Discusses how roles and relationships have changed over time and includes topics that teens are concerned about such as body image, popularity, communication, and gender identity. Something that Bella could definitely benefit from.
When Miranda's guardian angel Zachary recklessly saves her from falling into an open grave and dying, the result is that she turns into a vampire and he is left to try to reinstate his reputation by finally doing the right thing. What might the "right" thing be?
While on a school skiing trip, guardian-in-training Rose faces everything from misunderstandings between friends to fights among factions of Moroi as reports of horrific Strigoi attacks raise tensions, ultimately leading Rose and some of those closest to her into a battle that teaches her much about life, death, and love. Topics that Bella has been learning about as well.
Seventeen-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her. Wonder how their relationship compares to Edward and Bella's?
New York City breakdancer Nicole loves fellow dancer Zin, who keeps her at a distance, harboring a very old secret. Let's hope they can dance better than Bella can!
Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them--until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime. Murdered by whom? Read to find out!
When sixteen-year-old Mina is forced to take a class to help her decide whether or not to become a vampire like her parents, she also faces a choice between her life-long best friend and the boy she has a crush on versus new friends and possible boyfriends in her mandatory "vampire lessons." Ah, a problem that Bella can relate to.
Raised by a mother who's had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician. It seems that good girls always fall for the "bad" boys, right Bella?
A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love. Think Jacob could have used a little help in this department as well?
After losing everything in a Florida hurricane, seventeen-year-old Miranda and her mother move to her grandfather's home in Louisiana, where she falls in with an interesting group of students, and discovers that she can communicate with spirits like her grandfather did. Bella could somewhat relate to this story.