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Blood and Chocolate
By Annette Curtis Klause
YA K6378 bl

Vivian Gandalon is a teen-aged werewolf with problems. She fiercely hopes that her relationship with a kind and sensitive meat-boy, a human, will help her find some answers.
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By These Ten Bones
By Clare B. Dunkle
YA D9196 by

After a mysterious young wood carver with a horrifying secret arrives in her small Scottish town, Maddie gains his trust - and his heart - and seeks a way to save both him and her townspeople from an ancient evil.
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Companions of the Night
By Vivian Vande Velde
YA V244 co

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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Golden
By Jennifer Barnes
YA B26113 go

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.
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A Great and Terrible Beauty
By Libba Bray
YA B82747 gre

After the suspicious death of her mother, 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. (First in a series)
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Keturah and Lord Death
By Martine Leavitt
YA L43957 ke

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.
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Look for Me By Moonlight
By Mary Downing Hahn
YA H1488 lo

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.
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Mediator: Shadowland
By Meg Cabot
pb ya Cabot

After moving from New York to California with her newly married mother, sixteen-year-old Susannah has to cope not only with her new stepbrothers, but also with the handsome ghost sitting in her new bedroom and the angry girl ghost haunting her new school. (First in a series)
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Peeps
By Scott Westerfeld
YA W526 pe

Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all the girlfriends he has unknowing infected. (First in a series)
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Prom Dates from Hell
By Rosemary Clement-Moore
YA C626825 pr

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.
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The Silver Kiss
By Annette Curtis Klause
pb ya Horror Klause

A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoë come to terms with her mother's terminal illness.
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Spirits that Walk in Shadow
By Nina Hoffman
YA H6996 spi

When she goes off to college in order to learn the ways of ordinary people, Jaimie, who possesses supernatural powers like the rest of her clan, meets her roommate Kim, who is being pursued by a mysterious soul-sucking demon.
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Sunshine
By Robin McKinley
YA M15798 su

"There are places in this world where it is unwise to walk. But there hadn't been vampires there for years, and Sunshine just needed to get away and clear her thoughts. She never even heard them coming. Of course you don't, when they're vampires."
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Vampire Kisses
By Ellen Schreiber
YA S378 va

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. (Series)
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Wicked Lovely
By Melissa Marr
YA M35822 wi

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.
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Wildwood Dancing
By Juliet Marillier
YA M336 wi

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.
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