Vampires
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Blue Bloods Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines. Sequel: Masquerade. awards: ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers: 2007 subjects: Vampires, Wealth, Secrets, New York (N.Y.) |
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Cirque Du Freak Darren and his friend Steve attend the fantastic and disturbing Cirque Du Freak but get caught up in a deadly trap. To save his friend, Darren must make a deal with the only one who can help...but it isn't human and it deals only in blood. Sequels: The Vampire's Assistant, Tunnels of Blood, Vampire Mountain, Trials of Death, Hunters of the Dusk, Allies of the Night, Killers of the Dawn, The Lake of Souls, Lord of the Shadows, Sons of Destiny. awards: ALA Popular Paperbacks: 2005 subjects: Vampires, Spiders, Best friend, Friendship, Freak shows, Conduct of life, Horror Stories |
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Companions of the Night When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices. subjects: Vampires, Horror Stories |
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Eigth Grade Bites For thirteen years, Vlad, aided by his aunt and best friend, has kept secret that he is half-vampire, but when his missing teacher is replaced by a sinister substitute, he learns that there is more to being a vampire, and to his parents' deaths, than he could have guessed. Sequel: Ninth Grade Slays. subjects: Vampires, Orphans, Junior High Schools, Horror Stories |
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Evernight 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. subjects: Boarding Schools, Vampires, Love, Horror Stories |
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Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires Welcome to Morganville, Texas. Just don't stay out after dark. College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life. But they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. Sequels: The Dead Girl' Dance, Midnight Alley. subjects: Vampires, University Towns, Texas |
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Midnight Predator When a vampire killed her family and took her into his service, Turquoise Draka couldn't imagine the world of vampires, shape-shifters, and mercenaries she now hunts. She has banished nightmares and serves Jaguar who might be her salvation. awards: ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers 2003 subjects: Vampires, Supernatural |
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Night Road Battling his own memories and fears, Cole, an extraordinarily conscientious vampire, and Sandor, a more impulsive acquaintance, spend a few months on the road, trying to train a young man who recently joined their ranks. subjects: Vampires, Self-Actualization (Psychology), Automobile Travel, Conduct of Life |
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Peeps Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected. Sequel: The Last Days. awards: Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice 2005, SLJ Best Books for Children 2005, Bulletin Blue Ribbons 2005, ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2006 subjects: Vampires, Parasites |
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The Silver Kiss Feeling alienated from everyone during her mother's terminal illness, Zoe comes under the spell of Simon, a vampire doomed to live until he avenges the death of his mother 300 years earlier. subjects: Vampires |
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Suck It Up After graduating from the International Vampire League, a scrawny, teenaged vampire named Morning is given the chance to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a superhero when he embarks on a League mission to become the first vampire to reveal his identity to humans and to demonstrate how peacefully-evolved, blood-substitute-drinking vampires can use their powers to help humanity. subjects: Vampires, Heroes, Identity |
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Sunshine Rae Seddon, nicknamed Sunshine, lives a quiet life working at her stepfather's bakery. One night, she goes out to the lake for some peace and quiet, which is not a good idea because she is set upon by vampires who take her prisoner. awards: ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2005 subjects: Vampires, Occult, Love Stories |
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Tantalize When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect. subjects: Supernatural, Restaurants, Vampires, Werewolves, Orphans, Austin (Tex.) |
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Twilight When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human. Sequel: New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn. awards: Texas Lone Star Reading List 2007, SLJ Best Books for Children 2005, ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2006, ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2006, Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Books 2005, Texas Lone Star Reading List 2006 subjects: Vampires, High Schools, Washington (State) |
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Vampire Academy Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots. Sequels: Frostbite, Shadow Kiss. subjects: Vampires, High Schools, Magic, Social Classes |
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Vampire Kisses Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true. Sequels: Kissing Coffins, Vampireville, Dance With a Vampire. Check out the Graphic Novel! awards: ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers: 2004, New Jersey: Garden State Teen Book Award Nominees: 2006, Maryland: Black-eyed Susan Award Nominees: 2006 subjects: Vampires, Interpersonal Relations, Gossip |
List updated July 2008— Patti Cook
