# The Last Hope in Hopetown

**Author:** Maria Tureaud
**Grade range:** Grades 6–8
**Age range:** 11–14
**First published:** 2024
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fantasy
**ISBN-13:** `9780316368568`
**ISBN-10:** `0316368563`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-last-hope-in-hopetown
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

In a town where vampires and humans live in harmony, twelve-year-old Sophie Dawes — the human daughter of two vampire moms — must choose between saving her parents and protecting the greater good. Maria Tureaud's grades 6-8 fantasy is a 2025-2026 Virginia Readers' Choice (Middle School) nominee.

## Themes

- family
- courage
- identity

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice 2025-2026 Award Nominee Lists (Elementary + Middle School)](https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/english-reading-literacy/virginia-readers-choice)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice 2025-2026 Award Nominee Lists (Elementary + Middle School)](https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/english-reading-literacy/virginia-readers-choice)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice 2025-2026 Award Nominee Lists (Elementary + Middle School)](https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/english-reading-literacy/virginia-readers-choice)

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