Aliens
Adams, Douglas. Hitchhiker's trilogy series
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Book One
Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend. Together they journey through the galaxy. (YA Fic SF & Fic SF)

Christopher, John. Tripods series
The White Mountains - Book One
Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the Tripods, the huge, three-legged machines that control Earth by "capping" mature humans with brainwashing devices that make them docile, obedient servants. (Juv Fic SF)

Clarke, Arthur C. Childhood's End.
When the Overlords first came to Earth, they brought peace and prosperity with them, but it soon became apparent that their purpose was the elimination of the human race. (YA Fic SF & Fic SF)

Nightow, Yasuhiro. Trigun and Trigun Maximum series
Deep Space Planet Future Gun Action!! - Book One
Vash the Stampede is an enigmatic figure with a very large bounty on his head. The gunslinging pacifist can't seem to get away from the trigger-happy people who'd like to collect the money, but he's not an easy man to kill. (YA 741.5)

Okuda, Hitoshi. No Need for Tenchi! series
Book One
Teenager Tenchi Masaki accidentally releases the demon Ryoko from his grandfather's Shinto shrine and finds himself in the midst of an adventure involving a Ryoko-double, an evil alien warrior, and a plot to abduct an alien princess. (YA 741.5)

Patterson, James. Daniel X series
The Dangerous Days of Daniel X - Book One
Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence of Earth and another planet are at stake. (YA Fic SF)

Rex, Adam. The True Meaning of Smekday
When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or "Smekday" Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the family car and heads south to find her and meets an alien Boov mechanic who agrees to help her and save the planet from disaster. (Juv Fic SF)

Stern, Stephen. War of the Worlds
This graphic novel updates H.G. Wells's familiar story of alien invasion and sets it in modern-day New York, adding such details as the face-like formation on Mars photographed by the Viking Orbiter. Hero Geoff Wills is a reporter with a pregnant wife who goes into labor at just the wrong moment. He and a ragged group of civilians face the deadly invading Martian tripods, fighting to survive as the military fails to protect them. (YA 741.5)

Tiger, Caroline. The UFO Hunter's Handbook.
This guide for the UFO hunter is chock-full of all the information you'll need to become a skilled hunter of all things paranormal. You'll find an introduction to the types of creatures you might encounter and helpful hints on where and when you might find them. You'll also find a sampling of phrases and pictograms-to avoid any miscommunication when face to face with your subject. Wondering how to increase your chances of being taken aboard a UFO? Take this quiz and find out! (j001.942)

Classic Transformers series
Book Two
Optimus Prime and the Autobots fight Megatron and the evil Decepticons in an attempt to protect humans and find a new home. (YA 741.5)

Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds.
The chilling novel account of a Martian invasion of London in the nineteenth century (Juv Fic SF)

Yoshizaki, Mine. Sgt. Frog series
Book One
Sgt. Keroro, commanding officer of Planet Keron's invasion force, has a problem. After blowing his cover and losing his top-secret weapon, the frog-like alien has been cut off from his homeworld. To make matters worse, he's lost communications with the rest of his platoon. Now he has taken cover in the Hinata family household, where in exchange for doing his share of the chores, he gets his own room from which to secretly devise new plans for world domination! (YA 741.5)

Fairies
Balog, Cyn. Fairy Tale.
Morgan Sparks and her boyfriend Cam have been best friends since they were children, but just before their shared sixteenth birthday Cam confesses that he is a fairy who was switched at birth with a human child, and now the fairies want to switch them back. (YA Fic SF)

Bird, Eugenie. Fairie-ality: The Fashion Collection From the House of Ellwand.
Pages from the catalog of the top designer of couture and accessories for the fairy world, interspersed with descriptions of the events to which these feather and flower creations will be worn. (YA 398.21)

Black, Holly. The Good Neighbors series
Book One
Sixteen-year-old Rue Silver, whose mother disappeared weeks ago, believes she is going crazy until she learns that the strange things she has been seeing are real, and that she is one of the faerie creatures, or Good Neighbors, that mortals cannot see. (YA 741.5)

Black, Holly. Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny. (YA Fic SF)

Black, Holly. Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie
Valerie, a seventeen-year-old runaway, finds herself bound into the service of a hideous yet honorable troll. (YA Fic SF)

Black, Holly. Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale
As the possessor of Roibin's true name, sixteen-year-old Kaye returns to Faeryland to try and complete a nearly-impossible quest that will release him from the spell of the faery queen who holds him in thrall. (YA Fic SF)

Brennan, Herbie. The Faerie Wars Chronicles series
Book One
Troubled by family problems, Henry finds his life taking a whole new dimension when he and his friend, old Mr. Fogarty, become involved with Prince Pyrgus Malvae who has been sent from the faerie world in order to escape the treacherous Faeries of the Night. (YA Fic SF)

Bull, Emma. War For the Oaks.
Eddi McCandry sings rock and roll. But her boyfriend just dumped her, her band just broke up, and life could hardly be worse. Then, walking home through downtown Minneapolis on a dark night, she finds herself drafted into an invisible war between the faerie folk. Now, more than her own survival is at risk-and her own preferences, musical and personal, are very much beside the point. (YA Fic SF)

Chabon, Michael. Summerland.
Ethan Feld, the worst baseball player in the history of the game, finds himself recruited by a 100-year-old scout to help a band of fairies triumph over an ancient enemy. (YA Fic SF)

Irwin, Jane. Vogelein Clockwork Fairy
When Jakob, Vogelein's Guardian of fifty years, dies quietly in his sleep one night, her life is thrown into utter turmoil. Left without someone to wind her, the tiny clockwork faerie has less than five hours to live - unless she can find someone to trust. Unable to reach the keyhole in her back, she continues to wind down until she stops - and then her memories of the past three hundred years will quickly slip away, leaving her a simple automaton unable to speak or move on her own. (YA 741.5)

Jones, Frewin. The Faerie Path series
Book One
Anita, an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl, is transported from modern-day London to the realm of Faerie where she discovers that she is Princess Tania, the long-lost daughter of King Oberon and Queen Titania. (YA Fic SF)

Kure, Yuki. La Corda d'Oro.
Sisou Academy consists of the music division and the general education division. It's rare for one of the general education students to qualify for the prestigious musical competition the Academy holds, so everyone is surprised when Kahoko does--after she receives a magical gift from a music fairy. (YA 741.5)

Larbalestier, Justine. How to Ditch Your Fairy.
In a world in which everyone has a personal fairy who tends to one aspect of daily life, fourteen-year-old Charlie decides she does not want hers--a parking fairy--and embarks on a series of misadventures designed to rid herself of the invisible sprite and replace it with a better one, like her friend Rochelle's shopping fairy. (YA Fic SF)

Marr, Melissa. Ink Exchange.
Seventeen-year-old Leslie wants a tattoo as a way of reclaiming control of herself and her body, but the eerie image she selects pulls her into the dangerous Dark Court of the faeries, where she draws on inner strength to make a horrible choice. (YA Fic SF)

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. (followed by Fragile Eternity) (YA Fic SF)

Melling, O. R. The Chronicles of Faerie series
Book One
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. (YA Fic SF)

Pike, Aprilynne. Wings.
When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel's back, it leads her to discover the fact that she is a faerie and that she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from the encroaching enemy trolls. (YA Fic SF)

Simner, Janni Lee. Bones of Faerie.
Fifteen-year-old Liza travels through war-ravaged territory in a struggle to bridge the faerie and human worlds and to bring back her mother while learning of her own powers and that magic can be controlled. (YA Fic SF)

Stiefvater, Maggie. Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
On the day of an important music competition, talented but painfully introverted and nervous Deirdre Monaghan is helped to perform by the compelling and enigmatic Luke Dillon and finds herself inexorably drawn into the mysteries and dangers of the faerie world. (YA Fic SF)

Taylor, Laini. Dreamdark series
Book One
Magpie Windwitch, faerie, devil hunter, and granddaughter of the West Wind, must defeat an ancient evil creature, the Blackbringer, who has escaped from his bottle and threatens to unmake all of creation. (YA Fic SF)

Thompson, Kate. The New Policeman
Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed. (followed by The Last of the High Kings) (YA Fic SF)

Watanabe, Yoshitomo. Beyond the Beyond
Suddenly stuck in a strange world, a boy named Futaba must prove to a fairy-like girl, Kiara the Amaranthine, that he is not her master and find her real one in order to get home. (YA 741.5)

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. (YA Fic M)

Ninja
Anzai, Nobuyuki. Flame of Recca series
Book One
Teenager Recca Hanabashi is a ninja and can control fire. On the day he pledges his ninja allegiance to a pretty classmate named Yanagi, a mysterious older woman pops into his life. Who is she and what does she want? And does tomboy Fuko Kirisawa, who can control wind, want to smash Recca or kiss him? (YA 741.5)

Glaser, Jason. Ninja
Describes Ninja, including their history, weapons, and way of life. (j355.548)

Hoobler, Dorothy. In Darkness, Death. (Samurai mysteries, #3)
In eighteenth-century Japan, young Seikei becomes involved with a ninja as he helps Judge Ooka, his foster father, investigate the murder of a samurai. (YA Fic M)

Kishimoto, Masashi. Naruto series
The Tests of the Ninja - Book One
Uzumaki Naruto didn't know the people of his village hated him because the spirit of a demon fox that destroyed the village twelve years ago was sealed within him. Learning the truth only made him more determined to become the greatest ninja ever. But first he has to pass the test to enter the Ninja Academy; deal with his would-be rival, Konohamaru; and learn to get along with his new classmates, Sasuke and Sakura, only two of whom can pass. (YA 741.5)

Ueda, Rinko. Tail of the Moon series
Tail of the Moon - Book One
Fifteen-year-old Usagi is the granddaughter of the leader of a prestigious ninja village, but is too klutzy to be a ninja, so she is sent to marry Lord Hanzo and have babies. Unfortunately, Lord Hanzo has no intention of marrying either Usagi or the beautiful and talented Yuri, who also wants to wed him. (YA 741.5)

Pirates
Azuma, Mayumi. Elemental Gelade series
Book One
Sky pirate Coud Van Giruet discovers an unusual prize in the bounty from the Red Lynx crew's latest raid. It's Ren, who looks like a girl, but is actually a living weapon called an Edel Raid that can combine with a human and become the ultimate fighting machine. And everyone wants her! (YA 741.5)

Beahm, George W. Caribbean Pirates: A Treasure Chest of Fact, Fiction and Folklore.
Drawing from key people, places, and things seen in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, readers get a unique and entertaining look at the rise of the pirate craze and separate pirate fact from fiction. (j910.45)

Cadnum, Michael. Peril on the Sea
In the tense summer of 1588, eighteen-year-old Sherwin Morris, after nearly perishing in a shipwreck, finds himself aboard the privateer Vixen, captained by the notorious and enigmatic Brandon Fletcher who offers him adventure and riches if Sherwin would write and disseminate a flattering account of the captain's exploits. (YA Fic)

Hart, James V. Capt. Hook: The Adventuresof a Notorious Youth.
The youthful adventures of J. M. Barrie's classic character, Captain Hook, from his days at Eton to his voyages on the high seas. (YA Fic)

Lawrence, Iain. The Buccaneers (High Seas trilogy, book 3)
In the eighteenth century sixteen-year-old John Spencer sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, fierce storms, fever, and a strange man who some fear may be cursed. (YA Fic)

Lee, Tanith. Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas
A bump on the head restores Art's memories of her mother and the exciting life they led, so the sixteen-year-old leaves Angels Academy for Young Maidens, seeks out the pirates who were her family before her mother's death, and leads them back to adventure on the high seas. (YA Fic)

Meyer, Kai. Wave Walkers series
Pirate Curse - Book One
In a place similar to the 1706 Caribbean, two fourteen-year-old "polliwogs"--Humans who can walk on water--rely on a mysterious figure known as the Ghost Trader and a band of pirates to help them escape from the evil that is chasing them. (YA Fic SF)

Meyer, L. A. Bloody Jack series
Bloody Jack - Book One
Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates. (YA Fic)

Naifah, Ted. Polly and the Pirates
Polly Pringle, stuck in a prim boarding school, dreams of pirating adventures like those of the pirate queen Meg Malloy. Then, a bunch of buccaneers whisks her away from school and inform her that her mother was the very woman that she dreams of emulating. Now, they want her to lead them to find Meg's treasure before the pirate king can locate it and claim it as his own. (YA 741.5)

Oda, E. One Piece series
Romance Dawn - Book One
As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming the King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber... at the cost of never being able to swim again! Now Luffy, with the help of a motley collection of pirate wannabes, is setting off in search of theOne Piece,said to be the greatest treasure in the world. (YA 741.5)

Oppel, Kenneth. Airborn
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. Followed by Skybreaker (YA Fic SF)

Rees, Celia. Pirates!
In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure. (YA Fic)

Somper, Justin. Vampirates series
Demons of the Ocean - Book One
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. (YA Fic M)

Thompson, Julian F. Terry and the Pirates.
When sixteen-year-old Terry Talley stows away on a yacht, she doesn't expect to encounter another runaway and end up shipwrecked on a tiny island with a bunch of oddball pirates who are looking for some buried treasure. (YA Fic)

Robots
Asimov, Isaac. Robot stories series
Book One
Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-read robots, and robots with a sense of humor. Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world--all told with the dramatic blend of science fact & science fiction that became Asmiov's trademark. (Fic SF)

Brooks, Kevin. Being
After finding out he is part machine, sixteen-year-old Robert Smith runs from the covert government agents who are trying to pin a murder on him, and together with Eddi, a nineteen-year-old criminal, tries to uncover his true identity. (YA Fic SF)

Kataoka, Jinsei. Eureka Seven series
Book One
Renton Thurston is a young 14-year-old who is tired of his monotonous life. The only thing that makes him happy is when he lifts, an extreme form of aerial hoverboarding. One day, a large LFO (Light Finding Operation) craft called Nirvash falls from the sky and a beautiful young girl named Eureka emerges and asks for repairs. When a smitten Renton literally falls over himself to help her, the two begin a journey that will change both of their destinies. (YA 741.5)

Hart, Christopher. Mecha Mania: How to Draw the Battling Robots, Cool Spaceships, and Military Vehicles of Japanese Comics
From the blueprints for a spaceship to advice on showing characters in action or revealing a robot's mood through its posture, this dynamic book offers a useful mix of creative inspiration and practical advice. (YA 741.5)

Irwin, Jane. Vogelein Clockwork Fairy
When Jakob, Vogelein's Guardian of fifty years, dies quietly in his sleep one night, her life is thrown into utter turmoil. Left without someone to wind her, the tiny clockwork faerie has less than five hours to live - unless she can find someone to trust. Unable to reach the keyhole in her back, she continues to wind down until she stops - and then her memories of the past three hundred years will quickly slip away, leaving her a simple automaton unable to speak or move on her own. (YA 741.5)

Rose, Malcolm. Traces: Luke Harding, Forensic Investigator series
Book One
Forensic scientist Luke Harding and his robot assistant must solve a series of on-campus murders, especially since Luke is being framed for the murders. (YA Fic M)

Stefoff, Rebecca. Robots (Great Inventions series)
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Tezuka, Osamu. Astro Boy.
Astro Boy - a jet-powered, super-strong, evil-robot-bashing, alien-invasion-smashing phenomenon! (YA 741.5)

Classic Transformers series
Book Two
Optimus Prime and the Autobots fight Megatron and the evil Decepticons in an attempt to protect humans and find a new home. (YA 741.5)

Vampires
Anderson, M. T. Thirsty
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. (YA Fic M)

Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. Den of Shadows series
In the Forests of the Night - Book One
Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will. (YA Fic M)

Brewer, Heather. The Chronicles of Vladimir Todd series
Eighth Grade Bites - Book One
For thirteen years, Vlad, aided by his aunt and best friend, has kept secret that he is half-vampire, 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. (YA Fic M)

Caine, Rachel. Morganville Vampires series
Glass Houses - Book One
In Morganville, Texas, a town where evil terrorizes the streets under the cover of darkness, Claire Danvers, who has had enough of her current dorm situation, moves off campus and discovers that her new roommates are vampires. (YA Fic M)

Cast, P. C. House of Night series
Marked - Book One
Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after having undergone the Change, she will train to become an adult vampire--that is, if she makes it through the Change. Not all of those who are chosen do. It's tough to begin a new life, away from her parents and friends, and on top of that, Zoey finds she is no average fledgling. She has been Marked as special by the vampire Goddess, Nyx. But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers. When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite club, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny--with a little help from her new vampire friends. (YA Fic M)

Conrad, Liza. High School Bites
Having learned on her sixteenth birthday that Count Dracula exists and lives in her hometown of Seattle, Lucy tries to save herself and her friends while wondering whether her boyfriend is also a vampire. (YA Fic M)

De la Cruz, Melissa. Blue Bloods series
Blue Bloods - Book One
Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines. (YA Fic M)

Diver, Lucienne. Vamped.
After being turned into a vampire, Gina realizes that she, along with many other students from her high school, have become pawns in an uprising within the vampire world. (YA Fic M)

Fantaskey, Beth. 9780152063849.
Seventeen-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her. (YA Fic M)

Francis, Melissa. Bite Me!
AJ, a teenage vampire, hides her identity from her new stepfamily--among which is her ex-boyfriend--and investigates the secrets of her heritage. (YA Fic M)

Gray, Claudia. Evernight series
Evernight - Book One
Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Lucas, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world. (YA Fic M)

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. (YA Fic M)

Jinks, Catherine. The Reformed Vampire Support Group.
Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them--until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime. (YA Fic M)

Judal. Vampire Game series
Book One
The Vampire King Duzell died at the hands of King Phelios, but not before vowing to avenge his death. Now, centuries later, Duzell has been reincarnated as a wildcat that has been adopted by Ishtar, the great-granddaughter of Phelios, and he is biding his time until he can find Phelios in his reincarnated form and exact his revenge. (YA 741.5)

Klause, Annette Curtis. The Silver Kiss.
A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoe come to terms with her mother's terminal illness. (YA Fic M)

Knight, Mary-Jane. Vampyre: The Terrifying [Lost] Found! Journal of Dr. Cornelius Van Helsing and Gustav de Wolff, His Trusted Companion
Cornelius Van Helsing, the brother of monster hunter Joseph Van Helsing, travels to Transylvania to kill the vampire he believes has caused his brother to become ill. (j398.21)

Mead, Richelle. Vampire Academy series
Vampire Academy - Book One
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. (YA Fic M)

Meehl, Brian. Suck It Up.
After graduating from the International Vampire League, a scrawny, teenaged 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 and to demonstrate how peacefully-evolved, blood-substitute-drinking vampires can use their powers to help humanity. (YA Fic M)

Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight series
Twilight - Book One
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. (YA Fic M)

Pauley, Kimberly. Sucks To Be Me: The All-true Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (Maybe)
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 the boy she has a crush on versus new friends and possible boyfriends in her mandatory "vampire lessons." (YA Fic M)

Rees, Douglas. Vampire High.
When his family moves from California to New Sodom, Massachusetts and Cody enters Vlad Dracul Magnet School, many things seem strange, from the dark-haired, pale-skinned, supernaturally strong students to Charon, the wolf who guides him around campus on the first day. (YA Fic M)

Schreiber, Ellen. Vampire Kisses series
Vampire Kisses - Book One
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. (YA Fic M)

Shan, Darren. Cirque du Freak series
Cirque du Freak - Book One
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. (YA Fic M)

Smith, Cynthia Leitich. Eternal
When Miranda's guardian angel Zachary recklessly saves her from falling into an open grave and dying, the result is that she turns into a vampire and he is left to try to reinstate his reputation by finally doing the right thing. (YA Fic M)

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. (YA Fic M)

Smith, L. J. Vampire Diaries series
The Awakening - Book One
Two vampire brothers compete for high stakes--the love of Elena Gilbert, a beautiful high school senior who is searching for excitement. (YA Fic M)

Somper, Justin. Vampirates series
Demons of the Ocean - Book One
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. (YA Fic M)

Vande Velde, Vivian. Companions of the Night
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. (YA Fic M)

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. (YA Fic M)

Whedon, Joss. After the Fall
Reveals the world after an epic battle unleashed hordes of demons into the human world, and Angel challenges the new demon-mob bosses that have taken over sections of Los Angeles in another fight for humanity. (YA 741.5)

Whedon, Joss. Buffy the Vampire Slayer series (YA Fic M & YA 741.5)

Wizards
Armstrong, Kelley. Darkest Powers series
The Summoning - Book One
After fifteen-year-old Chloe starts seeing ghosts and is sent to Lyle House, a mysterious group home for mentally disturbed teenagers, she soon discovers that neither Lyle House nor its inhabitants are exactly what they seem, and that she and her new friends are in danger. (YA Fic M)

Chima, Cinda Williams. Heir series
The Warrior Heir - Book One
After learning about his magical ancestry and his own warrior powers, sixteen-year-old Jack embarks on a training program to fight enemy wizards. (YA Fic SF)

Delaney, Joseph. The Last Apprentice series
Revenge of the Witch - Book One
Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties." (YA Fic M)

Duane, Diane. Young Wizards series
So You Want to Be a Wizard? - Book One
Thirteen-year-old Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies because she won't fight back, finds the help she needs in a library book on wizardry which guides her into another dimension. (Juv Fic SF)

Gilmour, H. B. T*witches series
The Power of Two - Book One
Alex and Camryn, twin witches, are unaware of each other's existence until tragedy unexpectedly brings them together, and soon, they begin to search for the truth surrounding their mysterious powers and why they were separated from each other. (YA Fic M)

Jones, Diana Wynne. Dark Lord of Derkholm
Derk, an unconventional wizard, and his magical family become involved in a plan to put a stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the tyrannical Mr. Chesney. Followed by Year of the Griffin. (Juv Fic SF)

Mahy, Margaret. The Changeover
When her little brother seems to become possessed by an evil spirit, fourteen-year-old Laura seeks the help of the strangely compelling older boy at school who she is convinced has supernatural powers. (YA Fic M)

Mlynowski, Sarah. Magic in Manhattan series
Bras & Broomsticks - Book One
Living in New York City with her mother and her younger sister, Miri, fourteen-year-old Rachel tries to persuade Miri, who has recently become a witch, to help her become popular at school and to try to stop their divorced father's wedding. (YA Fic SF)

Naifah, Ted. Courtney Crumrin series
Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things - Book One
Courtney's parents have dragged her out to a high-to-do suburb to live with her creepy Great Uncle Aloysius in his spooky old house. She's not only the new kid in school, but she also discovers strange things lurking under her bed. (YA 741.5)

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter series
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Book One
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches. (Juv Fic SF)

Rumstuckle, Cornelius. The Book of Wizardry: The Apprentice's Guide to the Secrets of the Wizards' Guild
The twenty-two secrets for becoming a Wizard, including how to make a wand, read an oracle, and achieve member status in the Wizards' Guild. (YA 133.43)

Stewart, Mary. Arthurian saga series
The Crystal Cave - Book One
Merlin spends his childhood in the court of his grandfather, the King of Wales, where he keeps secret his ability of "second sight." (YA Fic)

Tiernan, Cate. Sweep series
Book of Shadows - Book One
Seventeen-year-old Morgan makes a surprising discovery: witchcraft is an intrinsic part of who she is--and who she will become!Morgan thinks witchcraft is laughable when her best friend Bree drags her to a meeting of the Cirrus Coven. But during a cermony led by Cal, Morgan's long-time crush, Morgan feels a shock. Suddenly everything looks brighter, clearer. Morgan doesn't want to get involved with witchcraft--but she feels like witchcraft is choosing her. (YA Fic M)

Wrede, Patricia. Cecelia and Kate series
Sorcery and Cecelia - Book One
In 1817 in England, two young cousins, Cecilia living in the country and Kate in London, write letters to keep each other informed of their exploits, which take a sinister turn when they find themselves confronted by evil wizards. (YA Fic SF)

Zombies
Anthony, Piers. Zombie Lover. (The Magic of Xanth, no. 22.)
Brianna, a beautiful young girl, unfortunately attracts the attention of King Xeth, ruler of Xanth's zombies, who wants to make her his Queen.(YA Fic SF)

Grahame-Smith, Seth. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
The classic Regency romance -- now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem! For more than 50 years, England has been overrun by zombies, prompting people like the Bennets to send their daughters away to China for training in the art of deadly combat, and prompting others, like Lady Catherine de Bourgh, to employ armies of ninjas. (Fic)

James, Brian. Zombie Blondes.
Each time fifteen-year-old Hannah and her out-of-work father move she has some fears about making friends, but a classmate warns her that in Maplecrest, Vermont, the cheerleaders really are monsters. (YA Fic M)

Jay, Stacey. You Are So Undead to Me
Megan Berry, a Carol, Arkansas, high school student who can communicate with the Undead, must team up with her childhood friend Ethan to save homecoming from an army of flesh-hungry zombies. (YA Fic M)

Richards, Justin. The Death Collector.
Three teens and a curator of unclassified artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to use unorthodox methods to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs. (YA Fic M)

Ryan, Carrie. The Forest of Hands and Teeth.
Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead. (YA Fic SF)

Sleator, William. The Boy Who Couldn't Die.
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. (YA Fic M)

Van Lowe, Ehrich. Never Slow Dance With a Zombie.
When most of their high school classmates turn into flesh-eating zombies, Margot and best friend Sybil see an opportunity to finally become popular and find boyfriends--if they can just stay alive. (YA Fic M)

Waters, Dan. Generation Dead series
Generation Dead - Book One
When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred. (YA Fic M)

10/1/09
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