Team Human

Larbalestier, Justine and Sarah Rees Brennan. Team Human. 2012. 352p. ISBN 978-0-0620-8964-9. Available at FIC LAR on the shelves of the library.

Mel lives in New Whitby, Maine, where many vampires also live. Vampires are members of society just like humans, and, thanks to donor blood and vampire police, the two groups cohabit in an uneasy political arrangement. When Francis Duvarney, a 150 years old teen vampire shows up at her school, however, the precarious social order of her high school comes crashing down. Cathy, Mel’s best friend, immediately falls for Francis. Anna, Mel’s other best friend, is recovering from her human father running away with one of his vampire patients. And Mel, who never really liked vampires before, now positively hates them.

Mel tries to engineer a breakup between Francis and Cathy, especially when she finds out that Cathy has decided she wants to make the change to a life of vampiric undeath. Why did Francis come to her school? Why is Anna’s mother, the principal of the school, acting all strange? Where did Anna’s dad really go?

In this hilarious parody of Twilight and other vampire books, not all is what it seems, and underneath the banter between vampires and humans lurks a mystery and the drama of a possible change both in life status as well as friend status. If you’re not into vampires, you will still enjoy this book for the way it pokes fun at team vampire and team human!