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Razorbill, 2007. 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. |
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| <I heart you, you haunt me / Lisa Schroeder> |
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Simon Pulse, 2008. Ava feels responsible for the death of her boyfriend, and he’s not helping matters by coming back as a ghost. |
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| <The graveyard book / Neil Gaiman> |
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HarperCollins, 2008. Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard. |
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| <Uninvited / Amanda Marrone> |
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Simon Pulse, 2007. When rejection comes back to bite you. Jordan's life sucks. Her boyfriend, Michael, dumped her, slept his way through half the student body, and then killed himself. But now, somehow, he appears at her window every night, begging her to let him in. Jordan can't understand why he wants her, but she feels her resistance wearing down. After all, her life - once a broken record of boring parties, meaningless hookups, and friend's she couldn't relate to - now consists of her drinking alone in her room as she waits for the sun to go down. |
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| <A certain slant of light / Laura Whitcomb> |
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Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts. |
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| <Ghostgirl / Tonya Hurley> |
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Little, Brown and Co., 2008. After dying, high school senior Charlotte Usher is as invisible to nearly everyone as she always felt, but despite what she learns in a sort of alternative high school for dead teens, she clings to life while seeking a way to go to the Fall Ball with the boy of her dreams. |
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| <Dead is the new black / Marlene Perez> |
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Harcourt, 2008. While dealing with her first boyfriend and suddenly being pressed into service as a substitute cheerleader, seventeen-year-old Daisy Giordano, daughter and sister of psychics but herself a "normal," attempts to help her mother discover who is behind a series of bizarre attacks on teenage girls in their little town of Nightshade, California. |
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| <Generation dead / Daniel Waters> |
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Hyperion, 2008. 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. |
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| <Kiss me kill me / Lauren Henderson> |
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Delacorte Press, 2008. Longing to be part of the in-crowd at her exclusive London school, orphaned, sixteen-year-old Scarlett, a trained gymnast, eagerly accepts an invitation to a party whose disastrous outcome changes her life forever. |
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| <Blue bloods / Melissa de la Cruz> |
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Hyperion Paperbacks, 2007, c2006. Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines. |
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| list raised by carlie webber october 2008. |