Armstrong, Kelly. The Summoning. (2008) Darkest Powers trilogy; bk.1 ISBN: 9780061450549 $8.99 pbk
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. The Awakening (2009) ISBN: 9780061450556 and The Reckoning (2009) ISBN: 9780061450563 both $8.99 pbk

Clare, Cassandra. City of Bones. (2007) Mortal Instruments series; bk.1 ISBN: 978-1416955078 $10.99 pbk
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. City of Ashes (2008) ISBN: 9781416972242 $10.99 pbk; City of Glass (2009) ISBN: 9781416972259 $10.99 pbk and City of Fallen Angels (2011) ISBN: 9781442403543 $17.99 HC. Set of first three pbk: ISBN: 9781442409521 $29.99

Durst, Sarah Beth. Drink, Slay, Love. (2011) ISBN: 9781442423732 $17.99 HC
Try this if you like snarky humor and sweet romance. After sixteen-year-old vampire Pearl Sange is stabbed through the heart by a were-unicorn, she develops non-vampire-like traits that lead her to save her high school classmates from the Vampire King of New England.

Gray, Claudia. Evernight. (2008) Evernight series; bk.1 ISBN: 0061284440 $8.99 pbk
Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Lucas, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca’s entire world. This is an interesting twist on vampires told from the female point-of-view. Stargazer(2009) ISBN: 0061284467 $8.99 pbk; Hourglass (2010) ISBN: 9780061284489 $8.99 pbk and Afterlife (2011) ISBN: 9780061284427 $16.99 HC

Hunter, C.C. Born at Midnight. (2011) Shadow Falls series; bk.1 ISBN: 0312624670 $9.99 pbk
Sixteen-year-old Kylie Galen thinks her misbehavior in the wake of her grandmother’s death and her parents’ separation are the reasons she has been sent to Shadow Falls Camp, but learns it is a training ground for vampires, werewolves, and other “freaky freaks,” of which she may be one. Awake at Dawn (2011) ISBN: 9780312624682 $9.99 pbk

Klause, Annette Curtis. Blood and Chocolate. 1997) ISBN: 9780385734219 $8.99 pbkHaving 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.

Stiefvater, Maggie. Shiver. (2009) Wolves of Mercy Falls Trilogy; bk.1 ISBN: 9780545123273 $8.99 pbk
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity. Linger(2010) ISBN: 9780545123297 $9.99 pbk and Forever (2011) ISBN: 9780545259088 $17.99. HC Series 3HC Set: ISBN: 9780545326865 $52.97

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