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Horror: Teen Books Read a book from the list, or one of your own choosing
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The Bad Ones
by Melissa Albert
When her estranged best friend, Becca, goes missing, along with three other people, Nora follows coded messages Becca left for her to unravel, leading Nora to a legendary goddess who played a role in their own childhood games.
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You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight
by Kalynn Bayron
Recreating scenes from a classic slasher film for a full-contact terror game, Charity Curtis, who plays the “final girl” at Camp Mirror Lake, finds her role turning all too real when a killer starts picking off her co-workers one by one.
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Where He Can't Find You
by Darcy Coates
Living by a strict set of rules designed to keep them safe, Abby is shocked when her sister vanishes and, taking matters into her own hands, plays a desperate game of cat and mouse with a killer who may or may not be human.
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Infested
by Angel Luis Colón
In a race against time, seventeen-year-old Puerto Rican Manny must rescue his family from a malevolent spirit targeting his apartment building in the Bronx.
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This Delicious Death
by Kayla Cottingham
Ex-zombies living in Southern California, four best friends attend a musical festival in the desert, as a last hurrah before graduation, where they soon discover someone is drugging ghouls and reawakening their hunger for flesh and must work together to stop the carnage.
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When Ghosts Call Us Home
by Katya De Becerra
Haunting of Hill House meets found-footage horror in this edge-of-your-seat thriller that explores the power of family ties and the trauma that lurks there.
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The Lake House
by Sarah Beth Durst
Arriving at an off-the-grid summer camp with two other girls only to discover a blackened, burned husk of a lodge and a dead body in the woods, Claire soon realizes they are being hunted by something that refuses to let them leave.
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A Place for Vanishing
by Ann Fraistat
Moving into her mother's childhood home for a fresh start, Libby, recently diagnosed with bipolar III, discovers the strangely beautiful house disguises a sinister past and the truth can be found in the eerie, bug-shaped masks hidden throughout the property.
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The Getaway
by Lamar Giles
When Karloff Country, one of the world's most famous resorts, suddenly offers the richest and most powerful families a safe haven from the nightmare outside its walls, Jay and his crew learn just how far they'll go to find out the truth and save themselves.
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Those We Drown
by Amy Goldsmith
Landing an all-expenses-paid opportunity to study aboard the luxury cruise ship The Eos for a semester, Liv sets out to discover if The Eos is hiding a dark secret within its shadowy decks when people start disappearing and strange creatures haunt her dreams.
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What Stalks Among Us
by Sarah Hollowell
The last thing they expect to come across is a giant, abandoned corn maze. But with a whole day of playing hooky unspooling before them, they make their second mistake. Or perhaps their third? Maybe even their fourth. Because Sadie and Logan have definitely entered this maze before. And again before that. They quickly realize they've not only entered this maze before, they've died in it too. A lot.
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The Weight of Blood
by Tiffany D. Jackson
While at Springville High's first integrated prom, Maddie, a constantly bullied biracial teenager, is tormented by her classmates until her secret is revealed—one that will cost them their lives.
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A Guide to the Dark
by Meriam Metoui
Stranded at the Wildwood Motel while on their spring break road trip, Mira and Layla discover eight people died in their room and set out to find the connection between the deaths and the unexplainable things that keep happening inside Room 9.
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Find Him Where You Left Him Dead
by Kristen Simmons
Summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead, Owen, Madeline, Emerson and Dax must restart the deadly game they never finished in order to bring Ian home, entering into a hell-scape of Japanese underworlds where they must make the ultimate sacrifice.
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In Nightfall
by Suzanne Young
Forced to spend the summer with their grandmother in Nightfall, Oregon, Theo and her brother, Marco, are soon drawn to the mysterious—and magnetic—Minnow and her friends and soon discover they should've listened to their grandmother's one rule: Always be home before dark.
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In Utero
by Chris Gooch
Twelve years after a disastrous explosion, young Hailey is dropped off by her mum at a holiday camp in a dilapidated shopping mall. Alienated from the other kids, she connects with an eerie older teen named Jen...but soon dark horrors awaken, and the two new friends are caught up in a cataclysmic battle between two terrifying creatures who have been lying dormant all this time.
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The Crossroads at Midnight
by Abby Howard
A collection of five horror stories includes the tale of an old woman living at the edge of a bog getting an unsettling visitor, and the story of a misfit little girl making a friend at night on an isolated beach.
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Confetti Realms
by Nadia Shammas
On Halloween night, when the moon is full, teenagers get up to mischief. But when an encounter with a giant, sentient puppet in a graveyard sends five teens to a mysterious dimension called the Confetti Realms, they must overcome obstacles in their own friendships-and collect the debted teeth owed to the puppet-in order to make their way home. But the allure of staying in a fantasy world is a hard one to beat, and going home to their normal lives is starting to sound less and less appealing for some. Will these friends return home?
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Something is Killing the Children
by James Tynion
When the children of Archer's Peak, a sleepy town in the heart of America, begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do have terrible stories, impossible details of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope of finding and eliminating the threat is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to be the only one who sees what they can see.
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