My Sister the Vampire #2: Fangtastic! [Paperback]

Sienna Mercer (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: My Sister the Vampire

Olivia is a vegetarian. Ivy is a vampire. And they're twins?!?

Ever since Olivia discovered that her long-lost twin sister, Ivy, is a vampire, she's been soaking up everything Ivy will tell her about Franklin Grove's vampire community. It's all top secret, and Olivia's sworn that she'll never tell another soul. But now, nosy tabloid reporter Serena Star is snooping around. As she gets closer and closer to the truth, it's up to Ivy and Olivia to throw her off track. This is one fangtastic news story that can't get out!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins (August 21, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060871156
• ISBN-13: 978-0060871154
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sienna Mercer lives in Toronto, Canada with her two cats, Calypso and Angel. She does most of her writing in her attic, surrounded by photos of her travels. She doesn't have a twin sister, but always wished that she did.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Summary of Fangtastic!, January 24, 2010

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This review is from: My Sister the Vampire #2: Fangtastic! (Kindle Edition)

The main characters in this story are Olivia Abbott and Ivy Vega, the twins. Ivy is a vampire, but Olivia isn't. The three major characters are Ivy's best friend Sophia Hewitt, Ivy's boyfriend Brendan Daniels, Olivia's best friend Camilla Edmunson, and Serena Star a celebrity reporter who hosts her own news show The Morning Star. Sophia and Brendan are also vampires while Camilla and Serena aren't.
The story starts out with Serena Star on her television show covering a story that happened the day before. A vampire boy named Garrick Stephens had climbed out of a coffin in the middle of a funeral. The conflict is that Serena Star, finding this strange, decides to find what out the "truth of Franklin Grove" is. The rising action begins when she goes to the Franklin Grove Junior High and begins her work. She wonders why there are so many Goths in this town. Meanwhile, Sophia, Ivy, and Olivia are trying to find a way to mislead Serena Star from the truth of vampires and attempting to convince her that nothing is out of the ordinary in Franklin Grove.
Eventually, Serena comes to the conclusion that nothing is strange in Franklin Grove, or so she says. She confronts Ivy in the hall one day at school and announces that she wants Ivy to be on an episode of her show to display to the rest of the Franklin Grove students a good role model. Happy that Serena has dropped the "deep dark secret" idea, Ivy accepts. After school, they begin filming, live. Meanwhile, Olivia, Sophia, and Brendan are waiting for Ivy in front of the school when Toby Decker, Serena's former student assistant, walks up to them and explains that he thinks Serena Star has gone mad. He says that she believes that vampires are real and that she thinks Ivy's one of them and how Serena is going to force Ivy to drink holy water, touch the Bible, look at her reflection in a mirror, and eat garlic. Thankfully, all of those are myths. Except one: garlic actually kills vampires! What will happen next?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Sister the Vampire, February 9, 2010

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This review is from: My Sister the Vampire #2: Fangtastic! (Paperback)

Young girls often dream that they have a lost identical sister. In this series, twins Ivy and Olivia find one another, but there is a twist. Ivy is a vampire, Olivia is mortal. And vampires are never allowed to tell humans about their existence. Many challenges must be conquered in order for these young girls to be together.

The writing is fairly simple, and the plot lines are predictable, with only small surprises. So, why did I give it five stars? It got my eleven year old to read four books in three days. She didn't play with the brand-new wii games, or the PS3 games we rented. She didn't even want to put it down to eat. There is nothing I find objectionable in them, and these books enthralled my daughter. After all, they were written for her, not me. So, I don't think it gets better than that.

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5.0 out of 5 stars My Sister the Vampire Fangtastic, April 6, 2009

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Paul Jutras (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Sister the Vampire #2: Fangtastic! (Paperback)

While aimed at ages 6 to 12 group this is one of the most interesting Vampire series I have read yet. The series deals with twins separated at the age one (one girl name Ivy being a vampire other other Olivia being human.) They were reunited when Olivia moved to the same town as Ivy and was let in on the secret world of vampires. Now they can't think of ever being apart as this story deals with one vampire who like Ron's brother in Harry Potter are real pranksters and choose to pop up out of a coffin in front of people risking the exposure of the vampire community to the world. It is a shame that book 2 and 4 are currently almost impossible to get in paperback as their currently in E-book form only. Hopefully they'll be reprinted soon.