East Longmeadow Public Library- New Young Adult Books for June 2009

East Longmeadow Public Library
New Young Adult Books for June 2009

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Is it still cheating if I don't get caught? / by the Ethics Guy, Bruce Weinstein ; illustrations by Harriet Russell
Weinstein, Bruce D.
New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2009.
East Longmeadow YA - 170 WEI C. 1

Working women / Christina Fisanick, book editor
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 331.4 WOR

Endangered species / Lauri S. Friedman, book editor
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 333.95 END

Drug abuse : an opposing viewpoints guide / Lauri S. Friedman, book editor ; Christine Nasso, publisher ; Elizabeth Des Chenes, managing editor
Detroit : Greenhaven Press : Thomson/Gale, c2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 362.29 DRU

The new global student : skip the SAT, save thousands on tuition, and get a truly international education / Maya Frost
Frost, Maya.
New York : Three Rivers Press, c2009.
East Longmeadow YA - 378.1 FRO

Beyond : a solar system voyage / By Michael Benson
Benson, Michael.
New York, NY : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2009.
East Longmeadow YA - 523.2 BEN

Obesity / Tom and Gena Metcalf, editors
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 616.3 OBE

Diabetes / Tom and Gena Metcalf
Detoit, MI. : Thomson / Gale, 2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 616.462 DIA

Obsessive-compulsive disorder / Jacqueline Adams
Adams, Jacqueline, 1969-
Detroit : Lucent Books, c2008.
Examines the anxiety disorder known as Obsessive-compulsive disorder, its diagnosis, the challenges of living with it and its treatment options.
East Longmeadow YA - 616.85 ADA

The taste of sweet : our complicated love affair with our favorite treats / Joanne Chen.
Chen, Joanne.
New York : Three Rivers Pr., c2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 641 CHE

Genetic engineering / Lauri S. Friedman, book editor
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 660.6 GEN

Tell the world : teen poems from WritersCorps / foreword by Sherman Alexie
New York : Harperteen, c2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 811.6 TEL

Class conflict in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby / Claudia Johnson, book editor
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 813.52 CLA

Depression in J.D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye / Dedria Bryfonski, book editor
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2009.
East Longmeadow YA - 813.54 DEP

Racism in Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings / Claudia Johnson, book editor
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 813.54 RAC

Women's issues in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Gary Wiener, book editor
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 813.54 WOM

Power in William Shakespeare's Macbeth / Vernon Elso Johnson, book editor
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2009.
East Longmeadow YA - 822.3 POW

Race relations in Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country / Dedria Bryfonski, book editor
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2009.
East Longmeadow YA - 823 RAC

Genocide in Elie Wiesel's Night / Louise Hawker, book editor
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2009.
East Longmeadow YA - 940.53 GEN

The keys to American history : understanding our most important historic documents / Richard Panchyk
Panchyk, Richard.
Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, 2009.
East Longmeadow YA - 973 PAN

Mr. President : a book of U.S. presidents / George Sullivan
Sullivan, George, 1927-
New York : Scholastic Inc., c2009.
Presents information on each of the forty three Presidents of the United States and describes the process of electing a President.
East Longmeadow YA - 973 SUL

Life sucks / text by Jessica Abel and Gabriel Soria ; art by Warren Pleece ; coloring by Hilary Sycamore
Abel, Jessica.
New York : First Second, 2007.
East Longmeadow YA - A

Gilda Joyce : the dead drop / Jennifer Allison
Allison, Jennifer.
New York : Dutton Children's Books, 2009.
Almost-fifteen-year-old psychic investigator Gilda Joyce interns for the summer at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., and solves a mystery involving national security.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC ALL

The awakening / Kelley Armstrong
Armstrong, Kelley.
New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2009.
Fifteen-year-old necromancer Chloe, having escaped from Lyle House with Derek, Simon, and Rae, finds herself imprisoned in a laboratory run by a sinister organization determined to control her and her supernatural friends.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC ARM

Zombie queen of Newbury High / by Amanda Ashby
Ashby, Amanda.
New York : Speak, 2009.
While trying to cast a love spell on her date on the eve of the senior prom, Mia inadvertently infects her entire high school class with a virus that will turn them all into zombies.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC ASH

The fighting ground / by Avi
Avi, 1937-
[New York] : HarperCollins, 1987, c1984.
Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC AVI

Zenith / Julie Bertagna
Bertagna, Julie.
New York, N.Y. : Walker Pub. Co. 2009, c2007.
After finding that New Mungo is not the refuge they sought, Mara, leaving Fox behind, again sets out to sea with a ship full of refugees and, with the help of the "Gipsea" boy Tuck, tries to find land at the top of the world that will be safe from storms and rising water.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC BER

Nathan Fox : dangerous times / L. Brittney
Brittney, L.
New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2007, 2008.
"Sir Francis Walsingham, England's spymaster general, has eyes and ears all over the world. His secret service protects Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth and ensures the might of the whole English empire. Now, he has a new recruit. Fourteen-year-old Nathan Fox is an actor in the same company as young Will Shakespeare. His life in the theater had taught him a thing or two about disguises and deception. But nothing can prepare Nathan for the shadowy world he's about to enter. Nathan's new life holds more action and more drama than he ever saw on a stage. But will he survive to tell Will Shakespeare his tale?"-- dustjacket.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC BRI

All the broken pieces / Ann E. Burg
Burg, Ann E.
New York : Scholastic Press, 2009.
Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC BUR

Wild things / written & illustrated by Clay Carmichael
Carmichael, Clay.
Honesdale, Penn. : Front Street, 2009.
Stubborn, self-reliant, eleven-year-old Zoe, recently orphaned, moves to the country to live with her prickly half-uncle, a famous doctor and sculptor, and together they learn about trust and the strength of family.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC CAR

Highway to hell / Rosemary Clement-Moore
Clement-Moore, Rosemary.
New York : Delacorte Press, 2009.
On their way to spend spring break on a Texas beach, college freshmen Maggie Quinn and D&D Lisa are stranded in a town where some believe a chupacabra is killing animals, and as the girls investigate they get help from diverse and unexpected sources.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC CLE

Things hoped for / Andrew Clements
Clements, Andrew, 1949-
New York, N.Y. : Puffin, 2008, c2006.
Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school, joins up with another music student to solve the mystery when her grandfather suddenly goes missing.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC CLE C.1

If the witness lied / Caroline B. Cooney
Cooney, Caroline B.
New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
Torn apart by tragedies and the publicity they brought, siblings Smithy, Jack, and Madison, aged fourteen to sixteen, tap into their parent's courage to pull together and protect their brother Tris, nearly three, from further media exploitation and a much more sinister threat.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC COO

Angel Isle / Peter Dickinson ; illustrations by Ian Andrew
Dickinson, Peter.
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, [2009].
While seeking the Ropemaker to restore the ancient magic that will protect their valley, Saranja, Maja, and Ribek must outwit twenty-four of the empire's most powerful and evil magicians.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC DIC

A swift pure cry / Siobhan Dowd
Dowd, Siobhan.
Oxford ; New York : David Fickling Books, c2007.
Coolbar, Ireland, is a village of secrets and Shell, caretaker to her younger brother and sister after the death of their mother and with the absence of their father, is not about to reveal hers until suspicion falls on the wrong person.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC DOW

The musician's daughter / Susanne Dunlap
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.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC DUN

The patron saint of butterflies / by Cecilia Galante
Galante, Cecilia.
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Pub., 2008.
When her grandmother takes fourteen-year-old Agnes, her younger brother, and best friend Honey and escapes Mount Blessing, a Connecticut religious commune, Agnes clings to the faith she loves while Honey looks toward a future free of control, cruelty, and preferential treatment.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC GAL

Lord of the flies / by William Golding
Golding, William, 1911-1993.
New York : Penguin Books, c1954, c1982.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC GOL

Lord of the flies : a novel / by William Golding ; with a biographical and critical note by E.L. Epstein
Golding, William, 1911-1993.
New York : Penguin Group, 2006.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC GOL

Hunger : a Gone novel / Michael Grant
Grant, Michael, 1954-
New York : HarperTeen, 2009.
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.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC GRA

Split screen / by Brent Hartinger
Hartinger, Brent.
New York, NY : HarperTempest, 2007.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC HAR

Planet Pregnancy / Linda Oatman High
High, Linda Oatman.
Asheville, NC : Front Street, c2008.
Sixteen-year-old Sahara struggles with an unplanned pregnancy, and all its conflicting emotions, in this novel told in free verse.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC HIG

I'm exploding now / Sid Hite
Hite, Sid.
New York : Hyperion Books for Children, 2007.
The summer he turns seventeen, Max Whooten is feeling off his game with no job and nothing to do, but after spending a lot of time hanging out in Manhattan, thinking about life, writing down his thoughts, and visiting his aunt in Woodstock, he develops a personal philosophy called "coolism" which seems to help turn things around.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC HIT

What happened / Peter Johnson
Johnson, Peter, 1951-
Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, c2007.
When Duane is involved in a hit and run accident during a snowstorm, passengers Kyle and his younger brother must face Duane's powerful father, a man whose hatred of their own absent father may lead him to harm the boys.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC JOH

The rock and the river / by Kekla Magoon
Magoon, Kekla.
New York : Aladdin, 2009.
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC MAG

Morning in a different place / Mary Ann McGuigan
McGuigan, Mary Ann.
Honesdale, Pa. : Front Street, c2009.
In 1963 in the Bronx, New York, eighth-graders Fiona and Yolanda help one another face hard decisions at home despite family and social opposition to their interracial friendship, but Fiona is on her own when popular classmates start paying attention to her and give her a glimpse of both a different way of life and a new kind of hatefulness.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC MCG

New blood / Peter McPhee
McPhee, Peter, 1957-
Toronto : J. Lorimer, 2007.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC MCP

Peace, love, & baby ducks / Lauren Myracle
Myracle, Lauren, 1969-
New York, N.Y. : Dutton Books, c2009.
Fifteen-year-old Carly's summer volunteer experience makes her feel more real than her life of privilege in Atlanta ever did, but her younger sister starts high school pretending to be what she is not, and both find their relationships suffering.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC MYR

Why I fight : a novel / J. Adams Oaks
Oaks, J. Adams (Jeffrey Adams).
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2009.
After his house burns down, twelve-year-old Wyatt Reaves takes off with his uncle, and the two of them drive from town to town for six years, earning money mostly by fighting, until Wyatt finally confronts his parents one last time.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC OAK

Chasing the bear : a young Spenser novel / Robert B. Parker
Parker, Robert B., 1932-
New York : Philomel Books, c2009.
Spenser reflects back to when he was fourteen-years-old and how he helped his best friend Jeannie when she was abducted by her abusive father.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC PAR

Max : a Maximum Ride novel / James Patterson
Patterson, James, 1947-
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC PAT

The river / Gary Paulsen
Paulsen, Gary.
New York, N.Y. : Dell, 1993.
Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. Sequel to "Hatchet."
East Longmeadow YA - FIC PAU

Streams of Babel / Carol Plum-Ucci
Plum-Ucci, Carol, 1957-
Orlando : Harcourt, c2008.
Six teens face a bioterrorist attack on American soil as four are infected with a mysterious disease affecting their small New Jersey neighborhood and two others, both brilliant computer hackers, assist the United States Intelligence Coalition in tracking the perpetrators.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC PLU

Silver phoenix : beyond the kingdom of Xia / by Cindy Pon
Pon, Cindy, 1973-
New York : Greenwillow Books, 2009.
With her father long overdue from his journey and a lecherous merchant blackmailing her into marriage, seventeen-year-old Ai Ling becomes aware of a strange power within her as she goes in search of her parent.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC PON

Stop in the name of pants! / Louise Rennison
Rennison, Louise.
New York : HarperTeen, c2008.
In a series of humorous diary entries, British teenager Georgia Nicolson tries to decide between two potential boyfriends--Masimo from Pizzagogoland (Italy) or local boy Dave the Laugh.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC REN

The last Olympian / Rick Riordan
Riordan, Rick.
New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, c2009.
While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it's up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC RIO

Missing May / by Cynthia Rylant
Rylant, Cynthia.
New York, New York : Dell Pub., c1992, (1993 printing).
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. Twelve-year-old Summer, her classmate Cletus, and her grieving Uncle Ob set off across West Virginia in search of a "Small Medium at Large" in fond hopes of reaching Aunt May beyond the grave. Their journey is heartening, funny, and altogether unforgettable.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC RYL

Trouble / Gary D. Schmidt
Schmidt, Gary D.
New York : Clarion Books, c2008.
Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog. But fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC SCH

The Shadow Club rising / Neal Schusterman
Shusterman, Neal.
New York : Speak, 2003.
Even though he has disbanded his Shadow Club, formed to play mean- spirited tricks on his enemies, fourteen-year-old Jared finds himself suspected when a popular boy at school becomes the target of new pranks.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC SHU C.1

Of mice and men / John Steinbeck
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
New York : Penguin Books, 1993.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC STE

Artichoke's heart / Suzanne Supplee
Supplee, Suzanne.
New York : Speak, 2009, c2008.
When she is almost sixteen years old, Rosemary decides she is sick of being overweight, mocked at school and at Heavenly Hair--her mother's beauty salon--and feeling out of control, and as she slowly loses weight, she realizes that she is able to cope with her mother's cancer, having a boyfriend for the first time, and discovering that other people's lives are not as perfect as they seem from the outside.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC SUP

The cay / Theodore Taylor
Taylor, Theodore, 1921-2006.
New York, N.Y. : Avon Books, 1970, c1969.
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC TAY

Creature of the night / Kate Thompson
Thompson, Kate, 1956-
New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2009.
Bobby lives a reckless life smoking, drinking, and stealing cars in Dublin. So his mother moves the family to the country. But Bobby suspects their cottage might not be as quaint as it seems. And spooky details of the history of their little cottage gradually turn Bobby into a detective of night creatures real and imagined.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC THO

Riley Park / Diane Tullson
Tullson, Diane, 1958-
Victoria, BC ; Custer, WA : Orca Book Publishers, 2009.
The victim of a vicious assault, seventeen-year-old Corbin struggles to get his life back and deal with the loss of his best friend.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC TUL

Moribito : Guardian of the Spirit / by Nahoko Uehashi ; [translation by Cathy Hirano] ; [illustrations by Yuko Shimizu]
Uehashi, Nahoko.
New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2008.
The wandering warrior Balsa is hired to protect Prince Chagum from both a mysterious monster and the prince's father, the Mikado.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC UEH

Saturday Night Dirt / by Will Weaver
Weaver, Will.
New York : Square Fish, 2009.
In a small town in northern Minnesota, the much-anticipated Saturday night dirt-track race at the old-fashioned, barely viable Headwaters Speedway becomes, in many ways, an important life-changing event for all the participants on and off the track.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC WEA

Wherever Nina lies / Lynn Weingarten
Weingarten, Lynn.
New York : Point, 2009.
Two years after the disappearance of her older sister, sixteen-year-old Ellie goes on a quest to find her.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC WEI

The chosen one / Carol Lynch Williams
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.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC WIL

This full house / Virginia Euwer Wolff
Wolff, Virginia Euwer.
New York : Bowen Press, 2009.
High-school-senior LaVaughn's perceptions and expectations of her life begin to change as she learns about the many unexpected connections between the people she loves best.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC WOL

Cold hands, warm heart / Jill Wolfson
Wolfson, Jill.
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2009.
After sixteen-year-old Tyler convinces his parents to donate the organs of his fourteen-year-old sister, who died during a gymnastics meet, he writes letters to the recipients, including Dani, who finally has a chance at normalcy after living fifteen years with a congenital heart defect.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC WOL

The uninvited / Tim Wynne-Jones
Wynne-Jones, Tim.
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009.
After a disturbing freshman year at New York University, Mimi is happy to get away to her father's remote Canadian cottage only to discover a stranger living there who has never heard of her or her father and who is convinced that Mimi is responsible for leaving sinister tokens around the property.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC WYN

The rogues / Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris
Yolen, Jane.
New York: Speak, 2008, c2007.
After his family is evicted from their Scottish farm, fifteen-year-old Roddy forms an unlikely friendship with a notorious rogue who helps him outwit a tyrant landlord in order to find a family treasure and make his way to America.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC YOL

Scott Pilgrim vs the universe / [Bryan Lee O'Malley]
O'Malley, Bryan Lee.
Portland, OR : Oni Press, 2009.
East Longmeadow YA - O Vol. 5

Something upstairs / Avi
Avi, 1937-
New York, N.Y. : Avon Books, 1997, c1988.
East Longmeadow YA - Pb A c13s

Epileptic / David B
B., David, 1959-
New York : Pantheon Books, c2005.
David B. spent an idyllic early childhood in a small town near Orléans, France, but the family's life changed abruptly when his big brother Jean-Christophe was struck with epilepsy at age eleven. In search of a cure, their parents dragged the family to acupuncturists and magnetic therapists, to mediums and macrobiotic communes, but every new cure ended in disappointment. Angry at his brother for "abandoning" him and at all the quacks who offered them false hope, the author learned to cope by drawing fantastically elaborate battle scenes, creating images that provide a window into his interior life, as well as reliving his grandfathers' experiences in both World Wars through flashbacks. An honest and horrifying portrait of the disease and of the pain and fear it sowed in the family, this graphic autobiography is also a moving depiction of one family's intricate history.--From publisher description.
East Longmeadow YA - Pb B

The light on Hogback Hill / Cynthia DeFelice
DeFelice, Cynthia C.
New York : Avon Books, 1995.
East Longmeadow YA - Pb D c.4s

Ghost circles / Jeff Smith
Smith, Jeff, 1960 Feb. 27-
Columbus, Ohio : Cartoon Books, c2001.
East Longmeadow YA - Pb S

Bound beauty / story and art by Mick Takeuchi ; [translation, Christine Schilling ; adaptation, Brynne Chandler ; editor, Audry Taylor]
Takeuchi, Mick.
Agoura Hills, Calif. : Go! Media Entertainment, 2008-
"Legend says that fated lovers are bound together by an invisible red thread. Most people think it's superstition, but seventeen-year-old Chiyako knows better -- she can see them! Yearning to be an independent adult, she's struggling to earn enough money to move out of her parents' house. Her path is clear, until a chance encounter with a mysterious group of hot guys known as the Tyers shows her that she has the power to pull all of fate's strings-- though doing so binds her into the form of a child!" -- from publisher's web site.
East Longmeadow YA - Pb T v.1

Bone / by Jeff Smith ; with color by Steve Hamaker
Smith, Jeff, 1960 Feb. 27-
New York : Graphix, c2005-<2007>
East Longmeadow YA - S v.9

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