A while back, the Guardian ran a brief essay by Neil Gaiman about Mary Shelley and Frankenstein:

It was the place where people learned we could bring life back from death, but a dark and dangerous and untamable form of life, one that would, in the end, turn on us and harm us. That idea, the crossbreeding of the gothic and the scientific romance, was released from into the world, and would become a key metaphor for our times. The glittering promise of science, offering life and miracles, and the nameless creature in the shadows, monster and miracle all in one, back from the dead, needing knowledge and love but able, in the end, only to destroy … it was Mary Shelley's gift to us, and we would be infinitely poorer without it.

So, let's take a look at A VERY FEW of the YA books out there about Mary Shelley and her most well-known creation:

Hideous Love, by Stephanie Hemphill: Verse novel about Mary Shelley's life, and according to reviews I've read, Frankenstein takes a backseat to the details of her even-be-more-fascinating real life. I can't believe I missed this one when it first came out, and I'm REALLY looking forward to picking it up soon.