [distributor], 2009.
Ingrid didn't leave a note. Three months after her best friend's suicide, Caitlin finds what she left instead: a journal, hidden under Caitlin's bed.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC LAC
Ashes / by Kathryn Lasky
Lasky, Kathryn.
New York : Viking, 2010.
In 1932 Berlin, thirteen-year-old Gaby Schramm witnesses the beginning of Hitler's rise to power, as soldiers become ubiquitous, her beloved literature teacher starts wearing a jewelled swastika pin, and the family's dear friend, Albert Einstein, leaves the country while Gaby's parents secretly bury his books and papers in their small yard.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC LAS
The Big Game of Everything / Chris Lynch
Lynch, Chris.
New York : HarperTeen, 2008.
Jock and his eccentric family spend the summer working at Grampus's golf complex, where they end up learning the rules of "The Big Game of Everything."
East Longmeadow YA - FIC LYN
Hamlet : a novel / John Marsden
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.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC MAR
Fade / Lisa McMann
McMann, Lisa.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2009.
Using her ability to tap into other people's dreams, eighteen-year-old Janie investigates an alleged sex ring at her high school that involves teachers using the date rape drug on students.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC MCM
The decoding of Lana Morris / Laura & Tom McNeal
McNeal, Laura.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
For sixteen-year-old Lana life is often difficult, with a flirtatious foster father, an ice queen foster mother, a houseful of special needs children to care for, and bullies harrassing her, until the day she ventures into an antique shop and buys a drawing set that may change her life.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC MCN
The mark / Jen Nadol
Nadol, Jen.
New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan Publishers, 2010.
While in Kansas living with an aunt she never knew existed and taking a course in philosophy, sixteen-year-old Cass struggles to learn what, if anything, she should do with her ability to see people marked to die within a day's time.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC NAD
The sky is everywhere / Jandy Nelson
Nelson, Jandy.
New York : Dial Books, c2010.
In the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC NEL
Punkzilla / Adam Rapp
Rapp, Adam.
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009.
"Punkzilla" is on a mission to see his older brother "P", before "P" dies of cancer. Still buzzing from his last hit of meth, he embarks on a days-long trip from Portland, Ore. to Memphis, Tenn., writing letters to his family and friends. Along the way, he sees a sketchier side of America and worries if he will make it to see his brother in time.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC RAP
I kissed a zombie, and I liked it / Adam Selzer
Selzer, Adam.
New York : Delacorte Press, 2010.
Living in the post-human era when the undead are part of everyday life, high schooler Alley breaks her no-dating rule when Doug catches her eye, but classmate Will demands to turn her into a vampire and her zombie boyfriend may be unable to stop him.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC SEL
Wicked : a pretty little liars novel / Sara Shepard
Shepard, Sara, 1977-
New York : HarperTeen, 2009.
The stalker's identity has finally been revealed, but Spencer, Emily, Hanna and Aria are bound to repeat the past, and continue to be bad.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC SHE
Killer : a pretty little liars novel / Sara Shepard
Shepard, Sara, 1977-
New York : HarperTeen 2009.
Rosewood's four prettiest girls are still up to no good. Hanna is being a corrupting influence; Aria's a snoop; Spencer is stealing; and Emily is working hard at not being pure.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC SHE
Borderline / Allan Stratton
Stratton, Allan.
New York : HarperTeen, 2010.
Despite the strained relationship between them, teenaged Sami Sabiri risks his life to uncover the truth when his father is implicated in a terrorist plot.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC STR
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