Books with Bite
Vamps, Ghosts, Monsters and other Gothic Tales for those who enjoy books like Twilight.
Anderson, M. T. Thirsty
All Chris really wants is to be a normal kid, to hang out with his friends, avoid his parents, and get a date with Rebecca Schwartz. Unfortunately, Chris appears to be turning into a vampire. Who can he trust to help him avoid this fate?
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. Demon in My View
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. (Also by Amelia Atwater Rhodes: In the Forests of the Night, Midnight Predator, Shattered Mirror)
Black, Holly. Valiant
Seventeen-year-old Valerie, who has befriended an unusual group, now is bound into service with a troll. (Also by Holly Black: Tithe, Ironside)
Bray, Libba. A Great and Terrible Beauty
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. (Also by Libba Bray: Rebel Angels, Sweet Far Thing)
Brewer, Heather. Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites
For 13 years, Vlad, aided by his aunt and best friend, has kept secret his half-vampire heritage, but when his missing teacher is replaced by a sinister substitute, he learns that there is more to being a vampire, and to his parents’ deaths, than he could have guessed (series).
Cabot, Meg. Jinx
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.
Cabot, Meg. Mediator: Shadowland
After moving from New York to California with her newly married mother, 16-year-old Susannah has to cope not only with her new stepbrothers, but also with the handsome ghost sitting in her new bedroom and the angry girl ghost haunting her new school. (Mediator Series)
Clare, Cassandra. City of Bones
In her first meeting with the Shadowhunters, a secret tribe of warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons, Clary must come to terms with her recently revealed gift of the Sight while dealing with her brother's near-death encounter with a demon and the sudden disappearance of her mother. (First Book in the Mortal Instruments Series)
De la Cruz, Melissa Blue Bloods
It’s a New York City prep school like many others, until students from very old families begin to be discovered , drained of their blood. Schuyler Van Allen wants to know what‘s going on... But when she discovers the truth, she wishes she’d never found out.
Dunkle, Clare B. Hollow Kingdom
In nineteenth-century England, a powerful sorcerer and King of the Goblins chooses Kate, the elder of two orphan girls recently arrived at their ancestral home, Hallow Hill, to be his bride and queen. (First book in a Trilogy)
Hahn, Mary Downing. Look for Me by Moonlight
While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.
Hautman, Pete Sweetblood
Lucy has a theory that, long ago, slowly dying diabetics were the first vampires. As a diabetic herself, Lucy counts herself among the undead. As Sweetblood, she visits Internet chat rooms where “vampires” gather. There she meets Draco, who claims to be a real vampire, and Lucy’s not entirely sure he’s kidding.
Klause, Annette Curtis The Silver Kiss
Zoe is wary when, in the dead of night, the beautiful yet frightening Simon comes to her house. Simon seems to understand the pain of loneliness and death and Zoe’s brooding thoughts of her dying mother. Simon is seeking revenge for the death of his own mother, yet she died over 300 years before.
Leavitt, Martine. Keturah and Lord Death
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.
Mancusi, Marianne. Boys that Bite
Bitten by a vampire after being mistaken for her Goth twin sister, Rayne, sixteen-year-old Sunny is in a race against time as she tries to prevent herself from becoming a vampire permanently.
Marr, Melissa. Wicked Lovely
Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.
Meehl, Brian. Suck it up
After graduating from the International Vampire League, a scrawny, teenage vampire named Morning is given the chance to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a superhero when he embarks on a League mission to become the first vampire to reveal his identity to humans.
Melling, O.R. Hunter’s Moon
Two teenage cousins, one Irish, the other from the United States, set out to find a magic doorway to the Faraway Country, where humans must bow to the little people. (Chronicles of Faerie Series)
Pauley, Kimberly Sucks to Be Me
When sixteen year old Mina is forced to take a class to help her decide whether or not to become a vampire like her parents, she also faces a choice between her life-long best friend and potential boyfriend vs. new friends in her “vampire lessons” class.
Schreiber, Ellen. Vampire Kisses
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. (Series)
Smith, Cynthia Leitich. Tantalize
When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.
Somper, Justin. Demons of the Ocean
When twins Connor and Grace's ship is wrecked in a storm and Connor is rescued by pirates, he believes that Grace has been taken aboard the mythical Vampirate's ship, and he is determined to find her. (First book in the Vampirates Series)
Vande Velde, Vivian Companions of the Night
Kerry’s got a tough night ahead of her. What begins as a simple lost-and-found trip to the laundromat turns into a nightmarish odyssey of murder, vampires, and true love.
Westerfeld, Scott. Peeps
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.
Whedon, Joss Buffy Season 8: The Long Way Home
This graphic novel picks up where the TV series ended with Buffy leading an army of slayers against the forces of darkness. Yet new enemies start moving against our heroes, including the US Army and some slayers who use their newfound powers for evil. (series includes No Future for You)
Whitcomb, Laura. A Certain Slant of Light
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.
Wooding, Chris. Poison
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.
from a listing of titles suggested by members of YALSA-BK. August 2007 and the Pittsburgh Library Teen website.