Supernatural Fiction: Ghosts, Ghouls, and Things That Go Bump in the Night

Title Of Book	Author	Call Number
Circle of Three (series)	Isobel Bird	TEEN PPB BIRD
When Kate casts a love spell, she has no idea that 1) all the boys in school will fall in love with her, 2) all the girls will hate her, and 3) it will end with her bound into a circle of three and exploring witchcraft. The first book in the series is So Mote It Be.
A Great and Terible Beauty	Libba Bray	TEEN 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. (Sequel: Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing)
Mediator (series)	Jenny Carroll (Meg Cabot)	TEEN PPB CARROLL
Suze is a mediator. She not only sees dead people, she talks to them and tries to convince them to move on. She hopes that all that is behind her when she moves across country to California. But no...at her high school is a ghost that wants revenge, and in her bedroom is a ghost who wants...her? First book in the series: Shadowland
Mortal Instruments: City of Bones	Cassandra Clare	TEEN 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 bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster. (First in what will be a trilogy.)
Daughters of the Moon (series)	Lynne Ewing	TEEN EWING
A group of high school girls discover that they are goddesses with magical powers (invisibility, mind reading, seeing the future, etc.). That's the good(?) news. The bad news is that they must use these powers to fight the Atrox, the prime source of evil. First book in the series: Goddess of the Moon
Coraline	Neil Gaiman	TEEN CORALINE
Bored, Coraline tries to open a door that is usually locked. Surprisingly, it opens. When she goes through it, she enters a world that looks like hers but is disturbingly different. She soon realizes she's trapped and must fight her "Other Mother" in order to save herself and others.
Raven's Gate	Anthony Horowitz	TEEN HOROWITZ
Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
Sorcerers of the Nightwing	Geoffrey Huntington	TEEN HUNTINGTON
Every kid fears the monsters in the closet -- but for Devon March, the monsters are real. But Devon, though he doesn't know it, is a Sorcerer of the Nightwing. He'll need all the powers at his command when he is sent to live at Ravenscliff, where a Hellhole and a Nightwing gone bad await him. (Ravenscliff Series, Book 1)
Freaks	Annette Curtis Klause	TEEN KLAUSE
Abel, the "normal" son of freak show entertainers, runs away to find a place he fits in. But fate (or is it something else?) leads him to another freak show, where he finds, literally, the woman of his dreams. But she's been dead 3,000 years.
The Decoding of Lana Morris	Laura McNeal	TEEN McNeal
Sixteen-year-old Lana Morris wishes her life were different, that she were somewhere else, someone else. Then Lana stumbles into Miss Hekkitys mysterious shop and begins to realize that she might actually have the power to change things--to make some of her wishes come true.
Vampire Kisses	Ellen Schreiber	TEEN SCHREIBER
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. (First in a series.)
Red Rider's Hood	Neil Shusterman	TEEN SHUSTERMAN
After learning that there are werewolves in his city, a sixteen-year-old is even more surprised to discover the identities of the hunters who drove them out decades earlier, but he soon infiltrates the Wolves gang to help destroy them for good.
Tantalize	Cynthia Leitich Smith	TEEN 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.
Blue is for Nightmares	Laura Stolarz	TEEN PPB STOLARZ
Sixteen-year-old hereditary witch Stacey Brown has nightmares of her roommate being murdered and hopes that her magick will be enough to protect Drea--unlike the last person whose death Stacey dreamed. (First in a series.)
Sweep (series)	Cate Tiernan	TEEN PPB TIERNAN
When handsome Cal moves to town, Morgan and Bree (and most of the rest of the girls in the high school) drool over him. So when Cal invites them to a Wiccan celebration, they accept. But Morgan isn't prepared for power surge she feels during the celebration. And she definitely isn't prepared to discover that she herself is a very powerful witch. First book in the series: Book of Shadows
Sight	Adrienne Vrettos	TEEN VRETTOS
Sixteen-year-old Dylan uses her psychic abilities to help police solve crimes against children, but keeps her extracurricular activities secret from her friends at school.
Peeps	Scott Westerfeld	TEEN WESTERFELD
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.
A Certain Slant of Light	Laura Whitcomb	TEEN PPB WHITCOMB
After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts. This novel is as much an adult read as it is a teen read.

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Updated September 2007