Vampire High by Douglas Rees Angry with his dad for relocating to Massachusets from California, Cody flunks every single one of his classes in his first semester in high school. His dad decides that Cody needs to change schools, and Cody is accepted into Vlad Dracul High School. Cody is surprised by the difficulty of his classes and the ease at which he was let in: all he had to do was agree to play on the water polo team. After he saves a kid from getting beaten up, the kid, Justin, clues him in: all of the kids at Vlad Dracul who aren't on the water polo team are vamires. They call themselves jenti, and they have been living in the town for the past 200 years. Gadje, non-vampires, are sent to jenti schools to play water polo, since jenti dissolve in water, and the gadje friends of vampires are given a free ticket through life. Cody doesn't like the idea of a free ticket; he doesn't want to be thought of as stupid, and besides, he's got a crush on one of the jenti. So Cody sets about changing the order of things at Vlad Dracul High School and by doing so changes the relationship of gadge and jenti worldwide.
Cody has a sense of humor that propels the book along well. Evil is not absolute, and even bullies have a human side. The world in
Vampire High is a little bit simplistic, with the main characters acting younger than they purportedly are.
Happy reading.
