Teen

Vampire Fiction

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Thirsty.  M.T. Anderson. (1997). 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. J PB YA MYS A

 

 Demon In My View.  Amelia-Atwater Rhodes.  (2001).  Teenage writer Jessica becomes           entangled with her own ghoulish characters. J PB YA MYS A

 

 In The Forests  Of The Night .

Amelia-Atwater Rhodes.  (1999). 300 year old vampire Risika still looks 17– the age she was when she became immortal– and she is involved in a frightening mystery. Written when the author was 13 (!) this is a great introduction to her writing. J PB YA SF/F A

 Shattered Mirror.  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. (2001).

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.  J

Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires.       Rachel Caine. (2006).

When Claire decided to attend college early, she had no idea what she was going to learn.  J PB YA C

High School Bites.  Liza Conrad. (2006).     Having learned on her sixteenth birthday that Count Dracula exists and lives in her hometown of Seattle, Lucy tries to save herself and her friends while wondering whether her boyfriend is also a vampire. J PB YA C

 

 Blue Bloods. Melissa de la Cruz. (2006). Select teenagers from some of New York City's    wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines. J PB YA C  Sequel: Masquerade.

 

 The Silver Kiss.  Annette Curtis Klause. (1990). A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zo_e cometo terms with her mother's terminal illness. J PB YA SF/F K

 

 Twilight, (2005)  New Moon,  (2006) and Eclipse (2007). Stephenie Meyer. 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. J PB YA MYS M

 

 Vampire High.  Douglas Rees. (2003). When his family moves , Cody enters Vlad Dracul Magnet School, where many things seem strange. J PB YA R

 

Braced 2 Bite. Serena Robar. (2006). When Colby Blanchard is attacked and turned into a half-vampire, her senior year of high school       becomes surreal as she vacillates between trying to save her life and worrying about losing her place on the cheerleading squad. J PB YA R

 

Vampire Kisses. Ellen Schreiber. (2003).      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. J PB YA MYS S

 

 Cirque du Freak series. Darren Shan. (2001) Darren becomes a half-vampire after a visit to a bizarre freak-show, and the saga follows his      adventures as he tries to adjust to his new life and fights evil. J PB YA MYS S

 

 The Awakening. L.J. Smith. (1999). Elena is torn between two brothers- and it only further complicates things that they are vampires. J PB YA MYS S

 

 Dracula.  Bram Stoker. (1897). Jonathan Harker must try to defend his fiance Mina and her friend Lucy from the decadant Count   Dracula. J PB YA MYS S

 

 Peeps. Scott Westerfeld. (2005). Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes           vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected. J PB YA SF/F W

 

For older readers (Graphic elements)

Covenant with the Vampire. Jeanne Kalogridis. (1995). The first in a series of diaries of the family of Dracul.  Fic  K

 

 ‘Salem’s Lot. Stephen King. (1975). Ben and Susan don’t know exactly what is going on in their small town- but they know it feels evil. Fic K

 

 Interview With the Vampire. Anne Rice. (1976). Louis, a vampire for 200 years, tells his story to a reporter in San Francisco.  Fic R

 

Graphic novels with Vampire Themes

Vampire Knight. Matsui Hino. (2007). Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the day class and the night class. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the guardians of the school,      protecting the day class from the Academy's dark secret: the night class is full of vampires! J PB YA GRA H

 

 Vampire Game. Jason Judal. (2003). In this manga series, reincarnated vampires search for each other.  J PB YA GRA J

 

 Vampire Loves. Joann Sfar. (2006). Ferdinand is a vampire- but he is too polite! J PB YA GRA S

 

 Tales of the Vampires. Joss Wheedon. (2004). This is based on the TV series Buffy The    Vampire Slayer.  J PB YA GRA W

 

 

 

Booklist developed by Lexi Henshel.

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