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

East Longmeadow Public Library
New Young Adult Books for October 2009

Some of these titles may still be on order. Please click on the title to check the catalog for status information.

Non-Fiction

The complete world of Greek mythology / Richard Buxton
Buxton, R. G. A.
New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2004.
East Longmeadow YA - 292.13 BUX

Split in two : keeping it together when your parents live apart / Karen Buscemi
Buscemi, Karen.
San Francisco : Zest Books, 2009.
East Longmeadow YA - 306.89 BUS

Sweat and blood : a history of U.S. labor unions / by Gloria Skurzynski
Skurzynski, Gloria.
Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, c2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 331.88 SKU

Preparing for college : practical advice for students and their families / John J. Rooney, John F. Reardon ; foreword by Katherine Haley Will
Rooney, John J.
New York, NY : Ferguson, c2009.
East Longmeadow YA - 378.1 ROO

Mars 3-d : a rover's-eye view of the red planet / Jim Bell
Bell, Jim, 1965-
New York : Sterling Pub., 2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 523.43 BEL

Spaceplanes : from airport to spaceport / Matthew A. Bentley
Bentley, Matthew A.
New York ; London : Springer, 2009.
East Longmeadow YA - 629.47 BEN

The girls' guide to rocking : how to start a band, book gigs, and get rolling to rock stardom / Jessica Hopper
Hopper, Jessica.
New York : Workman Pub., c2009.
"Everything you need to know to turn your love of music--and desire to play it--into something real"--P. [4] of cover.
East Longmeadow YA - 782.421 HOP

War is-- / edited by Marc Aronson and Patty Campbell
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2008.
East Longmeadow YA - 810.8 WAR

In my hands : memories of a Holocaust rescuer / Irene Gut Opdyke, with Jennifer Armstrong
Opdyke, Irene Gut, 1921-
New York : Laurel-Leaf Books, 2004, c1999.
Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
East Longmeadow YA - 920 OPD

Exploring the life, myth, and art of ancient Egypt / Joann Fletcher
Fletcher, J. (Joann).
New York : Rosen Pub., 2010.
East Longmeadow YA - 932 FLE

A savage thunder : Antietam and the bloody road to freedom / Jim Murphy
Murphy, Jim, 1947-
New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2009.
East Longmeadow YA - 973.7 MUR

Fiction

Peeled / Joan Bauer
Bauer, Joan, 1951-
New York : Speak, 2009.
In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC BAU

Rosie and Skate / Beth Ann Bauman
Bauman, Beth Ann, 1964-
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, 2009.
New Jersey sisters Rosie, aged fifteen, and Skate, aged sixteen, cope differently with their father's alcoholism and incarceration, but manage to stay close to one another as they strive to lead normal lives and find hope for the future.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC BAU

Pretty dead / Francesca Lia Block
Block, Francesca Lia.
New York : HarperTeen, 2009.
Beautiful vampire Charlotte finds herself slowly changing back into a human after the mysterious death of her best friend.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC BLO

Going bovine / Libba Bray
Bray, Libba.
New York : Delacorte Press, 2009.
Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC BRA

Hate list / by Jennifer Brown
Brown, Jennifer, 1972-
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC BRO

The vast fields of ordinary / by Nick Burd
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.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC BUR

Don't judge a girl by her cover / Ally Carter
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.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC CAR

Fire / Kristin Cashore
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.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC CAS

Hidden voices : the orphan musicians of Venice / Pat Lowery Collins
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.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC COL

Sunset Boulevard / Zoey Dean
Dean, Zoey.
New York : Poppy, 2009.
While Jojo and Myla continue to work on their relationship as sisters, friend Jake is cast in a film being shot at their school and must find a way to deal with the very real possibility that he will be the "Next Big Thing."
East Longmeadow YA - FIC DEA

Bite me! / by Melissa McKenzie Francis
Francis, Melissa McKenzie.
New York : HarperTeen, 2009.
AJ, a teenage vampire, hides her identity from her new stepfamily--among which is her ex-boyfriend--and investigates the secrets of her heritage.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC FRA

Crossing stones / Helen Frost
Frost, Helen, 1949-
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
In their own voices, four young people, Muriel, Frank, Emma, and Ollie, tell of their experiences during the first World War, as the boys enlist and are sent overseas, Emma finishes school, and Muriel fights for peace and women's suffrage.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC FRO

King of the screwups / K.L. Going
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.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC GOI

Two parties, one tux, and a very short film about the Grapes of wrath / by Steven Goldman
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.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC GOL

Once dead, twice shy : a novel / Kim Harrison
Harrison, Kim.
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2009.
Spunky teen Madison, though technically dead, uses a stolen amulet to retain the illusion of a body and help her in the struggle between Light and Dark reapers.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC HAR

Boys r us : a Clique novel / by Lisi Harrison
Harrison, Lisi.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
Massie, hurt that friends have caught the eyes of boys she was interested in, hires actresses to pretend to be her new friends while Claire, who feels somehow responsible, makes a dramatic move to set things right.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC HAR

Project Sweet Life / Brent Hartinger
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.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC HAR

Tricks / Ellen Hopkins
Hopkins, Ellen.
New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2009.
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC HOP

Necropolis / Anthony Horowitz
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
New York : Levithan/Scholastic Press, 2009.
To stop the evil corporation Nightrise from unleashing its devastating power around the globe, fifteen-year-old Matt and three other Gatekeepers travel to Hong Kong to find Scarlet, the final Gatekeeper, whose fate is inextricably joined to their own.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC HOR

The adventures of Blue Avenger : a novel / Norma Howe
Howe, Norma.
New York : HarperCollins Publisher, 2000.
On his sixteenth birthday, still trying to cope with the unexpected death of his father, David Schumacher decides--or does he--to change his name to Blue Avenger, hoping to find a way to make a difference in his Oakland neighborhood and in the world.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC HOW

The year of my miraculous reappearance / Catherine Ryan Hyde
Hyde, Catherine Ryan.
New York : A.A. Knopf, c2007.
Thirteen-year-old Cynnie has had to deal with her mother's alcoholism and stream of boyfriends all her life, but when her grandparents take custody of her brother, who has Down Syndrome, Cynnie becomes self-destructive and winds up in court-mandated Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC HYD

Beating heart / A.M. Jenkins
Jenkins, A. M. (Amanda McRaney).
New York : HarperTeen, c2006.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC JEN

Suite Scarlett / Maureen Johnson
Johnson, Maureen, 1973-
New York : Point, 2008.
Fifteen-year-old Scarlett Marvin is stuck in New York City for the summer working at her quirky family's historic hotel, but her brother's attractive new friend and a seasonal guest who offers her an intriguing and challenging writing project improve her outlook.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC JOH

Skunk girl / Sheba Karim
Karim, Sheba.
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux : Distributed in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre, 2009.
Nina Khan is not just the only Asian or Muslim student in her small-town high school in upstate New York, she is also faces the legacy of her "Supernerd" older sister, body hair, and the pain of having a crush when her parents forbid her to date.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC KAR

Timelock / David Klass
Klass, David.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Jack discovers that the only way to protect the Earth from ecological disaster at the hands of the Dark Army is to lock time, and he must choose between staying in the present or returning to the future world from which he came.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC KLA

Headlong / Kathe Koja
Koja, Kathe.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
High school sophomore Lily opens herself to new possibilities when, despite warnings, she becomes friends with "ghetto girl" Hazel, a new student at the private Vaughn School which Lily, following in her elitist mother's footsteps, has attended since preschool.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC KOJ

Pop / Gordon Korman
Korman, Gordon.
New York : Balzer + Bray, c2009.
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC KOR

Red spikes / Margo Lanagan
Lanagan, Margo, 1960-
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2009], c2006.
Ten stories explore the meaning of life and humanity, including "Mouse maker," Daughter of the Clay," and "Winkie."
East Longmeadow YA - FIC LAN

Let it snow : three holiday romances / by John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle
New York : Speak, 2008.
In three intertwining short stories, several high school couples experience the trials and tribulations along with the joys of romance during a Christmas Eve snowstorm in a small town.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC LET

Yellow flag / Robert Lipsyte
Lipsyte, Robert.
New York, NY : HarperTeen 2009, c2007.
When seventeen-year-old Kyle reluctantly succumbs to family pressure and replaces his injured brother in the family racecar, he struggles to keep up with his trumpet playing while deciding how--or if--he can continue making music with a brass quintet and headlines as a Nascar racer.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC LIP

Returnable girl / Pamela A. Lowell
Lowell, Pamela.
Tarrytown, NY : Marshall Cavendish, c2006.
Friendship with an outcast classmate and memories of her mother's desertion interfere with the relationship thirteen-year-old Ronnie tries to establish with her new foster mother.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC LOW

Purple Heart / by Patricia McCormick
McCormick, Patricia, 1956-
New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, c2009.
While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC MCC

Shooting star / Fredrick L. McKissack
McKissack, Fredrick, Jr.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009.
Jomo Rogers, a naturally talented athlete, starts taking performance enhancing drugs in order to be an even better high school football player, but finds his life spinning out of control as his game improves.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC MCK

Rapture of the deep : being an account of the further adventures of Jacky Faber, soldier, sailor, mermaid, spy / L.A. Meyer
Meyer, L. A. (Louis A.), 1942-
Boston : Harcourt, 2009.
In 1806, star-crossed lovers Jacky Faber and Jaimy Fletcher are kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission --this time to search for sunken Spanish gold off the Florida coast.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC MEY

Riot / Walter Dean Myers
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-
New York : Egmont USA, 2009.
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC MYE

The Ask and the Answer : a novel / by Patrick Ness
Ness, Patrick, 1971-
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009.
Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC NES

Gentlemen / Michael Northrop
Northrop, Michael.
New York : Scholastic Press, 2009.
When three teenaged boys suspect that their English teacher is responsible for their friend's disappearance, they must navigate a maze of assorted clues, fraying friendships, violence, and Dostoevsky's "Crime and punishment" before learning the truth.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC NOR

Academy 7 / Anne Osterlund
Osterlund, Anne.
New York, N.Y. : Speak, 2009.
Aerin Renning and Dane Madousin struggle as incoming students at the most exclusive academy in the Universe, both hiding secrets that are too painful to reveal, not realizing that those very secrets link them together.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC OST

Brian's hunt / Gary Paulsen
Paulsen, Gary.
New York : Scholastic, 2004, c2003.
Two years after having survived a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old returns to the wild to befriend a wounded dog and hunt a rogue bear.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC PAU

Andromeda Klein / Frank Portman
Portman, Frank.
New York : Delacorte Press, 2009.
High school sophomore Andromeda, an outcast because she studies the occult and has a hearing impairment and other disabilities, overcomes grief over terrible losses by enlisting others' help in her plan to save library books--and finds a kindred spirit along the way.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC POR

Chenxi and the foreigner / Sally Rippin
Rippin, Sally.
Toronto : Annick Press, c2009.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC RIP

Sideshow : ten original tales of freaks, illusionists, and other matters odd and magical / edited by Deborah Noyes
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009.
Ten original tales by modern-day masters of the bizarre. Meet mediums and mummies, spinsters and bearded ladies, circus freaks and monsters of every sort!
East Longmeadow YA - FIC SID

The hunchback assignments / Arthur Slade
Slade, Arthur G. (Arthur Gregory).
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2009.
In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC SLA

Silksinger / Laini Taylor
Taylor, Laini.
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009.
While journeying by dragonfly caravan over the Sayash Mountains, warrior- faerie Whisper Silksinger, hunted by devils, meets a young mercenary with an ancient scimitar and secrets of his own.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC TAY

Viola in reel life : a novel / written by Adriana Trigiani
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.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC TRI

Gorgeous / Rachel Vail
Vail, Rachel.
New York : HarperTeen, c2009.
Ninth-grader Allison has always been the least attractive among her sisters, but when she allows the devil to possess her cell phone in exchange for appearing to be gorgeous, she must confront the power and deceptiveness of appearances.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC VAI

Breathless / Jessica Warman
Warman, Jessica.
New York : Walker & Co., 2009.
At boarding school, Katie tries to focus on swimming and becoming popular instead of the painful memories of her institutionalized schizophrenic older brother.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC WAR

Vidalia in Paris / by Sasha Watson
Watson, Sasha.
New York : Viking Childrens Books, 2008.
Teenage Vidalia's summer in Paris studying art settles into a stimulating and enjoyable routine until she becomes romantically involved with a mysterious young man who seems to have ties to an art-theft ring.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC WAT

Leviathan / by Scott Westerfeld ; illustrated by Keith Thompson
Westerfeld, Scott.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2009.
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC WES

Blood of kings. Book 1, By darkness hid / Jill Williamson
Williamson, Jill.
Colorado Springs, CO : Marcher Lord Press, c2009.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC WIL

The monstrumologist / Rick Yancey
Yancey, Richard.
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009.
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.
East Longmeadow YA - FIC YAN

Graphic Novels

Nightschool. The weirn books / Svetlana Chmakova ; toning artist, Dee DuPuy ; lettering, JuYoun Lee
Chmakova, Svetlana, 1979-
New York : Yen Press, c2009-
"Schools may lock up for the night, but class is in session for an entirely different set of students. In the Nightschool, vampires, werewolves, and weirns (a particular breed of witches) learn the fundamentals of everything from calculus to spell casting. Alex is a young weirn whose education has always been handled through homeschooling, but circumstances seem to be drawing her closer to the Nightschool. Will Alex manage to weather the dark forces gathering?"--P. [4] of cover.
East Longmeadow YA - GN C V.1

Maximum Ride / James Patterson ; [adaptation and illustration]: NaRae Lee ; [lettering, Abigail Blackman]
Lee, NaRae.
New York : Yen Press, 2009-
"Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of her 'flock'-- Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel-- are just like ordinary kids, except they have wings and can fly! It may seem like a dream come true to some, but for the flock it's more like a living nightmare when the mysterious lab known as the 'School' turns up and kidnaps their youngest member. Now it's up to Max to organize a rescue, but will help come in time?" -- p. [4] of cover.
East Longmeadow YA - GN L V.2

Bayou. Volume one / created by Jeremy Love ; colors by Patrick Morgan
Love, Jeremy.
New York : DC Comics, 2009.
Lee Wagstaff is the daughter of a black sharecropper in the depression- era town of Charon, Mississippi. When Lily Westmoreland, her white playmate, is snatched by agents of an evil creature known as Bog, Lee's father is accused of kidnapping. Lee's only hope is to follow Lily's trail into this fantastic and frightening alternate world. Along the way she enlists the help of a benevolent, blues singing, swamp monster called Bayou. Together, Lee and Bayou trek across a hauntingly familiar Southern Neverland, confronting creatures both benign and malevolent, in an effort to rescue Lily and save Lee's father from being lynched.
East Longmeadow YA - GN L V.1

Death note / story by Tsugumi Ohba ; art by Takeshi Obata ; translation & adaptation by Pookie Rolf
Ohba, Tsugumi.
San Francisco : Viz Media, 2005-2007.
East Longmeadow YA - GN O V.3

Death note / story by Tsugumi Ohba ; art by Takeshi Obata ; translation & adaptation by Pookie Rolf
Ohba, Tsugumi.
San Francisco : Viz Media, 2005-2007.
East Longmeadow YA - GN O V.4

Death note / story by Tsugumi Ohba ; art by Takeshi Obata ; translation & adaptation by Pookie Rolf
Ohba, Tsugumi.
San Francisco : Viz Media, 2005-2007.
East Longmeadow YA - GN O V.5

Death note / story by Tsugumi Ohba ; art by Takeshi Obata ; translation & adaptation by Pookie Rolf
Ohba, Tsugumi.
San Francisco : Viz Media, 2005-2007.
East Longmeadow YA - GN O V.6

Death note / story by Tsugumi Ohba ; art by Takeshi Obata ; translation & adaptation by Pookie Rolf
Ohba, Tsugumi.
San Francisco : Viz Media, 2005-2007.
East Longmeadow YA - GN O V.7

Toto! : the wonderful adventure / Yuko Osada ; translated and adapted by Elina Ishikawa
Osada, Yuko.
New York : Del Rey, c2008-
East Longmeadow YA - GN O V.1

Toto! : the wonderful adventure / Yuko Osada ; translated and adapted by Elina Ishikawa
Osada, Yuko.
New York : Del Rey, c2008-
East Longmeadow YA - GN O V.2

Toto! : the wonderful adventure / Yuko Osada ; translated and adapted by Elina Ishikawa
Osada, Yuko.
New York : Del Rey, c2008-
East Longmeadow YA - GN O V.3

Toto! : the wonderful adventure / Yuko Osada ; translated and adapted by Elina Ishikawa
Osada, Yuko.
New York : Del Rey, c2008-
East Longmeadow YA - GN O V.4

Toto! : the wonderful adventure / Yuko Osada ; translated and adapted by Elina Ishikawa
Osada, Yuko.
New York : Del Rey, c2008-
East Longmeadow YA - GN O V.5

Maximum Ride. 1 / James Patterson ; [adaptation and illustration]: NaRae Lee ; [lettering, Abigail Blackman]
Lee, NaRae.
New York : Yen Press, 2009.
"Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of her 'flock'-- Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel-- are just like ordinary kids, except they have wings and can fly! It may seem like a dream come true to some, but for the flock it's more like a living nightmare when the mysterious lab known as the 'School' turns up and kidnaps their youngest member. Now it's up to Max to organize a rescue, but will help come in time?" -- p. [4] of cover.
East Longmeadow YA - GN P V.1

Black is for beginnings / Laurie Faria Stolarz ; adaptation by Barbara Randall Kesel ; artwork by Janina Gørrissen
Stolarz, Laurie Faria, 1972-
Woodbury, MN : Flux, 2009.
When Stacey, a college student and hereditary witch, again begins to have disturbing dreams about her former boyfriend and a little girl who was murdered years earlier, she knows that the dreams are trying to tell her something important, but she does not know what.
East Longmeadow YA - GN S

Skim / words by Mariko Tamaki ; drawings by Jillian Tamaki
Tamaki, Mariko.
Toronto [Ont.] ; Berkeley [Calif.] : Groundwood Books, c2008.
"Skim" (Kimberly Keiko Cameron) is a not-slim would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school. When her classmate Katie is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. The popular clique stars a club to boost school spirit, but Skim sinks into an ever-deepening depression.
East Longmeadow YA - GN T

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