Books to Sink Your Teeth Into: Vampire Fiction for Teens

	Thirsty by M.T. Anderson From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human.
	The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series by Heather Brewer 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.
	House of Night series by P.C. Cast Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird enters the House of the Night School knowing that before she graduates she will either become a vampyre or her body will reject the change and she will die
	Blue Bloods series by Melissa De La Cruz Select teenagers from some of New York City’s wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.
	Evernight 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.
	Sweetblood by Pete Hautman After a lifetime of being a model student, sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is suddenly in trouble at school, at home, with the “proto-vampires” she has met online and in person, and most of all with her uncontrolled diabetes.
	Reformed Vampires Support Group by Catherine Jinks Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them–until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime.
	The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause Daisy Giordano is part of a crime-solving family of psychics. Her mom has premonitions, her sister Rose can hear people’s thoughts and her other sister Poppy is able to move objects with her mind. Daisy is the only “norm” in the family . . . she doesn’t have any psychic abilities. Don’t worry, though! She doesn’t let her “norm” status stop her from investigating the mysterious deaths of high school girls around Nightshade, Daisy’s bizarre hometown. Part mystery, part supernatural thriller, part comedy with a splash of Buffy, Veronica Mars and Nancy Drew.
	Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead 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.
	Sunshine by Robin McKinley They took her clothes and sneakers. They dressed her in a long red gown. And they shackled her to the wall of an abandoned mansion-within easy reach of a figure in the moonlight. She knows she is a vampire.
	Evermore by Alyson Noel 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.
	Dead is the New Black series by Marlene PerezWhile 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.
	Vampire Kisses by Ellen SchreiberSixteen-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.
	Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan When her village is attacked and burned, Gwyna seeks protection from the bard Myrddin, who uses Gwyna in his plan to transform young Arthur into the heroic King Arthur. Cruel and calculating characters fight for honor and power in a retelling of this legendary story.
	Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith 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.
	Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith After returning from the afterlife, Elena is forced to battle an ancient evil when Stefan, her boyfriend, goes missing.
	Vampirates by Justin Somper When a high-profile pirate is slain, the Pirate Federation takes decisive action and begins training up a ship of dedicated vampire hunters led by Captain Cheng Li and pirate prodigy Connor Tempest. Meanwhile, Connor’s twin sister Grace enjoys a bittersweet reunion with their mother and learns some important and shocking news that will leave the twins facing a very uncertain future.
	Peeps by Scott WesterfieldCal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.

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