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A Certain Slant of Light
by Laura
Whitcomb (SF WHI)
In the class of the high
school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: for
the first time in 130 years, human eyes are looking at her. They
belong to a boy, a boy who has not seemed remarkable until now. And
Helen--terrified, but intrigued--is drawn to him. The fact that he
is in a body and she is not presents this unlikely couple with their
first challenge. But as the lovers struggle to find a way to be
together, they begin to discover the secrets of their former lives
and of the young people they come to possess. |
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Shiver
by Maggie Stiefvater (SF STI)
For Grace, one yellow-eyed wolf is a chilling presence in the woods
behind her house. During winter, Sam lives in the frozen woods and
the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, he lives a few
precious months as a human. Soon, Grace and Sam find themselves
risking everything to remain together. |
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Blood and Chocolate
by Annette Curtis Klause (SF KLA)
Sixteen-year-old Vivian Gandillon is trying to fit in to her new
home in the suburbs, which isn't easy since she and her family are
werewolves. When she falls in love with a human, she must sort out
her loyalties. |
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Demon in My View
and others by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (SF ATW)
Jessica, the author of a vampire novel, wishes she felt as
comfortable with her school mates as she does among the vampires and
witches of her fiction. Life changes when two new students arrive at
Ramsa High wanting Jessica's attention. |
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The Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith (SF SMI)
Two vampire brothers, Damon and Stefan, find their bond torn apart
by the woman they both love and the tragedies of their past. |
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A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
(SF BRA)
It' s 1895, and after the suicide
of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life
she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England.
Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have
an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a
chilly one. To make things worse, she' s been followed by a
mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What
is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence' s most
powerful girls-- and their foray into the spiritual world-- lead to? |
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Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz (SF DE)
Schuyler Van Alen begins to
wonder if the legends of vampires are really true. When she turns
15, she starts to crave raw food and is having flashbacks to ancient
times. After a classmate is found dead--and bloodless--Schuyler
doesn't know what to think. |
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Marked (House of Night series) by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
(SF CAS)
16-year-old Zoey Redbird enters
the House of Night, a school where she will train to become an adult
vampyre. Zoey finds she is no average fledgling. She has been
"marked" by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx. But she is not the only
fledgling at the House of Night with special powers. |
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Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead (SF MEA)
St. Vladimir's Academy isn't just
any boarding school; its a hidden place where vampires are educated
in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them.
Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a
Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but now they're
being dragged back to St. Vladimir's, the very place where they're
most in danger. Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance,
the Academy's ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime
rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi, the world's
fiercest and most dangerous vampires, make Lissa one of them
forever. |
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Vampire Kisses series by
Ellen Schreiber (SF SCH)
In her small town, dubbed
"Dullsville," sixteen-year-old Raven -- a vampire-crazed goth-girl
-- is an outcast. But not for long... The intriguing and
rumored-to-be haunted mansion on top of Benson Hill has stood vacant
and boarded-up for years. That is, until its mysteriously strange
new occupants move in. Who are these creepy people -- especially the
handsome, dark, and elusive Alexander Sterling? Or rather, what are
they? Could the town prattle actually ring true? Are they vampires?
Raven, who secretly covets a vampire kiss, both at the risk of her
own mortality and Alexander's loving trust, is dying to uncover the
truth. Ellen Schreiber's spooky and stirring romance tells the story
of two outsiders who fall in love in a town where conformity reigns,
and ends with a shocking surprise. |
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Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith (SF SMI)
Werewolves, vampires, and human
hybrids all work up an appetite in this delicious debut novel of
dark fantasy, young love, and culinary secrets. |
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Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande
Velde (SF VAN)
Kidnapping. Car theft. Murder.
Vampires. Kerry's got a tough night ahead of her. |
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Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black
(SF BLA)
Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern
nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with
her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces her back to
her childhood home. There, against the industrial, blue-collar New
Jersey backdrop, Kaye finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient
power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms. |
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Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr (SF MAR)
In a world unseen by mortals, the
forces of Summer and Winter are at war. Two Faery Courts have been
seeking the Summer Queen for more than nine centuries--one to
restore the power of Summer and the other to banish it in this
gritty modern Faery tale. |
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Dangerous Girls
by R.L. Stine (FS STI)
Destiny Weller and her twin sister, Livvy, were as close as two
sisters could be -- until Livvy chose to become a vampire, leaving
Destiny behind. Now Destiny will do anything to bring Livvy back to
the family. But in Livvy's world of endless darkness, she knows
there is only one way she and Destiny can be reunited -- Destiny
must become a vampire too... Which sister will live to see the glow
of the next full moon? Whose lips will savor the taste of night? Who
will survive? Book jacket. |
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Boys That Bite
by Mari Mancusi (SF MAN)
Due to a case of mistaken identity, Sunshine McDonald is bitten by a
good looking vampire and must find a way to reverse the vampire
curse before she becomes one of the undead for the rest of time. |
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Glass Houses (Morganville Vampire series) by
Rachel Caine (SF CAI)
College student Claire Danvers begins having trouble with the
popular girls in the dorms and decides to rent a room in an old
house off campus, where her roommates are stranger than she is but
willing to protect her from the undead that run the town. |
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City of Bones (Mortal Instruments trilogy) by
Cassandra Clare (SF CLA)
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. |
