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If you liked "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer ...
Ideas for high school readers:
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Valiant (Holly Black) Seventeen-year-old Valerie, who has befriended an unusual group, now is bound into service with a troll.
- Great and Terrible Beauty (Libba Bray) 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.
- Blue Bloods (Melissa de la Cruz) Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.
- Marked (P.C. Cast)
- Sweetblood (Pete Hautman) 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.
- Blood and Cholcoate (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.
- Vampire Academy (Richelle Mead)Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.
- Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
- Peeps (Scott Westerfeld)
- Certain Slant of Light (Laura Whitcomb)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.
Ideas for middle school readers
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Thirsty (M.T. Anderson)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.
- Midnight Predator (Amelia Atwater-Rhodes)Turquoise Draka, a mercenary trained to fight vampires, witches, and shape-shifters, infiltrates a vampire stronghold, but ghosts from her past and new possibilities for her future threaten to distract her from the work at hand.
- Jinx (Meg Cabot) Sixteen-year-old Jean "Jinx" Honeychurch, the descendant of a witch, must leave Iowa to live with relatives in Manhattan after the first spell she casts goes awry, but she will have to improve her skills to stop her cousin from practicing black magic that endangers them and the boy they both like.
- The Cheerleader (Caroline B. Cooney The friendless Althea yearns to be a beautiful, popular cheerleader. She gets her chance when she makes an evil bargain with the vampire.
- Stardust (Neil Gaiman)
- Keturah and Lord Death (Martine Leavitt) 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.
- Vampire Kisses (Ellen Schreiber) Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true.
- Cirque du Freak (Darren Shan)
- Companions of the Night (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.
- Poison (Chris Wooding) When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny.