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Twi-likes - Twilight readalikes
Looking for books like Stephenie Meyer's Twilight?
Check out these suggestions!
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Wondrous Strange: A Novel by Lesley Livingston
(YA SFI/FAN LIVINGSTON)
Seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow, an understudy for a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," meets Sonny Flannery, who guards the Samhain Gate that connects the mortal realm with the Otherworld and is determined to protect Kelley as she learns about her own magical fate. |
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House of Night Series by P. C. Cast (YA HOR HOUSE)
After being accepted as a fledgling vampire at the House of Night prep school and receiving special powers by a goddess, 16-year-old Zoey Montgomery discovers one of her peers is misusing her powers and must decide what the right thing to do is. |
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Blue Bloods by Melisssa de la Cruz (YA HOR DELACRUZ)
Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines. |
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Dead is a State of Mind by Marlene Perez (YA MYS/SUSP PEREZ)
When a gorgeous new student's prediction that a teacher will be murdered comes true, seventeen-year-old Daisy is determined to solve the crime, but when all signs point to the killer being a werewolf, she fears she is in over her head. |
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Dangerous Girls by R. L. Stine (YA HOR STINE)
After sixteen-year-old Destiny and her twin sister Livvy are turned into partial vampires at a summer camp, they try to find the "Restorer," someone who can return them to normal. |
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Sons of the Dark Series by Lynne Ewing (YA HOR EWING)
Having escaped from Nefandus, a parallel universe where he was made an immortal slave, fifteen-year-old Obie must return to retrieve his mother's rune stones in order to fulfill his destiny in modern-day Los Angeles as one of the four Sons of the Dark. |
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Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead (YA HOR 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. |
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Society of S by Susan Hubbard (YA HOR HUBBARD)
After discovering that her father is a vampire and her estranged mother is a mortal, twelve-year-old Ariella Montero has the choice of becoming undead or staying human and sets out on a quest that leads her to her mom and her answer. |
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Cathy's Book by Sean Stewart (YA SFI/FAN STEWART)
Cathy's decision to try and find out what caused her boyfriend Victor to break up with her draws her into the world of Internet gaming and she uses her journal to record what she learns. |
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MeruPuri: Märchen Prince by Matsuri Hino (YA GN MERUPURI)
High school freshman Airi Hoshina loses her keepsake mirror on the way to school one day. When she returns to look for it, she finds Aram, a small boy from a magical kingdom, emerging from it. Then, Aram ages into a man overnight because he has been placed under a spell that only Airi can break. |
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In the Forests of the Night by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
(YA HOR ATWATER-RHODES)
Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will. |
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Thicker Than Water by Carla Jablonski (YA HOR JABLONSKI)
Coping with her mother's cancer makes 17-year-old Kia feel out of place everywhere until she is drawn into the goth-vampire club scene, where she finds acceptance and one gorgeous, popular guy who might offer escape. |
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Generation Dead by Dan Waters (YA HOR WATERS)
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. |
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Blue is for Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz (YA HOR STOLARZ)
Sixteen-year-old hereditary witch Stacey Brown has nightmares of her roommate being murdered and hopes that her magic will be enough to protect Drea--unlike the last person whose death Stacey dreamed. |
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Need by Carrie Jones (YA SFI/FAN JONES)
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. |
Peeps: A Novel by Scott Westerfeld (YA HOR WESTERFELD)
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected. |
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Morganville Vampire Series by Rachel Caine (YA HOR MORGANVILLE)
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 by Cassandra Clare (YA HOR CLARE)
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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Evernight by Claudia Gray (YA HOR GRAY)
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. |
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Blood and Chocolate by Anne Curtis Klause (YA HOR KLAUSE)
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom. |
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The Otherwordlies by Jennifer Anne Kogler (YA SFI/FAN KOGLER)
Fern has always known she was different from other kids, but it is not until she transports herself from her classroom to a sandy beach that she realizes how different, and as she tries to gain control of her supernatural powers, she must battle a sinister vampire who has a disturbing interest in Fern's newly found power. |
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Vampire Knight Series by Matsuro Hino (YA GN VAMPIRE KNIGHT)
Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the guardians of Cross Academy assigned to protect the humans in Day Class from the vampires in the Night Class, but Yuki believes that the humans and vampires can coexist peacefully. |
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Evermore by Alyson Noël (YA SFI/FAN 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. |
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Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr (YA SFI/FAN MARR)
Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see fairies, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle by Keenan, the terrifying but alluring Summer King, who determines that she must become his queen and save summer from perishing. |
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A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle (YA SFI/FAN L'ENGLE)
During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with which she has been doing research. |
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Wings by Aprilynne Pike (YA SFI/FAN PIKE)
When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel's back, it leads her to discover that she is a faerie and she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from enemy trolls. |
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Vampire Kisses Series by Ellen Schreiber (YA HOR VAMPIRE KISSES)
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. |
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Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith (YA HOR 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. |
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Midnight's Choice by Kate Thompson (YA SFI/FAN THOMPSON)
Tess, who has the ability to change into animal form, must choose between good and evil as she tries to decide whether to "Switch" into a phoenix or a vampire for the rest of time. |
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Shadowland (Vol. 1 of Mediator Series) by Meg Cabot
(YA MYS/SUSP MEDIATOR)
Susannah, a liaison between the living and the dead, hopes to live as a normal teenager after moving to California with her mom and new stepfather, but on the first day of school she encounters the very hostile ghost of a girl who committed suicide and is out for revenge against her former boyfriend. |
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A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (YA SFI/FAN BRAY)
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. |
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Future . . . FAIL? - Dystopian stories and other read-alikes
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The Giver by Lois Lowry (YA SFI/FAN LOWRY)
On Jonas’ 12th birthday, just like all the other children in his Community, he is given his Assignment - a job that he will hold for the rest of his life. Unfortunately, Jonas is selected to be the new Receiver of Memory, the most isolating and mysterious job in the community and the one nobody wants. He is suddenly responsible for absorbing all the good and bad memories that everyone else has forgotten, and finds that the perfectly organized world he lives in is not so ideal after all. |
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Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (YA SFI/FAN WESTERFELD)
Tally is almost 16 and can’t wait. Not because she can get a driver’s license or have a Sweet-16 birthday party, but because that’s when she will get to have her “Pretty” surgery and finally join the perfectly beautiful, perpetual party crowd that lives across the river. But her friend Shay isn’t so sure she wants to be perfectly beautiful and runs away to find a group of rebels living in the woods. The authorities find Tally and give her a choice – go after her friend and bring her back, or never be pretty herself. |
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The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (YA SFI/FAN NESS)
One month away from his 13th birthday, Todd is forced to flee the village he’s lived in all his life, though he doesn’t understand why the men from his town would rather see him dead than let him leave its boundaries. Todd’s dog Manchee and a mysterious girl he finds in the swamp are his only companions as he runs through a part of the world he never knew existed, and he’s not sure he can trust anyone he meets along the way. How do you survive when everything you’ve been told is a lie? |
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (F HUXLEY)
There’s no violence, no famine, no conflict of any kind in the future, and as long as you take your daily ration of Soma you’re completely happy with the lot in life that you were assigned before birth. But when John the Savage decides to visit this perfect city, coming from an uncontrolled world outside, he questions the way people are controlled and starts causing trouble. |
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Unwind by Neil Schusterman (YA/SFI FAN SCHUSTERMAN)
Connor lives in a future where anyone who is sick can get a transplant without problem. Need a new heart? They’re available. Loose a limb in an accident? There’s a new one they can just sew on for you. The only problem is where these body parts come from - and it’s not from a science lab or off of a dead person. If you’re between the ages of 13 and 18, you’d better behave and not make your parents mad, or they might choose to have you “unwound” – taken apart bit by bit so your body parts can be harvested for use by others. Connor, Risa and Lev have all been selected for unwinding – can you blame them for running away? |
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (YA/SFI FAN COLLINS)
In a future where the United States no longer exists, Katniss Everdeen has managed to survive to the age of 16 only because she knows how to hunt and how to kill. But when her name is drawn to participate in the nation’s annual Hunger Games, a competition where 24 teens are thrown into an arena and the only rule is the last one alive wins, Katniss has to question her will to survive. Is she willing to kill another person to save herself? And if she does survive, what does that mean for her return back home? |
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City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (YA SFI/FAN DUPRAU)
Lina and Doon have lived their whole lives in the darkness, the only light in Ember coming from the generator in the caves below the city. But when the generator starts to fail, plunging the city into darkness, the two teens have to break some laws, solve a puzzle, and find out if there is a world beyond Ember. |
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How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Daisy hates her life in New York with her dad and new stepmom, and decides to travel to England to spend the summer with cousins she’s never met. Just after her arrival a mysterious war breaks out and the cousins are isolated out in their country farmhouse. What is life like when you go from living an easy, rich life to surviving dead bodies and potential starvation? Daisy grows up fast and finds out her life before wasn’t quite so bad. |
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Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (YA SFI/FAN PFEFFER)
The scientists knew about it long ahead of time – how the meteor was going to hit the moon. Everyone thought it was just going to be something cool to see, a chance to watch another crater being formed on the moon’s surface. But the meteor didn’t just make a crater, it MOVED the moon closer to the earth. Miranda is 16 and just wants to get on with life, but the moon isn’t letting that happen. Tsumanis, earthquakes, mass volcano eruptions, and a deadly winter with no heat or electricity mean that Miranda and her family are just concerned with surviving. |
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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (YA SFI/FAN DOCTOROW)
When the San Francisco Bay Bridge is blown to bits by terrorists, 17-year-old Marcus and his friends are mistakenly arrested as suspects by the Department of Homeland Security and interrogated for a week. When they are released, and Marcus discovers that one of his friends is still unjustly in captivity and that California is now a police state, he uses his hacking skills to stand up for his rights and starts an underground rebellion. |
Get Real! Nonfiction for Teens
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100 Things Guys Need to Know by Bill Zimmerman (YA 170.835 ZIMMERMAN)
What does a guy do about girls? Why is my family getting on my nerves? 6 sections cover everything from your body to figuring out your future. Formated as boxes with short self-help suggestions, each page covers one aspect from 1-100 “things” Primarily focused on middle-school guys.
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The Attack on Pearl Harbor by Jane Sutcliffe (YA 940.542 SUTCLIFFE)
Do you like graphic comics? Here is an accurate, easy to read account of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 in cartoon style. Experience the battle as it unfolded.
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Car Smarts: Hot Tips for the Crazy Car by Phil Edmonston and Maureen Sawa (YA 629.222 EDMONSTON)
New drivers or about to be, check out this book. Covers history, how a car works, buying and owning a car. A must read before you drive and buy your first car.
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Exploring the Unexplained: The World’s Greatest Marvels, Mysteries and Myths by Editors of Time Magazine (YA 001.94 EXPLORING)
Is there any such thing as an aura? Are ghosts real? Can aliens and UFO’s be explained by science? Take a look at broad array of different unexplained phenomena. Color photos in a two-page spread briefly explores what science and has to say. A bit hard to read due to small print, is aimed at older adolescents.
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Not Till the Fat Lady Sings: The Most Dramatic Sports Finishes of All Time by Les Krantz (YA 796.097 NOT)
This compendium of the 50 most dramatic endings to sports events divides the great plays into first, second and third place rankings, along with honorable mentions. Comes with a supplementary DVD, narrated by Jim McKay.
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Pirates & Smugglers by Moira Butterfield (YA 910.45 BUTTERFIELD)
Think you know about pirates after watching movies? Here is a book that will give you the real scoop on who they were and what they did from Roman times to the present.
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Forensic Science by Brian Innes (YA 363.2 INNES)
Intriguing look at the scientific investigation behind solving crimes.
Each section covers a different aspect and includes sidebars highlighting strange or interesting real-life cases. Contains abundant color photographs.
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Guinness World Records: The World’s Biggest Everything by James Buckley, Jr. (YA 030 BUCKLEY)
From the largest animals to the most massive machines; from the biggest people to the most monumental mountains, this book has it all!
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Gut-Eating Bugs: Maggots Reveal the Time of Death! by Danielle Denega (YA 614.1 DENEGA)
How do forensic professionals know when someone died? Find out what bugs can tell us about solving the mystery. Includes true-life cases. (Part of the 24/7 Science Benind the Scenes Forensic Files series.)
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Jam! The Story of Jazz Music by Jeanne Lee (YA 781.65 LEE)
Starting with the roots of Jazz in African traditions and how it evolved into what we call modern Jazz, this is a brief, fast paced look at the music. Includes influence and innovations of some of the biggest names in Jazz with color and black and white illustrations and photos.
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Sports Bloopers: All-Star Flubs and Fumbles by Mark Huebner and Brad Wilson (YA 796 HUEBNER)
Pithy commentaries and action photos covering almost every sport. A great book for any Sports lover; funny and entertaining.
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What’s Going on Down There? Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask by Karen Gravelle (YA 612.661 GRAVELLE)
A frank and practical discussion of facts regarding changes boys experience during puberty, presented in a down-to-earth, question and answer format with funny cartoon drawings. |
Novels in Verse
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Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes (J F GRIMES)
When Mr. Ward declares Fridays will be open mike poetry days in his English class the usually introverted students find a place to relax, and express themselves. Through their poetry they reveal the different lives of the rapper, the jock, the teenager mother, the overweight girl, the beauty queen, the artist and more. Their poems allows them to explore themselves, and make unexpected connections with each other.
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Foreign Exchange: A Mystery in Poems by Mel Glenn (YA 811.54 GLENN)
A group of urban teens foreign exchange program in the town of Hudson Landing is interrupted by the murder of a local high school girl. Mixed race boy, Kwame, from the city is fingered as the killer and the quiet town erupts. What secrets have the townsfolk kept in hiding? Who really killed the owner of the supermarket's daughter?
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I Don't Want to Be Crazy by Samantha Schutz
Going away to college is one of the most exciting times in a person's life. There are so many possibilities. No parents, no rules, the chance to do whatever you want and be whoever you want to be. What could possibly go wrong? The answer is: plenty. Particularly if you struggle with an anxiety disorder and panic attacks that come out of nowhere. This is the true story of one girl's struggle to be able to live her life the way she always dreamed.
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Impulse by Ellen Hopkins (YA F HOPKINS)
Vanessa, Tony and Conner are three different teenagers with one thing in common. They all attempted suicide and ended up in the Aspen Springs psychiatric hospital. What follows is a look into their lives, showing who they were, why they did what they did, and how they are working towards life and towards change.
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Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff (YA F WOLFF)
14 year old LaVaughn lives in the projects, and is determined to be the first in her family to get out and go to college. Her way of getting there is to work hard and save money, but her new babysitting job proves to be more than just a paycheck. 17 year old Jolly is the unmarried mother of 2 children, and everything LaVaughn is trying to avoid becoming. As their friendship deepens, LaVaughn and Jolly will make decisions that will change both of their lives for the better.
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Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (YA F HESSE)
Winner of the 1998 Newbery Medal, this book tells the story of 14 year old Billie Jo. It details what it's like to live a life in constant dust storms, the lessons that you learn. A life that begins to fall apart when Billie Jo's mother dies in a hideous accident and her father struggles with cancer and grief. How Billie Jo comes to grips with her life and herself is the greatest lesson of all.
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Rubber Houses by Ellen Yeomans (YA F YOEMANS)
16 year old Kit loves her little brother, Buddy, and they both love baseball. Their world is rocked when Buddy is diagnosed with leukemia. What follows is their struggle with the cancer, and how Kit and her family survive and learn to move on.
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Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy by Sonya Sones (J 811.54 SON)
When you're 13 years old the only thing you should worry about is will you have a date to the school dance, or when will you get your first kiss. You shouldn't have to think about your family falling apart because the big sister you've always looked up to goes crazy... but sometimes life doesn't go the way it should, and you have to learn how to deal with it.
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Things Left Unsaid by Stephanie Hemphill (YA F HEMPHILL)
Sarah is the perfect student. She studies hard and gets good grades and never talks back to her parents. Then why does she feel like she is always looking for something? Sarah finds it in Robin, her new wild, crazy friend who says and does things she'd never dream of doing herself. As their friendship grows more intense Sarah starts to lose her old friends, and her old self, and starts to realize that Robin might not be what she seems.
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What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones (YA F SONES)
Sophie loves boys. She loves her sexy boyfriend Dylan, her online pal Chaz, and she even feels a little bit of a connection with school geek, Murphy. But which guy does she love the best? Is what she feels even love at all? The answers to those questions may surprise you. They sure surprise Sophie! |
Books With Bite!
Sink Your Teeth Into These Vampire Stories
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Bloodline: A Novel by Kate Cary (YA HOR CAR)
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. |
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Thirsty by M. T. Anderson (YA HOR ANDERSON)
From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human. |
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Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan (YA HOR CIRQUE)
Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices. |
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Midnight Predator by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (YA HOR ATWATER-RHODES)
Vampire hunter Turquoise Draka goes undercover as a human slave in order to enter the fabled vampire realm of Midnight and assassinate Jeshikah, one of the cruelest vampires in history, but her guise brings up old memories of her past enslavement and she finds herself comforted by her benign master Jaguar. |
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Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer
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Thirteen-year-old half-vampire Vladimir Tod struggles to navigate the ups and downs of eighth grade while keeping his untested powers and impulses under control. |
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Sucks To Be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (Maybe) by Kimberly Pauley (YA HOR PAULEY)
Sixteen-year-old Mina is forced to take a class to help her decide whether or not to become a vampire like her parents which means that she faces a choice between her bestfriend and her current crush versus potential new friends and possible boyfriends in her vampire class. |
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Night Road by A. M. Jenkins (YA HOR JENKINS)
Cole, a hemovore who feeds off of human blood, is asked to take another heme out for training, but, Gordon, his new charge, is having difficulty leaving his old life behind and his actions soon threaten them both. |
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Vampire High by Douglas Rees (YA HOR REES)
When his family moves from California to New Sodom, Massachusetts and Cody enters Vlad Dracul Magnet School, many things seem strange, from the dark-haired, pale-skinned, supernaturally strong students to Charon, the wolf who guides him around campus on the first day. |
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Vamps Series by Nancy Collins (YA HOR COLLINS)
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. |
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Chibi Vampire by Yuna Kagesaki (YA GN CHIBI)
Karin, an unusual child vampire who has blood to spare, aspires to donate blood to humans rather than steal it, but unfortunately things never seem to work out as she plans. |
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Vampirates by Justin Somper (YA HOR SOMPER)
Connor Tempest may only be fourteen, but he's taken to the life of a pirate like a duck to water. But his loyalties are divided between his shipmates and his sister. Grace Tempest isn't finding the pirate life so appealing. She cannot shake the feeling that all is not well on the vampirate ship she left behind. Dare she try to return to it? Sidorio may have been expelled from the vampirate ship but his dark deeds are just beginning. |
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Canon by Chika Shiomi (YA GN CANON)
On a mission to avenge the deaths of her classmates, Canon, who was left undead by the attack on her school, teams up with Fui, a vampire crow, in search of Rod, the Lord of the Vampires. |
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Princess Resurrection by Yasunori Mitsuaga (YA GN PRINCESS)
Beautiful Princess Hime, a warrior with powers to raise the dead, fights werewolves, vampires, demons, and monsters with the help of her undead servant, Hiro, and cute robot Flandre. |
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Books You'll Fall in Love With
Flirt series by Nicole Clarke (YA ROM FLIRT)
Follow the lives of teenagers working in the Big Apple for the fashion magazine Flirt.
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series by Louise Rennison (YA ROM GEORGIA)
This hilarious British series has been described as Bridget Jones for teenagers—only funnier!
Mates & Dates series by Cathy Hopkins (YA ROM MATES)
Join Lucy and her best girl buds as they deal with identity, friendship, and of course, crushes!
Truth or Dare series by Cathy Hopkins (YA ROM TRUTH)
Each of these stories by the author of the Mates & Dates series revolves around a Truth or Dare question.
One Last Wish series by Lurlene McDaniel (YA ROM ONE)
There's plenty of room for romance for the residents and counselors of Jenny House—a group home for critically and terminally ill young girls.
Emma, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, & Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (YA ROM AUSTEN)
She may have written these a while ago, but a good 18th century British soap opera never goes out of style!
...You'll find many other love stories in the YA Romance section! |
Books to Movies
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (YA SFI/FAN PERCY)
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (YA SFI/FAN FUNKE)
I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle (YA F DOYLE)
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (YA HOR MEYER)
Watchmen by Alan Moore (YA GN MOORE)
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Fable by John Boyne (YA F BOYNE)
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (YA SFI/FAN DUPRAU)
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (YA SFI/FAN PULLMAN)
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (YA SFI/FAN DARK)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (YA ROM AUSTEN)
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz (YA SER ALEX)
Eragon by Christopher Paolini (YA SFI/FAN PAOLINI)
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen by Dyan Sheldon (YA F SHELDON)
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (YA SER PRINCESS)
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (YA F ANDERSON)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (YA ROM BRONTE)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (YA F DUMAS)
Edmond Dantes is a young sailor who is falsely imprisoned, escapes, and assumes a new identity on the island of Monte Cristo.
Emma by Jane Austen (YA ROM AUSTEN)
Emma is a self-assured young lady of Regency England who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her fancy.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (YA HOR SHELLEY)
A monster assembled from parts of dead bodies by the scientist Dr. Frankenstein develops and mind of his own, as her learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (YA F HIAASEN)
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore (YA GN MOORE)
When alien invaders from Mars attack London, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is called upon to protect the empire.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (YA F ALCOTT)
Chronicles the joys and sorrow of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien (YA SFI/FAN TOLKIEN)
Chronicles the epic journey of Frodo the hobbit in his quest to rid Middle Earth of the evil Ring of Power.
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton (YA F HINTON)
Follows the struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parents' death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares (YA F BRASHARES)
When Carmen decides to discard an old pair of jeans, she and her friends discover they fit each one of them perfectly. Thus begins a special sisterhood and a very memorable summer.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (YA F LEE)
Two children in a small southern town are thrust into an adult world of racial bigotry and hatred when their lawyer father chooses to defend a black man unjustly accused of raping a white girl.
Oh, the Horror!
Devil’s Race by Avi (YA HOR AVI)
John is tormented by an evil, look-alike ancestor who was hanged in 1854 for being a demon.
Tell Me What You See by Zoran Drvenkar (YA HOR DRVENKAR)
On a secret visit to her father's grave, Alissa discovers the crypt of a child and acquires terrible powers from which only her friend Evelin can save her.
Short Circuits: 13 Shocking Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults (YA HOR SHORT)
Prepare to be jolted . . . electrified . . .zapped by hair-raising stories bound to shock!
Sweetblood by Pete Hautman (YA HOR HAUTMAN)
Model student Lucy is suddenly in trouble at school, at home, and with the so-called vampires she has met online and in person.
Haunted Sister by Lael Littke (YA HOR LITTKE)
Lenore, who died in an accident twelve years ago, returns to forcibly share the body of her twin sister Janine.
Jade Green by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (YA HOR NAYLOR)
While living in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, orphan Judith wonders if she has caused the mysterious happenings.
Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman (YA HOR SHUSTERMAN)
When Blake goes to a mysterious carnival he knows that he can save his comatose brother, but he soon learns that much more is at stake.
The Boy Who Couldn’t Die by William Sleator (YA HOR SLEATOR)
When his best friend dies in a plane crash, Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns to distrust the woman he paid to lock his soul away.
Dangerous Girls by R.L. Stine (YA HOR STINE)
Twins Destiny and Livvy are turned into partial vampires at summer camp. They try to find the "Restorer" who can return them to normal.
The Doom Stone by Paul Zindel (YA HOR ZINDEL)
On a visit to Stonehenge, Jackson becomes caught up in a chase to capture an unknown creature who is stalking and killing people.
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