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Light Supernatural Fiction

These books about otherworldly creatures are more funny than scary.

Prepared by Lynette Pitrak, October 2008

These books about otherworldly creatures are more funny than scary.

YA/F/CLEMENT-MOORE
Clement-Moore, Rosemary - Hell Week - 2008, 329 p.
Witty and fearless freshman journalist Maggie goes undercover to observe a sorority and soon finds that the eerily perfect girls have a dark secret.

YA/F/CONRAD
Conrad, Liza - High School Bites - 2006, 228 p.
Lucy learns on her sixteenth birthday that Count Dracula is real and that her boyfriend may also be a vampire.

YA/F/DE LINT
De Lint, Charles - The Blue Girl - 2004, 368 p.
Punk teen Imogene befriends her high school’s ghost, provoking the wrath of an angry group of fairies.

YA/F/GAIMAN
Gaiman, Neil - The Graveyard Book - 2008, 320 p.
A baby leaves his dysfunctional family and is adopted by a quirky but lovable mob of graveyard inhabitants.

YA/F/HURLEY
Hurley, Tonya - Ghostgirl - 2008, 328 p.
High school senior Charlotte refuses to let her death, the result of choking on a gummy bear, keep her from the boy of her dreams.

YA/F/JAMES
James, Brian - Zombie Blondes - 2008, 232 p.
Hannah has never had many friends, so she refuses to listen when classmates at her new school warn her to stay away from the cheerleaders.

YA/F/JENKINS
Jenkins, A.M. - Repossessed - 2007, 218 p.
Kiriel is tired of his pointless job as one of the Fallen Angels of Hell, so he takes over the body of a slacker teen.

YA/F/MARTINEZ
Martinez, A. Lee - Too Many Curses - 2008, 316 p.
The evil wizard Margle changes all of his prisoners into strange creatures. When he suddenly
dies, it is up to his sweet housekeeper Nessy to undo the curses.