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The Saga of Darren Shan: The Vampire's Assistant Award-winning author/illustrator

by Darren Shan (author)

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“Once I was an ordinary boy, but the Cirque Du Freak changed all that. Now I’m a vampire’s assistant. By day I help out in camp, by night I’m part of the act. Even though I hate it, I’ll have to drink blood to survive. If I don’t, Mr Crepsley says I’ll die…”

Darren has become a vampire – and a member of the Cirque Du Freak. But what does the future hold for him? Will he learn to enjoy performing as the youngest half-vampire in existence? And how long can he go on refusing to drink blood?

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

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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  1. Nashdasher
    on 7 March 2013

    this book is great scary but with lots of action.

  2. 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!

  3. 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!