Start: 23 Sep 2010 6:30 pm
Justin Somper vants to suck your blood . . . and then collect some booty.
Actually, we hear he's a nice guy, and we're fairly certain that, unlike the characters in his books, he:
A.) does not come from 500 years in the future
B.) is not a vampire
C.) is not a pirate
D.) is not a combination of a vampire and a pirate.
So you will (probably) be safe coming to hear Justin talk about the newest book in his exciting Vampirates series: Empire of the Night. Warning: this one has a lot of drama, revenge, and potential terror, including a fight for the throne of the Vampirate Kingdom.
Book List
$15.99
ISBN-13: 9780316033220
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 8/2010
After the surprising revelation of the Tempest family history, twins
Connor and Grace face a newly-defined future marked by their Vampirate
roots. Meanwhile, Sidorio's evil Vampirate Empire continues its
expansion, making it tragically apparent that no ship is safe. As for
the pirates, they have a new mission: wipe out the vampirates.
$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780316014441
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 4/2007
Twins, Connor and Grace, never dreamed that there was any truth to the
Vampirate shanty their father sang to them before he died, but that was
before the two were shipwrecked and separated from each other. For
Connor, who is taken aboard a pirate ship, there's the chance to learn
to swordfight, but for Grace, aboard a mysterious ship of vampire
pirates, the danger is great. What will it take for them to find each
other?
$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780316014458
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 4/2008
Fourteen-year-old orphaned twins Grace and Connor Tempest are together again aboard the pirate ship Diablo, but
when an attack goes wrong and one of Connor's best friends is killed,
Grace wants to find a way to keep her brother safe. Invited to spend a
week at the Pirate Academy, Connor thrives, but Grace yearns for the
life she knew among the vampirates--especially Lorcan, who blinded
himself seeing to her safety. A ring he gave her allows her to walk the
decks of the vampirates' ship through astral projection. Even though
this is the second in the Vampirates series, following Demons of the Ocean (2006),
it is easy to pick up the threads of the story, which sets plucky young
people against Pirate Federation intrigue and the evil, renegade
vampirates. This provides more of the swashbuckling action and
horror-tinged fantasy that characterizes the series, which offers lots
of appeal for reluctant readers.
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$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780316020862
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 4/2009
As fans of the Vampirates series know, nothing is quite as it seems
when Vampirates and pirates are involved, so twins Connor and Grace
have to keep up their guards. But with every new challenge pulling them
farther apart, it seems that the time has finally come for the twins to
explore their separate fates.
$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780316020886
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 6/2010
There's a new ship of Vampirates roaming the seas, leaving a trail of fear and devastation in its wake. So when one of the Academy's most-esteemed pirates is suddenly slain, the Pirate Federation takes immediate action to train a special crew of vampire hunters. Young pirate prodigy Connor Tempest is placed at the helm, which means he is leading the fight against a vampire ship with one very important passenger: His sister.
