Angelini, Josephine Starcrossed TEEN FIC ANGELINI
When shy sixteen-year-old Helen Hamilton starts having vivid dreams about three ancient, hideous women and suddenly tries to kill a new student at her Nantucket high school, she discovers that she is playing out some version of an old tale involving Helen of Troy, the Three Furies, and a mythic battle. – Grades 6 and up.
Armstrong, Kelley The Summoning TEEN FIC ARMSTRON
After fifteen-year-old Chloe starts seeing ghosts and is sent to Lyle House, a mysterious group home for mentally disturbed teenagers, she soon discovers that neither Lyle House nor its inhabitants are exactly what they seem, and that she and her new friends are in danger. Grades 7 and up.
Barzak, Christopher Wonders of the Invisible World TEEN FIC BARZAK
Seventeen-year-old Aiden has been living like a ghost since his mother tried to stop a family curse by causing him to forget his psychic experiences but when Jarrod, a childhood friend, returns, so do the memories and Aiden is compelled to seek the truth and release them all from the story that has trapped them. Grades 9 and up.
Bertrand, Cara Lost in Thought TEEN FIC BERTRAND
At her new boarding school, Lainey Young has visions that confirm she is one of the Sententia, a society for the psychically gifted, but she and crush Carter Penrose soon learn that the extent of her powers may be putting her danger. Grades 8 and up.
Black, Holly The Coldest Girl in Coldtown TEEN FIC BLACK
When seventeen-year-old Tana wakes up following a party in the aftermath of a violent vampire attack, she travels to Coldtown, a quarantined Massachusetts city full of vampires, with her ex-boyfriend and a mysterious vampire boy in tow. Grades 9 and up.
Chadda, Sarwat The Devils Kiss TEEN FIC CHADDA
Fifteen-year-old Billi SanGreal has grown up knowing that being a member of the Knights Templar puts her in danger, but if she is to save London from catastrophe she must make sacrifices greater than she imagined. Grade 6 and up.
Chupeco, Rin The Girl from the Well TEEN FIC CHUPECO
Okiku has wandered the world for centuries, freeing the innocent ghosts of the murdered-dead and taking the lives of killers with the vengeance they are due, but when she meets Tark she knows the moody teen with the series of intricate tattoos is not a monster and needs to be freed from the demonic malevolence that clings to him. Grades 9 and up.
Clare, Cassandra City of Bones TEEN FIC CLARE
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. Grades 9 and up.
Cloonan, Becky Gotham Academy TEEN GRAPHIC GOTHAM ACADEMY
The new school year at Gotham Academy is not going well for Olive Silverlock, with a ghost haunting the campus and a secret society conducting bizarre rituals, but worst of all is when she is assigned to be a guide to Maps, her ex’s kid sister. Grades 7 and up.
Cross, Kady Sisters of Blood and Spirit TEEN FIC CROSS
Wren, the ghost of a girl who died at birth, and Lark, her depressed misfit living twin, help a boy who saves Lark from a suicide attempt and who is being threatened by the malevolent spirit of a long-dead serial killer. Grades 8 and up.
Fukuda, Andrew Xia The Hunt TEEN FIC FUKUDA
Seventeen-year-old Gene has passed as a vampire for years, carefully following every rule, but now, just as he finds a girl worth fighting for, he is chosen to participate in the hunt for the last remaining humans among ruthless vampires who soon suspect his true nature. Grades 8 and up.
Gier, Kerstin Dream a Little Dream TEEN FIC GIER
Liv Silver, fifteen, has lived in six countries in eight years and she and her sister yearn for a real home and normalcy, but soon after moving in with her mother’s boyfriend in London, Liv’s dreams turn bizarre, filled with talking stone statues, mysterious corridors, and strange rituals conducted by four boys who happen to be her new classmates. Grades 7 and up.
Gray, Claudia Spellcaster TEEN FIC GRAY
Descended from witches, high school senior Nadia can tell as soon as her family moves to Captive’s Sound that the town is under a dark and powerful spell. Then she meets Mateo, the teenage local whose cursed dreams predict the future, and they must worktogether to prevent an impending disaster that threatens the entire town. Grades 8 and up.
Hawkins, Rachel Rebel Belle TEEN FIC HAWKINS
Seventeen-year-old Harper Price’s charmed life is turned upside down when she discovers she’s been given magical powers in order to protect her school nemesis David Stark, who’s an Oracle. Grades 7 and up.
Johnson, Maureen The Name of the Star TEEN FIC JOHNSON
Rory, of Benouville, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation. Grades 7 and up.
Kincy, Karen Other TEEN FIC KINCY
Gwen Williams is like any seventeen-year-old except that she is a shapeshifter living in Klikamuks, Washington, where not everyone tolerates “Others” like Gwen, but when someone begins killing Others she must try to embrace her true self and find the killer before she becomes the next victim. Grades 9 and up.
Larbalestier, Justine Liar TEEN FIC LARBALES
Compulsive liar Micah promises to tell the truth after revealing that her boyfriend has been murdered. Grades 9 and up.
Maxwell, Lisa Sweet Unrest TEEN FIC MAXWELL
When seventeen-year-old Lucy Aimes moves to New Orleans and meets Alex, a boy who behaves as if they’ve known each other forever, she becomes caught up in a centuries-old vendetta. Grades 7 and up.
McKenzie, Paige The Haunting of Sunshine Girl TEEN FIC MCKENZIE
Moving from Texas to Washington, Sunshine, an adopted sixteen-year-old, discovers that her new home is haunted and that the ghosts may have revelations about her past. Grades 7 and up.
Mead, Richelle Vampire Academy TEEN FIC MEAD
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. Grades 9 and up.
Mlynowski, Sarah Bras and Broomsticks TEEN FIC MLYNOWSK
Living in New York City with her mother and her younger sister, Miri, fourteen-year-old Rachel tries to persuade Miri, who has recently become a witch, to help her become popular at school and to try to stop their divorced father’s wedding. Grades 6 and up.
Morris, Paula Ruined TEEN FIC MORRIS
Rebecca couldn’t feel more out of place in New Orleans. She’s staying in a creepy old house with her aunt. And at the snooty prep school, the filthy-rich girls treat Rebecca like she’s invisible. Then one night, in Lafayette Cemetery, Rebecca makes a friend. Sweet, mysterious Lisette is eager to talk to Rebecca, and to show her the nooks and crannies of the city. There’s just one catch: Lisette is a ghost. Grades 6 and up.
Ness, Patrick The Rest of us Just Live Here TEEN FIC NESS
The best friend of a kid with superhuman qualities endeavors to have a life of his own that is both normal and extraordinary in the face of constant world-shaking challenges, threats against his school, and an elusive pretty girl. Grades 9 and up.
Noel, Alyson Evermore TEEN FIC NOEL
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. Grades 9 and up.
Older, Daniel José Shadowshaper TEEN FIC OLDER
When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on–then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends. Grades 8 and up.
Pike, Aprilynne Wings TEEN FIC PIKE
When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel’s back, it leads her to discover the fact that she is a faerie and that she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from the encroaching enemy trolls. Grades 7 and up.
Quinn, Kate Karyus Down with The Shine TEEN FIC QUINN
After the death of her best friend, Lennie takes some of her family’s moonshine to a party where the wishes everyone makes before drinking seem to come true. Grades 9 and up.
Reeves, Dia Bleeding Violet TEEN FIC REEVES
A mentally ill sixteen-year-old girl reunites with her estranged mother in an East Texas town that is haunted with doors to dimensions of the dead and protected by demon hunters called Mortmaine.
Rex, Adam Fat Vampire: a never-coming-of-age story TEEN FIC REX
After being bitten by a vampire, not only is fifteen-year-old Doug doomed eternally to be fat, but now he must also save himself from the desperate host of a public access cable vampire hunting television show that is on the verge of cancellation. Grades 7 and up.
Rollins, Danielle Burning TEEN FIC ROLLINS
After 3 years in juvenile detention, and months shy of release, Angela meets Jessica who is in shackles and in segregation. No one knows what she did to end up there, but creepy things begin to happen and it becomes clear that Jessica, with supernatural powers, is more dangerous than anyone expected. Grades 9-up.
Shepard, Sara The Lying Game TEEN FIC SHEPARD
Seventeen-year-old Emma Paxton steps into the life of her long-lost twin Sutton to solve her murder, while Sutton looks on from her afterlife. Grades 9 and up.
Showalter, Gena Alice in Zombieland TEEN FIC SHOWALTE
To avenge the death of her parents and sister Ali must learn to fight the undead, and to survive she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has his own secrets, which might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies. Grades 7 and up.
Showalter, Gena Intertwined FIC SHOWALTE
Aden Stone has four human souls living inside him: one can time travel, one can raise the dead, one can tell the future, and one can possess another human … and then he meets a girl who quiets the voices. Grades 7 and up.
Smith, Cynthia Leitich Tantalize TEEN FIC SMITH
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. Grades 7 and up.
Stolarz, Laurie Faria Deadly Little Secret TEEN FIC STOLARZ
When someone starts stalking high school junior Camelia, everyone at school assumes that it is Ben, who is new at school and rumored to have killed his previous girlfriend, but Camelia is nevertheless inexplicably drawn to him. Grades 7 and up.
Suma, Nova Ren 17 & Gone TEEN FIC SUMA
Seventeen-year-old Lauren has visions of girls her own age who are gone without a trace, but while she tries to understand why they are speaking to her and whether she is next, Lauren has a brush with death and a shocking truth emerges, changing everything. Grades 9-up.
Tracey, Scott Witch Eyes TEEN FIC TRACEY
After a terrifying vision, Braden retreats to an old city divided by two feuding witch dynasties, where he learns that the head of one dynasty is his father and the guy for whom he is falling is the son of the head of the other dynasty. Grades 9 and up.
Tucholke, April Genevieve Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea TEEN FIC TUCHOLKE
Violet is in love with River, a mysterious seventeen-year-old stranger renting the guest house behind the rotting seaside mansion where Violet lives, but when eerie, grim events begin to happen, Violet recalls her grandmother’s frequent warnings about the devil and wonders if River is evil. Grades 9 and up.
Vincent, Rachel The Stars Never Rise TEEN FIC VINCENT
In a world ruled by the brutally puritanical Church and its army of black-robed exorcists, sixteen-year-old Nina tries to save her pregnant younger sister from the Church’s wrath and discovers that not only is the Church run by demons but that Nina herself is one of the very few who can genuinely exorcise them. Grades 9 and up.
Westerfield, Scott Afterworlds TEEN FIC WESTERFE
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy’s novel, slips into the “Afterworld” to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love. Grades 9 and up.
Whedon, Joss Buffy The Vampire Slayer TEEN GRAPHIC BUFFY
Buffy organizes a slayer army to fight such evil creatures as vampires and demons, while Faith and Giles go undercover to handle a threat. Grades 7 and up.
Yovanoff, Brenna. Paper Valentine TEEN FIC YOVANOFF
Followed everywhere by the ghost of her recently deceased best friend, Hannah investigates the serial murders of young girls in her community. Grades 8 and up.