Twilight; New Moon; Eclipse

A vampire SAGA by Stephenie Meyer.

We all like a good vampire story. But what about a family of "vegetarian" vampires? That is what the Cullen family called themselves, as they lived a rather normal live with 4 "kids" who were in high school. They never drank human blood, but only blood of animals.

Of course, it was inevitable that Bella Swan would fall in love with Edward Cullen. Bella was a perfectly normal human -- well, OK, she was abnormally independent AND the daughter of the police chief, and her mother lived in Arizona.

Of course, Bella wants to become a vampire too, but Edward is against it. Three 500+ page books later, she is STILL not a vampire, but has been graduated from high school.

This looks as if it will be a multiple volume saga...

The Uglies Series

Uglies, Pretties, Specials
by Scott Westerfeld

What if the world were divided into groups... all the little kids in one (OK they still need parents), the teens in another, adults in yet another, and then the elderly...

Wait, is this a bit like our society?

Well, almost, except that there are these operations. At 16 (adult) your operation makes you 'classically' beautiful, and changes all skin and hair colors to 'normal'. All eyes are full and round as are lips.... and one more thing. There is a brain change that causes all pretties to be lazy-brained.

Then there is "special circumstances"; they're the enforcers. Steer clear of them if you can help it, but our heroine, Tally Youngblood, seems destined to cause trouble in every group she encounters.

Coming soon, the next book in the series: Extras.
The entire series will keep you reading and making comparisons to your own world.