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[cahn]

Since you had so many great ideas for books for E to read, I am consulting you yet again! E and I went over her list of book categories tonight and there are two more categories that I need help with (and a third I want to complain about but would also welcome help with) :

-Category: vampires
-Category: book about superheroes
-Category to complain about: #1 on NYT list

As before, the categories are not super strict; her teacher is very flexible (more flexible than I am, lol); if there is any way one can reasonably argue for it, I am willing to count it. I know there have got to be offbeat vampire or superhero books I can't think of right now. (Sadly, E is not old enough to read The Dragon Waiting.)

I did go to amazon and snag a paperback of Sarah Rees Brennan's Team Human, which is apparently out of print (I... thought I read this?? But I can't find any record of it anywhere, the library doesn't have it and I don't have an e-copy or any other sort, and I remember nothing about it, so maybe not), and we have Tanith Lee's Red as Blood if it comes down to it. But there must be others, right? That might be more middle-school-ish and therefore probably make more sense to E?

Superheroes I just have no clue! ...except that I just put a library hold on How Mirka Got Her Sword for the graphic novel category; does Mirka count as a superhero? (I have never read this and am looking forward to it!)

I am also massively side-eyeing the #1 New York Times category. E has rejected rereading the Harry Potter books (even though rereading is allowed); maybe I get her a Sue Grafton book, because I went through the lists for the last ten years and to be fair I didn't look super closely, but I can't find anything besides Harry Potter that's remotely suitable except maybe Grafton. I am not giving her Jodi Picoult, for crying out loud. Any suggestions there would be very welcome, though that's harder to weasel around, I think. Maybe I should work on her Harry Potter reluctance. ETA: I live under a rock and did not know there was a middle school category?? Yay!

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[tree_and_leaf]

Monstrous Regiment and Carpe Jugulum are the obvious ones. The vampires in the latter are villains, the vampire in the former is a sympathetic character. They're both good, but MR is a "stand alone" one, whereas Carpe Jugulum is quite well on in the sequence about the witches, so might be a better choice given she hasn't read any Discworld before.

[cahn]

Ah, excellent! Thank you!