Psychics in Fiction for Teens

Barnes, Jennifer. Golden. 2006. (YA Fiction Barne.J & YA CD Fiction Barne.J)

When her family moves to Oklahoma from California, high school sophomore Lissy uses her ability to see other people's auras to try to uncover and stop the sinister activities of a teacher at her new school.

Barnes, Jennifer. Tattoo. 2007. (YA Fiction Barne.J)

When four 15-year-old friends share the temporary tattoos they bought from a mysterious woman at the mall, each develops psychic powers that will help them fight the ancient being who plans to wreak havoc at their school dance.

Carroll, Jenny. Code Name Cassandra. 2001. (YA Fiction Cabot.M)

Jess Mastriani, who developed a psychic ability, after a huge storm, to find missing children--has lost her miraculous powers. Or has she? She would like the media and the government to think so. All Jess wants is to be left alone, by everyone except sexy Rob Wilkin. (Book 1 of the 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU series).

Clement-Moore, Rosemary. Prom Dates From Hell. 2007. (YA Fiction Cleme.R)

High school senior and yearbook photographer Maggie, who has inherited her grandmother's sixth sense, thought she would rather die than go to prom. But then a classmate summons a revenge-seeking demon and she has no choice but to buy herself a dress and prepare to face jocks, cheerleaders, and Evil Incarnate. (Book one of a series)

Cowley, Joy. Hunter. 2004. (YA Fiction Cowle.J)

A Maori boy in 1805 and a plane crash survivor marooned on a deserted island in 2005 experience interconnecting visions.

Easton, Kelly. White Magic : Spells To Hold You : A Novel. 2007. (YA Fiction Easto.K)

After her father dies and her mother moves the family to California to remarry, Chrissie is befriended by two good witches who bring her into their coven, teach her how to cast good spells, and transform her lonely life for the better with their special brand of magic.

Gee, Maurice. Salt. 2009. (YA Science Fiction Gee.M)

Hari, one of the enslaved people from a rat-infested slum, and Pearl, a member of the ruling family known as Company, forge an unusual alliance and become reluctant traveling companions as they undertake a desperate quest to save the world from a terror beyond their greatest imaginings. Both Hari and Pearl share psychic gifts, and must learn to trust each other as they revolt against their fates. The first of a trilogy.

Gibson, Marley. The Awakening. 2009. (YA Fiction Gibso.M)

Moving from Chicago to tiny Radisson, Georgia, awakens latent psychic powers in sixteen-year-old Kendall, who finds herself communicating with ghosts and forming a ragtag ghost hunting team to research and battle a belligerent spirit that is trying to harm her father.

Greene, Michele. Chasing The Jaguar. 2006. ((YA Fiction Green.M))

After having unsettling dreams about the kidnapped daughter of her mother's employer, 15-year-old Martika learns that she is a descendant of a long line of curanderas--Mayan medicine women with special powers. Includes glossary of Spanish words.

Henderson, Jason. Psy-comm. 2005. (YA 741.5973 Hende.J v. 1)

In the not-too-distant future, sovereign nations have been replaced by corporate city-states. War is entertainment--scheduled, televised, and rated. The new stars are the elite Psychic Commandos, known as "Psy-Comms." Trained from an early age, these gifted soldiers have honed their various abilities to lethal perfection.

Jacobs, Deborah. Powers. 2006. (YA Fiction Jacob.D)

Gwen and Adrian, two teens with psychic powers, use their abilities to get what they want and need from each other.

Jenkins, A.M.. Beating Heart : A Ghost Story. 2006. (YA Fiction Jenki.A)

Following his parents' divorce, 17-year-old Evan moves with his mother and sister into an old house where the spirit of a teenager who died there awakens and mistakes him for her long-departed lover.

Koontz, Dean. By The Light Of The Moon. 2002. (Fiction Koont.D)

By the Light of the Moon unfolds over 24 hours as three intrepid souls race to puzzle out a vicious violation committed against them. Dylan, an itinerant artist, has devoted his life to caring for his brother, the autistic Shep, whose challenges may lead them to disaster as they traverse perilous paths only steps ahead of deadly pursuers. Jilly now sees nightmares before them, and her visions prove prescient as they move together through darkness and light toward a destiny beyond the realm of imagination.

Lubar, David. Hidden Talents. 1999. (YA Fiction Lubar.D)

When 13-year-old Martin arrives at an alternative school for misfits and problem students, he falls in with a group of boys with psychic powers and discovers something surprising about himself.

Lubar, David. True Talents. 2007. (YA Fiction Lubar.D)

Over a year after fourteen-year-old Eddie "Trash" Thalmeyer and his friends from Edgeview Alternative School find out about their psychic abilities, Trash is kidnapped and Torchie, Cheater, Lucky, Flinch, and Martin must join forces to rescue their friend, discovering their true talents in the process.

Marley, Louise. Singer In The Snow. 2005. (YA Science Fiction Marle.L)

In a land where the sun shines only once every five years, two gifted young Singers are sent to a remote outpost where they struggle to refine their abilities to create heat and light using their psi energy.

Matas, Carol. The Freak. 2007. (YA Fiction Matas.C)

When fifteen-year-old Jade wakes up from a life-threatening illness with some unexpected new abilities, her life takes an interesting turn. What she knows-and inadvertently tells-about her friends' most personal thoughts and feelings isn't exactly improving her social life. In fact, many of her friends are beginning to avoid her now that she's different; now that she's a freak. Jade would do anything to be normal again. But what if something is about to happen, something terrible, and she alone knows it. Can she really do nothing to stop it?

Noël, Alyson. Evermore. 2009. (YA Fiction Noel.A)

Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries.

Perez, Marlene. Dead Is The New Black. 2008. (YA Fiction Perez.M)

While dealing with her first boyfriend and suddenly being pressed into service as a substitute cheerleader, seventeen-year-old Daisy Giordano, daughter and sister of psychics but herself a "normal," attempts to help her mother discover who is behind a series of bizarre attacks on teenage girls in their little town of Nightshade, California.

Sedgwick, Marcus. The Foreshadowing. 2006. (YA Fiction Sedgw.M)

Having always been able to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen for him.

Sleator, William. The Boxes. 1998. (J Sleat.W)

When she opens two strange boxes left in her care by her mysterious uncle, 15-year-old Annie discovers a swarm of telepathic creatures and unleashes a power capable of slowing down time.

St. Crow, Lili. Strange Angels. 2009. (YA Fiction Stcro.L)

Sixteen-year-old Dru's psychic abilities helped her father battle zombies and other creatures of the "Real World," but now she must rely on herself, a "werwulf"-bitten friend, and a half-human vampire hunter to learn who murdered her parents, and why.

Staub, Wendy Corsi. Awakening. 2007. (YA Fiction Staub.W)

When seventeen-year-old Calla's mother suddenly dies, she goes to stay with her psychic grandmother in Lily Dale, a spiritualist community in western New York, where she discovers some disconcerting secrets about her practical, down-to-earth mother, and realizes that she herself may also have some psychic abilities. (Book one of a series)

Stolarz, Laurie. Blue Is For Nightmares. 2003. (YA Fiction Stola.L)

Sixteen-year-old hereditary witch Stacey Brown has nightmares of her roommate being murdered and hopes that her magick will be enough to protect Drea--unlike the last person whose death Stacey dreamed.

Stolarz, Laurie. Red Is For Remembrance. 2005. (YA Fiction Stola.L)

Soon after beginning her freshman year at Beacon University, Stacey, a hereditary witch, befriends the college president's fourteen-year-old daughter and tries to help her cope with nightmares that foretell murder.

Stolarz, Laurie. Silver Is For Secrets. 2005. (YA Fiction Stola.L)

During a summer vacation at the beach with friends, 18-year-old hereditary witch Stacey has more nightmares which involve Clara, a new girl with a talent for causing trouble.

Stolarz, Laurie. White Is For Magic. 2004. (YA Fiction Stola.L)

Sixteen-year-old hereditary witch Stacey Brown is having nightmares that predict death again, but this time the murderous stalker is after her.

Tolan, Stephanie. Flight Of The Raven. 2001. (YA Fiction Tolan.S)

Elijah, a nine-year-old African American with unusual mental powers and a special ability to reach into the natural world, becomes a hostage of a terrorist militia group and finds himself in a world of violence.

Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa. Haters. 2006. (YA Fiction Valde.A & YA CD Fiction Valde.A)

Having tried for years to deny her psychic abilities, high school sophomore Paski has disturbing visions about the popular girl at her new high school in Orange County, California.

Westerfeld, Scott. The Secret Hour. 2004. (YA Science Fiction Weste.S)

Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, 15-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess.

Whitcomb, Laura. A Certain Slant Of Light. 2005. (YA Fiction Whitc.L & YA CD Fiction Whitc.L)

After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts.

Compiled by Christie Chandler-Stahl

Updated: November, 2009