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Amos's big sister Amy is always dating rejects. But this time, her boyfriend was rejected by the grave! He's got pale skin, dark hair, mesmerizing eyes, an annoying tendency to disappear, and he wants to have the Culpeppers over for a late night Halloween snack.... Can Amos and his best friend, Dunc, stop the vampire before he starts to bite? Or will Amy and her man do a little necking she will never forget?



Join Gary Paulsen's cool sleuths in their creepiest caper yet!

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Gary Paulsen is one of America's most popular writers for young people. Although he was never a dedicated student, Paulsen developed a passion for reading at an early age. After a librarian gave him a book to read–along with his own library card–he was hooked. He began spending hours alone in the basement of his apartment building, reading one book after another.


Running away from home at the age of 14 and traveling with a carnival, Gary Paulsen acquired a taste for adventure. A youthful summer of rigorous chores on a farm; jobs as an engineer, construction worker, ranch hand, truck driver, and sailor; and two rounds of the 1,180-mile Alaskan dogsled race, the Iditarod, have provided ample material from which he creates powerful stories.


Paulsen's realization that he would ultimately be a writer happened suddenly when he was working as a satellite technician for an aerospace firm in California. One night he walked off the job, never to return. He spent the next year in Hollywood as a magazine proofreader, working on his own writing every night. Then he left California and drove to northern Minnesota where he rented a cabin by the lake; by the end of the winter, he had completed his first novel.


It is Gary Paulsen's overwhelming belief in young people that drives him to write. His intense desire to tap deeply into the human spirit and to encourage readers to observe and care about the world around them has brought him both enormous popularity with young people and critical acclaim from the children's book community. Paulsen has written nearly 100 books and some 200 articles and short stories for children and adults. He is one of the most respected writers of young adult literature today. Three of his novels–Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room– were named Newbery Honor Books.


In Soldier's Heart, 15-year-old Charley Goddard enlists in the First Minnesota Volunteers in 1861. This gripping, heartwrenching story of war is seen through the young boy's eyes, as he fights in almost every major battle of the Civil War.


Brian's Return, the final companion novel to the Newbery Honor-winning Hatchet, takes young readers on another exciting adventure to the north woods with Brian Robeson. As in Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter, Paulsen creates in Brian's Return a story that is ideal for integrating into the curriculum as well as for classroom read-aloud.


Paulsen fans will delight in reading the true stories behing the Brian novels in Paulsen’s recently published Guts.


The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer, a provocative and mature novel, will entice and entertain older readers. Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats is the latest tale of adventure by Gary Paulsen. Readers will love learning how Paulsen taught himself to sail, and how he learned from his own hilarious and hair-raising mistakes.


Gary Paulsen and his wife, Ruth Wright Paulsen, an artist who has illustrated several of his books such as Canoe Days and Dogteam, divide their time between a ranch in southern New Mexico and a home on a sailboat in the Pacific.