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

East Longmeadow Public Library
New Young Adult Graphic Novels - October 2009

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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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