High School Bites: The Lucy Chronicles

by Liza Conrad

Overview

Lucy Hellenberg is not your typical Pacific Cedar High student. Because in between hanging out with her friends, hating her hair and her math teacher, and trying to decide whether she should dump her on-again, off-again boyfriend, she has to deal with a father who refuses to go outside and a house that bears way too much resemblance to the set of The Munsters.
 
And that’s not all. Lucy has just discovered that she’s a descendent of the lovely Lucy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula—and that vampires really do exist (right here at Pacific Cedar High!). Now she has to accessorize her homecoming dress with a necklace of garlic and learn how to drive while driving away vampires—without becoming their next victim.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440624285
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/03/2006
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	229 KB
Age Range:	14 Years

About the Author

Liza Conrad is the pseudonym for a successful author who lives in South Florida with an extremely noisy cockatoo, a corgi, and other unruly pets.

Editorial Reviews

Conrad introduces a thoroughly contemporary heroine in Lucy Hellenberg, descendent of the Lucy who once captivated Bram Stoker, author of the original Dracula. Lucy is doing her best to survive being a sophomore in high school, complete with a reclusive father, prying teachers, an almost boyfriend and bad hair days in Seattle. Then, on her 16th birthday, she inherits a diary that has been passed down through the women in her family and learns that her English assignment is not just homework-it's her life. As she and her best friend Mina are stalked through restaurants and malls by the living descendents of Dracula himself, she learns some grown-up lessons about self reliance, the importance of true friends and family and that being a girl doesn't mean she's a sissy. This volume contains little in the way of gore, focusing instead on the power of the mind, garlic cologne and holy water baths. A hip and fun read that emphasizes solid values, with just a touch of feminism. (Fantasy. YA)

Kirkus Reviews