NEW TEEN BOOKS

Pet Shop of Horrors by Matsuri Akino

"Welcome to Chinatown!  During you visit, be sure to stop by Count D's pet shop, where love and dreams are sold in the form of mythical creatures -- but not without a catch.  The buyer must adhere to a set of rules, which if broken, may result in death...or worse!

Story Time by Edward Bloor

George and Kate are promised the best education but instead face obsessed administrators, endless tests, and evil spirits when they are transferred to Whittaker Magnet School.

Bram Stoker's Dracula by Bram Stoker

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

Bloodline by Kate Cary

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.

Blue Girl by Charles de Lint

New at her high school, Imogene enlists the help of her introverted friend Maxine and the ghost of a boy who haunts the school, after receiving warnings through her dreams that soul-eaters are threatening her life.

Got Fangs? by Kate Maxwell

The first book in a new paranormal series by the bestselling author of the Emily series.  "I used to think all I wanted was to have a normal life.  You know, where I could be one of the crowd and blend in , so no one would know just how different I am.  But now I'm stuck in the middle of Hungary with my mom, working for a traveling fair with psychics, magicians, and other really weird people, and somehow, blending in with this crowd doesn't look so good."

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

Gothic!: Ten Original Dark Tales by Deborah Noyes

Goosebumps are for kids, Gothic is for those who welcome the night with both open arms and opened imaginations.  Come my children, what are you afraid of?

Killing Britney by Sean Olin

Ever since Britney transformed herself from freak-and-geek to the most popular girl in school, her life has been touched by tragedy.  First it was her mom, who drowned on a family rafting trip.  Then her hockey-star boyfriend, Ricky, was killed in a hit-and-run.  When the deaths continue to pile up, everyone fears for Britney.  Sure she's popular, blond, and fabulous.  But is that enough reason for someone to want to...kill her?

Thirteen by Tonya Pines (editor)

Assembled on the pages of this anthology are 13 original short stories by the best known writers of the genre: Christopher Pike, R.L. Stine, A. Bates, D.E. Athkins, Lael Littke and Pat Windsor - just to name a few.  They have given us their best.  You'll be cast into an endless night of wax museum horrors, vampire love, deadly dolls, and ... who knows what else may await you?  So let the masters take you and do their worst - with their best.

Lord Loss by Darran Shan

Presumably the only witness to the horrific and bloody murder of his entire family, a teenage boy must outwit not only the mental health professionals determined to cure his delusion, but also the demonic forces only he can see.

Dread Locks: Dark Fusion by Neal 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.

The Last Universe by William Sleator

When her desperately ill older brother insists that she take him into their mysterious backyard garden, designed by their quantum physicist great uncle, fourteen-year-old Susan discovers that things are not always what they seem.

The Boy Who Couldn't Die by William Sleator

When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul away.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

A kind and well-respected doctor is transformed into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug of his own creation.

Dangerous Girls by R.L. Stine

After sixteen-year-old Destiny and her twin sister Libby are turned into partial vampires at a summer camp, they try to find the "Restorer," someone who can return them to normal.

Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan

Did you know that 26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats?  Twenty-five percent of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused?  And that rats destroy an estimated one-third of the world's food supply each year? The rat has been called the world's most destructive mammal - other than man.  A female rat can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year: one pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year. EWWWWW!

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.

Midnighters by Scott Westerfeld

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.

Peeps by Scott Westerfeld

Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.

The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding

Thaniel, just seventeen, is a wych-hunter.  Together, he and Cathaline - his friend and mentor - track down the fearful creatures that lurk in the Old Quarter of London.  It is on one of these hunts that he first encounters Alaizabel Cray.  Alaizabel is half-crazed, lovely, and possessed.  Whatever dreadful entity has entered her soul has turned her into a strange and unearthly magnet - attracting evil and drawing horrors from every dark corner.  Cathaline and Thaniel must discover its cause - and defend humanity at all costs.

Rats by Paul Zindel

When mutant rats threaten to take over Staten Island, which has become a huge landfill, fourteen-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Mike try to figure out how to stop them.

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 expeditions's leaders aren't interested in preserving the creatures.