The Saga of Darren Shan: The Vampire's Assistant Award-winning author by Darren Shan (author)

Darren joins the vampire, Mr Crepsley, as his assistant and they return to the Cirque Du Freak. There, Darren makes friends with the snake-boy, Evra Von (who knows what Darren is) and a local boy, Sam, and RV, an eco-warrior and animal lover (who do not). Darren begins to enjoy his life among the Cirque performers as the youngest half-vampire in existence, but he defiantly refuses to drink human blood – the whole idea sickens him – and he tries desperately to cling on to the part of him which is human.

Darren comes face to face with pure evil in the form of Mr Tiny, the leader of the Little People who join the Cirque Du Freak, and who eat anything – including human flesh. When he discovers animal bones, RV frees the wolf-man from his cage – and no-one could possibly guess how truly terrible the whole effect would be.

Product Details

Series

The Saga of Darren Shan

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780006755135

Publisher

HarperCollins Children's Books

Date published

May 30th, 2000

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 4.2; Upper years; 6.0 points

Condition

New

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The Saga of Darren Shan

Author/Illustrator

Darren Shan

Darren Shan is author of two best-selling horror series: The Saga of Darren Shan, and The Demonata. He was born in London in 1972, but has lived in Ireland since the age of six. He began to write as a teenager, and initally had horror books for adults published.

His big breakthrough came in 2000 with the publication of his first children’s book, Cirque du Freak. The first of twelve books in the vampiric_Saga of Darren Shan_ it attracted a huge following. A film of the first three books is released in October 2009. His next project, The Demonata cemented his reputation as the master of children’s horror, and the episodic Zom_B soon followed.

Darren lives in Limerick with his girlfriend. He’s a huge film buff, loves to collect comic-art, supports Tottenham Hotspur – and is always thinking up new ways to terrify his readers!

Darren’s books have now been published in 31 languages, and have been best-sellers in countries as diverse as America, Hugnary and Taiwan, selling over 20 million copies worldwide!!!!

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Nashdasher
on 7 March 2013

this book is great scary but with lots of action.
lemonhoneysss10
on 6 March 2012

Not for the fainthearted Personally I found it the best and bloodiest of the lot! An excellent book, scary, so much adventure, twists and turns and a whole chunk of suspense! wow!
xxisabellatrixx
on 27 February 2011

as the first one this book wasbeyond awesome! i absolutely loved it, and again i wouldn’t suggest it to the faint hearted!

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The Saga of Darren Shan: The Vampire's Assistant Award-winning author by Darren Shan (author)