Blue Bloods (Blue Bloods, Book 1) - Hardcover

De La Cruz, Melissa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786838922 ISBN 13: 9780786838929

Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children, 2006

Synopsis

Blue Bloods

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About the Author

Melissa de la Cruz is the author of the best-selling Au Pairs novels for teens and the co-author of the popular adult titleThe Fashionista Files: Adventures in Four-Inch Heels and Faux Pas. Melissa has appeared as an expert on style, trends, and celebrity for CNN and the E! Entertainment network and is a frequent contributor to popular magazines likeGlamour, Marie Claire, Teen Vogue, andCosmopolitan. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband. Melissa is not a Blue Blood, but she knows people who are

From School Library Journal

Grade 9 Up–De la Cruz has revamped traditional vampire lore in this story featuring a group of attractive, privileged Manhattan teens who attend a prestigious private school. Schuyler Van Alen, 15, the last of the line in a distinguished family, is being raised by her distant and forbidding grandmother. Schuyler, her friend Oliver, and their new friend Dylan are treated like outsiders by the clique of popular, athletic, and beautiful teens made up of Mimi Force, her twin brother, and her best friend. What they have in common is the fact that they are all Blue Bloods, or vampires. They don't realize that they aren't normal until they reach age 15. Then the symptoms manifest themselves and they begin to crave raw meat, have nightmares about events in history, and get prominent blue veins in their arms. Their immortality and way of life are threatened after Blue Blood teens start getting murdered by a splinter group called the Silver Bloods. This novel constantly name-drops and is full of product placements, drinking, drugs, nonexplicit sex, and superficial characterizations, but the intriguing plot will keep teens reading. De la Cruz's explanation for the disappearance of the Colony of Roanoke is unique and the idea that models don't gain weight because they are Blue Bloods rather than anorexic is unusual.–Sharon Rawlins, NJ Library for the Blind and Handicapped, Trenton
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About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0786838922
• ISBN 13: 9780786838929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320