The Saga of Darren Shan: The Vampire's Assistant Award-winning author by Darren Shan (author)

The Vampire's Assistant

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Darren Shan has been made a half-vampire by Mr Crepsley, but the Cirque Du Freak holds more unpleasant surprises for the vampire’s assistant.

Darren joins the vampire, Mr Crepsley, as his assistant and they return to the Cirque Du Freak. There, Darren makes friends with the snake-boy, Evra Von (who knows what Darren is) and a local boy, Sam, and RV, an eco-warrior and animal lover (who do not). Darren begins to enjoy his life among the Cirque performers as the youngest half-vampire in existence, but he defiantly refuses to drink human blood – the whole idea sickens him – and he tries desperately to cling on to the part of him which is human.

Darren comes face to face with pure evil in the form of Mr Tiny, the leader of the Little People who join the Cirque Du Freak, and who eat anything – including human flesh. When he discovers animal bones, RV frees the wolf-man from his cage – and no-one could possibly guess how truly terrible the whole effect would be.

Product Details

Series

The Saga of Darren Shan

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780006755135

Publisher

HarperCollins Children's Books

Date published

May 30th, 2000

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 4.2; Upper years; 6.0 points

Condition

New

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Author/Illustrator

Darren Shan

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  1. Nashdasher
    on 7 March 2013

    this book is great scary but with lots of action.

  2. lemonhoneysss10
    on 6 March 2012

    Not for the fainthearted Personally I found it the best and bloodiest of the lot! An excellent book, scary, so much adventure, twists and turns and a whole chunk of suspense! wow!

  3. xxisabellatrixx
    on 27 February 2011

    as the first one this book wasbeyond awesome! i absolutely loved it, and again i wouldn’t suggest it to the faint hearted!

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