Books with Bite: Vampire Tales

 

Thirsty by M.T. Anderson (YA FIC And)
Chris is becoming a vampire…in a town ridden with violent mobs taking shortcut justice with stake-through-the-heart lynching. As Chris's blood lust grows, he's challenged to hide his transformation.

 

Demon in My View by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (YA FIC Atw)
Jessica discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.

 

Midnight Predator by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (YA FIC Atw)
Turquoise Draka, a mercenary trained to fight vampires, witches, and shape-shifters, infiltrates a vampire stronghold, but ghosts from her past and new possibilities for her future threaten to distract her from the work at hand.

 

Persistence of Memory by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (YA FIC Atw)
Diagnosed with schizophrenia as a child, sixteen-year-old Erin has spent half of her life in therapy and on drugs, but now must face the possibility of weird things in the real world, including shape shifting friends and her "alter," a centuries-old vampire.

 

Darkside: Book One by Tom Becker (YA FIC Bec)
Jonathan Starling's father is in an asylum and his home has been attacked when, while running away from kidnappers, he stumbles upon Darkside, a terrifying and hidden part of London ruled by the descendants of Jack the Ripper, where Jonathan is in mortal danger if he cannot find the way out.

 

Pretty Dead by Francesca Lia Block (YA FIC BLO)
The object of envy and desire, Charlotte seems to have the perfect life, but she's been dead for almost a century; when a new romance converges with the return of her first love, Charlotte becomes the subject of a dark bargain that might give her the only thing she's ever coveted--the chance to be human again.

 

Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer (YA FIC Bre)
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. First in a series.

 

The Morganville Vampires Series by Rachel Caine (YA FIC Cai)
In Morganville, Texas, a town where evil terrorizes the streets under the cover of darkness, Claire Danvers, who has had enough of her current dorm situation, moves off campus and discovers that her new roommates are vampires.

 

Marked: House of the Night Series by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast (YA FIC Cas)
Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird is Marked as a fledging vampyre and joins the House of Night where she will train to become an adult vampyre.

 

Blue Bloods by Melissa De la Cruz (YA FIC Del)
Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines. First in a series.

The Eternal Kiss: 13 vampire tales of blood and desire edited by Trisha Telep (YA FIC Ete)
A volume of original tales for fans of vampire stories and paranormal romance includes contributions by such popular young-adult authors as Holly Black, Libby Bray, and Cecil Castellucci.

 

Books With Bite…Vampire Tales Cont.’

Immortal: Love stories with bite edited by P. C. Cast (YA FIC Imm)
Seven of today's most popular YA vampire and contemporary fantasy authors offer new short stories that prove that when you're immortal, true love really is forever.

 

Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Jessica Fantaskey (YA FIC Fan)
Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her.

 

Look for My By Moonlight by Mary Downing Hahn (YA FIC Han)
While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.

 

Evernight by Claudia Gray (YA FIC Gra)
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. First in a series.

 

Sweet Blood by Pete Hautman (YA FIC Hau)
Lucy is in trouble thanks to a paper she wrote about vampire legends being based on untreated diabetics.

 

Vampire Knight Manga Series by Matsuri Hino (YA GRAPHIC NOVEL Hin)
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!

 

Rosario+Vampire Manga Series by Akihisa Ikeda (YA GRAPHIC NOVEL Ike)
All-around average teenager Tsukune can't get accepted to any high school save one...but on his first day he finds the rest of the student body doesn't appear average at all. Best of all, the cutest girl on campus can't wait to fling her arms around his neck! Wait a sec'--are those her teeth around his neck too...?

 

Night Road by A.M. Jenkins (YA FIC Jen)
Battling his memories, Cole, a vampire, and Sandor, an impulsive acquaintance, spend a few months on the road, trying to train a young man who recently joined their ranks.

 

The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks (YA FIC Jin)
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.

 

Boys That Bite by Mari Mancusi (YA FIC Man)
Bitten by a vampire after being mistaken for her Goth twin sister, Rayne, sixteen-year-old Sunny is in a race against time as she tries to prevent herself from becoming a vampire permanently.

 

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead (YA FIC Mea)
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 they try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots. First in a series.

 

Suck It Up by Brian Meehl (YA FIC Mee)
After graduating from the International Vampire League, a scrawny, teenaged vampire named Morning is given the chance to fulfill his embarking 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 help humanity.

 

Twilight Sagaby Stephenie Meyer (YA FIC Mey)
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.

 

Cirque Du Freak Series by Darren Shan (YA FIC Sha)
Darren and Steve, two boys who are best friends, visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices. ***Now also available in a manga series (YA GRAPHIC NOVEL Sha).

 

Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith (YA FIC Smi)
When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.

 

Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow (YA FIC STC)
Dru's psychic abilities helped her father battle zombies and other creatures of the "Real World," but now she must rely on herself, a "werwulf"-bitten friend, and a half-human vampire hunter to learn who murdered her parents, and why. First in a series.

 

Peeps by Scott Westerfeld (YA FIC Wes)
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected. First in a series.

 

Long Way Home Graphic Novel by Joss Whedon (YA GRAPHIC NOVEL Whe)
Describes the adventures of Buffy after the events covered by the television program, as she faces a mysterious threat called "Twilight."

 

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This list created for the South Kingstown Public Library by Brandi Kenyon. Updated 10/09.