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May Bird and the Ever After

Jodi Lynn Anderson · 352 pages

AfterlifeEerieFantasyTeen Protagonist
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Inkdeath

Cornelia Funke · 720 pages

AfterlifeMother and DaughterFantasyTeen Protagonist
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The Hazel Wood

Melissa Albert · 368 pages

When the scary, magical world in her grandmother's book of dark feminist fairy tales becomes real, seventeen-year-old Alice, partnered with Ellery, an obsessed fan of the fairy tales, must enter the world to rescue Alice's kidnapped mother.

Mother and DaughterEerieTeen ProtagonistFantasy
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Tithe

Holly Black · 320 pages

Young adult fantasy novel about a young girl who discovers she's not human, but a faerie. Trouble follows.

EerieFantasyMother and DaughterTeen Protagonist
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Everlost

Neal Shusterman · 368 pages

Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident... ...but their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to get either. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no longer exist. It's a magical, yet dangerous place where bands of lost children run wild and anyone who

AfterlifeEerieTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Death Watch

Ari Berk · 560 pages

When seventeen-year-old Silas Umber's father disappears, Silas is sure it is connected to the powerful artifact he discovers, combined with his father's hidden hometown history, which compels Silas to pursue the path leading to his destiny and ultimately, to the discovery of his father, dead or alive.

AfterlifeEerieTeen ProtagonistFantasy
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The Goddess Test

Aimee Carter · 298 pages

Eden, Michigan, high school student Kate Winters strikes a bargain with Henry, Greek god of the underworld, if he'll cure her dying mother of cancer. The bargain she strikes with him is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken--"live forever or die trying"--is not revealed until it's too late to recant.

AfterlifeFantasyTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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World After

Susan Ee · 336 pages

Mother and DaughterTeen ProtagonistDarkYoung Adult
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As Dead As It Gets

Katie Alender · 448 pages

"Alexis battles a more powerful ghost than she's ever faced before... and one whose fate is tied to hers in ways she couldn't possibly imagine"--

AfterlifeEerieTeen ProtagonistDark
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Splintered

A.G. Howard · 400 pages

Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll's ***Alice's Adventures in Wonderland***. Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages to keep it together. For now. When her mother's mental health takes a tur

EerieFantasyTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Vita Nostra

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko · 411 pages

"While vacationing at the beach with her mother, Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov under the most peculiar circumstances. The teenage girl is powerless to refuse when this strange and unusual man with an air of the sinister directs her to perform a task with potentially scandalous consequences. He rewards her effort with a strange golden coin. As the days progress, Sasha carri

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Radiance

Alyson Noel

AfterlifeTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFantasy
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The Twilight Kingdom

Ted Naifeh · 144 pages

EerieTeen ProtagonistFantasyDark
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The Golden Compass

Philip Pullman · 399 pages

In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mys

Mother and DaughterTeen ProtagonistFantasyDark
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Flowers in the Attic

V.C. Andrews

Mother and DaughterEerieTeen ProtagonistDark
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Abarat

Clive Barker · 489 pages

Candy Quackenbush, a sixteen-year-old girl, is bored with her life and is desperate for something new. She lives in Chickentown, Minnesota, has a drunkard father, and is often made fun of by other kids. One day at school, a strange image enters her head, and she draws it in a textbook. When her teacher notices, she is furious, and Candy has the sudden impulse to simply walk out of school. She wand

Teen ProtagonistEerieFantasyYoung Adult
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The Diviners

Libba Bray · 608 pages

Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us? Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession w

EerieTeen ProtagonistFantasyYoung Adult
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Castles in Their Bones

Laura Sebastian · 514 pages

Mother and DaughterTeen ProtagonistFantasyYoung Adult
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Sabriel

Garth Nix · 368 pages

Ever since she was a tiny child, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the random power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who won't stay dead. But now her father, the Mage Abhorsen, is missing, and to find him Sabriel must cross back into that world. Though her journey begins alone, she soon finds companions: Mogget, whose seemingly harmless feline form hides a p

EerieTeen ProtagonistFantasyYoung Adult
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White Crow

Marcus Sedgwick · 265 pages

AfterlifeEerieDarkTeen Protagonist
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Ember X

Jessica Sorensen · 368 pages

AfterlifeYoung AdultDarkFantasy
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Every Heart a Doorway

Seanan McGuire · 174 pages

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss

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Messenger of Fear

Michael Grant · 260 pages

*Mara wakes in a field of dead grass, a heavy mist pressing down on her. She is terrified, afraid that she is dead.* *There is a boy in that mist, a beautiful young man dressed in black and able to move effortlessly through space and time. He is the Messenger of Fear.* The Messenger sees the darkness in human hearts. He sees the evils done: the destructive lies, the cruelty, the bullying, th

EerieTeen ProtagonistDarkYoung Adult
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Underworld

Meg Cabot

AfterlifeTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultDark
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