{"subjects": ["Fiction", "Juvenile fiction", "Vampires", "Junior high schools", "Orphans", "Horror stories", "Schools", "High schools", "Horror tales", "Children's fiction", "Vampires, fiction", "Orphans, fiction", "Schools, fiction"], "key": "/works/OL8333974W", "title": "Eighth grade bites", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2772973A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL11513049A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [9079036, 7998559, 5722886, 12520562], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Vlad has to keep his vampire urges under control while dealing with the pressures of middle school.Thirteen-year-old Vladimir Tod really hates junior high. Bullies harass him, the principal is dogging him, and the girl he likes prefers his best friend. Oh, and Vlad has a secret: His mother was human, but his father was a vampire. With no idea of the extent of his powers, Vlad struggles daily with his blood cravings and his enlarged fangs. When a substitute teacher begins to question him a little too closely, Vlad worries that his cover is about to be blown. But then he faces a much bigger problem: he's being hunted by a vampire killer."}, "series": [{"series": {"key": "/series/OL327012L"}, "position": "1"}], "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T22:39:45.595523"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-03-08T21:41:04.277580"}}