CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC THE HINDU IN SCHOOL THE HINDU IN SCHOOL 34 BOOKSHELF SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2018 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2018 35 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC BOOKSHELF CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC THE TWEEN LIBRARIAN THE EVERNIGHT SERIES Chronicle of the undead VAMPIRE ACADEMY By Claudia Gray By Richelle Mead If the protagonist of Vampire Academy This series of six books follows 17-year- was a trainee vampire on the run, the If you’re a fan of vampire fiction and want to explore more of the genre, here are some suggestions for you. old Rosmarie Hathaway (Rose), the one in this five-book series is a 16-year- daughter of a vampire father and a old half-vampire forced to attend a human mother, as she struggles with By Anjana Nagabhushana boarding school for vampires by her her powers and fulfils her destiny as parents who want her to become a full the guardian of her best friend vampire. Bianca Olivier enrols in Vasilisa Dragomir (Lissa). When the Evernight Academy where her parents are teachers. story begins, Rose and Lissa, who Evernight Academy trains vampires to live among were on the run, are brought back to humans in their world. Although she feels that she does St. Vladimir’s Academy where Rose must begin training not belong to the Academy, Bianca makes friends and to be Lissa’s guardian. Rose has a psychic bond with Lissa also a few enemies. Things, however, become really and can hear her thoughts and emotions. She can, complicated when she falls in love with a vampire therefore, protect Lissa who has an incredible ability to hunter, Lucas Ross. By the third book, Bianca has been heal others but also has a tendency to hurt herself when accepted into the fold of the vampire hunters and faces depressed. At the end of the first book, there is a situations where she has to hold her own or perish. By forbidden, and possibly doomed, romance budding the end of the third book, torn between her love for Lucas between Rose and her instructor Dimitri. The next five and her natural instinct to survive, Bianca draws Lucas’ books follow the trio and an interesting assortment of blood, turning him into a vampire. By the end of the secondary characters as they fight evil, protect the good, Blame it on Stephanie series, their love has been tested to the maximum, Lucas lose their way and find their way again as their better Meyer’s best-selling ‘Twilight’ has been restored to being fully human and Bianca selves prevail. series. You begin wishing must accept her destiny as a wraith – a being that acts that your best friend was a as the bridge between the human and nonhuman vampire. You begin wishing worlds. that you had other friends who could transform into interesting animals at the drop of a hat. Such is the interest in Meyer’s books that even Bram Stroker, who created the genre with the singular ‘Dracula’, has been ACTIVITY THE KIESHA’RA SERIES wondering at the renewed Use this writing prompt to come up with a mystery / By Amelia Atwater-Rhodes interest in the genre. fantasy / supernatural thriller story. Wrap the story up This series isn’t exactly about The popularity of the in approximately 500 words. vampires, although the author, Twilight series has spawned Prompt: The funeral was to take place the next Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, has written a morning. went berserk trying to some well-received ones. Her first imagine the trials and novel, In the Forests of the Night, is a tribulations of being a vampire novel and is highly bloodsucking being in a recommended for fans of the genre. human world. Naturally, The Kiesha’ra Series, however, is a not every vampire book five-book series that explores the world published is as good as the of shapeshifters. The two types of shapeshifters are original. But if you’re a avians who have birds for their second form and genuine fan of vampire serpiente who have snakes as the alternate form. The fiction and want to explore avians have the Golden Hawk as the royal lineage. more of the genre, here are They believe in having complete control over their some suggestions for you. emotions. The serpientes are led by the Cobras and, by nature, are the complete opposite of the avians. At the beginning of the series, the two groups are constantly at war. Eventually, because of a kind turn of events on the part of the avians, the serpientes extend the olive branch and ask for peace. How the equation between the two warring groups progresses forms the rest of the series. All the novels are told in first person and this adds to the charm and intrigue of the novels. The final book in the series ties all the loose ends across the four previous books. Curl up with one of these and enjoy the ride into places where only books can take you!.