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| Vampire High | 
 enlarge | Author: Douglas Rees
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 215845
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0385731175
EAN: 9780385731171
ASIN: 0385731175
Publication Date: September 9, 2008
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Product Description
It doesn’t take long for Cody Elliot to realize that his new high school is a little different. The other students are supernaturally strong, don’t like the sunlight, and are always placing orders at the local blood bank. When his new friend shows him his fangs, Cody doesn’t need any more clues—these kids are vampires! As Cody struggles to fit into this secretive community, he disrupts centuries of human-vampire segregation, with some serious—and some seriously funny—consequences.
In sharp, humorous, and insightful prose, Douglas Rees creates a world of vampires where the real issue for humans is not the fear of being bitten, but the need to get along.
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 Vampire High sounds like most high schools! November 8, 2007
What a wonderful book! Thanks for a fun, amazing read! I'm rarely ever into any kind of fantasy or paranormal (anyone who knows me well knows that my boots are firmly planted on terra firma), but VAMPIRE HIGH is not so much a paranormal or vampire book as it is a book about the value of real friendship. And while Vlad Dracul High School is filled with kids who have unusual, um, dietary needs, they are still teens like you'll see at any high school--quirky, needy, funny, bright, mean, sweet and exuding all of the other wonderful qualities teens possess! The characters in VAMPIRE HIGH--both the jenti and the gadhe--are so beautifully drawn that I was rooting for them all, turning the pages quickly to see what would happen next. The ending satisfied, too!
Courtesy of Teens Read Too September 7, 2007
Cody Elliot has just moved to Massachusetts from California. He hates his new town of New Sodom and is proud of his report card full of F's (even in homeroom). His dad, not so proud. Cody gets sent to a new school, Vlad Dracul.
It doesn't take long for Cody to realize that something is different about his fellow students. They wear sunglasses inside, they are strangely silent, and seem to be super-smart. After he sees someone's fangs he realizes the obvious- his classmates are vampires.
Most people would be creeped out by this, but not Cody. As it turns out, going to school with vampires is pretty sweet. Cody doesn't have to do much of anything. He gets free A's, a free ride through college, a free ride through life basically. All he has to do is get in the pool and pretend to play water polo once and a while.
It's when Cody decides to try to get real grades, make some friends, and actually try to win a game of water polo that things start to get messy. Vampires don't like messy very much. For Cody, life is about to get really interesting.
This book was really good, very hard to put down. It had a great plot and is full of mystery. I would suggest it to anyone who is a fan of vampires.
Reviewed by: Michaela Pallante aka "Mickey"
 Enroll In Vlad Dracul March 13, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Cody Elliots's family has recently moved from Southern California to Massachusetts. Cody is not happy about the situation and has been acting out by being a bad student. As a result his father has decided to send him to a tough private school. Of the two, he chooses Vlad Dracul. Cody is immediately accepted and enrolled on the school's water polo team. On his first day Cody is accompanied to class by a very large dog and that is one of the least strange things about the day. All of the students seem very dedicated to their work. They are almost all very tall, pale and tend to wear sunglasses. The guys on the water polo team are just the opposite. Then after school, Cody intervenes to help a fellow student who is being bullied. Cody finds himself over his head in a fight but is saved when a beautiful girl scratches his cheek and claims him. From then on things are even weirder.
The after-school altercation has given Cody a new status. He quickly makes friends with the guy he helped and the girl who helped him. He then finds out the truth of the school. Almost the entire student body and faculty are actually vampires. A few non-vampires are admitted in order to field a water polo team and meet the State's requirements. Cody is not so happy with this even though it could mean a free ride for the rest of his life. Now all he has to figure out is how to buck the system and be treated normally and not like a dumb mortal. But this quest leads to more trouble and even further developments. But Cody remains stubborn and eventually succeeds in various ways.
I really enjoyed this book. It was much different from what might be expected from reading the back. Vampires are a gimmick and not the main push of the story. Instead, this is a tale of the meeting of cultures and how a member of one can be accepted by the other. Having read this I am definitely going to keep an eye out for more from this author. Check it out.
Li-Hsin's book review December 4, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This great book is called Vampire High, it is written by Douglas Rees. In Massachusetts, Cody Elliot was getting low grades and bad behavior. His dad moved him to a new high school. This new school, Vlad Dracul is weird and different. The students in this school were tall, quiet, smart, black haired, and always wore sunglasses. Also the principal had an intelligent dog that could understand human words.
Slowly, Cody discovered that this was a vampire school! In an accident, Cody became good friends with two vampire students, Justin and Ileana. Justin was one of the few students in the school that had brown hair and seemed really short. Ileana was a beautiful girl whose dad is Cody's dad's workmate.
You know vampires were afraid of water, so they needed some humans to play water polo which the state required. Cody didn't have to do any of his assignments, but got all straight A's. No homework, no tests, no practice in water polo, rich furniture. Cody loved this school! But afterwards Cody felt that he wanted to do his works, which gave him more self-esteem. Teachers were surprised by the next day when he turned in his papers. Cody even gave his blood to Justin. Doing many nice things for people disappointed people at the school. In this way, Cody started to change Vlad Dracul.
My favorite part in Vampire High is when Cody got out in the middle of Ileana's birthday party, and donated his blood to Justin to strengthen him. Then they could go to the party together. My reason is that Cody didn't think about himself but cared about other people, too. If someone told me to donate blood, I wouldn't do it.
I give Vampire High book four stars out of a possible five on the rating scale. I like this story because as I read it, I actually felt like one of the characters. The author made me identify with their personalities. For example, I could understand how Cody felt and wanted to change the school for the better. I would recommend this book for others to read.
Morgan's Review of Vampire High November 23, 2006
I read a fantastic book called Vampire High by Douglas Rees. It is a fantasy book set in the present day.
It all began with Cody coming home with strait F's. He'd even got an F in homeroom and Gym! His parents decide that he's gone too far. So his father sets off to find him a new school. Before I read, which school he was going to go to, questions rolled through my head like: What school is he going to go to? What would it be like? Will he like it? The school he was going to was VLAD DRACUL MAGNET SCHOOL. I thought it was kind of weird because the DRACUL almost sounded like Dracula! When he got there it had chandeliers and rugs. It looked like somebody's house.
The main characters are Cody, Justin, and Alaina. Cody is a troubled kid who does not get good grades as you can see from above. Justin is a vampire who is really smart, makes good decisions and works in the school library. Finally, Alaina is a European vampire who does not speak English well. They become Cody's friends.
I loved the whole book. I could picture the whole school inside because there were so many details. One example is: that I could picture the cafeteria very well in my imagination.
I definitely recommend this book to anybody who likes fantasy or books written in first person. The first person is Cody. Cody did a great job explaining what was happening to him. The part that I remember he explained fantastically, was when he had to deal with his parents about his bad report card. Just like Cody I had to deal with a bad report card, although I did not get all F's.
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