80 pages
Interest Age: 12 to 18
Lexile: 625 to 925
Reading Age: 9
2019
ISBN: 9781841676203 High interest books for teen and young adult struggling readers.
This is a gripping and edgy reinvention of the vampire genre. Mixing the contemporary world of YouTube and smartphones with the centuries-old, traditional vampires of yesteryear, these must-read books have high appeal for both boys and girls.
Start with Die Now or Live Forever, then read the other books in any order. Follow these new young vampires as they struggle to cope with immortality and their craving for human blood. From Juliette modelling in Paris to rising music star Finn and would-be scientist Omar, they face tough challenges and deadly threats.
Included in the set:
Die Now or Live Forever
- Five teenagers camping in a forest in Hungary stumble across a dead body. That's scary enough - but what happens next is beyond scary. The discovery triggers a terrifying decent in to blood-lust and vampirism that leads them in to an ancient underworld rules by a French nobleman nearly 400 years old.
Life Sucks
- Finn's life sucks. And he writes songs about it. But now he's a vampire, he has something else to sing about, something unique - and dangerous. It adds an edge to his music that sees his career take off at last. Fame and fortune are not that simple, though, and he soon finds that vampires make enemies easily.
Every Drop of Your Blood
- Omar thinks he's flying to New York for work experience in a laboratory - but he's kidnapped en route and taken far away. With no possibility of escaping, he's forced to work with other vampires in a cutting-edge science establishment - but their methods are unorthodox and unethical, and he doesn't want to be involved. Is Omar the experimenter - or is he the subject?
Dead on Arrival
- What happens when a vampire is involved in a hit-and-run accident? And when the hospital where the body is taken is struck by a series of mysterious and ghastly crimes? Ruby goes to the hospital to search for her vampire brother, fearing the worst. But his body has gone missing, and Ruby is soon caught in a tense life-or-death race to find out what has happened.
In Cold Blood
- Ava doesn't know how she came to be in Kosovo, or what is wrong with her. Released by the vampire elite, who believes she is immune to vampirism, she must fend for herself in the freezing Balkan winter. When she falls for a boy who works in the circus, she thinks things are finally going her way - but terror is only ever one step behind her.
Bloodsucking for Beginners
- How do you cope when you are suddenly turned in to a vampire? No doubt you have many questions. How long will you live? Do you really need to sleep in a coffin? Con you still fall in love? Can you still eat take-away meals? As vampirism spreads in the wake of Vampire Dawn, this guide to living as one of the undead is a crucial handbook for new vampires.