A small sample of our newest sci-fi titles that focus on vampires and/or werewolves. (Nov. 2010)

1. Slide Show Prepared By: Paula Trapani-Wiener, Librarian Lawrence Road Middle School November 2010 in Fiction

2. Eighth Grade Bites By Heather Brewer Thirteen-year-old half-vampire Vladimir Tod struggles to navigate the ups and downs of eighth grade while keeping his untested powers and impulses under control.

3. Cirque du Freak: Living Nightmare By Darren Shan 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.

4. Claire de Lune By Christine Johnson On her sixteenth birthday Claire discovers strange things happening and when her mother reveals their family secret which explains the changes, Claire feels her world, as she has known it to be, slowly slipping away.

5. Dead Is a State of Mind By Marlene Perez When a gorgeous new student's prediction that a teacher will be murdered comes true, seventeen-year-old Daisy is determined to solve the crime, but when all signs point to the killer being a werewolf, she fears she is in over her head.

6. How to Be a Vampire By Amy Tipton Gray A fictional guide to living as a vampire that describes vampire personas, profiles some legendary vampires throughout history, and discusses turning, transformation, alternative foods, supernatural foes, choosing a vampire name, ways to fill eternity, and more.

7. Raised by Wolves By Jennifer Barnes A girl raised by werewolves must face the horrors of her past to uncover the dark secrets that the pack has worked so hard to hide.

8. Reformed Vampire 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.

9. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner By Stephenie Meyer Bree, a newborn vampire and part of the army preparing to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, does not recall much about her life as a human, but knows enough to realize she is a pawn in a dangerous game that could end in her death--for the last time.

10. Still Sucks to Be Me By Kimberly Pauley When newly-turned teen vampire Mina Hamilton, now Smith, moves with her family far from their California home, her best friend Serena, and her vampire boyfriend George, life is not at all what she expects.

11. Vampire Academy 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.

12. Vampire Kisses By Ellen Schreiber 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.