Mira, Mirror Mette Ivie Harrison, 2004

Long after the disappearance of Snow White's stepmother, the witch trapped in her mirror manipulates a desperate peasant and a merchant's daughter to seek the magic she needs to gain her freedom, but the girls show her a power far greater.

I was a Rat! Philip Pullman, 2000

A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the house of a lonely old couple and insists he was a rat.

Wicked Lovely Melissa Marr, 2007

Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.

Twilight Stephenie Meyer, 2005

When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

The New Policeman Kate Thompson, 2007

Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed.

Peeps: a novel Scott Westerfeld, 2005

Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.

The Black Tattoo Sam Enthoven, 2006

When his best friend, Charlie, is possessed by an ancient demon, fourteen-year-old Jack, accompanied by a girl with superhuman powers, battles all over London and into Hell to save him.

Turnabout Margaret Peterson Haddix, 2000

"It isn't natural for you to be younger than your great-grandchildren. We messed around with nature, and we shouldn't have. Melly and Anny Beth both lived normal lives throughout the 20th century. But in 2000, when they are old and ready to die, they are selected to participate in Project Turnabout and are given an injection to make them grow younger..."

The Boy Who Couldn’t Die William Sleator, 2004

When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul away.

Messenger Lois Lowry, 2004

In this novel that unites characters from The Giver and Gathering Blue, Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.

The Arkadians Lloyd Alexander, 1995

To escape the wrath of the king and his wicked soothsayers, an honest young man joins with a poet-turned-jackass and a young girl with mystical powers on a series of epic adventures.

Gundam: The Origin Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, 2002

Based on the anime TV series Mobile Suit Gundam created by Hajime Yatate and Yoshiyuki Tomino.

Fruits Basket Natsuki Takaya, 2004

Tohru Honda, a high school freshman, is orphaned and homeless until she's taken in by the Sohma family in exchange for household chores. Everything's great until she discovers the Sohma family's greatest secret: when hugged by members of the opposite sex, they each turn into their Chinese Zodiac animal.

Ranma ½ Rumiko Takahashi, 1993

Chronicles the adventures of Ranma, a martial arts student cursed to turn into a girl every time he is splashed with cold water.

A Fast and Brutal Wing Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson, 2004

A story told through e-mails, newspaper articles, and short story excerpts, in which Niki, a teenaged girl abandoned by her father, believes that she and her brother can transform themselves into a cat and a hawk, and a sympathetic classmate coping with his mother's death tries to protect the pair from rumors of incest.