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FROM: "Carol Elmore" <[removed]@westga.edu>
REC'D: 2/7/00, 4:41 PM

Hi,
A high schooler who doesn't read very much, told me one book she really
liked was about a girl who fell in love with a guy who she didn't know was
a vampire and had to kill him in the end to give him peace. She wanted
other books like this. I thought of Anne Rice but feel hers are a little
too "old" for her. It is not a field I know very much about. Can anyone
make any suggestions about titles or authors?
Thanks,
Carole Elmore
Newnan-Coweta Public Library
Newnan, Ga

FROM: "Janice Borg" <[removed]@cooklib.org>
REC'D: 2/7/00, 6:39 PM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carol Elmore [[removed]@westga.edu]
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 4:46 PM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Mystery/Romance/Vampires
>
I think your patron would enjoy Blood and Chocolate by Annette
Curtis Klause. The sixteen year old protagonist is a werewolf who falls in
love with a human, a "meat-boy".

FROM: "Mary Mcgavick" <[removed]@knox.net>
REC'D: 2/7/00, 6:41 PM

Try titles such as :
The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klaus (May be the book she originally read)
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause (About werewolves but very, very
good.)
Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde
The Blooding by Patricia Windsor (Also about werewolves)
The Vampire's Beautiful Daughter by S. P. Somtow
Look for Me by Moonlight by Mary Downing Hahn
The Vampire Diaries Series by L. J. Smith (Titles #1 is the Awakening)
(Particularly popular)
The Last Vampire Series by Christopher Pike
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Series (They're actually pretty good)
Vampire by Richie Tankersley Cusick
Song of the Vampire by Carman Adams

Karen Jensen
Young Adult Services
Mount Vernon Public Library

Carol Elmore wrote:

> Hi,
> A high schooler who doesn't read very much, told me one book she really
> liked was about a girl who fell in love with a guy who she didn't know was
> a vampire and had to kill him in the end to give him peace. She wanted
> other books like this. I thought of Anne Rice but feel hers are a little
> too "old" for her. It is not a field I know very much about. Can anyone
> make any suggestions about titles or authors?
> Thanks,
> Carole Elmore
> Newnan-Coweta Public Library
> Newnan, Ga

FROM: "Charlotte Bradshaw" <[removed]@pls.lib.ca.us>
REC'D: 2/7/00, 6:54 PM

Carole-

I'm not sure of the title described, but here are a couple of really good
YA vampire/werewolf stories:

Annette Curtis Klause
Silver Kiss - Chloe, dealing with her mother's cancer illness,
meets Simon during one of her late night walks. These two strike up an
unlikely friendship, unlikely because Simon is a vampire. Together they
try to stop the vicious murders taking place...murders being committed by
Simon's younger brother, another vampire.

Blood and Chocolate - an urban werewolf tale, set in suburbia D.C.
A werewolf pack loses it leader and relocates to D.C. in disarray. In the
midst of the pack trying to find a new leader, the teen daughter of the
last leader tries to fit in in a new environmetn and a new school.

VandeVelde, Vivian
Companions of the Night - A teen finds herself in cahoots with a
vampire, running from vampire killers who think she is a vampire. (Got
that?) She knows she doesn't want to be a vampire, but she feels an
attraction to her comapnion...can she keep a distance?

There are more, but these are some that have gone over really well with
kids when I reccommend them.

Charlotte Bradshaw
Sanchez Branch
San Mateo County Library
[removed]@pls.lib.ca.us

FROM: "Thelma Stone" <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.fort-worth.tx.us>
REC'D: 2/7/00, 6:56 PM

Most of the adult fiction on vampires deal with sexuality and/or gore.
You might try Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' In the Forests of the Night, Mary
Downing Hahn's Look for Me by Moonlight and Barbara Hambly's Those Who
Hunt the Night. On the lighter side there is Terry Pratchett's Carpe
Jugulum.

FROM: <[removed]@aol.com>
REC'D: 2/7/00, 7:29 PM

Hi, Carole,
A good reference was publiished in 1998. VAMPIRE READINGS;An Annotated
Biblliography,by Patricia Altner (ISBN 0-8108-3504-5)
Scarecrow Press, 4720 Boston Way,Lanham.MD20706
It has a chapter on Young Adult titles. (33 titles) with 11 additional unread
YA titles.
If you can access this it could be a help to you.

Cynthia Parker

FROM: <[removed]@aol.com>
REC'D: 2/7/00, 10:10 PM

In a message dated 2/7/2000 5:52:39 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@westga.edu writes:

<< Hi,
A high schooler who doesn't read very much, told me one book she really
liked was about a girl who fell in love with a guy who she didn't know was
a vampire and had to kill him in the end to give him peace. She wanted
other books like this. I thought of Anne Rice but feel hers are a little
too "old" for her. It is not a field I know very much about. Can anyone
make any suggestions about titles or authors?
Thanks,
Carole Elmore
Newnan-Coweta Public Library
Newnan, Ga >>

Carole -

There are a couple of very nice vampire short stories that come to mind.
One, I think, is by William Tenn, and may be called, "She only comes out at
night." The other was published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science
Fiction, and involved using the vampire's blood to cure a fatal disease,
which I think was AIDS, or something like it. It's here somewhere in the
morass of my collection. I'll contact you if I can get more specific.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: <[removed]@aol.com>
REC'D: 2/7/00, 10:16 PM

In a message dated 2/7/2000 7:49:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@cooklib.org writes:

<< > -----Original Message-----
> From: Carol Elmore [[removed]@westga.edu]
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 4:46 PM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Mystery/Romance/Vampires >>


Carol -

Your patron might also enjoy Mary Stewart's A WALK IN WOLF WOOD, the story
of a brother & sister of today become involved in the rescue of a werewolf in
the 14th century.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: <[removed]@dorsai.org>
REC'D: 2/8/00, 6:19 AM

> In a message dated 2/7/2000 5:52:39 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [removed]@westga.edu writes:
>
> << Hi,
> A high schooler who doesn't read very much, told me one book she really
> liked was about a girl who fell in love with a guy who she didn't know was
> a vampire and had to kill him in the end to give him peace. She wanted
> other books like this. I thought of Anne Rice but feel hers are a little
> too "old" for her. It is not a field I know very much about. Can anyone
> make any suggestions about titles or authors?
> Thanks,
> Carole Elmore
> Newnan-Coweta Public Library
> Newnan, Ga >>
Hi Carole - I would recommend the Night World series by L. J.
Smith - they are all paperback originals. Titles include Daughters
of Darkness, Black Dawn, etc. They have romantic vampires,
shapeshifters and witches - some are good and some are bad,
most are teenagers. What about the Buffy the Vampire Slayer
series also?

Alison
Alison Hendon
[removed]@amanda.dorsai.org

"Though my soul may set in darkness,
It will rise in perfect light,
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night...."
- Sarah Williams, "The Old Astronomer to His Pupil"

FROM: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
REC'D: 2/8/00, 8:58 AM

Hi,
Another series that hasn't been mentioned but that might be of interest is
Mercedes Lackey's Diana Tregarde Investigations. The titles are: Children
of the Night, Burning Water, and Jinx High. Diana is a witch and her
partner is a vampire. They encounter all sorts of things from ancient
Aztec gods to werewolves.
It may be hard to find, though, but it's worth the effort.
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FROM: "Mary K Chelton" <[removed]@pop.mail.rcn.net>
REC'D: 2/8/00, 9:01 AM

I think this is THE SILVER KISS by Annette Curtis Klause. Great book
and unanimous choice the year it made the Best Books for Young Adults
list at ALA.

MK

>In a message dated 2/7/2000 5:52:39 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@westga.edu writes:
>
><< Hi,
> A high schooler who doesn't read very much, told me one book she really
> liked was about a girl who fell in love with a guy who she didn't know was
> a vampire and had to kill him in the end to give him peace. She wanted
> other books like this. I thought of Anne Rice but feel hers are a little
> too "old" for her. It is not a field I know very much about. Can anyone
> make any suggestions about titles or authors?
> Thanks,
> Carole Elmore
> Newnan-Coweta Public Library
> Newnan, Ga >>
>
>Carole -
>
>There are a couple of very nice vampire short stories that come to mind.
>One, I think, is by William Tenn, and may be called, "She only comes out at
>night." The other was published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science
>Fiction, and involved using the vampire's blood to cure a fatal disease,
>which I think was AIDS, or something like it. It's here somewhere in the
>morass of my collection. I'll contact you if I can get more specific.
>
>Binnie Syril Braunstein
>Romance novelist/former librarian


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FROM: <[removed]@bensenville.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/8/00, 9:06 AM

One book that I haven't seen mentioned yet for your teen reader is "The
Changeover" by Margaret Mahy - no vampires, but the heroine must choose
to be a witch to save her little brother from a serious illness.

Jennie Cisna
Community Services Librarian
Bensenville Public Library
Bensenville, IL

The views presented are my own and not intended to be representative of
Bensenville Public Library

FROM: "Marsha Valance " <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 2/9/00, 8:14 AM

Two adult series YAs enjoy are those by Fred Saberhagen and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. (Yarbro has more romance than Saberhagen.)


Marsha J. Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells Street
Milwaukee, Wi 53233-1436
Phone: 414/286-3010
FAX: 414/286-3102
Email: <[removed]@mpl.org>

"That All May Read"

>>> Carol Elmore <[removed]@westga.edu> 02/07 4:46 PM >>>
Hi,
A high schooler who doesn't read very much, told me one book she really
liked was about a girl who fell in love with a guy who she didn't know was
a vampire and had to kill him in the end to give him peace. She wanted
other books like this. I thought of Anne Rice but feel hers are a little
too "old" for her. It is not a field I know very much about. Can anyone
make any suggestions about titles or authors?
Thanks,
Carole Elmore
Newnan-Coweta Public Library
Newnan, Ga

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