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Meg Swain and her family are staying at a creepy old inn in the weird country of Drazylvonia. Her family's on vacation—but Meg's on a mission. It's nothing too complicated: She just has to pick a sprig of death's-head thyme and deliver it at nearby Castle Vladestan! Meg would rather be skiing. But if she doesn't complete her errand, her blood-sucking ex-babysitter, Vincent Graver, has sworn that she will be the next vampire in Drazylvonia... Now Meg, her friend Voldar, and "Batboy," an injured baby bat who needs her help, are heading for the vampire castle—on the most dangerous adventure of their lives!
Author
Ann Hodgman (born 1956) is an American author of more than forty children's books as well as several cookbooks and humor books and many magazine articles. Ann was raised in Rochester, New York and graduated from Harvard College, where she was a staff member on the Harvard Lampoon and the Harvard Advocate. She was the food columnist for the magazines Spy and Eating Well. Her essay "No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch," about taste-testing various dog foods, was included in "Best American Essays." Hodgman is also known for her three cookbooks, Beat This!, Beat That! and One Bite Won't Kill You. She is the author of the 6-book vampire series My Babysitter is a Vampire and the nonfiction memoir "The House of a Million Pets." Hodgman is married to author David Owen, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and they have two children, Laura and John.
