Books, Teens, Horror

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Stephenie Meyer
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1)
by Little, Brown Young Readers (Kindle Edition) (Release Date: 2007-07-18)

Neil Gaiman
Coraline
by HarperTeen (Paperback) (Release Date: 2004-05-04)

Mary Shelley
Frankenstein (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Dover Publications (Paperback)

Laura Whitcomb
A Certain Slant of Light
by Graphia (Paperback)

In the class of the high school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: for the first time in 130 years, human eyes are looking at her. They belong to a boy, a boy who has not seemed remarkable until now. And Helen—terrified, but intrigued—is drawn to him. The fact that he is in a body and she is not presents this unlikely couple with their first challenge. But as the lovers struggle to find a way to be together, they begin to discover the secrets of their former lives and of the young people they come to possess.

Annette Curtis Klause
Blood and Chocolate
by Delacorte Books for Young Readers (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1997-08-11)

Stephen King
Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, Book 4)
by Rebound by Sagebrush (Library Binding)

Cassandra Clare
City of Bones (Mortal Instruments)
by Margaret K. McElderry (Hardcover)

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing -- not even a smear of blood -- to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know. . . ...

Scott Westerfeld
Midnighters #1: The Secret Hour
by HarperTeen (Library Binding) (Release Date: 2004-03-02)

Nobody is safe in the secret hour. Strange things happen at midnight in the town of Bixby, Oklahoma. Time freezes. Nobody moves. For one secret hour each night, the town belongs to the dark creatures that haunt the shadows. Only a small group of people know about the secret hour -- only they are free to move about the midnight time. These people call themselves Midnighters. Each one has a different power that is strongest at midnight: Seer, Mindcaster, Acrobat, Polymath. For years the Midnighters and the dark creatures have shared the secret hour, uneasily avoiding one another. All that changes when the new girl with an unmistakable midnight aura appears at Bixby High School. Jessica Day is not an outsider like the other Midnighters. She acts perfectly normal in every way. But it soon becomes clear that the dark creatures sense a hidden power in Jessica . . . and they're determined to stop her before she can use it. A story of courage, shadowy perils, and ...

Oscar Wilde
Picture of Dorian Gray (An Airmont Classic)
by Peter Smith Publisher Inc (Paperback)

Neal Shusterman
Unwind
by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing (Hardcover)

In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would "unwind" themConnor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev's unwinding has been planned since his birth, as part of his family's strict religion. Brought together by chance, and kept together by desperation, these three unlikely companions make a harrowing cross-country journey, knowing their lives hang in the balance. If they can survive until theireighteenth birthday, they can't be harmed -- but when every piece of them, from their hands to their hearts, are wanted by a world gone mad, eighteen seems far, far away.In Unwind, Boston Globe/Horn Book Award winner Neal Shusterman challenges readers' ideas about life -- not just where life begins, and where it ends, but what it truly means to be alive.

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