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MY SWORDHAND IS SINGING Marcus Sedgwick Hardcover | Wendy Lamb Books | 978-0-375-84689-2 (0-375-84689-1) | October 2007 | $15.99 | Ages 12 up Hardcover Library Binding | Wendy Lamb Books | 978-0-375-94689-9 (0-375-94689-6) | October 2007 | $18.99 | Ages 12 up

When you picture vampires in your mind, what do you see? Young men who are handsome and suave? Eyes that are red? Fangs that are poking out from their lips?

This might be what many people picture today, but in very old vampire stories, vampires are simply the undead. They arise from graves and attack the living. Peter, unfortunately, knows all about these vampires. He also knows that his father is keeping secrets about the recent uprising of vampires in the little town they live in. His father, however, won’t tell him why it is happening. Will Peter be able to defeat the hideous creatures devouring everyone before they attack the woman he loves? Will his father ever tell him what his connection to these monsters is? Peter must hurry, or everyone he loves will soon be gone.

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Prepared by Brenda Day, Library Media Specialist, Aledo Middle School, Aledo, Texas

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