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- Anderson, M. Thirsty.
- 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.
- Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. In the forests of the night.
- Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will.
- Black, Holly. Valiant : A Modern Tale of Faerie.
- When she runs away to New York with a new identity in the hopes of getting lost in the crowd, seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell finds that escape from her own reality is impossible as she encounters colorful, desperate, and strange new friends who end up giving her the surprise of her life.
- Brewer, Heather. The chronicles of Vladimir Tod : eighth grade bites
- For thirteen years Vlad 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 than he could have guessed.
- Bray, Libba. A great and terrible beauty.
- 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.
- Cabot, Meg. [Editors]. Prom nights from hell.
- The exterminator's daughter / by Meg Cabot -- The corsage / by Lauren Myracle -- Madison Avery and the dim reaper / by Kim Harrison -- Kiss & tell / by Michele Jaffe -- Heaven and hell / by Stephenie Meyer.
- Cary, Kate. Bloodline : a novel.
- 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.
- Cary, Kate. Bloodline. Book two, Reckoning : a novel.
- In this story told primarily through journal entries, Quincey Harker, the heir to Dracula's bloodline, returns to England in 1918 to pursue Nurse Mary Seward, whose fiance has been transformed into a monstrous vampire.
- Cast, P.C. and Cast, Kristin. Untamed: a house of night novel.
- Speaking of friends, the only two Zoey has left are undead and unMarked. And Neferet has declared war on humans, which Zoey knows in her heart is wrong. But will anyone listen to her?
- Clare, Cassandra. City of bones.
- 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.
- Clement-Davies, David. Fell.
- In Transylvania during the Middle Ages, Fell, a lone wolf with unusual abilities, learns that his destiny is entwined with that of one human, fifteen-year-old Rasha, whose mysterious origins have villagers believing she is a changeling.
- Clement-Davies, David. The sight.
- In Transylvania during the Middle Ages, a pack of wolves sets out on a perilous journey to prevent their enemy from calling upon a legendary evil one that will give her the power to control all animals.
- De la Cruz, Melissa. Blue bloods.
- Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.
- De la Cruz, Melissa. Masquerade : a Blue Bloods novel.
- Schuyler Van Alen, growing comfortable with her newfound vampire powers, seeks her grandfather in Italy, while back in New York plans are being completed for the fabulous Four Hundred Ball, to be followed by an elite, teens-only event at which masks hide a terrible secret.
- Duval, Alex. Ritual.
- DeVere Heights High School is filled with vampires, and when Jason Freeman and another student are attacked by someone using a crossbow, Jason suspects Sienna's former boyfriend.
- Gee, Joshua. Encyclopedia horrifica : the terrifying truth! about vampires, ghosts, monsters, and more.
- Proving that the truth is scarier than fiction, this terrifying visual reference contains true stories of vampires, aliens, werewolves, ghosts, and more, accompanied by photographic evidence, eyewitness accounts, and original interviews.
- Hahn, Mary Downing. Look for me by moonlight.
- 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.
- Hautman, Pete. Sweetblood.
- After a lifetime of being a model student, sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is suddenly in trouble at school, at home, with the "proto-vampires" she has met online and in person, and most of all with her uncontrolled diabetes.
- Jablonski, Carla. Thicker than water.
- Coping with her mother's cancer makes seventeen-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.
- Klause, Annette Curtis. Blood and chocolate.
- 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.
- Klause, Annette Curtis. Silver kiss.
- Beautiful yet frightening, only Simon, the young vampire who comes to her house in the middle of the night, can help Zoe overcome her brooding thoughts of her dying mother and her own loneliness.
- Leavitt, Martine. Keturah and Lord Death.
- 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.
- Lee, Tanith. Wolf Tower.
- When a stranger is captured by the Guards of the House and Garden where she has worked all her life as a slave and maid, sixteen-year-old Claidi helps him escape and sets out with him to journey to his home city through the dangerous Waste.
- Mancusi, Marianne. Boys that bite.
- Bitten by a vampire after being mistaken for her Goth twin sister, Rayne, sixteen-year-old Sunny is in a race against time as she tries to prevent herself from becoming a vampire permanently.
- Marillier, Juliet. Wildwood dancing.
- 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.
- Marr, Melissa. Wicked lovely.
- 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 Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.
- McKinley, Robin. The blue sword.
- Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.
- McKinley, Robin. Sunshine.
- All hope for stopping the vampiric elite from controlling earth depends on human SOFs (Special Other Forces) and the success of their attempt to recruit Sunshine, the daughter of legendary sorcerer Onyx Blaise.
- Pierce, Meredith Ann. Darkangel.
- The servant girl Aeriel must choose between destroying her vampire master for his evil deeds or saving him for the sake of his beauty and the spark of goodness she has seen in him. First in the Darkangel Trilogy.
- Pierce, Meredith Ann. The pearl of the soul of the world.
- With the aid of a shimmering pearl, Ariel battles the White Witch to free her husband Irrylath. Last volume in the Darkangel trilogy.
- Rees, Douglas. Vampire High.
- 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.
- Smith, Cynthia Leitich. Tantalize.
- 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.
- Westerfeld, Scott. Peeps : a novel.
- Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.
- Westerfeld, Scott. The secret hour.
- Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess.
- Whitcomb, Laura. A certain slant of light.
- 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.