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Eighth Grade Bites (The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Series #1) by Heather Brewer

Teen Book Club

Eighth Grade Bites Book Club Questions

1. What do you think of the suspense of the person running as the introduction to the book?
2. What do you think of the allusions like The Bathory Gazette?
3. What do you think of the third person narration? What do you think of the language and the use of language in the 8^th Grade Bites?
4. What do you think of Vlad’s eating habits especially the snack packs?
5. Do you think Vlad’s and Henry’s costumes as vampire and victim are clever, silly or foreshadowing?
6. What do you think of Vlad?
7. What do you think of Henry?
8. What do you think of them stealing the little kid’s candy?
9. What do you think of Nelly?
10. What do you think of the continuing theme of the main character being an orphan in young adult books?
11. What do you think of Edgar Poe?
12. What are your impressions of Meredith?
13. What do you think of Mr. Otis who supposedly taught at Stokerton High?
14. Would you want to take a class on mythology?
15. What do you think of the supernatural being project and Vlad’s turning from werewolf to vampire?
16. What do you think of the theory that Max Schrenk who played Count Orlok in Nosferatau was actually a vampire?
17. What do you think of the belfry as a hangout for Vlad?
18. Do the killings by the man in black seem a little dark and creepy for a young adult book?
19. Does that love story between Vlad’s parents seem a little Twilighty and how does the whole vampire pregnancy thing work?
20. Do you think Vlad watching Buffy reruns on TV is odd?
21. Did you expect Mr. Otis to be Vlad’s uncle?
22. What do you think of Henry being Vlad’s drudge (or Renfield)?
23. What do you think of Otis’s cross and double cross?
24. What do you think of D’Ablo, does he have any depth?
25. What do you think of the Lucis as a weapon?
26. What do you think of the ending?

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