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Teen Zone at the West Virginia Book Festival

West Virginian Book FestivalThe Teen Zone will have a booth in the marketplace at the West Virginia Book Festival where we will be playing Rock Band all weekend. We'll also be giving away freebies!

portrait: Bob McLeod portrait: Jennifer Bradbury

There will be two presenters of special interest to teens at the festival.

Join Bob McLeod, best known as co-creator and illustrator of The New Mutants, as he talks about graphic art and shares some techniques on drawing superheros.

Jennifer Bradbury will also be at the festival discussing how she fictionalized real life events to create her exciting new book Shift, and how you can use the same techniques in your own stories.

Scary Reads

Need a good scare? Try some of these for spine-tingling fright!

Tell Me What You See

cover photo: Tell Me What You See
By Zoran Drvenkar

Berlin, Christmas, the dead of night: 16-year-old Alissa and her best friend, Evelin, are making their annual secret pilgrimage to the grave of Alissa's father when Alissa falls through thick snow to land in an underground crypt. There she finds a child's casket...

Beating Heart

cover photo: Beating Heart
By A. M. Jenkins

This house is mine and I am its beating heart She is a momentary chill in warm sunlight, a shadow glimpsed from the corner of an eye, and a memory of secret kisses and hidden passion…

The Unspoken

cover photo: The Unspoken
By Thomas Richard Fahy

Six teens are drawn back to the small, North Carolina town where they once lived and, one by one, begin to die of their worst fears, as prophesied by the cult leader they killed five years earlier, and who they believe poisoned their parents.

Darkside Book One

cover photo: Darkside Book One
By Tom Becker

Jonathan Starlings home has been attacked, his dad is in an asylum, hes running for his life, and theres nowhere to hide. Jonathan has stumbled upon Londons greatest secret: Darkside. Incredibly dangerous and unimaginably exciting, Darkside is a world of nightmares and secrets, where fear and evil rule.

Evernight

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By Claudia Gray

Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Jared, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world.

The Restless Dead

cover photo: The Restless Dead
By Deborah Noyes

Ten original stories of the supernatural