survival, but her quest is endangered by her secret friendship ... Extraordinary
Secrets of April, May and. June (Benway) For sisters April, May and June, it's
been ...
The Mermaid’s Mirror (Madigan) Lena’s
to discover how her people's magic was lost and what is needed to restore their powers and ensure their survival, but her quest is endangered by her secret friendship with a human named Paul.
father was a world class surfer, but he forbids her to take up the sport. When she discovers her mother’s true identity, she is in led to mer-folk.
The Monstrumologist; Curse of the Wendigo (Yancey) In 1888, 12-year-old Will
Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies reallife monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.
Mortal Instruments series (Clare) Clary
Paranormalcy (White) Evie, 16, calls the International Paranormal Containment Agency home. There, she bags, tags and helps IPCA track paranormal creatures.
Radiance: A Riley Bloom book (Noel) Riley has crossed the
Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, 17-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best friend-turnedlove interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.
& Horror
The Thin Executioner (Shan) Based loosely on
Titles for Teens
Huckleberry Finn, this book follows its hero through a world filled with ignorant, brutal people and the occasional supernatural being.
discovers she can see supernatural beings no one else can see and is drawn into the world of the Shadowhunters.
Tantalize (Smith) When multiple murders in
Supernatural
The Wager (Napoli) Having lost everything in a tidal wave in 1169 Sicily, 19-year-old Don Giovanni makes a simple-sounding wager with a stranger he recognizes as the devil but, while desperate enough to surrender his pride and good looks for three years, he is not willing to give up his soul.
bridge into the afterlife, where she discovers her life will not be one of leisure. She will be a Soul Catcher.
Silver Phoenix (Pon) With her father long overdue from his journey and a lecherous merchant blackmailing her into marriage, seventeen-year-old Ai Ling becomes aware of a strange power within her as she goes in search of her parent.
If SPL’s copy is checked out we can request it from another library and have it sent here for you to pick up!
Shimmer: A Riley Bloom book (Noel) Having solved the matter of the Radiant Boy, Riley, Buttercup, and Bodhi are enjoying a welldeserved vacation. When Riley comes across a vicious black dog, against Bodhi’s advice, she decides to cross him over.
*Not sure where to locate these titles? See a librarian at the Teen or Reference Desk.
Spell Hunter (Faery Rebels series)
(Anderson) In a dying faery realm, only the brave and rebellious faery Knife persists in trying
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
(Grahame-Smith) Nine-year-old Abe Lincoln sits at his mother’s death bed. Only later would he discover that the sickness that killed her was caused by a vampire.
Bad Girls Don’t Die (Alender) When 15year-old Lexi's younger sister Kasey begins behaving strangely and their old Victorian house seems to take on a life of its own, Lexi investigates and discovers some frightening facts about previous occupants of the house, leading her to believe that many lives are in danger.
Bruiser (Shusterman) Tennyson fumes when his sister begins dating Bruiser, the guy most likely to go to jail. Then they notice that their every day cuts and bruises are somehow transferred to him.
and a loner until she meets the cutest boy in school. When she puts on her fencing mask at Grand Central Station, the adventure begins.
The Frog Princess (Baker) After reluctantly kissing a frog, an awkward, 14-year-old princess
The Hunchback Assignments series (Slade) In Victorian London, 14-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild.
Huntress (Lo) In this sequel to Ash, the sun hasn’t shone in years, crops are failing and strange and hostile creatures begin to appear. Two 17-year-old girls are chosen to save mankind.
Everlost; Everwild (Shusterman) When Nick
Foiled (Yolen) Aliera is an accomplished fencer
The Graveyard Book (Gaiman) Nobody Owens escapes into a graveyard when his family is being murdered. Its ghostly inhabitants adopt him and keep him safe.
The Everafter (Huntley) After her death, 17-
it’s been hard enough dealing with their parents’ divorce, a move and a new school, but things get more complex after each girl discovers an unusual childhood ability.
Coraline (Gaiman) Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
The Eternal Ones (Miller) People who cannot
Extraordinary Secrets of April, May and June (Benway) For sisters April, May and June,
Ghostopolis (Tennapel) A sick boy who always thinks about death is zapped into the afterlife. A ghost wrangler tries to free him.
and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free.
everyone over 16 into brainless, decomposing, flesh -eating creatures, a group of teenagers leave their shelter and set out on a harrowing journey across London to the safe haven of Buckingham Palace.
year-old Maddy finds a way to revisit moments in her life by using objects that she lost while she was alive, and by so doing she tries to figure out the complicated emotions, events, and meaning of her existence.
suddenly finds herself a frog, too, and sets off with the prince to seek the means—and the selfconfidence—to become human again.
The Enemy (Higson) After a disease turns
let go of their past are doomed to be reincarnated, striving to alter their pasts and succeed where they have failed before.
Cloaked (Flinn) Johnny creates his own line of shoes to help his poor family. When a princess arrives in town and asks him to help find her brother, he discovers magic he never knew existed.
Cirque du Freak series (Shan) 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.
only witness to the horrific and bloody murder of his entire family, a teenage boy must outwit not only the mental health professionals determined to cure his delusion, but also the demonic forces only he can see.
The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series (Brewer) For 13 years, Vlad, aided by his aunt and best friend, has kept secret that he is half-vampire, but when his missing teacher is replaced by a sinister substitute, he learns that there is more to being a vampire, and to his parents' deaths, than he could have guessed.
The Demonata series (Shan) Presumably the
I Am Not a Serial Killer (Wells) The teenage (and innocent) John Wayne Cleaver swears he is not the serial killer that has emerged in his small town—despite his grisly name and a series of unpleasant and eerie similarities.
The Light (MacHale) Sixteen-year-old Marshall Seaver is expecting a boring summer when his best friend goes away, but instead he finds himself haunted—and hunted—by ghosts that want something from him which he cannot decipher.
The Lily Dale Mysteries (Staub) When 17year-old Calla's mother suddenly dies, she goes to stay with her psychic grandmother in Lily Dale, a spiritualist community in western New York. She discovers some disconcerting secrets about her practical, down-to-earth mother, and realizes that she herself may also have some psychic abilities.
