Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dream come true. This book is hilarious and will appeal to teens who have felt outside the "in" crowd.

Artemis Fowl is a twelve-year-old evil genius who wants to restore his family fortune by locating fairy gold. Artemis tricks a drunken old fairy woman into loaning him her Book, a tiny golden volume that can lead him to the gold, for 30 minutes. He quickly scans the book and emails it to his Mac computer and then starts decoding the secrets of the fairies.

In 16-year-old Zoey Redbird's world, those with special powers are "marked" by the vampires and must enter the House of Night School where they will either become vampires themselves or die from the change. At the school Zoey learns that her powers are different from others. It's here that Zoey finds true friendship, loyalty, and romance as well as mistrust and deception.

Seventeen-year-old Imogene often gets into trouble, so when her family moves to Newford, she decides to change. At school, Imogene starts seeing a spirit called Ghost and learns that Ghost has attracted the attention of "the darkness," a group of soul-eaters. Imogene has to fall back on her street skills to protect herself and those around her.

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club she hardly expects to witness a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when there is nothing, not even a smear of blood, to show that a boy has died.