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  • Published: 17 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9781774880517
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $17.99
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Don't Want to Be Your Monster





A 2024 Sydney Taylor Honor Book!

Two vampire brothers must set aside their differences to solve a series of murders in this humorous and delightfully spooky novel for young readers, now in paperback.

A 2024 Sydney Taylor Honor Book!

Two vampire brothers must set aside their differences to solve a series of murders in this humorous and delightfully spooky novel for young readers. For fans of Too Bright to See.

Adam and Victor are brothers who have the usual fights over the remote, which movie to watch and whether or not it's morally acceptable to eat people. Well, not so much eat . . . just drink a little blood. They're vampires, hiding in plain sight with their eclectic yet loving family.

Ten-year-old Adam knows he has a better purpose in his life (well, immortal life) than just drinking blood, but fourteen-year-old Victor wants to accept his own self-image of vampirism. Everything changes when bodies start to appear all over town, and it becomes clear that a vampire hunter may be on the lookout for the family. Can Adam and Victor reconcile their differences and work together to stop the killer before it’s too late?

  • Published: 17 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9781774880517
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $17.99
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Praise for Don't Want to Be Your Monster

PRAISE AND ACCOLADES FOR Don't Want to Be Your Monster:

  • A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

"Members of persecuted minorities unite to fight crime: icky, impish, and thematically rich. Readers fond of nocturnal whodunits festooned with sly twists and tweaks from opening page to terrifying climax are in for a treat — but Moulton has much to offer here besides gore and glory. . . . [T]his story . . . thoughtfully pushes back against significant antisemitic elements in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and vampire lore in general." —STARRED REVIEW, Kirkus Reviews

"A bloody good time. Clever and heartfelt, Don’t Want to Be Your Monster expertly deconstructs vampire mythology offering a new, fresh take that will leave readers with big, important questions about how it feels to be made into a monster."Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Marvellers

"Don't Want to Be Your Monster is the adrenaline shot the vampire genre needed! Wholly original and gripping until the end, it sank its fangs in me and didn't let go until the very last page." Joel A. Sutherland, author of House of Ash and Bone

"A heartfelt tale about the importance of standing up for one another that doesn't shy away from its message: there will always be more that unites us than divides us." Ally Malinenko, author of Ghost Girl

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