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BOOKS THAT BITE
(Vampires and Werewolves)
Blood and Chocolate – Annette Curtis Klause
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.
Blue Bloods – Melissa de la Cruz
Select teenagers from some of New York City’s wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.
Cirque du Freak (series) – Darren Shan
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.
Dangerous Girls – R. L. Stine
After sixteen-year-old Destiny and her twin sister Livvy are turned into partial vampires at a summer camp, they try to find the “Restorer,” someone who can return them to normal. (Sequel: The Taste of Night)
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The predecessor to all other vampire books.
In the Forests of the Night – Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will.
Midnight Predator – Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Turqoise Draka, a vampire hunter, is hired to kill the evil vampire Jeshikah. To enter their realm she must disguise herself as the human slave of Jaguar, a vampire and slave owner who is tormented by his own past. Will Jaguar release the humanity Turqoise long ago locked away?
Peeps – Scott Westerfeld
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected. (Sequel: The Last Days)
Prom Nights from Hell – Meg Cabot, Stephenie Meyer, Kim Harrison, Lauren Myracle, Michele Jaffe
From angels fighting demons to a creepy take on getting what you wish for, these five stories will entertain better than any DJ in a bad tux. No corsage or limo rental necessary. Just good, scary fun.
Red Rider’s Hood – Neal Shusterman
After learning that there are werewolves in his city, a sixteen-year-old is even more surprised to discover the identities of the hunters who drove them out decades earlier, but he soon infiltrates the Wolves gang to help destroy them for good.
Salem’s Lot – Stephen King
Something strange is going on in Jerusalem’s Lot…but no one dares to talk about it. By day, Salem’s Lot is a typical modest, New England town; but when the sun goes down, evil roams the earth.
Shattered Mirror – Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
As seventeen-year-old Sarah, daughter of a powerful line of vampire-hunting witches, continues to pursue the ancient bloodsucker Nikolas, she finds herself in a dangerous friendship with two vampire siblings in her high school.
The Silver Kiss – Annette Curtis Klause
A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoe come to terms with her mother’s terminal illness.
Sunshine – Robin McKinley
There hadn’t been any trouble out at the lake for years and Sunshine just needed a spot where she could be alone with her thoughts. Vampires never entered her mind. Until they found her.
Sweetblood – Pete Hautman
After a lifetime of being a model student, sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is suddenly in trouble at school, at home, with the “proto-vampires” she has met online and in person, and most of all with her uncontrolled diabetes.
Tantalize – Cynthia Leitich Smith
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.
Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
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. (Sequels: New Moon and Eclipse)
Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean – Justin Somper
Twins, Connor and Grace, never dreamed that there was any truth to the Vampirate shanty their father sang to them before he died, but that was before the two were shipwrecked and separated from each other.
Vampire High – Douglas Rees
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.
Vampires: A Collection of Original Stories – edited by Jane Yolen and Martin H. Greenberg
A collection of thirteen original stories about vampires by a variety of authors.
Werewolves: A Collection of Original Stories – edited by Jane Yolen and Martin H. Greenberg
A collection of fifteen stories by a variety of authors about the sometimes frightening, sometimes humorous, phenomena of werewolves.
Wounded – Stephen Cole
Sixteen-year-old Tom Anderson and seventeen-year-old Kate Folan try to escape Kate’s werewolf family–and fight becoming werewolves themselves–by making a cross-country journey in search of a mysterious man who might have a cure.

(Source of Annotations: NoveList Database)
Compiled by:
Ed Goldberg, Teen Services Librarian
Jennifer Marino, Children’s Librarian