The Sleepwalkers
10 best books like The Sleepwalkers (J. Gabriel Gates): The Juliet Spell, Shining in Crimson, Tris & Izzie, Hollow, The Long Weekend, Altered, Candlewax, Trickster's Girl, Jokers Club, Hunted
| Author | Douglas Rees |
| ISBN | 0373210396 |
I wanted the role of Juliet more than anything. I studied hard. I gave a great reading for it—even with Bobby checking me out the whole time. I deserved the part.
I didn't get it. So I decided to level the playing field, though I actually might have leveled the whole play. You see, since there aren't...
| Author | Robert S. Wilson |
| ISBN | 1461168341 |
Set in a dystopian, religiously-demented American Empire, the city of Las Vegas is no longer a city of sin. Now called Necropolis, it is a city that eats sin. The vampires of Necropolis wait patiently for the Empire's weekly drop off of guilty Penitents; sinners and criminals full of fresh blood.
Hank...
| Author | Mette Ivie Harrison |
| ISBN | 1606841734 |
A modern retelling of the German fairytale "Tristan and Isolde", Tris and Izzie is about a young witch named Izzie who is dating Mark King, the captain of the basketball team and thinks her life is going swimmingly well. Until -- she makes a love potion for her best friend Brangane and then ends up taking...
| Author | Richard P. Denney |
| ISBN | 9090909095 |
Welcome to the house of Hollow.
In a dystopian future, sixteen year old Leah Munro has been sold to a rich woman in a crippling mansion. Soon Leah discovers that there is something mysterious going on around the home, and with the help of three other girls, she attempts to uncover what is truly...
| Author | Savita Kalhan |
| ISBN | 1842708465 |
Sam knows that he and his friend Lloyd made a colossal mistake when they accepted the ride home. They have ended up in a dark mansion in the middle of nowhere with a man who means to harm them. But Sam doesn't know how to get them out. They were trapped, then separated. Now they are alone. Will either of them...
| Author | Laura Burks |
| ISBN | 1613099738 |
All eighteen-year-old Jenna wants to do is have a slow paced and predictable summer in the small town of New Roads with her grandfather. But on Friday the thirteenth, the unpredictable occurs when she mysteriously hears a voice leading her to a buried book. Jenna is unaware that a secret curse lies within...
An Ancient Prophecy. A Powerful Relic. An Insatiable Evil. When all three converge, the fate of every living thing will be in peril.
All her life Catherine had hoped to see a fairrier cat. No book, no scroll provided to her by her tutors had ever mentioned this legend, much to her frustration,...
| Author | Hilari Bell |
| ISBN | 0547196202 |
In the year 2098 America isn't so different from the USA of today. But, in a post-9/11 security-obssessed world, "secured" doesn't just refer to borders between countries, it also refer to borders between states. Teenagers still think they know everything, but there is no cure for cancer, as Kelsa...
| Author | Gregory Bastianelli |
| ISBN | 1936564300 |
2nd place finish in the JS 2011 horror writing contest.
Diagnosed with a brain tumor, Geoffrey returns to his hometown for a reunion of the Jokers Club (his childhood gang) with the hopes of unearthing the imagination he held in his youth. Upon arriving, he discovers the creative juices that...
| Author | Adam Slater |
| ISBN | 1606842617 |
Once every century, the barrier between the human world and the demon realm begins to break down. Creatures gather, anxiously waiting to cross the divide, to bring death and destruction from their world to ours. This time is called The Shadowing.
Callum Scott has always known that there is...
| Author | Christopher Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 1937329135 |
Vivian Carmichael has been hiding in the mountains for over a year now. Far from cell towers and video cameras, she's finally found a safe place to raise her four-year old son, Cody. Until the night he crawls into bed and whispers two words that fill her with terror.
"Daddy's home."
Running...
| Author | K.J. Wignall |
| ISBN | 1405258608 |
When Will woke up 20 years from the slumber, he remembered the prophecy that will defeat his own kind. He search for the true girl that will soon must be offer to the true owner. But what if a century year old guy will fall in love to a sixteen year old runaway wannabe writer? Can he save his own kind or will suffer...
| Author | Cory Putman Oakes |
| ISBN | 0982913168 |
Seventeen-year-old Addison Russell is in for a shock when she discovers that she can see the invisible world of the Annorasi. Suddenly, nothing is as it appears to be -- the house she lives in, the woman who raised her, even the most beautiful boy in town all turn out to be more than what they seem. And when...
| Author | Heather Frost |
| ISBN | 1599557924 |
Ok. Just like pulling off a band-aid. Here we go: I started reading this book while I was on my vacation. After about a half, I simply couldn’t take it anymore, so I stopped. Then two nights ago, my conscience began to gnaw at me and I had no choice but to at least try. I admit to only skimming through the second...
| Author | Patrick Kampman |
| ISBN | 0983592225 |
Pico, Texas is full of secrets, as Chris discovers when his family unwittingly moves into the town’s haunted house.
As an Asian adoptee relocating from a big city, Chris worries about fitting into a small-town high school still using a Rebel soldier for its mascot. But, to his relief, the...
| Author | Adrian McKinty |
| ISBN | 0810984202 |
Danny Lopez is new in town. He made a mistake back home in Las Vegas, and now he has landed at an experimental school in Colorado for “tough cases.” At the Cobalt Charter School, everything is scripted—what the teachers say, what the students reply—and no other speaking is allowed. This supercontrolled...
| Author | Andersen Prunty |
| ISBN | 0982628161 |
The papers call it “The Suicide Virus.” The teenagers of Gethsemane, Ohio, are killing themselves at an alarming rate.
Steven Wrigley is trying to survive his senior year of high school, still reeling from the death of his mother and adjusting to life with his father. Along the way, he meets...
The Possession of Cassie Quinn
| Author | Kathryn Knutson |
| ISBN | 0878395989 |
“I haven’t seen you around here before,” the boy said to me. “We just moved in.” “Oh, really? Where’d you move into?” “It’s out in the country,” I said, pointing in the direction I thought the house was. “Off the highway. A few miles back.” He looked where I was pointing to,...
Seventeen-year-old Lelea is insane. A military project since age two, she endured surgery after surgery forging her into the ultimate soldier. Somewhere along the way, the dreams haunting her nights spilled into her days, and now she talks to creatures long dead and hears music in silence.
Through...
| Author | Melissa Lemon |
| ISBN | 1599559064 |
This book was... weird. I still can't make up my mind whether it's meant to be an MG-level read, or YA. The writing style is all mixed up, part traditional bardic narration and part simplified children's narrative. For example:
The end result was havoc in the place of happiness. Contention was...
| Author | Richard Dansky |
| ISBN | 0786948566 |
A riveting supernatural mystery like you've never read before.
The prodigal son leaves the big city to return to his dearly departed parent's house in North Carolina only to find, now that he's home, that something is trying to make damn sure he stays there--even if it means burying him out back.
In...
| Author | Ari Berk |
| ISBN | 1416991158 |
They say the dead should rest in peace. Not all the dead agree.
One night, Silas Umber’s father Amos doesn’t come home from work. Devastated, Silas learns that his father was no mere mortician but an Undertaker, charged with bringing The Peace to the dead trapped in the Shadowlands, the...
| Author | Michelle Harrison |
| ISBN | 0857070916 |
Seventeen-year-old Elliott hasn’t slept properly for months. Ever since the accident that nearly killed him, a shadowy figure has made its presence felt – a figure only he can see. Elliott is convinced his near death experience has enabled him to contact the dead. But are his ghostly visions real,...
Darcy Pennington hates her life. She is an insufferably average teenager with no true friends, crushing social anxiety, and an indescribable sense of not fitting in anywhere. When her parents force her to attend Cedar Cove Family Camp the summer before her eighth-grade year, Darcy once again finds...
| Author | Anya Parrish |
| ISBN | 0738727008 |
There was a time when I prayed for Rachel to be real--it ended the night she tried to kill me. When Dani was eight, she fell from a building. No one believed her claim that she was pushed by Rachel, her imaginary friend. It took years of therapy to convince Dani that Rachel was a product of her own mind.Now fifteen,...
