By Shannon Delany
Series 13 to Life
Grade(s): 8-12

Jessica's life turns upside-down when she meets first-generation Russian-American Pietr Rusakova, and the secrets he holds opens up Jessica's curiosity.

By Catherine Jinks
Grade(s): 8-12

Tobias Richard Vandevelde wakes up in a hospital with no memory of the night before after being found unconscious in the dingo pen at Featherdale Wildlife Park, and he finds out that he is a werewolf from a group of vampires.

By Annette Curtis Klause
Grade(s): 9-12

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.

By Christine Johnson
Grade(s): 7-12

On her sixteenth birthday Claire discovers strange things happening and when her mother reveals their family secret which explains the changes, Claire feels her world, as she has known it to be, slowly slipping away.

By Neil Gaiman
Grade(s): 5+

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.

Became the movie: Coraline.

By Rachel Hawthorne
Grade(s): 8-12

While working as a wilderness guide in the national forest where her parents were killed twelve years earlier, seventeen-year-old Kayla is powerfully drawn to Lucas, who she learns is her appointed guardian - and much more - as she discovers her true identity and destiny.

By Kelley Armstrong
Grade(s): 8-12

Chloe Saunders is haunted by a particularly violent ghost and is sent to Lyle House, a center for disturbed teens, where she finds herself investigating a series of other paranormal happenings.

By Justin Richards

Three teens and a curator of unclassified artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to use unorthodox methods to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs.

By Bram Stoker

Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.

By Justina Ireland

When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.

By Carrie Ryan
Series The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.

By Dan 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.

By Neil Gaiman

Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.

By J.K. Rowling
Series Harry Potter

Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

By Adam Selzer

Living in the post-human era when the undead are part of everyday life, high schooler Alley breaks her no-dating rule when Doug catches her eye, but classmate Will demands to turn her into a vampire and her zombie boyfriend may be unable to stop him.

By Sherrilyn Kenyon
Series Chronicles of Nick

Streetwise, tough, and savvy, Nick and his quick sarcasm are the stuff of legend... until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity. With his fellow students turning into flesh-eating zombies, how can he stop them... without getting grounded by his mom?

By Trisha Talep

A collection of short stories combining dark seduction and modern romance presents a variety of tales featuring the romantic lives of humans and werewolves, ghosts, fallen angels, zombies, and shape-shifters.

By Cassandra Clare
Grade(s): 8-12

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.

By Stacey Jay

After dying in a cheerleading accident, high school freshman Karen turns into a zombie and enrolls at a boarding school for the undead where she uncovers a murder mystery.

By Carrie Jones
Series Need Pixies
Grade(s): 7-12

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.

By E. Van Lowe

When most of their high school classmates turn into flesh-eating zombies, Margot and best friend Sybil see an opportunity to finally become popular and find boyfriends--if they can just stay alive.

By Neal Shusterman
Series Dark Fusion

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.

By Catherine Jinks
Grade(s): 7-12

Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them--until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime.

By Jonathan Maberry
Series Benny Imura

In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter.

By Maggie Stiefvater
Series Wolves of Mercy Falls
Grade(s): 8-12

For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf, her wolf, is a haunting presence she can't seem to live without. Sequels are Linger (2010) and Forever (2011).

By Jackson Pearce
Grade(s): 9-12

After a Fenris, or werewolf, killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the beasts that prey on teenaged girls, learning how to lure them with red cloaks and occasionally using the help of their old friend, Silas, the woodsman's son.

By David Almond

"I thought he was dead. He was sitting with his legs stretched out and his head tipped back against the wall. He was covered with dust and webs like everything else and his face was thin and pale. Dead bluebottles were scattered on his hair and shoulders. I shined the flashlight on his white face and his black suit."
This is Michael’s introduction to Skellig, the man–owl–angel who lies motionless behind the tea chests in the abandoned garage in back of the boy’s dilapidated new house. As disturbing as this discovery is, it is the least of Michael’s worries. The new house is a mess, his parents are distracted, and his brand–new baby sister is seriously ill. Still, he can’t get this mysterious creature out of his mind–– even as he wonders if he has really seen him at all.

By Edward Bloor

When eighth grader Kate and her Uncle George (who is two years younger than her) receive letters inviting them to attend the Whittaker Magnet School, home of nasty protein shakes and the freakish "Test–Based Curriculum," their reactions are mixed. George, somewhat of a genius, is pleased, while Kate is horrified. Still, as a search on–line reveals, their house is suddenly in the Whittaker school district, so off they go. It’s not long, before they discover something very strange is afoot at their new school.

By Lili St. Crow
Series Strange Angels

Sixteen-year-old Dru's psychic abilities helped her father battle zombies and other creatures of the "Real World," but now she must rely on herself, a "werwulf"-bitten friend, and a half-human vampire hunter to learn who murdered her parents, and why.

By Kelley Armstrong
Series Darkest Powers

After fifteen–year–old Chloe starts seeing ghosts and is sent to Lyle House, a mysterious group home for mentally disturbed teenagers, she soon discovers that neither Lyle House nor its inhabitants are exactly what they seem, and that she and her new friends are in danger.

By Cynthia Leitich Smith
Series Tantalize
Grade(s): 8-12

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.

By Stephenie Meyer
Grade(s): 7-12

Follows the experiences of Bella Swan, a young woman who moves to Forks, Washington, and becomes caught up in the lives of the handsome vampire, Edward Cullen, and Jake, a werewolf.

By Melissa Marr
Series 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 the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.

By Max Brooks
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Max Brooks, son of actor Mel Brooks, chronicles the ficticious "zombie wars" that nearly decimated the human population, with first–hand accounts from people who have had a brush with the undead and facts and figures documenting how many undead currently roam the planet.

By Brian James

Each time fifteen-year-old Hannah and her out-of-work father move she has some fears about making friends, but a classmate warns her that in Maplecrest, Vermont, the cheerleaders really are monsters.

By Amanda Ashby

While trying to cast a love spell on her date on the eve of the senior prom, Mia inadvertently infects her entire high school class with a virus that will turn them all into zombies.

By Max Brooks

The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain.

By Justine Larbalestier

Twelve short stories by a variety of authors seek to answer the question of whether zombies are better than unicorns.