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*Updated with new selections 7-26-10*

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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 relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.

Barnes, Jennifer. Raised by wolves
A girl raised by werewolves must face the horrors of her past to uncover the dark secrets that the pack has worked so hard to hide.

Black, Holly & other authors. The eternal kiss
Presents a collection of thirteen stories about vampire romance by such authors as Holly Black, Libby Bray, and Cecil Castellucci.

Bray, Libba. A great and terrible beauty, Rebel angels, and the Sweet far thing
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 ability to see into the spirit world.

Cast, P.C. & Kristin Cast. Marked: a house of night novel *and sequels
Zoey Redbird isn't sure who is a friend or enemy at the House of Night, but she knows that any secrets that she discovers must be kept from the other residents, while she must also deal with the further complication of having three boyfriends.

Clare, Cassandra. City of bones *and sequels City of ashes & City of glass
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 bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.

Collins, Nancy A. Vamps and sequels Night life & After dark
At an elite vampire prep school in Manhattan, sixteen-year-old vampire socialite Lilith seeks revenge against Cally, a new student and "New Blood" Lilith holds responsible for the death of her close friend during a dispute that attracted heavily-armed Van Helsings.

de la Cruz, Melissa. Blue bloods & sequels Masquerade, Revelations, and The Van Alen legacy
Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.

Despain, Bree. The dark divine
Grace Divine, almost seventeen, learns a dark secret when her childhood friend--practically a brother--returns, upsetting her pastor-father and the rest of her family, around the time strange things are happening in and near their small Minnesota town.

Diver, Lucienne. Vamped
After being turned into a vampire, Gina realizes that she, along with many other students from her high school, have become pawns in an uprising within the vampire world.

Fantaskey, Beth. Jessica's guide to dating on the dark side
Marrying a vampire definitely doesn’t fit into Jessica Packwood’s senior year “get-a-life” plan. But then a bizarre (and incredibly hot) new exchange student named Lucius Vladescu shows up, claiming that Jessica is a Romanian vampire princess by birth—and he’s her long-lost fiancé.

Fitzpatrick, Becca. Hush, hush
High school sophomore Nora has always been very cautious in her relationships, but when Patch, who has a dark side she can sense, enrolls at her school, she is mysteriously and strongly drawn to him, despite warnings from her best friend, the school counselor, and her own instincts.

Gray, Claudia. Evernight and sequels Stargazer & Hourglass
Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Jared, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world.

Hahn, Mary Downing. Look for me by moonlight
While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.

Harvey, Alyxandra. The Drake chronicles
As her momentous sixteenth birthday approaches, Solange Drake, the only born female vampire in 900 years, is protected by her large family of brothers and her human best friend Lucy from increasingly persistent attempts on her life by the powerful vampire queen and her followers.

Johnson, Christine. Claire de lune
On her sixteenth birthday Claire discovers strange things happening and when her mother reveals their family secret which explains the changes, Claire feels her world, as she has known it to be, slowly slipping away.

Jones, Carrie. Need & sequel Captivate
Depressed after the death of her stepfather, high school junior Zara goes to live with her grandmother in a small Maine town, where new friends tell Zara the strange man she keeps seeing may be a pixie king, and that only "were" creatures can stop him from taking souls.

Jones, Frewin. Faerie path and sequels
Anita, an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl, is transported from modern-day London to the realm of Faerie where she discovers that she is Princess Tania, the long-lost daughter of King Oberon and Queen Titania.

Leavitt, Martine. Keturah and lord death
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.

Livingston, Lesley. Wondrous strange & sequel Darklight
Seventeen-year-old Kelley discovers her secret heritage after meeting Sonny, a guard of the gate that separates the fairy world from the mortal one, while a war band of fairies plan to force their way through the gate on Halloween night.

Malkin, Nina. Swoon
In rural Connecticut, when seventeen-year-old Dice tries to exorcise a seventeenth-century man who is possessing her cousin Pen, she inadvertently makes him corporeal--and irresistible.

Marr, Melissa, and other authors. Love is hell
Five stories of supernatural romance.

Marr, Melissa. Wicked lovely, Ink exchange ,Fragile eternity & Radiant shadows
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.

Mead, Richelle. Vampire academy series
Two years after a horrible incident 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.

Noel, Alyson. Evermore & sequels Blue moon & Shadowlands
Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries.

Pauley, Kimberly. Sucks to be me & sequel Still sucks to be me
When sixteen-year-old Mina is forced to take a class to help her decide whether or not to become a vampire like her parents, she also faces a choice between her life-long best friend and the boy she has a crush on versus new friends and possible boyfriends in her mandatory "vampire lessons."

Pearce, Jackson. Sisters red
After a Fenris, or werewolf, killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the beasts that prey on teenaged girls, learning how to lure them with red cloaks and occasionally using the help of their old friend, Silas, the woodsman's son.

Schreiber, Ellen. Vampire kisses *and sequels
Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, 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 restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.

Smith, L.J. The night world series
Presents a collection of novels about teenage girls who are drawn into the Night World, a dark society of vampires, witches, shapeshifters, and other dark creatures.

Smith, L.J. The vampire diaries series
The tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them.

St. Crow, Lili. Strange angels & sequel Betrayals
Sixteen-year-old Dru's psychic abilities helped her father battle zombies and other creatures of the "Real World," but now she must rely on herself, a "werwulf"-bitten friend, and a half-human vampire hunter to learn who murdered her parents, and why.

Stiefvater, Maggie. Shiver & Linger
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.

Taylor, Lainie. Lips touch: three times
Three short stories about kissing, featuring elements of the supernatural.

Vande Velde, Vivian. Companions of the night
When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices.


 
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