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F = Adult fiction Y = Young Adult fiction J = Juvenile fiction
CS F = Adult books on tape CDB F = Adult books on CD |
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Barker, Clive. The Thief of Always, 1992. J
10-year-old Harvey Swick is enticed by a curious, grinning con man to go to a place that is every child's dream. Or is it? |
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Bray, Libba. A Great and Terrible Beauty, 2004. Y
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. |
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Cooney, Caroline B. Night School, 1995. Y
Enrolling in a mysterious night-school course, four California teens encounter an evil instructor and their own worst character defects. |
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Duncan, Lois. Gallows Hill, 1997. Y
Suzanne agrees to disguise herself as a mysterious gypsy fortune teller at a school function, but gets scared when she starts seeing the truth in her crystal ball. |
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Fleischman, Paul. A Fate Totally Worse Than Death, 1995. Y
A satire on the horror genre, this tale is about an obnoxious trio of girls who decide to teach a man-stealer a lesson. |
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Hautman, Pete. Mr. Was, 1996. Y
In this mysterious thriller, Jack Lund finds a door that leads into the past, escaping there when his alcoholic father brutally murders his mother. |
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Holton, Hugh. Presumed Dead, 1994. F
This mind-bending story features strange experiments and mysterious goings-on at Chicago's National Science and Space Museum. |
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King, Stephen. The Green Mile, 1996. F
Not all of the bad people are not behind bars on Death Row in the 1930's. (Book was published as six novellas.) |
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Koontz, Dean. Sole Survivor, 1997. F
Another thriller from the master of suspense! |
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Mahy, Margaret. The Changeover, 1984. Y
When her younger brother is possessed by an evil spirit, Laura seeks the help of a compelling older boy at school who she is convinced has supernatural powers. |
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Pike, Christopher. Chain Letter, 1986. Y
When Alison first read the chain letter she thought it was some terrible sick joke. Someone, somewhere knew about that awful night when she and six friends committed an unthinkable crime. And now that person is determined to make them pay for it. |
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Saul, John. Shadows, 1992. F
After a 10-year-old genius transfers from a public school to a private academy, strange deaths start to occur. |
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Sleator, William. The Boxes, 1998. Y
When she opens two strange boxes left in her care by her mysterious uncle, fifteen-year-old Annie unleashes a ton of trouble. |
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| Vampires, Werewolves & Monsters |
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Allende, Isabel. City of the Beasts, 2004. Y
When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother on an expedition to find a Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world. |
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Benchley, Peter. White Shark, 1994. F
A five-clawed monster emerges from a sunken World War II German submarine to terrorize animals and humans. |
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Hahn, Mary Downing. Look for Me by Moonlight, 1995. Y
Lonely and unsure of her place in her father's new family, Cynda is responsive to the attentiveness of the mysterious and sophisticated Vincent Morthanos, who turns out to be a vampire. |
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Klause, Annette Curtis. Blood and Chocolate, 1997. Y
Gabriel - raw and sharp like blood; Aiden - rich and smooth like chocolate. It's Aiden whom Vivian thinks she desires, but he is a "meat-boy," a human, and Vivian is a werewolf. Should she reveal her true self to the boy she loves? |
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Plum-Ucci, Carol. The She, 2003. Y
Years after his parents are lost at sea, Evan Barrett and his older brother try to figure out whether they died of natural causes or at the hands of The She, a water beast of local legend. |
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Preston, Douglas. Relic, 1995. F
A flesh-ripping creature running loose in New York's Natural History Museum is tracked by doctoral student Margo Green and evolutionary theorist Dr. Frock. |
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Rice, Anne. Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires, 1998. F
The vampire expert brings out a new story of the undead. |
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Stewart, Mary. Walk in Wolf Wood, 1984. F
In this time-slip fantasy, a girl and a boy attempt to help a nobleman afflicted by a werewolf curse. Cliff-hanging chapters and a breath-taking climax. |
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Velde, Vivan Vande. Companions of the Night, 1995. Y
Sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki finds herself caught up in a life-and-death chase after she helps an injured young man escape from some men who claim that he is a vampire. |
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Zindel, Paul. The Doom Stone, 1995. Y
A bloodthirsty evil monster, controlled by the doom stone, is stalking the moors around Stonehenge when 15-year-old Jackson arrives to visit his aunt Sarah at her latest archaeological dig in the area. |
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Block, Francesca Lia. Missing Angel Juan, 1993. Y
Witch Baby, aided by her grandfather's ghost, roams New York City, looking for Angel Juan, who's left her behind to play music on the streets. |
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Bloor, Edward. Story Time, 2004. Y
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. |
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Bunting, Eve. The Presence, 2003. Y
While visiting her grandmother in California, seventeen-year-old Catherine comes in contact with a mysterious stranger who says he can help her contact a friend who died in a car crash for which Catherine feels responsible. |
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Gaiman, Neil. Coraline, 2002. Y
Coraline ventures into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others. |
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Hoffman, Nina Kiriki. A Stir of Bones, 2003. Y
After discovering the secrets that lie in an abandoned house, fourteen-year-old Susan Backstrom, with the help of some new friends, has the ability to make a safe, new life for herself. |
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Ingold, Jeanette. The Window, 1996. Y
Blinded in an automobile accident that killed her mother, 15 year-old Mandy goes to live with relatives on a Texas farm and overhears ghosts from her family's past outside her bedroom window. |
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Wallace, Rich. Restless, 2003. Y
Frank, a teenaged ghost who has not been able to move on to a higher realm in the afterlife, tries to connect with his younger brother Herbie, a high school senior who was eight years old when Frank died. |
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Westall, Robert. The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral, 1993. CS F
Joe is repairing a cathedral tower and when terrible things start to happen, Joe realizes that there is a malevolent force connected to the church. |
| Classics |
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Blatty, William Peter. The Exorcist, 1971. F |
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King, Stephen. Carrie, 1974. F |
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Levin, Ira. Rosemary's Baby, 1967. F |
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Shelley, Mary Wolstencraft. Frankenstein, 1818. Y |
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Stoker, Bram. Dracula, 1897. F |
| Short Stories |
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Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction. Leonard Wolf, ed., 1997. 808.3977 BLOOD |
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Forgey, William. Campfire Stories... Things That Go Bump in the Night, 1985. 809.397 FORGEY |
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Poe, Edgar Allan. Eight Tales of Terror, 1978. Y |
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San Souci, Robert D. Thirty Creepy Tales: A Terrifying Taste of Short and Shivery, 1998. 808.39 SAN SOUCI |
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Stamper, Judith Bauer. Night Frights : Thirteen Scary Stories, 1993. Y |
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Vande Velde, Vivian. Curses, Inc. And Other Stories, 1997. Y |
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Last updated on December 28, 2004.
This list is adapted from one originally compiled by the Tigard Public Library. Annotations were derived, in part, from Best Books for Young Adult Readers, VOYA, Booklist, and CIP.