VAMPS by Nancy A. Collins

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VAMPS is book one in a series about the vampire teens of Bathory Academy, a prestigious night school for the richest and most powerful members of the vampire race. The first book introduces the characters and sets up the overall plot arc but doesn’t have much of a resolution.

Lilith Todd is the “mean popular girl” at Bathory. Unfortunately, she’s also the primary point of view character in most of this book. Snobbish beyond belief, paranoid and utterly unlikeable, she has her whole life planned out, fairy princess style. She even already has her Prince Charming, betrothed to her in a vampiric contract

VAMPS really picked up when the point of view switched to Cally Monture, a half-blood from a much lower tax bracket, and a much more sympathetic character…

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A Practical Guide to Faeries

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A lush, nearly decadent book, A Practical Guide to Faeries is exactly what it advertises, a guide to finding, dealing with and surviving faeries. With beautiful art on every page, along with textured spots and even recipes, it teases every sense, pulling children (and adults) into the world of the Feywild. This book is high fantasy, but doesn’t forget the darker side of fae…Full review at Monster Librarian.

Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin

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Viking, 2008
ISBN: 078-0-670-01988-5
Available: New and used

A Hu-Li is a two thousand year old Chinese werefox in the body of a fifteen year old girl playing the role of a Russian prostitute. After
falling for an insatiable Russian werewolf she finds herself caught up in the epic quest for the super-werewolf, a fabled creature among were-beasts, who will someday appear and reveal the truth of all things…

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Bunnicula by James and Deborah Howe

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Bunnicula is a classic scary story for kids. When the Monroe family finds a strange bunny in a theater showing Dracula, their cat, Chester, and dog, Harold, decide to investigate the aptly named Bunnicula. As if the bunny’s strange markings and creepy red eyes weren’t enough, weird things start happening around him…

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Opalite Moon by Denise Vitola

Ty Merrick isn’t exactly a good person. She’s more likely to steal evidence from crime scenes than bag it, she complains (a lot) and seems to have a serious grudge against the world. She’s also not exactly a lycanthrope, but one day after falling unconscious from carbon monoxide poisoning she wakes up and something has changed…

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