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Vampire Island (Vampire Island #1)
by
Adele Griffin (Goodreads Author)
Life isn't easy for vegetarian vampires trying to blend in with regular people in a new city. The Livingstone kids are fruit bat hybrids who have left Old World dangers, and immortality, behind for a "normal" �life in New York City. But normal doesn't necessarily mean easy, especially with lingering vampire traits complicating things.
Older sister Lexie's super speed, amazi...more
Older sister Lexie's super speed, amazi...more
Hardcover, 128 pages
Published
August 16th 2007
by Putnam Juvenile
(first published October 28th 1996)
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Oct 30, 2007
Christina
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3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
4 - 6 graders, maybe 3rd.
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Fruit-bat hybrids living in NYC. huh. Took me a while to understand exactly what they were, and what made them different from full vampires. Kids will surely just go with it.
Three likable, but outsider-ish siblings each with a trait left over from their old vampire fruit bat days in the Old World (Europe). Oldest, Lexie is trying to court the most popular boy in middle school, even though she has an equally weird best friend, and the class queen bee is onto her. Hudson, the youngest is trying t...more
Three likable, but outsider-ish siblings each with a trait left over from their old vampire fruit bat days in the Old World (Europe). Oldest, Lexie is trying to court the most popular boy in middle school, even though she has an equally weird best friend, and the class queen bee is onto her. Hudson, the youngest is trying t...more
Vampire Island
My favorite part of this book was when Maddy was traped at the party and the phone was ringing under the couch. The book reminded me of Eighth Grade Bites a little because of the vampires have to hide stuff. I made a prediction that zombies would attack vampires but there were know zombies. I wonder why they traped her at the party, My favorite charecter was Lexi because she has powers to make her go faster. I will reccomend this book to other students because it has funny pieces...more
My favorite part of this book was when Maddy was traped at the party and the phone was ringing under the couch. The book reminded me of Eighth Grade Bites a little because of the vampires have to hide stuff. I made a prediction that zombies would attack vampires but there were know zombies. I wonder why they traped her at the party, My favorite charecter was Lexi because she has powers to make her go faster. I will reccomend this book to other students because it has funny pieces...more
I had mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, its great for pre-teens. The only fault I found with this book was the ending.... (or lack thereof) Case in point, the story just bluntly stopped in the middle of the last chapter. There was no resolution. I guess this is meant for the reader to draw their own conclusion.
Meet Lexi, Madison and Hudson. 3 siblings aged 9-13 who live in an apartment building in New York. The children are hundreds of years old and currently living as fruit bat/...more
Meet Lexi, Madison and Hudson. 3 siblings aged 9-13 who live in an apartment building in New York. The children are hundreds of years old and currently living as fruit bat/...more
The Livingstone family are fruit bat hybrids who have left the Old Word and immortaility to live in New York City as "normal" humans (with rather strange dentition and diet). Unfortunately, the three children--Lexie, Maddy, and Hudson--don't quite blend in with the school population. Each chapter focuses on one of the children and each has his own obsession: Lexie is obsessed with dead poets and her hearththrob, Dylan; Maddy is obsessed with ridding the neighborhood of the vampires across the s...more
tons of fun (and of course I illustrated the lovely cover :))
cute and a good break from intense reading. very enjoyable.
Lexie, Maddy, and Hudson aren't your average kids. Their parents are in a rock band called The Dead Ringers and walk dogs for a living. Hudson calls the oven the yewn and nags his classmates about saving the world to the point that no one wants to speak to him. Maddy spies on neighbors while eating ticks. And Lexie, well, she quotes dead poets - mostly the classics, but let us not forget Tupac and Kurt Cobain. Oh and they're not exactly human, but not exactly bats, but not exactly vampires eithe...more
I didn't really like this book but as I read more I started likeing it.It is about three vampires who had to move from the old world and now are liveing in our period of time.They face challenges like boy trouble,saveing the enviourment,and one of them thinks there is another vampire family liveing acroos the street. You will have to read to find out what happens next.
This is a cute little story about friendly kid fruit-bat vampires who go to school in New York. They deal with typical kid issues such as liking the popular boy in school and trying to figure out what's up with the weird new neighbors. Kids who like a paranormal twist to their chapter books will like this. Actually, fans of the Pixar movie The Incredibles might like this too.
Really fun and enjoyable story for young adults aged 10-14. I love the way each chapter is told by one of the three siblings: Maddy, Lexie and Hudson. The varying viewpoints and insight into each kid's world is amusing and interesting. The author definitely took a stale topic, as much as I love it, and made it fresh and new. Looking forward to more in this series.
Cute, but felt a little awkward and clunky at times. Loved the characters, but feel like the stories could be a little better connected and the details a little neater--it sometimes felt like the entire thing was written off the cuff and that Griffin didn't go back to really figure out how her world works. I won the second book from First Reads and am looking forward to Maddy, Hudson and Lexie's further adventures though.
You would have thought that with romantic vampires, tragic emo vampires, and romantic, tragic emo vampires, there wasn't much else that could be done with the genre. But Adele Griffin manages it in this funny new book.
Siblings Lexie, Hudson, and Maddie are fruit-bat vampire hybrids who have come to Manhatten with their parents to start a new (and vegan) life. Being almost 400 years old while looking like they shouldn't be in high school yet is difficult, especially when Lexie wants to get the gu...more
Siblings Lexie, Hudson, and Maddie are fruit-bat vampire hybrids who have come to Manhatten with their parents to start a new (and vegan) life. Being almost 400 years old while looking like they shouldn't be in high school yet is difficult, especially when Lexie wants to get the gu...more
Vegetarian vampires?! How could I not resist reading this book (and the series)? ;) I found it while I was searching for a replacement book similar to Sienna Mercer's My sister the vampires series. Lots of humour, lots of heart...I liked this book and the second one, but the third one fell flat.
This book moved very slowly for me and I never really got into it. Though the last few chapters were more intriguing then the rest of the book. I would like to know why the parents of Lexie and Pete didn't like each other's children, wished the writer had given us more about that.
I would say that because this book was geared towards young readers that is why I didn't get into. But I read all kinds of books and I know that is not the reason. This plot while interesting and I think very unique di...more
I would say that because this book was geared towards young readers that is why I didn't get into. But I read all kinds of books and I know that is not the reason. This plot while interesting and I think very unique di...more
I was really blown away by the creativity. I love it when authors really open up and let themselves go, inventing something really quirky and original like this. The mix of ordinary kid stuff with bits of fantasy, history, sophisticated humor, and action just works. Only flaws to pick were in the execution. Several word choice and grammatical issues cropped up and were annoying. Twice "slayed" was used, once when it should have been "slew" and once when it should have been "slain". There were ot...more
Who ever heard of fruit bat-hybrid vampires? Pretty interesting right? Vampires that live off of fruits and veggies...it makes me laugh...
I liked this a lot, and it gave me something to recommend to the really young vampire fans! Vegan vampires rock!
To be honest I didnt enjoy this book at all, in fact I found the writing style quite odd, a waste of a day.
I love this exciting, amazing book. I LOVE IT!!!!!
Oct 07, 2011
Michelle toribio
is currently reading it
its awsome its amix of everything
Looks like a kid book, but a good read.
For younger Twilight fans?
FUNNY!
A truly amazing book!!!
By page 24, I know I cannot possibly enjoy the rest of the book. It's wordy without polish and boring even though the idea of hybrid-fruit-bats living as pretend humans in NYC should have been entertaining, interesting, or at least magical. And sloppy continuity checks: page 25, Nicola von Krik said, "Our servant, Snooks, is preparting a late-afternoon snack of steak tartar..." and the next page, after the snack, the text reads, "After lunch, the von Kriks..."
I don't know how this happens, but the book I read had the characters Hudson, Maddy, and Lexy as 4th, 6th, and 8th grade young fruit bat hybrids...not quite the same summary I saw on the page when I went to mark it as read.
A great(and more appropriate!) suggestion for younger kids (3-6) looking for vampire books in the wake of the Twilight craze. The characters are fully realized and the story includes everything from an unrequited crush (minus the sensuality of most vampire tales), environmental protection, and yes, the presence of old world carnivorous vampires. This is the first in a series by Adele Griffin that is sure to be popular...
A great(and more appropriate!) suggestion for younger kids (3-6) looking for vampire books in the wake of the Twilight craze. The characters are fully realized and the story includes everything from an unrequited crush (minus the sensuality of most vampire tales), environmental protection, and yes, the presence of old world carnivorous vampires. This is the first in a series by Adele Griffin that is sure to be popular...
I think this was a well done story for kids. Griffin uses vampires, which are very popular right now, to discuss perennial kids issues such as popularity and being different as well as moving, making friends, crushes, etc. But she adds in care of the environment in a way that is accessible to children. I look forward to the next installment.
An enjoyable read. How can you go wrong with fruit bat/vampire hybrids? A great book for grades 4-6 or adults who like fun young adult reads. No, it's not too deep and you don't want to think too hard about how that hybridization thing worked out, but the story is good, the characters are interesting and it will keep a kid's interest.
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