# My Friend the Vampire

**Author:** Angela Sommer-Bodenburg
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–10
**First published:** 1984
**Page count:** 155
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780671739874`
**ISBN-10:** `0671739875`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/my-friend-the-vampire
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A horror story fan, nine-year-old Tony Noodleman's life becomes more thrilling than anything he's ever read when he befriends a couple of vampires named Rudolph and Anna.

## Themes

- friendship
- vampires
- friendship, fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1986-1987 winner (Elementary)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1986-1987 winner (Elementary)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1986-1987 winner (Elementary)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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