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Bad Girls Don't Die

Katie Alender - Disney-Hyperion; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

Alexis thought she led a typically dysfunctional high school existence. Dysfunctional like her parents marriage her doll-crazy twelve-year-old sister, Kasey and even her ownanti-social, anti-cheerleader attitude.When a family fight results in some tearful sisterly bonding, Alexis realizes...
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The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall

Katie Alender - Point
Format: Print book

In this asylum, your mind plays tricks on you all the time ... Delia's new house isn't just a house. Long ago, it was the Piven Institute for the Care and Correction of Troubled Females -- an insane asylum nicknamed "Hysteria Hall." However, many of the inmates were not insane,...
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Alone

Cyn Balog - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

This must-read for lovers of Stephen King's The Shining will leave readers breathless as Seda and her family find themselves at the mercy of a murderer in an isolated and snowbound hotel. Get ready for what Kirkus calls "A bloody, wonderfully creepy scare ride." When her mom inherits...
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Frozen Charlotte

Alex Bell - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book

When her best friend dies under mysterious circumstances, Sophie sets off to stay with her cousins on the remote Isle of Skye. It's been years since she last saw them--brooding Cameron with his scarred hand; Piper, who seems too perfect to be real; and peculiar little Lilias with her fear...
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Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, Book 1) (Anna Dressed in Blood Series, 1)

Kendare Blake - Tor Teen
Format: Paperback

From Kendare Blake, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Dark Crowns, a beautiful and haunting ghost story . 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,...
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Scariest Stories Ever Told

Roberta Simpson Brown - August House
Format: Print book

This spooky collection of haunting stories from the "Queen of Cold Blooded Tales", Roberta Simpson Brown, may well be The Scariest Stories Ever Told. These chilling tales are filled with familiar themes to make anyone feel safe - the grouchy old teacher, a family telling one another...
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The Enemy

Charlie Higson - Hyperion
Format: Book

In the wake of a devastating disease, everyone sixteen and older is either dead or a decomposing, brainless creature with a ravenous appetite for flesh. Teens have barricaded themselves in buildings throughout London and venture outside only when they need to scavenge for food. The group...
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And the Trees Crept In

Dawn Kurtagich - Little
Format: Print book

When Silla and Nori arrive at their aunt's home, it's immediately clear that the "blood manor" is cursed. The creaking of the house and the stillness of the woods surrounding them would be enough of a sign, but there are secrets too--the questions that Silla can't ignore: Who is the beautiful...
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The House

Christina Lauren - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Delilah and Gavin's new love is threatened by a force uncomfortably close to home in this haunting novel from New York Times bestselling duo Christina Lauren, authors of Beautiful Bastard.His shirt is black, jeans are black, and shaggy black hair falls into his eyes. And when Gavin...
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Sawkill Girls

Claire Legrand - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

"Reader, hang on for dear life. Sawkill Girls is a wild, gorgeous, and rich coming-of-age story about complicity, female camaraderie, and power." - Sarah Gailey, author of River of Teeth"An eerie, atmospheric assertion of female strength." - Mindy McGinnis, author...
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Sick

Tom Leveen - Abrams
Format: Hardcover

"Brian and his friends are not part of the cool crowd. They're the misfits, the troublemakers--the ones who jump their high school's electrified fence to skip school regularly. So when the virus breaks out, they're the only ones with a chance of surviving"--
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The Women in the Walls

Amy Lukavics - Harlequin Teen
Format: Print book

Lucy Acosta's mother died when she was three. Growing up in a Victorian mansion in the middle of the woods with her cold, distant father, she explored the dark hallways of the estate with her cousin, Margaret. They're inseparable - a family. When her aunt Penelope, the only mother she's...
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The Light

D.J. MacHale - Aladdin; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Marshall Seaver is being haunted. In the first installment of this chillingly compelling trilogy, sixteen-year-old Marshall discovers that something beyond our world is after him. The eerie clues pile up quickly, and when people start dying, its clear whatever this is--its huge.Marshall...
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Amity

Micol Ostow - Egmontusa
Format: Hardcover

Here is a house of ruin and rage, of death and deliverance.Here is where I live, not living.Here is always mine.When Connor's family moves to Amity, a secluded house on the peaceful banks of New England's Concord River, his nights are plagued with gore-filled dreams of demons. destruction,...
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The Nightmarys

Dan Poblocki - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Timothy July has been having nightmares. About his brother, who is in a coma after being wounded in Iraq; about his best friend, Stuart, who is behaving like a jerk; about the old biology specimens in jars lining the walls of his classroom; and about Abigail, the new girl who seems to be a magnet...
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The Stone Child

Dan Poblocki - Random House Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Book

What if the monsters from your favorite horror books were real?Eddie Fennicks has always been a loner, content to lose himself in a mystery novel by his favorite author, Nathaniel Olmstead. That's why moving to the small town of Gatesweed becomes a dream come true when Eddie discovers...
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Wilder Girls

Rory Power - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

"Celebrates the resilience of girls and the earthshaking power of their friendships. An eerie, unforgettable triumph." --Claire Legrand, New York Times bestselling author of Furyborn"Wilder Girls is so sharp and packs so much emotion in such wise ways....
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House of Furies

MADELEINE ROUX - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

An all-new gothic horror series from the New York Times bestselling author of Asylum. After escaping a harsh school where punishment was the lesson of the day, seventeen-year-old Louisa Ditton is thrilled to find employment as a maid at a boarding house. But soon after her arrival at Coldthistle...
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The Book of Dead Days

Marcus Sedgwick - Wendy Lamb Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

THE DAYS BETWEEN Christmas and New Year’s Eve are dead days, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. A magician called Valerian must save his own life within those few days or pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago....
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White Crow

Marcus Sedgwick - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

One of School Library Journals Best Fiction Books of 2011Some secrets are better left buried some secrets are so frightening they might make angels weep and the devil crow.Thought provoking as well as intensely scary, White Crow unfolds in three voices. Theres Rebecca, who has come to a small,...
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Slasher Girls & Monster Boys

April Genevieve Tucholke - Speak
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, American Horror Story and The Walking Dead comes a powerhouse anthology featuring some of the best thriller and horror writers in YA. Stefan Bachmann, Leigh Bardugo, Kendare Blake, A. G. Howard, Jay Kristoff, Marie Lu, Jonathan Maberry, Danielle Paige,...
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