Book two-hundred-and-thirty-seven: Eight Grade Bites

Eight Grade Bites (2007)
Heather Brewer

Rating: 3.5/5

I really liked Vlad. The only thing wrong with this book is that it’s the start of a series, therefore there is a lot of unanswered questions and stage building… apart from that it was really funny.

If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic. Junior high school really sucks for thirteen-year-old Vladimir Tod, and not in the good slurp-up-the-blood kind of way. A gang of bullies harasses him daily, the principal is dogging his every move, and the girl he really likes prefers his best friend. Oh, and Vlad has to hide the fact that he's a vampire. When the one teacher he really connects with mysteriously vanishes, Vlad is determined to find him. But then Vlad finds an unsettling note scribbled across his essay: “I know your secret.”

Vlad must locate his missing teacher, dodge the principal, resist the bullies’ tempting invitations to Bite me!, and get a date for the dance—all before he is exposed for the teen vampire he is.

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Finished: Wednesday 26/12