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These Books Don't Bite...But Vampires Might!

Sink your teeth into our captivating selection of books about vampires. Explore the allure of the undead with these fiction and nonfiction books that don't bite, but beware--vampires lurk within the pages! This is a multigenerational booklist that features selections for pre-readers (0-5), readers (5-10), pre-teens (10-12), teens (12-17), and adults (18+). Selected by SJPL staff.

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  • For pre-readers. Fiction. Vlad is a vampire with the misfortune of having rosy cheeks that--gasp!--make him look abysmally alive. But being the fabulous vampire that he is (and hoping to avoid rejection), he hides his rosy complexion…
    BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2023. — J PICTURE BOOK Drago
  • For pre-readers. Fiction. A young vampire trades places with a penguin at the zoo for a day of mischief and fun.
    BookNew York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2021] — J PICTURE BOOK Cummins
  • For readers. Fiction. After moving to small, spooky Massachusetts beach town Shiver-by-the-Sea, Bella Gosi must team up with her new friend to help a kid vampire find his way home.
    Book[New York] : Pixel+Ink, [2023] — J FICTION Dionne
  • For readers. Non-fiction. A basic explanation of the appearance, behaviors, and origins of vampires, the nocturnal mythological creatures known for drinking blood. Also included is a story from folklore about a vampire-hunting dhampir.
    BookMankato, Minnesota : Creative Education, [2020] — J 398.45 Gish
  • For readers and pre-teens. Fiction. Regan, Sofia, Bennett, and Darius know better by now than to think the witch's curse is done with them. A mysterious family checks into Regan's family Boo and Breakfast...and they seem to take a…
    BookNew York, NY : Scholastic Inc., 2024. — J PB FICTION Eulberg
  • For readers and pre-teens. Fiction. After ice-skater and Olympic hopeful Mina wipes out at her biggest competition, she gets recruited by a squad of vampires who need a human player to complete their Paranormal Roller Derby team.
    BookNew York : Labyrinth Road, 2024. — J FICTION BLOOD CITY ROLLERS
  • For readers and pre-teens. Nonfiction. The information in this guide comes from folklore from different parts of the world where people once believed in vampires. Fascinating facts include how to tell if someone is a vampire, where in the…
    BookSt. Catharines, Ontario ; New York, NY : Crabtree Publishing Company, 2023. — J 398.21 Gleason
  • Hanging With Vampires

    a Totally Factual Field Guide to the Supernatural

    Fitzpatrick, Insha,
    For readers and pre-teens. Non-fiction. An illustrated nonfiction guide to vampires in history, legend, and pop culture.
    BookPhiladelphia, PA : Quirk Books, [2023] — J 398.21 Fitzpatr
  • For readers and pre-teens. Fiction. Eleven-year-old Maggie Helsby lives at the edge of Skeleton Woods, which is inhabited by a coven of vampires; she is descended from a line of vampire slayers, but she likes the vampires (especially her…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2023. — J PB FICTION Birchall
  • For readers and pre-teens. Fiction. In an alternate San Antonio, there have been no known cases of vampirism since a group of masked vampire hunters called the Vanquishers wiped out the last horde of the undead twenty years ago, but…
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2022. — J FICTION Bayron
  • For readers and pre-teens. Fiction. Jack, who is half-vampire and half-lumberjack, struggles to choose between a vampire academy and a lumberjack school when all he really wants is to dance.
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2022] — J FICTION Lumberja
  • For teens. Fiction. Arthie Casimir, a criminal mastermind, transforms her tearoom into an illegal bloodhouse for vampires, but when her establishment is threatened, she forms an unlikely alliance and assembles a misfit crew to infiltrate…
    BookNew York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2024. — YA FICTION Faizal
  • For teens. Fiction. In order to resurrect her sister, seventeen-year-old Bly must win a competition held by warring vampire and witch kingdoms, but things get complicated when she starts to fall for the vampire she is supposed to hand over.
    BookNew York : Margaret K. McElderry, 2024. — YA FICTION Fuston
  • For teens. Fiction. Gloomy, introverted, and the daughter of a shaman, Naerim is an easy target for the bullies in her class. With no friends and an aloof mother, she faces this daily nightmare all alone. But just as she hits rock bottom,…
    BookNew York, NY : Yen Press, [2023] — YA FICTION BLOODY SWEET
  • For teens. Fiction. Desperate to escape her house and mother, vampire Ava runs away into the forest where her old friend Kaye, a budding vampire hunter, follows her and the two become each other's greatest threat and only hope.
    BookNew York : Wednesday Books, 2023. — YA FICTION Flores
  • For teens. Fiction. Joining the ranks of the Chasseurs as their first vampire huntswoman, Celie is tasked with protecting Belterra and must vanquish a rising new evil - one hiding behind a handsome face and honeyed words - before she falls…
    BookNew York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — YA FICTION Mahurin
  • For teens. Fiction. Soon after arriving in the tiny tourist town of Nightfall, Oregon, siblings Theo and Marco break their grandmother's rule not to leave the house after dark and befriend a mysterious group of beguiling girls who are far…
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2023] — YA FICTION Young
  • For adults. Fiction. It’s 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in town, have run Evans Funeral Parlor for the last fifteen years without drama. But when the town gossip’s body is brought in for a…
    BookNew York : Minotaur Books, 2024. — FICTION Ryan
  • For adults. Fiction. Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives from Europe to the coast of Buenos…
    BookNew York : Dutton, [2024] — FICTION Yuszczuk
  • For adults. Fiction. As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters--her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch…
    BookNew York : Berkley, [2023] — FICTION Canas