Werewolves and Shapeshifters


Blood and Chocolate
Annette Curtis Klause
Y FIC KLA

Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.

subjects: Werewolves, Teenagers


The Blooding
Patricia Windsor
Y FIC WIN

While spending the summer working as an au pair girl for a couple in England, Maris discovers that the husband is a werewolf intent on blooding her and making her one too.

subjects: Werewolves, England


Curse of a Winter Moon
Mary Casanova
Y FIC CAS

In sixteenth-century France, ruled by a Church that overtaxes peasants and burns heretics, Marius must postpone his apprenticeship to care for his six-year-old brother, whose birth took their mother's life, and who the villagers, backed by the Church, believe will become a “loup garou” -- a werewolf.

subjects: Catholic Church-France-16th Century, Brothers, Werewolves, Huguenots


Doppelganger
David Stahler
Y FIC STA

When a sixteen-year-old member of a race of shape-shifting killers called doppelgangers assumes the life of a troubled teen, he becomes unexpectedly embroiled in human life--and it is nothing like what he has seen on television.

subjects: Problem Families, Conduct of Life, Football, Child Abuse, Supernatural


Hawksong
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Y FIC ATW

In a land that has been at war so long that no one remembers the reason for fighting, the shapeshifters who rule the two factions agree to marry in the hope of bringing peace, despite deep-seated fear and distrust of each other. Sequels: Snakecharm, Falcondance, Wolfcry, Wyvernhail.

subjects: Trust, Supernatural


Moonlight
Rachel Hawthorne
Y FIC HAW

While working as a wilderness guide in the national forest where her parents were killed twelve years earlier, seventeen-year-old Kayla is powerfully drawn to Lucas, who she learns is her appointed guardian--and much more--as she discovers her true identity and destiny. Sequels:Full Moon, Dark of the Moon, Dark Guardian.

subjects: Supernatural, Werewolves, Identity (Psychology), Wilderness Areas, Forest Guides (Persons), Orphans


Never Cry Werewolf
Heather Davis
Y FIC DAV

Forced to attend a camp for teens with behavior problems, sixteen-year-old Shelby Locke's attempts to follow the rules go astray when she meets a handsome British werewolf.

subjects: Werewolves, Camps, Interpersonal Relations, Summer Camp, Stepmothers, Supernatural, Rich People, Pacific Northwest


Red Rider's Hood
Neal Shusterman
Y FIC SHU

After learning that there are werewolves in his city, a sixteen-year-old is even more surprised to discover the identities of the hunters who drove them out decades earlier, but he soon infiltrates the Wolves gang to help destroy them for good.

subjects: Werewolves, Supernatural, Gangs, Grandmothers, City and Town Life, Racially Mixed People


Shiver
Maggie Stiefvater
Y FIC STI

In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity. Sequel: Linger.

subjects: Wolves, Human-Animal Relationships, Metamorphosis, Supernatural

Switchers
Kate Thompson
Y FIC THO

When freakish weather grips the Arctic regions and moves southward, an Irish girl and her strange companion save the world from disaster through their ability to switch into animal forms. Sequel: Midnight's Choice.

subjects: Weather, Imagination, Arctic Regions, Animals, Dublin (Ireland)


Under the Cat's Eye
Gillian Rubinstein
Y FIC RUB

Jai and his friends at a boarding school join forces with shape-shifters in their attempt to defeat the headmaster who steals the souls and futures of the students.

subjects: Supernatural, Human-Animal Relationships, Boarding Schools


Wounded
Stephen Cole
Y FIC COL

Sixteen-year-old Tom Anderson and seventeen-year-old Kate Folan try to escape Kate's werewolf family--and fight becoming werewolves themselves--by making a cross-country journey in search of a mysterious man who might have a cure. Sequels: Prey, Resurrection.

subjects: Werewolves, Travel, Horror Stories


List updated January 2010— Patti Cook


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