Teen Read Week Titles
Anderson, M. T. - Feed [ WS SL HB* LM* CR PW* KR* NY ] {IL YA, -Fic-}-- Candlewick Press, 2004, c2002., 299p
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
Anderson, M. T. - Thirsty {IL YA, -Fic-}-- Candlewick Press, 2003, c1997., RL 7.5, 249p
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.
 
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. - Demon in my view [ SL NP PW BL BC BR ] {IL YA, -Fic-}-- Delacorte Press, c2000., 176p
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.
 
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. - In the forests of the night [ SL NP PW BL BC VO EL ] {IL YA, -Fic-}-- Dell Laurel-Leaf, 2000, c1999., 147p
Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will.
 
Avi, 1937- - The man who was Poe [ WM BL HB ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-}-- Avon, 1991, c1989., RL 5.9, 213p
In Providence, R.I., in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of eleven-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a ghastly final twist.
 
Avi, 1937- - Wolf rider : a tale of terror [ WM NB SL BL BC VO ] {IL YA, -Fic-}-- Aladdin Paperbacks, 1993, c1986., 202p
After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, fifteen-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him.
 
Bradbury, Ray, 1920- - Something wicked this way comes {IL AD, 813}-- Avon, 1998., 293p
Two boys, best friends in a small midwestern town, finally come to understand that of all the terrors threatening them from Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show the greatest menace exists within themselves.
 
Braun, Lilian Jackson. - The cat who sang for the birds [ WF SL PW BL KR ] {IL AD, 813}-- Jove Books, 1999, c1998., 260p
Millionaire philanthropist and newspaper columnist Jim Qwilleran's hopes for a peaceful spring season are squashed when he becomes involved in the investigation of the death of Widow Coggin, while at the same time trying to keep up with all the other strange happenings in Moose County.
 
Bray, Libba. - A great and terrible beauty [ SL PW* BC VO KR LM KL ] {IL YA, -Fic-}-- Delacorte Press, c2003., 403p
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.
 
Bunting, Eve, 1928- - A sudden silence [ WM SL BL BC LA ] {IL YA, -Fic-}-- Fawcett Juniper, 1990, c1988., RL 6.9, 105p
Jesse Harmon searches for the hit-and-run driver who killed his brother Bry.
 
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. - Murder on the Orient Express : a Hercule Poirot mystery {IL AD, 823}-- Berkeley Books, 2004., 322p
Detective Hercule Poirot has a wealth of suspects to choose from when a wealthy American is stabbed to death en route to Paris on the Orient Express.
 
Colfer, Eoin. - The supernaturalist [ BL VO KR KL ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-}-- Hyperion Books for Children, c2004., RL 6.2, 267p
In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from an abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans.
 
Colfer, Eoin. - The wish list [ KL* ] {IL YA, -Fic-}-- Scholastic, 2004., 252p
Orphan Meg Finn's soul becomes the object of a battle between the demonic and the divine after she is killed in an accidental explosion while attempting to rob an elderly man and arrives in the afterlife to find the tally on her good and evil deeds is dead even.
 
Cooney, Caroline B. - The face on the milk carton {IL YA, -Fic-}-- Delacorte Press, 1996, c1990., 184p
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
 
Cormier, Robert. - I am the cheese : a novel [ WS WM NB BK BL ] {IL YA, -Fic-}-- Dell, 1991, c1977., RL 5.6, 220p
A young boy desperately tries to unlock his past yet knows he must hide those memories if he is to remain alive.
 
Cormier, Robert. - Tenderness : a novel [ WS SL* NB NP BL HB BC VO ] {IL YA, -Fic-}-- Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1998, c1997., 229p
A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.
 
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930. - The hound of the Baskervilles [ WS WF ] {IL YA, 823}-- Signet Classic, 2001., RL 6.2, 250p
Sherlock Holmes is asked to investigate the tale of a hound that haunts the lonely moors around the Baskervilles' ancestral home.
 
Hautman, Pete, 1952- - Mr. Was [ NB BK NP PW* BL BC VO KR ] {IL YA, -Fic-}-- Aladdin Paperbacks, 1998., 255p
After his dying grandfather tries to strangle him, Jack Lund discovers a door that leads him fifty years into the past and involves him in events that determine his own future.
 
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. - The house of the seven gables : a romance {IL YA, 813}-- Signet Classic, 2001., 288p
A prominent New England family suffering under a curse is plagued by greed, vengeful acts, and violent death.
 
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859. - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow {IL YA, -Fic-}-- Tor, 1990, c1987., RL 7.5, 80p
A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
 
Jackson, Shirley, 1919-1965. - The haunting {IL AD, 813}-- Penguin, 1984., 246p
Four seekers look for haunting evidence at the abandoned old mansion called Hill House. Their stay begins as a spooky encounter, but the house is gathering its powers and will choose one of them to make its own.
 
Pullman, Philip, 1946- - The ruby in the smoke [ WS WM NB BL VO ] {IL YA, -Fic-}-- A. Knopf, 1997., RL 7.0, 230p
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
 
Shan, Darren. - Cirque du freak [ SL BL VO ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-}-- Little, Brown, c2000., RL 7.1, 266p
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.
 
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. - Frankenstein {IL AD, 823}-- Bantam Books, 1991., 209p
Victor Frankenstein has discovered the secret of generating life from lifeless matter, and has created a monster being by using this terrible power.
 
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde {IL YA, 821}-- Signet Classic, 2003., 139p
A respected doctor who lives a secret double life begins losing his identity to his violent, evil side. Includes an introduction by Vladimir Nabokov and a selected bibliography.
 
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912. - Dracula {IL YA, 823}-- Puffin Books, 1994., RL 7.8, 520p
The mysterious Transylvanian Count Dracula wreaks havoc onyoung businessman Jonathan Harker, his fiancee Mina, and several others, and when he is revealed to be a vampire, he must be destroyed at all costs.
 
Werlin, Nancy. - The killer's cousin [ WS WM SL* NB BL* NP PW* HB ] {IL YA, -Fic-}-- Dell Laurel-Leaf, 2000, c1998., 229p
After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.