If you like the television show Charmed, check out these books perfect for the witching hour!

Demon In My View by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (YA FIC ATWATER-RHODES) Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.

Shattered Mirror by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (YA FIC ATWATER-RHODES) As seventeen-year-old Sarah, daughter of a powerful line of vampire-hunting witches, continues to pursue the ancient bloodsucker Nikolas, she finds herself in a dangerous friendship with two vampire siblings in her high school.

Burning Issy by Melvin Burgess (JRHI BURGESS)
In seventeenth-century England, twelve-year-old Issy is accused of being a witch and struggles with the belief that she actually does have strange powers.

Old Magic by Marianne Curley (YA FIC CURLEY) Witch-in-training Kate is smitten with Jarrod, the new boy at school. Numerous chapters which Kate and Jarrod take turns narrating chronicle in great detail Kate's efforts to convince the doubting Jarrod that, in addition to possessing a vast reservoir of untapped magical power, he is also the latest victim of a centuries-old family curse.

Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan (JRHI DUNCAN)
Soon after the arrival of cousin Julia, insidious occurrences begin that convince Rachel she is a witch and must be stopped before her total monstrous plan can be effected.  

Goddess of the Night by Lynne Ewing (YA FIC EWING) Vanessa, who has always had the special power to become invisible, discovers that she and her best friend Catty, a time-traveler, are goddesses of the moon who must fight together to overcome the evil Atrox. First in the Daughters of the Moon series.

Wise Child by Monica Furlong (J FURLONG)
Abandoned by both her parents, Wise Child goes to live with the witch woman Juniper, who begins to train her in the ways of herbs and magic.

Enter Three Witches by Kate Gilmore (JRHI GILMORE)
Bren is fearful of having the girl of his dreams meet his family of witches, but after a school production of Macbeth which is attended by his family who cause startling effects, he realizes a meeting has already taken place.

Red Heart of Memories by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (YA SF HOFFMAN)
Two lonely people with extraordinary powers--Edmund Reynolds, a wandering witch who helps those in need, and Matilda Black, an empathic "witness" to the inner dreams of people--embark on a journey into the imagination together, exploring the darkest secrets of the past.

Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones (J JONES)
When a teacher at an English boarding school finds a note on his desk accusing someone in the class of being a witch, magical things begin to happen and an Inquisitor is summoned. 

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman (ADULT FIC HOFFMAN)
Sorcery is the legacy of Gillian and Sally Owens, a legacy they both try to escape until they realize their magic is a gift, not an affliction

Come Like Shadows by Welwyn Katz (JRHI KATZ)
Thrilled to land a summer job on a major production of "Macbeth", sixteen-year-old Kinny soon finds everything going dangerously wrong especially after she acquires a seemingly ordinary old mirror from a junk shop.

Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip (JRHI MCKILLIP)
After the death of her wizard father, sixteen-year-old Sybel's only friends are part of a magical menagerie--a dragon, black swan, lion, falcon, and boar--until an infant child is put into her charge.

The Changeover: a Supernatural Romance by Margaret Mahy (JRHI MAHY)
Laura attempts to use her own latent supernatural powers to save her brother, Jocko, from an evil possession.

Stitches In Time by Barbara Michaels (ADULT FIC MICHAELS)
Accepting a position as an assistant in a family clothing shop, Rachel Grant pursues her theory that important rites of passage are linked to special garments and finds herself haunted by an antique bridal quilt.

Night Flying by Rita Murphy (YA MURPHY)
A tale about the Hansen family of New England. They have two simple things that set them apart from other families: 1) there don’t seem to be any men in the family; and 2) they can fly.

The Magic Circle by Donna Jo Napoli (JRHI NAPOLI)
After learning sorcery to become a healer, a good-hearted woman is turned into a witch by evil spirits and she fights their power until her encounter with Hansel and Gretel years later.

The Witch’s Sister by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (J NAYLOR)
Lynn Morley and her friend Mouse, suspecting and fearing that old Mrs. Tuggle is training Lynn's sister Judith in witchcraft, discover the truth during one weekend of gloom, terror, and surprise.

Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett (ADULT SF PRATCHETT)
It’s left to three witches named Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick to save the kingdom from an evil duke.

Witch Child by Celia Rees (YA FIC REES)
In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.

A Break With Charity: a Story About the Salem Witch Trials by Ann Rinaldi (JRHI RINALDI)
While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.

I Am Morgan le Fay, by Nancy Springer (YA SPRINGER)
Young Morgan watches her family’s happiness destroyed, and begins her journey into the power of the old, Druid ways, learning that power has a price.

The Other Ones by Jean Thesman (JRHI THESMAN)
High school sophomore Bridget Raynes has to decide whether or not to accept her powers of witchcraft, or abandon them and try to fit in as an ordinary teenager.

Magic Can Be Murder by Vivian Vande Velde (JRHI VANDE VELDE)
Nola and her mother have unusual abilities that have always set them apart from others, but when Nola sees a murder using her power to call up images using water and a person's hair, she finds herself in the worst danger ever.

13 April 2006