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A.M., Jenkins
Night Road  

Battling his own memories and fears, Cole, an extraordinarly conscientious vampire, and Sandor, a more impulsive acquantance, spend a few months on the road, trying to train a young man who recently joined their ranks.

Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia
Demon in My View  

Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops a relationship with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.

Black, Holly
Tithe: a Modern Faerie Tale *

Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.

Bray, Libba
A Great and Terrible Beauty *

After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and her ability to see into the spirit world.

Cabot, Meg
Prom Nights from Hell 

A selection of stories from the most popular authors, including Stephenie Meyer and Meg Cabot.

Caine, Rachel
Glass Houses: the Morganville Vampires *

College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life, but they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood.

Cary, Kate
Bloodline 

In this story told primarily through journal entries, a British soldier in World War I makes the horrifying discovery that his regiment commander is descended from Count Dracula.

Clare, Cassandra
City of Bones *

Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.

Clement-Moore,
Prom Dates from Hell

High school senior and yearbook photographer Maggie thought she would rather die than go to prom, but when a classmate summons a revenge-seeking demon, she has no choice but to buy herself a dress and prepare to face jocks, cheerleaders, and Evil Incarnate.

Conrad, Liza
High School Bites 

Having learned on her sixteenth birthday that Count Dracula exists and lives in her hometown of Seattle, Lucy tries to save herself and her friends while wondering if her boyfriend is also a vampire.

De la Cruz, Melissa
Blue Bloods *  

Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.

Duval, Alex
Vampire Beach: Bloodlust  *

At first, Jason Freeman enjoys his new high school, but later he notices too many strange events there which leads to a girl who washes up on the beach with a suspicious bite mark.

Hautman, Pete
Sweetblood 

After a lifetime of being a model student, sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is suddenly in trouble at school, at home, with the "proto-vampires" she has met online and in person, and most of all with her uncontrolled diabetes.

Kenner,Julie
Fendi, Ferregamo, and Fangs

Presents, in one continuous story, different points of view of Vamps Modeling, Inc., as three teens-one brilliant and studious, one content to be plump, and one party girl-are selected to be groomed as supermodels, unaware that their success depends on them becoming vampires.

Klause, Annette
The Silver Kiss 

A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoe come to terms with her mothers' terminal illness.

Mancusi, Marianne
Boys that Bite *

Bitten by a vampire after being mistaken for her goth twin sister, Rayne, sixteen-year-old Sunny is in a race against time as she tries to prevent herself from becoming a vampire permanently.

Marillier, Juliet
Wildwood Dancing *

Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood.

Marr, Melissa
Ink Exchange 

Seventeen-year-old Leslie wants a tattoo as a way as reclaiming control of her body, but the eerie image she selects pulls her into the dangerous Dark Court of the Faeries, where she draws on inner strength to make a horrible choice.

Marr, Melissa
Wicked Lovely 

Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.

Meade, Rachel
Vampire Academy* 

Two years after a horrible accident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks and sinister plots.

Pierce, Meredith Ann
The Darkangel *  

The servent girl Aeriel must choose between destroying her vampire master for all his evil deeds or saving him for the sake his beauty and the spark of greatness she has seen in him.

Robar, Serena
Fangs4Freaks

As Protector of the half-blood vampires, Colby is called into action when her sisters in the newly established Psi Phi sorority house start experiencing ugly, unexpected attacks, either from a member of the Vampire Tribunal, or from a spy.
 

Schreiber, Ellen
Vampire Kisses *

Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire someday, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true.

Smith, Cynthia Leitich
Tantalize 

When multiple murders in Austin, Texas threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed resturaunt, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best friend turned loveinterest, Kieren, a werewolf in training, may be the prime suspect.

Staub, Wendy Corsi
Lily Dale: Awakening *

When seventeen-year-old Calla's mother suddenly dies, she goes to stay with her psychic grandmother in Lily Dale, a spiritualist community in western New York, where she discovers some disconcerting secrets about her practical, down-to-earth mother, and realizes that she herself may also have some psychic abilities.

Waters, Daniel
Generation Dead

When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.

Westerfeld, Scott
Uglies *  

Tally was born ugly, like everyone else. When she turns 16, it's finally her time to get the operation that will make her pretty, also like everyone else. What happens if she doesn't want the surgery, is she ready for a life on the run?

Compiled by Teen Services Librarians 2008.