Life of a Ghost Hunter!

Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.

So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay.

Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.

Yet she spares Cas's life.

Call # YA BLAKE, KENDARE

Hunger Games with Vampires?

The Trap

by Andrew Fukuda

Final Book in The Hunt Trilogy

 With the knowledge that they hold the key to reversing the dusker condition, Gene and Sissy find themselves back in the Palace, making an uneasy bargain with the Ruler, who is desperate to keep some secrets of his own. A dramatic confrontation with Ashley June, Gene's first love, who was left behind when they escaped The Dome and who subsequently turned into a dusker herself, sets up a reveal that turns the entire series on its head. 

The duskers are driven by a desire to eat the humans, which is as unfathomable as their methods are cruel, and each moment that Gene and Sissy can outlast them is a breathtaking victory!

Call # YA FUKUDA, ANDREW

If you are looking for something scary to read, look no further!

Caught in an unexpected spring squall, Corrine's first instinct is to protect her little sister Sophie after a nasty fall. However,  when Corrine reaches out to comfort her sister, the exact opposite occurs. Her touch, charged with an otherworldly force and bursting with blinding indigo color, surges violently from Corrine to her sister. In an instant, Sophie is dead. From that moment on, Corrine convinces herself that everyone would be better off if she simply withdrew from life.

When her family abruptly moves to New Orleans, Corrine's withdrawal is made all the easier. No friends. No connections. No chance of hurting anyone. But strange things continue to happen around her in this haunting, mystical city. Corrine realizes that her power cannot be ignored, especially when Rennick, a talented local artist with a bad-boy past, suggests another possibility: Corrine might have the touch. It's an ability to heal those around her. Knowing what happened to her sister, can Corrine trust her gift?

YA Linko, Gina NEW

Her eyes saved his life. Her dreams released his darkness.

Insomnia

by

J.R. Johansson

After four years of sleeplessness, high school junior Parker Chipp can't take much more. Every night, instead of sleeping, he enters the dreams of the last person he's made eye contact with. If he doesn't sleep soon, Parker will die.

Then he meets Mia. Her dreams, calm and beautifully uncomplicated, allow him blissful rest that is utterly addictive, but what starts out as a chance meeting turns into an obsession. Parker's furious desire for what he needs, pushes him to extremes he never thought he'd go. When someone begins to terrorizing Mia with twisted death threats, Parker's memory blackouts leave him doubting his own innocence.

Call #: YA Johansson, J. R.

If Gore and Zombies are Your Thing...

...or your High School is full of MONSTERS, 

then you need to read Sick by Tom Leveen

 Brian, a senior, smart but a bit delinquent, finds himself holed up in the

 school's theater department while ravenous,

 geode-encrusted infected students run amok, killing or infecting everyone in sight.

 With the aid of his best friend, Chad and some drama kids, Brian attempts an intense rescue operation for sister, Mackenzie and ex-girlfriend, Laura.

Beware of graphic zombie antics, like mutilation, eating organs, gore and blood...basically all the things a zombie story should have!

Call #  YA LEVEEN, TOM

A Little Spooky!

Is there Wi-fi beyond the grave?

Jason has met the perfect girl: Lacey

She loves Indie rock.

Plays guitar, quotes cheesy 80's films.

Just 1 problem...

According to multiple newspapers, Lacey, who Jason has spent hours chatting with online, apparently died a year earlier!

Soon Jason finds himself caught in a disturbing mystery.  Has he found a way to Facebook message the dead?  Or is someone playing a dangerous trick on him?  Either way, Jason has to uncover the truth before it's time for him to meet Lacey...I.T.A.L.

 (in the afterlife!)

Call #  YA BARON, RUTH

Alarmingly realistic and absolutely unputdownable!

After the Contamination, an epidemic caused by the super-trendy diet drink ThinPro that turned ordinary citizens into violent, uncontrollable creatures. The government rounded up the "Connies" to protect the remaining population. Now, two years later, the rehabilitated are being allowed home, complete with shock collars that will either control, or kill, them.

Velvet Ellis has struggled to care for her ten-year-old sister since her parents were taken in the round up. When she finds her mother in one of the "Kennels," Velvet resolves to do whatever it takes to put her family back together. But the danger isn’t over. It’s beginning all over again…
Call #: YA Garner, Em NEW

Read is you dare...

In the dark, nothing and nowhere is off-limits. Anything can happen. Seventeen original stories feature unforgettable teens who find comfort, confront fears, lose what they value most, and gain everything in the enveloping darkness.

 

Call #: YA DEFY NEW

Like to be SCARED??

While most people who visit the Dead River hear the of rushing water, 17-year-old Kiandra Levesque hears the voices of people the river has claimed. She's been kept away from water ever since her mother committed suicide by walking into the Delaware River 10 years earlier.

 Angry at this abandonment, she wants to prove to herself that she has left her mother behind, so she sneaks away with her boyfriend for a camping and rafting trip in rural Maine. 

When she encounters the spirit of a boy killed in the 1930s, Kia learns that she has magical powers and that she might be able to see her mother again--but that she must cross the river from life to death to do so.

Call # YA BALOG, CYN NEW

Read something SCARY!

Do you like to watch scary movies?  Or a TV show that sends chills up your spine?  And  who doesn't enjoy the thrill of adrenalin when it your favorite character is on the run...and it doesn't look good? 

There is nothing like a scary book, read right before you go to bed!  Try this one...

 

Callie Carson is happy--she finally got an invite to one of the coolest parties of the year. But her night with the inner circle quickly ends when she makes a horrifying discovery: her friend Katherine has been killed.  

Callie is found kneeling beside the body of Katherine and holding a knife. Afraid she'll be charged with murder, Callie takes off, hoping she can figure out who the killer is before she's caught. 

Blood on My Hands

by Todd Strasser

  

Call # YA STR

Book 2 in the Hunt Series!

With death only a heartbeat away, Gene and the remaining humans must find a way to survive long enough to escape the hungry predators chasing them through the night.  But they’re not the only things following Gene...

Call #: YA  Fukuda, Andrew NEW

Watch Out!

In this modern twist on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Harper is surprised by tumbling into an intense romance with Logan, a newcomer to her quiet, northwest Washington high school.

But soon Logan's sinister twin, Daemon,is pulling them apart.

Oh, and what exactly brought them to THIS town?

Call # YA  HUBBARD, MANDY NEW

Best book I've read in 2012!

Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that’s all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone.

Her father was right. The monsters are real….

 

YA Showalter, Gena NEW

The Last Apprentice, Book 10

Book 10 of The Last Apprentice series, 

Lure of the Dead

Nobody enters here after dark. Come back in the morning . . . if you're still breathing.

Thomas Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son, and apprentice to the local Spook. He has battled boggarts, witches, and the most powerful evils of the Dark. But his most trying task is yet to come.

When Tom and the Spook are deceived by one they trust, they find themselves in the most terrifying danger yet. Blood-hungry creatures have invaded a sleepy village. Tom can save the Spook—and the whole county—but only by betraying one of his greatest allies. With everything on the line, Tom must have the courage to stand and fight, and to face a choice that could break his heart.

Imaginary or Real?

Kami Glass has been talking in her head to a boy for as long as she can remember. She is shocked when her imaginary friend turns up in her Cotswald village with the rest of his family, the mysterious Lynburns, who founded Sorry-in-the-Vale hundreds of years ago. Although attracted to his cousin, Ash, Kami cannot deny the link she has always had with the dark Jared. As the two of them try to figure out why the Lynburns have returned and what their frightening powers mean for the village, they discover a shocking reason why they have always been inside each other's heads. Kami can see that the town she has known and loved all her life is hiding a multitude of secrets--and a murderer. The key to it all just might be Jared...the boy she thought was imaginary.  But he is definitely real, and definitely and deliciously dangerous. 

Kami is a wisecracking teenager and sometimes seems oddly carefree about the dangerous events circling around her. 

Aren't we all a little bit like her??

Read if you dare...

     

When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their great Auntie Ida in an isolated village in 1958, they discover that they are in danger from a centuries-old evil.  Along with village boys Roger and Peter, the girls strive to uncover the horrifying truth before it is too late.

Call #: YA Barraclough, Lindsey

Ol' School Horror!

Dracula
by
Bram Stoker

Read and see how it all began!

Beware...

White Crow
by
Marcus Sedgwick

Bored.
Let's explore.
Sinister old mansion.
What could possible go wrong?

To put a chill in your bones!

BEWARE!

The Shattering

by

Karen Kealey

When a rash of suicides disturbs Summerton, an oddly perfect tourist town on the west coast of New Zealand, the younger siblings of the dead boys become suspicious and begin an investigation that reveals dark secrets and puts them in grave danger.