Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, ISBN 978-0316160179, Little, Brown and Co., 2005.
Teaser: Bella Swan moves to Forks, Washington where she meets and falls in love with a vampire named Edward Cullen.
Plot Summary: 17 year-old Bella Swan does not want to move to Florida with her mom, so instead she moves in with her father in the rainy, dark town of Forks, Washington. She meets Edward Cullen and begins to fall in love with his style and charm. He is a very old fashioned guy. She learns that he is a vampire, but he tells her that his vampire clan are "vegetarian vampires" and they only drink the blood of animals, so she feels safe and decides it is okay to fall head over heels in love with Edward. There love seems to be going well until a rival vampire learns of Bella knowing about the vampires and he wants nothing more than to bite her and kill her. The Cullen clan attempt to protect Bella by breaking up her and Edward. Bella goes to Phoenix to hide, but she is tricked into believing her mother is kidnapped by the evil vampire, James. She goes to try to save her mother and is confronted by James. Edward eventually comes to save the day and they are able to make it back to Forks to attend their prom and Bella says she wants to become a vampire.
Critical Evaluation: This book has sold millions of copies and has teenage girls swooning all over the place for Edward Cullen. I liked the character of Edward because he was an old-fashioned gentlemen. Since his character grew up during early 1900s in a different time, Edward has different values and characteristics. All those add up to make him the perfect heartthrob. The only downside to this story is the fact that Bella is not a very strong character, she is very weak and has to be rescued all the time, but that means more Edward, so I think that is why Bella loves Edward so much and wants to become a vampire. She wants the one person that will never let her down.
Author Information: According to http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/ "Stephenie Meyer's life changed dramatically on June 2, 2003. The stay-at-home mother of three young sons woke up from a dream featuring seemingly real characters that she could not get out of her head.
"Though I had a million things to do, I stayed in bed, thinking about the dream. Unwillingly, I eventually got up and did the immediate necessities, and then put everything that I possibly could on the back burner and sat down at the computer to write—something I hadn't done in so long that I wondered why I was bothering."Meyer invented the plot during the day through swim lessons and potty training, and wrote it out late at night when the house was quiet. Three months later she finished her first novel, Twilight. With encouragement from her older sister (the only other person who knew she had written a book), Meyer submitted her manuscript to various literary agencies. Twilight was picked out of a slush pile at Writer's House and eventually made its way to the publishing company Little, Brown where everyone fell immediately in love with the gripping, star-crossed lovers.
Meyer has also written three sequels to Twilight and she wrote The Host, her first adult novel. Stephenie lives in Arizona with her husband and three sons.
Genre: Fantasy/Teen Romance
Curriculum Ties: N/A
Booktalking Ideas: Talk about how Bella's friendship with Jacob Black affects her relationship with Edward.
Reading Level/Interest Age: 14+
Challenge Issues: This book may be challenged due to vampires.
Plot Summary: 17 year-old Bella Swan does not want to move to Florida with her mom, so instead she moves in with her father in the rainy, dark town of Forks, Washington. She meets Edward Cullen and begins to fall in love with his style and charm. He is a very old fashioned guy. She learns that he is a vampire, but he tells her that his vampire clan are "vegetarian vampires" and they only drink the blood of animals, so she feels safe and decides it is okay to fall head over heels in love with Edward. There love seems to be going well until a rival vampire learns of Bella knowing about the vampires and he wants nothing more than to bite her and kill her. The Cullen clan attempt to protect Bella by breaking up her and Edward. Bella goes to Phoenix to hide, but she is tricked into believing her mother is kidnapped by the evil vampire, James. She goes to try to save her mother and is confronted by James. Edward eventually comes to save the day and they are able to make it back to Forks to attend their prom and Bella says she wants to become a vampire.
Critical Evaluation: This book has sold millions of copies and has teenage girls swooning all over the place for Edward Cullen. I liked the character of Edward because he was an old-fashioned gentlemen. Since his character grew up during early 1900s in a different time, Edward has different values and characteristics. All those add up to make him the perfect heartthrob. The only downside to this story is the fact that Bella is not a very strong character, she is very weak and has to be rescued all the time, but that means more Edward, so I think that is why Bella loves Edward so much and wants to become a vampire. She wants the one person that will never let her down.
Author Information: According to http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/ "Stephenie Meyer's life changed dramatically on June 2, 2003. The stay-at-home mother of three young sons woke up from a dream featuring seemingly real characters that she could not get out of her head.
"Though I had a million things to do, I stayed in bed, thinking about the dream. Unwillingly, I eventually got up and did the immediate necessities, and then put everything that I possibly could on the back burner and sat down at the computer to write—something I hadn't done in so long that I wondered why I was bothering."Meyer invented the plot during the day through swim lessons and potty training, and wrote it out late at night when the house was quiet. Three months later she finished her first novel, Twilight. With encouragement from her older sister (the only other person who knew she had written a book), Meyer submitted her manuscript to various literary agencies. Twilight was picked out of a slush pile at Writer's House and eventually made its way to the publishing company Little, Brown where everyone fell immediately in love with the gripping, star-crossed lovers.
Meyer has also written three sequels to Twilight and she wrote The Host, her first adult novel. Stephenie lives in Arizona with her husband and three sons.
Genre: Fantasy/Teen Romance
Curriculum Ties: N/A
Booktalking Ideas: Talk about how Bella's friendship with Jacob Black affects her relationship with Edward.
Reading Level/Interest Age: 14+
Challenge Issues: This book may be challenged due to vampires.
If the book was challenged I would go
to, ALA's Strategies and Tips for Dealing with Challenges to
Library Materials.
Why included? This is one of the most popular teen books ever written and it re-launched the vampire romance genre.
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