Westfield Athenaeum Library
New Materials
The 310 : everything she wants
Killian, Beth.
New York : Pocket Books : MTV Books, c2006.
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The 310 : life as a poser
Killian, Beth.
New York : Pocket Books : MTV Books, c2006.
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An abundance of Katherines
Green, John, 1977-
New York, NY : Dutton Books, c2006.
Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
After the wreck, I picked myself up, spread my wings, and flew away
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
New York : HarperTempest, 2006.
Blaming herself for the car accident on the Tappan Zee Bridge that killed her mother, fifteen-year-old Jenna undergoes a difficult physical and emotional recovery.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
All Hallows' Eve : 13 stories
Vande Velde, Vivian.
Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2006.
Presents thirteen tales of Halloween horrors, including ghosts, vampires, and pranks gone awry.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Bad girls, bad girls, whatcha gonna do?
Voigt, Cynthia.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006.
As new ninth-graders eager only to survive high school, Mikey and Margalo must deal creatively with stolen money and cheating on the tennis courts.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
The beast of Noor
Carey, Janet Lee.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2006.
Fifteen-year-old Miles Ferrell uses the rare and special gift he is given to break the curse of the Shriker, a murderous creature reportedly brought to Shalem Wood by his family's clan centuries before.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Beautiful city of the dead
Watts, Leander.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
After joining a heavy metal band, high school student Zee learns that she is a god of water and is called upon to fight sinister forces that want her powers for their own.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Bling addiction: A fast girls, hot boys novel
Adams, Kylie.
New York : Pocket books, c2006.
Vanity, the gorgeous celebutante; Dante, the hip-hop dreamer; Max, the second-generation Hollywood bad boy; Christina, the anime obsessed Latina; and Pippa, the British hottie. Now, with a sex tape looming overhead and a very adult career happening in secret, you're about to get to know them better than ever. But as out of control parties rage and dangerous connections form, the cool kids who thought they'd be friends forever are about to face the cold hard fact that they won't...because one of them will be dead by graduation day.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Bluesman : a twelve bar graphic narrative in the key of life and death
Vollmar, Rob.
Lincoln, CA : Absence of Ink Comic Press, 2004-
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The candy darlings
Walde, Christine, 1969-
Boston [Mass.] : Graphia, 2006.
A girl, grieving for her dead mother and emotionally detached from her father, becomes fast friends with a mysterious classmate who constantly eats sweets as the two of them battle the vicious popular girls at school and listen to the stories of an elderly patient at the hospital where they volunteer.
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A chalice of wind
Tiernan, Cate.
New York : Razorbill, 2005.
Separated since birth, seventeen-year-old twins Thais and Clio unexpectedly meet in New Orleans where they seem to be pursued by a coven of witches who want to harness the twins' magickal powers for its own ends.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Chat room
Butcher, Kristin.
Victoria, BC : Orca Book Publishers, c2006.
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A circle of ashes
Tiernan, Cate.
New York : Razorbill, 2005.
While Daedalus schemes to use the coven's power for his own dark purposes, seventeen-year-old twins Clio and Thais seek to learn who is trying to hurt them and, in the process, discover that Thais's magick has explosive power.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Club Dread
Sorrells, Walter.
New York : Sleuth Dutton, c2006.
When sixteen-year-old Chastity witnesses the murder of a pop star, her hopes of settling down with her mother in San Francisco seem to disappear.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Cruel summer
Adams, Kylie.
New York : Pocket books, c2006.
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Curse of the bane
Delaney, Joseph, 1945-
New York : Greenwillow Books, 2006.
Now thirteen years old, Tom Ward continues his apprenticeship with the Spook as they confront a dangerous bane who can control people's thoughts.
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Deconstructing Dylan
Choyce, Lesley, 1951-
Toronto : Dundurn Group, c2006.
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Deenie
Blume, Judy.
New York : Dell Publishing Company, 1974, c1973.
A thirteen-year-old girl seemingly destined for a modeling career finds she has a deformation of the spine called scoliosis.
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Dog walker
Spafford-Fitz, Karen, 1963-
Victoria, BC : Orca Book Publishers, c2006.
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Eagle Strike
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
New York : Philomel Books, 2004, 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.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Electric girl
Brennan, Michael.
[S.l.] : Mighty Gremlin, c2000.
Westfield Young Adult - YA GRAPHIC 1
Electric Girl
Brennan, Mike.
San Francisco, Calif. : AiT/PlanetLar ; London : Diamond [distributor], . 2005.
Westfield Young Adult - YA GRAPHIC 3
Electric girl. volume 2
Brennan, Michael.
San Francisco, CA. : Ait/Planet Lar, c2002.
Westfield Young Adult - YA GRAPHIC 2
Ella Mental and the good sense guide
Deckers, Amber.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2006, c2005.
Ella never leaves home without her book of basic observations on how to survive life. Other girls come to Ella for advice, but when Ella and her best friend Toby start fighting, Ella's "Good Sense Guide" fails her for the first time.
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Fashion frenzy
Bryant, Annie.
Lexington, MA : B*tween Productions, c2006.
Katani goes to New York City to be in a fashion show.
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A feather of stone
Tiernan, Cate.
New York : Razorbill, 2005.
As the Treize is drawn together, seventeen-year-old twins Clio and Thais face further attempts on their lives, ongoing confusion over Richard and Luc, and the coven's pressure to participate in a long-planned and potentially deadly magickal rite.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
French kiss
Manning, Sarra.
New York, N.Y. : Penguin, 2006.
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Getting the boot
Strauss, Peggy Guthart.
New York, N.Y. : Speak, 2005.
While studying in Rome, Kelly is attracted to Joe, who likes to party late at night. Kelly's involvement in these activities brings the risk of expulsion from the academic program.
Westfield Young Adult - YA S.A.S.S
Golden
Barnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn).
New York : Delacorte Press, 2006.
When her family moves to Oklahoma from California, high school sophomore Lissy uses her ability to see other people's auras to try to uncover and stop the sinister activities of a teacher at her new school.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Honey blonde chica : a novel
Serros, Michele M.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2006.
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Hot nights, cool dragons
Zurbo, Matt, 1967-
Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin ; [London : Frances Lincoln, distributor], 2004.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
How it's done
MacLean, Christine Kole.
Woodbury, Minn. : Flux, c2006.
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How to be popular
Cabot, Meg.
New York : HarperTempest, 2006.
Sixteen-year-old Steph Landry finds an old book on how to be popular and decides to change her social status by following its advice, much to the bafflement of her two best friends.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Inherit the witch : an original novel
Burns, Laura J.
New York : Simon Spotlight, 2004.
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Initiation
Duval, Alex.
New York : Simon Pulse, c2006.
Jason Freeman is getting the hang of DeVere Heights. Then life from his past pays an unexpected visit in the form of his old friend Tyler.
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Just in case
Rosoff, Meg.
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2006.
Convinced that fate is out to get him, fifteen-year-old David Case assumes a new identity in the hope of avoiding what he believes is certain doom.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Just in case
Rosoff, Meg.
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2006.
Convinced that fate is out to get him, fifteen-year-old David Case assumes a new identity in the hope of avoiding what he believes is certain doom.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Kiss and make up
Manning, Sarra.
New York, N.Y. : Penguin, 2006.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
The last days : a novel
Westerfeld, Scott.
New York, N.Y. : Razorbill, c2006.
As an ancient evil stirs beneath the streets of New York City, infecting rats and people like a plague, five quirky teens come together to form a "New Sound" band whose music seems to have paranormal power.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Long gone daddy
Hemphill, Helen, 1955-
Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, 2006.
Young Harlan Q. Stank gets a taste of life in the fast lane when he accompanies his preacher father on a road trip to Las Vegas to bury his grandfather and to fulfill the terms of the old man's will.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
The loud silence of Francine Green
Cushman, Karen.
New York : Clarion Books, 2006.
In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Lust
Wasserman, Robin.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2005.
In the town of Grace, California, seven teenagers experiment with passion and use manipulation and tricks to get ahead. Harper plans to steal Adam from Beth while Kane wants Beth and Miranda wants Kane. Alpha girl Harper is used to getting what she wants, and that means Adam, Beth's all-American boytoy. Blond, boring Beth, who Kane, the charming playah, secretly wants too. Miranda thinks Kane is out of her league, but she wants him all the same. And then there's the new girl. Kaia. Who only wants trouble -- and he's definitely on his way. Want to know more? Commit.
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My lost and found life
Bowsher, Melodie.
New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006.
When her mother is accused of embezzling a million dollars and vanishes, spoiled, selfish Ashley must fend for herself by finding a job and a place to live.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
A necklace of water
Tiernan, Cate.
New York, N.Y. : Razorbill, 2006.
As the consequences of the Treize's magickal rite become more fully known, twin witches Clio and Thais pursue separate agendas involving Daedalus, and Melita returns with plans of her own.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
A novel idea
Friedman, Aimee.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2006.
Norah forms a book club and falls in love with James, one of the club's members. Required reading has never been so hot. Once upon a time there was a Brooklyn hipster named Norah. Unlucky in love, and short on extracurriculars for her college apps, Norah decided to start a book group. She knew the perfect locale -- a local indie bookstore with a crush-worthy cutie manning the soy latte counter. When the first meeting arrives, Norah gets a page-turning surprise. The attendees may be bookish, but there are also a few hotties! Most noteworthy: sweet, literary James. He's like a modern Jane Austen hero.... Only, how to snag him? Ever the romantic heroine, Norah devises a secret plan. And if it works, Norah may just find her "Happily Ever After" love story. The End.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Parent swap
Blacker, Terence.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Because his life is a bit of a mess, thirteen-year-old Danny Bell agrees to let ParentSwap(tm) try to match him with his ideal parents, but he soon realizes that the company is about more than giving adolescents a new start.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Pride : seven deadly sins
Wasserman, Robin.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2006.
Everyone's got something to brag about: Kaia's getting it on with bachelor #1, though scruffball Reed's gotten to be quite an interesting distraction. Kane and Harper got exactly what they planned: Namely Bath and Adam. (though to keep gettin' it, their secrets - and pasts - best stay forgotten.) Miranda got her heart broken, but now she's all decked out with a new look and strategy. Sometimes, though you only think you've got everything.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
The rules of survival
Werlin, Nancy.
New York, NY : Dial Books, 2006.
Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts his attempts, starting at a young age, to free himself and his sisters from the grip of their emotionally and physically abusive mother.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Runaway
Van Draanen, Wendelin.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
After running away from her fifth foster home, Holly, a twelve-year-old orphan, travels across the country, keeping a journal of her experiences and struggle to survive.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
The sacrifice
Ewing, Lynne.
New York : Hyperion Books for Children, 2001.
Stanton, a Follower of the ancient evil called the Atrox, is torn between his love for Serena, one of the moon goddesses, and his urge to destroy her by turning her to the dark forces.
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Sealed with a kiss
Manning, Sarra.
New York, N.Y. : Penguin, 2006.
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The secret of the Rose
Thomson, Sarah L.
New York : Greenwillow Books, 2006.
When her father is imprisoned in 1592 England for being Catholic, fourteen-year-old Rosalind disguises herself as a boy and finds an ultimately dangerous job as servant to playwright Christopher Marlowe.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
The sound of Munich
Nelson, Suzanne Marie, 1976-
New York : Speak, 2006.
Siena Bernstein attends school in Munich for three months, where she perfects her German languague skills, flirts with her attractive resident advisor, and attempts to find the man who helped her father's family escape East Berlin in 1962.
Westfield Young Adult - YA S.A.S.S
Spin City
Clarke, Nicole.
New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 2006.
Trying to sample all that New York City has to offer before her internship at Flirt magazine ends, sixteen-year-old Kiyoko overdoes it and gets in trouble at work and with her housemother, but help from unexpected sources leads her to her one true passion.
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Trigger
Vaught, Susan, 1965-
New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers , 2006.
Teenager Jersey Hatch must work through his extensive brain damage to figure out why he decided to shoot himself.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Avi, 1937-
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2005.
As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Under the baseball moon
Ritter, John H., 1951-
New York : Philomel Books, c2006.
Andy and Glory, two fifteen-year-olds from Ocean Beach, California, pursue their respective dreams of becoming a famous musician and a professional softball player.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
The unresolved
Welsh, T. K.
New York : Dutton Children's Books, 2006.
In 1904 New York City, the spirit of a deceased German American teenage girl searches for the person responsible for the Slocum steamboat fire that claimed her life and the lives of more than 1000 other passengers.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Vanishing act
Feinstein, John.
New York : Knopf, c2006.
Eighth-grade sports reporters Susan Carol and Stevie reunite at the U.S. Open tennis championships where they investigate the mysterious disappearance of a top Russian player.
Westfield Young Adult - YA
Viking warrior : Denmark A.D. 845
Roberts, Judson.
New York : HarperCollins, c2006.
Despite being the son of a chieftain and a princess, fourteen-year-old Halfdan lives as a slave in Denmark in A.D. 845 but through a tragic bargain he gains his freedom and sets out to claim his birthright. Bloody, furiously paced, heart-wrenching, and unflinching, this is a story of a land where the destinies of boys and men are forged in the heat of battle. Young Halfdan shall come to know the glories of true brotherhood and the unspeakable horrors of true evil. In this first book in a saga teeming with thrilling details of the Viking world, young Halfdan emerges as a new hero . . . a new myth . . . a new legend.
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Wedding peach
Tomita, Sukehiro.
San Francisco, CA : VIZ, 2003-
In a world where the wedding chapel has become a battlefield between good and evil, three young girls transform themselves into warriors of love.
Westfield Young Adult - YA GRAPHIC 1
Weedflower
Kadohata, Cynthia.
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2006.
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
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Westminster Abby
Ostow, Micol.
New York, N.Y. : Speak, 2005.
Abby discovers her real self when she goes to London to pursue her studies.
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What are you afraid of?
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2006.
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White time
Lanagan, Margo, 1960-
New York : Eos, c2006.
Presents ten short stories, both dark and hopeful, that journey into the past, the future, and altered versions of the present.
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Wrath
Wasserman, Robin.
New York, NY : Simon Pulse, 2006.
Beth, Miranda, and Adam have developed motives for revenge against Kaia, Kane, and Harper.
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Non-Fiction
The 9/11 report : a graphic adaptation
Jacobson, Sid.
New York : Hill and Wang, c2006.
Westfield Young Adult - YA 973.931 JAC GRAPHIC
Professional sports team histories
Detroit : Gale Research, c1994.
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Professional sports team histories
Detroit : Gale Research, c1994.
Westfield Young Adult - YA 796 P96 v. 3
Professional sports team histories
Detroit : Gale Research, c1994.
Westfield Young Adult - YA 796 P96 v. 4
Whatcha mean, what's a zine? : the art of making zines and mini comics
Todd, Mark, 1970-
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
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Updated August 8, 2006
