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Werewolves and Vampires
The silver
kiss by Annette Curtis
Klause.
A mysterious
teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoe come to terms with her mother's
terminal illness.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.5
Blood and
chocolate by Annette
Curtis Klause.
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.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.4
Tartabull's
throw by Henry Garfield.
In 1967 an
encounter with a mysterious young woman from Maine involves a nineteen-year-old
baseball player in an investigation of a vicious, murderous werewolf.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.9
Dead until
dark by Charlaine Harris.
Louisiana
cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, cursed with the ability to read minds,
thinks she has finally gotten lucky when tall, dark, handsome Bill, whose mind
is totally blocked from her, comes into her life, but she soon learns that her
dream man is a vampire with a bad reputation, and when a murder goes down, she
begins to fear for her life.
Living dead in
Dallas by Charlaine
Harris.
Sookie uses her
telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire.
Children of
the night by Dan Simmons.
Kate Neuman, a
hematologist, adopts a Romanian baby boy who requires biweekly transfusions to
survive. She returns to Colorado and eventually comes face-to-face with
Dracula.
The cowboy and
the vampire : a very unusual romance by Clark Hays & Kathleen McFall. New York City Vampire leader
Julius claims reporter Lizzie Vaughan, who does not know she holds a
two-thousand-year-old Vampire legacy in her veins, as his unwilling queen, and
her Wyoming cowboy boyfriend embarks on a perilous mission to save her.
Bitten by Kelley Armstrong.
Journalist Elena
Michaels, turned into a werewolf by her ex-finance, leaves her elite pack in
New York and moves to Toronto in an attempt to live a normal life with a
regular guy, but when the pack calls upon her for help in destroying some
dangerous non-pack werewolves, she feels herself strongly tempted by the call
of the wild.
Moondog by Henry Garfield.
In the small town
of Julian, California, an eccentric newspaper columnist by the name of Moondog
suspects that two recent brutal murders are connected to the full moon, which
leads him to pull Joe Acton, Julian's newest resident, into his investigation
in hopes of solving the mystery before the town's Halloween festivities.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.0
A walk in Wolf
Wood : a tale of fantasy and magic by Mary Stewart.
When a weeping
man in a strange costume passes their picnic spot and disappears into the
nearby woods, a brother and sister decide to follow him and soon find
themselves involved in the rescue of a werewolf in the 14th century.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 5.4
The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce.
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.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.8
Companions of
the night by Vivian Vande
Velde.
When
sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who
claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous
choices.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.1
Interview with
the vampire by Anne Rice.
Presents the
confessions of Louis, a vampire, and tells of his relationship with the vampire
Lestat.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.9
The tale of
the body thief by Anne
Rice.
Lestat, vampire
hero, enchanter, and seducer of mortals embarks on a dangerous enterprise when
he begins to question his vampire rationale.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.1
Cirque du
freak by Darren 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.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.8
Cirque du
freak : the vampire's assistant by Darren Shan.
After traveling
with Mr. Crepsley, the vampire who made him into a half-vampire, Darren returns
to the freak show known as the Cirque du Freak and continues to fight his need
to drink human blood.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
Cirque du
freak : tunnels of blood by
Darren Shan.
Darren, Evra, and
Mr. Crepsley leave the Cirque Du Freak and get a taste of the city, but when
corpses drained of blood are discovered, Darren and Evra must confront a
dangerous creature of the night.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
The last
vampire by Christopher
Pike.
Alisa has been a
vampire for centuries. Now she has a mysterious enemy who hunts her. If Ray
helps her, will she use him merely as bait?
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.3
Dracula by Bram Stoker.
The mysterious
Transylvanian Count Dracula wreaks havoc onyoung businessman Jonathan Harker,
his fiancee Mina, and several others, and when he is revealed to be a vampire,
he must be destroyed at all costs.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.6
Dangerous
girls : a novel by R.L.
Stine.
After
sixteen-year-old Destiny and her twin sister Livvy are turned into partial
vampires at a summer camp, they try to find the "Restorer," someone
who can return them to normal.
Demon in my
view by Amelia
Atwater-Rhodes.
Seventeen-year-old
Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when
she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the
teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.4
Witches, Wizards, & the Occult
Shattered
mirror by Amelia
Atwater-Rhodes.
As
seventeen-year-old Sarah, daughter of a powerful line of vampire-hunting
witches, continues to pursue the ancient bloodsucker Nikolas, she finds herself
in a dangerous friendship with two vampire siblings in her high school.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.9
Book of
shadows by Cate Tiernan.
A seemingly
average teenage girl named Morgan begins to experience strange powers and
feelings, making her crush, Cal, a Wiccan himself, wonder if she could be a
blood witch, a member of one of the Seven Great Clans.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.8
The other ones by Jean Thesman.
In school, I hated being called
ŌgiftedĶ. It either meant one of
two things: you were smart, and
therefore made fun of, or you were slow, and therefore made fun of. Either way, you were screwed. Bridget is gifted too, but in ways that
make people pretty uneasy. In past
times, theyÕve burned those whoÕve had BridgetÕs ŌgiftsĶ. Yep, Bridget is a witch, but one in
complete denial. She doesnÕt want to be a Wiccan, doesnÕt want to be
different. But when a mysterious
new girl joins BridgetÕs class giving off some desperately sad vibes, Bridget
knows she has to use her powers to help.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
Witch child by Celia Rees.
In 1659,
fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to
the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans
near Salem, Massachusetts.
The coven by Cate Tiernan.
Sixteen-year-old
Morgan is confused when she learns that she is a real, ancestral witch, her
parents and sister are not her true family, and she is too powerful to belong
to a coven.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.8
Changeling by Cate Tiernan.
Seventeen-year-old
Morgan, still trying to cope with the realization that she is a powerful blood
witch, is thrown into further turmoil when she is contacted by the witch's
council for help in controlling her evil father.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.2
Charmed again
: a novelization by
Elizabeth Lenhard.
"Based on
the episodes 'All hell breaks loose' and 'Charmed again' written by Brad
Kern."
"Based on
the hit TV series created by Constance M. Burge."
Piper and Phoebe
use a spell to try to bring Prue back so that the Power of Three can be
restored.
Shadow of the
Sphinx : an original novel
by Carla Jablonski.
Piper and Phoebe,
attempting to free Paige from a self-imposed spell which has turned her into a
cat, find themselves with trouble on their hands when they unwittingly release
another cat-woman from ancient Egypt.
Mirror image :
an original novel by Jeff
Mariotte.
Secrets among the
sisters have the Charmed ones on the verge of breaking up, while women all over
town are being murdered by supernatural means.
Dark vengeance
: a novelization by Diana
G. Gallagher.
The Charmed Ones
find themselves out of sorts and distracted by everyday events, but they soon
discover a dark force is working against them and they must find a way to
determine who they can trust to help them.
Witch by Christopher Pike.
Julia is a good
witch who uses the supernatural powers at her command to try and save a young
man she meets at a football game who she believes is destined to die.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
Rosemary's
baby; a novel by Ira
Levin
She is a
housewife - young, healthy, blissfully happy.
He is an actor -
charismatic and ambitious.
The spacious,
sun-filled apartment on ManhattanÕs Upper West Side is their dream home - a
dream that turns into an unspeakable nightmare . . .
Stitches in
time by Barbara Michaels.
When an antique
quilt mysteriously appears at the shop where Rachel works, it has an ominous
effect on her. The evil that appears to emanate from the quilt threatens to
destroy Rachel and the people she cares about.
Gothic! : ten
original dark tales
edited by Deborah Noyes.
Presents ten
original stories of vampires, ghosts, witches, and sorcerers, including
selections from Joan Aiken, Neil Gaiman, Gregory Maguire, and others.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.4
The witching
hour by Anne Rice.
Rowan Mayfair
finds the drowned body of a man and brings him back to life. Together they try
to solve the mystery of her past and his suddenly acquired sensory power. It
takes them through four centuries of witchcraft and the occult.
Taltos : lives
of the Mayfair witches by
Anne Rice.
Mr. Ash learns
there are other surviving Taltos and goes to New Orleans, where he becomes
involved with the Mayfair witches.
Heaven and
earth by Nora Roberts.
On mysterious
Three Sisters Island, sheriff's deputy Ripley Todd attempts to control the
frightening powers she possesses until witchcraft scholar MacAllister Booke
arrives on the island and helps her break out of denial and embrace her
identity--little knowing that centuries-old danger lies in wait.
Strange Powers & other Supernatural Stuff
The fallen.
Book 1 by Thomas E.
Sniegoski.
Aaron, an
eighteen-year-old orphan, discovers that he has supernatural powers and that he
is to be a liason between the good and evil powers.
The fallen. Book
two, Leviathan by Thomas
E. Sniegoski.
Eighteen-year-old
Aaron gets involved in the war against the Powers after they kill his foster
parents and kidnap his brother Steven.
Fade by Robert Cormier
Paul Moreaux, the
thirteen-year-old son of French Canadian immigrants, inherits the ability to
become invisible, but this power soon leads to death and destruction.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.3
Clockwork, or,
All wound up by Philip
Pullman ; with illustrations by Leonid Gore.
Long ago in
Germany, a storyteller's story and an apprentice clockwork-maker's nightmare
meet in a menacing, lifelike figure created by the strange Dr. Kalmenius.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
Dreadful sorry by Kathryn Reiss.
Seventeen-year-old
Molly is plagued by nightmares and visions of a girl who died over eighty years
ago.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.9
Carrie by Stephen King
Presents the
unnerving story of a terribly ostracized young girl with supernatural powers of
telekinesis.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.8
My soul to
keep by Tananarive Due.
Dawit, one of a
sect of Ethiopian scholars who traded his soul for eternal life four hundred
years earlier, threatens to break his vow of secrecy in order to keep his
beloved wife Jessica and daughter Kira with him forever.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.5
A great and
terrible beauty by Libba
Bray.
After witnessing
the horrific murder of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma, who
sometimes has visions of the future, is sent to a boarding school with a dark
supernatural secret at itÕs core and three witchy classmates who become the
catalyst for GemmaÕs discovery of a ghostly, ghastly power that could destroy
them all.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.1
Dust by Arthur Slade.
Eleven-year-old
Robert is the only one who can help when a mysterious stranger arrives,
performing tricks and promising to bring rain, at the same time children begin
to disappear from a dust bowl farm town in Saskatchewan in the 1930s.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.6
Sorcerers of
the Nightwing by Geoffrey
Huntington.
Devon March, a
young man with the ability to move objects with his mind, finds himself haunted
by the monsters in his closet as they try to drag him down to their Hellhole.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.4
Ghosts & Haunted Houses
The haunting of
Hill House by Shirley
Jackson.
Four seekers look
for haunting evidence at the abandoned old mansion called Hill House. Their
stay begins as a spooky encounter, but the house is gathering its powers and
will choose one of them to make its own.
A stir of bones
by Nina Kiriki Hoffman.
After discovering
the secrets that lie in an abandoned house, fourteen-year-old Susan Backstrom,
with the help of some new friends, has the ability to make a safe, new life for
herself.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
The time of
the ghost by Diana Wynne
Jones.
A ghost,
uncertain of her identity, watches the four Melford sisters hatch a plan to get
their parents' attention and slowly becomes aware of the danger from a
supernatural power unleashed by the girls and their friends from the boys
boarding school run by the Melfords.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.5
Seattle ghost
story by Nick
DiMartino
Pepper Merlino,
her neighbor Joe Strozza, and eleven-year-old Billy Beck become caught up in a
supernatural mystery when they all witness Pepper's grandmother lose her
balance and tumble to her death from a bridge over a ravine.
The afterlife by Gary Soto.
A senior at East
Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the restroom
of a club where he had gone to dance.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.2
No time to die by Elizabeth Chandler.
Jenny is stalked
by a serial killer-- the same murderer who killed her sister Liza, who tries to
warn her from the grave.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.3
Bone dance by Martha Brooks.
When her father
wills her a cabin on land in rural Manitoba, Alexandra meets a young man who
shares her Indian heritage and her experience of being haunted by spirits.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 4.7
The good house
: a novel by Tananarive
Due.
The house that
Angela ToussaintÕs late grandmother owned is so beloved that townspeople call
it the Good House. But is it? Angela hoped her grandmother's famous magic could save her
failing marriage while she and her family lived in her grandmother's house;
instead an unexpected tragedy ripped the family apart. Two years later, Angela discovers more
senseless tragedies have occured since she left - could they be linked to a
terrible entity AngelaÕs grandmother battled in 1929? Did her teenage son Corey reawaken something that should have been left sleeping?
Real ghosts,
restless spirits, and haunted places by Brad Steiger.
A collection of
true ghost stories and first-person narratives of close encounters with
spirits, ghosts, and haunted places.
Haunted Ohio :
ghostly tales from the Buckeye State by Chris Woodyard.
A collection of
Ohio ghost stories and ghostlore, featuring fifteen selections from throughout
the history of the state.
Haunted Ohio
Volume II : more ghostly tales from the Buckeye State by Chris Woodyard.
A collection of
Ohio ghost stories and ghostlore, featuring fifteen selections from throughout
the history of the state.
Monsters & Other Creatures
Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis
Stevenson ; adapted by Janice Greene.
Presents an
adaptation of the classic story about a respected doctor who creates a potion
that turns him into a vicious criminal.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.4
Meg : a novel
of deep terror by Steve
Alten.
Terror surfaces
from the deep after ocean explorers run afoul of a male and female Carcharodon
megalodon--a gigantic ancestor of the great white shark long believed to be
extinct--alive and well off the coast of Japan.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 8.1
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Victor
Frankenstein has discovered the secret of generating life from lifeless matter,
and has created a monster being by using this terrible power.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 12.4
The dark pond by Joseph Bruchac
After he feels a
mysterious pull drawing him toward a dark, shadowy pond in the woods, Armie
looks to old Native American tales for guidance about the dangerous monster
lurking in the water.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.3
Watchers by Dean Koontz.
Relates the
adventures of two creatures which have escaped from a secret, sinister
government laboratory where experiments in genetic engineering are conducted.
Prowlers by Christopher Golden.
Nineteen-year-old
Jack Dwyer searches for the killer of his best friend and discovers a band of
beasts called the Prowlers, who disguise themselves as humans and feed on them
as well.
Night of the
bat by Paul Zindel.
Teenage Jake
joins his father on an expedition to study bats in the Brazilian rain forest
and finds the project menaced by a giant brain-eating bat.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.4
Loch : a novel
by Paul Zindel.
Fifteen-year-old
Loch and his younger sister join their father on a scientific expedition
searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in a Vermont lake, but it
soon becomes obvious that the expedition's leaders aren't interested in
preserving the creatures.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.4
The doom stone by Paul Zindel.
When
fifteen-year-old Jackson visits his aunt in England, he becomes caught up in a
chase to capture an unknown creature who is stalking and killing people on the
plains surrounding ancient Stonehenge.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 5.2
Scientific & Biomedical
The Andromeda
strain by Michael
Crichton.
For five days,
American scientists struggle to identify and control a deadly new form of life.
The cobra
event by Richard Preston.
Dr. Alice Austen,
an officer with the Epidemic Intelligence Service branch of the Centers for
Disease Control, goes to New York to investigate the hideous and mysterious
death of a seventeen-year-old girl, and uncovers a terrorist plot involving the
use of biological weapons.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.2
Dr. Franklin's
island by Ann Halam.
When their plane
crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a
tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying
experiments on humans involving the transfer of animal genes.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.0
Double helix by Nancy Werlin.
Eighteen-year-old
Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for
a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.0
The stand by Stephen King.
It's 1985 and a
deadly 'superflu' practically wipes out the population of the U.S. Gradually
survivors trail across a wasteland of horror and death to congregate in two
zones, one the embodiment of good, the other the embodiment of evil.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
Mutation by Robin Cook.
Ob/gyn and
biomolecular researcher Dr. Victor Frank attempts to create a superior being,
his son, in a dangerous experiment.
Contagion by Robin Cook.
Dr. John
Stapleton, embittered by the deaths of his wife and daughters in a plane crash
and the loss of his ophthalmology practice to AmeriCare, retrains for a career
in forensic pathology where he uncovers a plot by the health care giant to kill
off its more costly subscribers.
Terminal by Robin Cook.
Third year
medical student Sean Murphy goes to a renowned cancer treatment center and
discovers the horror of their remarkable cures.
The hot zone by Richard Preston.
Tells the
dramatic story of U.S. Army scientists and soldiers who worked to stop the
outbreak of a deadly and extremely contagious virus in 1989.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.3
Psychological Horror
Shattering
Glass by Gail Giles.
The first three
lines from Shattering Glass:
ŌSimon Glass was easy to hate.
I never knew exactly why, there was too much to pick from. I guess, really, we each hated him for
a different reason, but we didnÕt realize it until the day we killed him.Ķ
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
Summer of
night by Dan Simmons.
Something or
someone is stalking the young people of Elm Haven, Illinois in the summer of
1960. When a long silent bell begins to peal in the middle of the darkest
summer night, the reign of terror starts.
The between :
a novel by Tananarive
Due.
Hilton James,
saved from drowning by his grandmother at the cost of her own life when he was
a boy, is haunted by nightmares thirty years later as a man stalks his wife and
children.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
We have always
lived in the castle by
Shirley Jackson.
Merricat
Blackwood protects her sister, Constance, from the curiosity and hostility of
the villagers after murders occur on the family estate.
The bad seed :
a novel by William March
; with a new introduction by Elaine Showalter.
A reprint of a
1954 thriller that tells the story of little Rhoda Penmark, a child serial
killer.
Tenderness : a
novel by Robert Cormier.
A psychological
thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the
runaway girl who falls in love with him.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.0
What happened
to Lani Garver by Carol
Plum-Ucci.
Lani GarverÕs
arrival on Hackett Island creates quite a stir. The islandÕs residents have never been welcoming to
strangers, but in the case of the mysterious Lani, itÕs even worse - they canÕt
even tell if Lani is a boy or a girl. Popular Claire isnÕt up to tormenting Lani along with
the rest of the high school elite.
With real troubles of her own, Claire reluctantly befriends the
intriguing outcast and becomes marked as well. Within days of LaniÕs arrival, torment turns to tragedy, and
Claire is left wondering just who - or what - Lani was.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.1
The body of
Christopher Creed by
Carol Plum-Ucci.
Torey Adams, a
high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and
questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.3
The rag and
bone shop : a novel by
Robert Cormier.
Trent, an ace
interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted
twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument,
Massachusetts.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
Shadow people by Joyce McDonald.
They all have a
reason to be angry. Gabriel lost
his beloved brother when a gang of kids murdered him for his leather jacket on
the subway. LydiaÕs father never
lets her do a single solitary thing without his consent - and that means dates,
friends, trips, ANYTHING. Alec
bitterly blames everyone in authority at his former high school for turning him
into a dropout drug additct.
Hollis is short, fat and brilliant, not to mention pissed at all the
people who discount his intelligence based on his appearance. And he knows a way to channel all of
their rage into a single act that will get back at all those people who hurt
them once and for all. Gabe,
Lydia, and Alec are resolved to follow HollisÕs plan to the end. But then innocent Gem accidentally gets
involved in the group when she and Gabe fall for each other. Suddently, Gabe is having a change of
heart. But Hollis wonÕt let anyone
leave the group until their plan is complete. And he will use any means necessary to protect the plan . .
.even murder.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.0
Killing Mr.
Griffin by Lois Duncan.
A joke about
killing the toughest teacher in school, the one who demands the most and gives
the lowest grades, becomes a topic of serious discussion among the boys in the
local hangout.