

When old-world dangers threaten a race of fruit bat hybrids, where can they run to? New York City, of course! And that?s where we meet the Livingstone kids?Lexie, Hudson, and Maddy?trying to blend their ?vampireness? with the regular people of the city. (From a National Book Award finalist comes a lively new sp.)įrom a National Book Award finalist comes a lively new spin on the classic vampire tale. Amidst the complicated friendships, inconvenient crushes and occupational mishaps that seem to define this summer, Irene suddenly and unexpectedly finds that the countdown to real life is over and her fate is in her hands.

Then she meets Starla, a mind-bogglingly beautiful lifeguard whose diva attitude, dangerous obsessions, male admirers and cringe-worthy blog supply Irene with enough real-life drama and romance to fill a book.


Now she’s stuck at the beach entertaining kids while everyone else is having a glamorous summer.Will she ever get a life? She’s just been fired from her mom’s beauty salon for her tear-jerking shampooing technique, and is forced to take the only other job she can find-babysitting. And it’s a good thing she has dreams, since reality is harsh. where her specialty will be recreating the hairstyles of famous literary heroines. Irene’s got big dreams-someday she’ll own a sun-kissed salon in L.A. (Irene’s got big dreams-someday she’ll own a sun-kissed sa.)
