Blue Bloods (Blue Bloods, Book 1) by Melissa…

Blue Bloods (Blue Bloods, Book 1) (original 2009; edition 2006)

by Melissa de la Cruz

Series: Blue Bloods (1)

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Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.

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Title:	Blue Bloods (Blue Bloods, Book 1)
Authors:	Melissa de la Cruz
Info:	Hyperion (2006), Edition: 1St Edition, Hardcover, 320 pages
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Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz (2009)

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one of my co-workers is reading this series and she recommended this to me. I love Vampire/Paranormal reads this was just really slow for me (

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b00kdarling87 | Jan 7, 2024 |

Schuyler is a regular girl at her school but she keeps seeing things, things that are and are not there. Even worse someone is trying to kill her, she must find out who it is and stop them.

I had tried to read this before but never got into it, this time was very different. It is about vampires but it is really different. I don't understand jack, he is just... Weird. He should be with her. (

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CaitlinDaugherty | Aug 28, 2023 |

cute series! (

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aeryn0 | Jul 23, 2023 |

It started off very slowly but sped up in the middle and by the end I was hooked. A great twist on the vampire mythos. (

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justgeekingby | Jun 6, 2023 |

Aside from the obsessive name-branding, the appearance of every teen stereotype in the universe, the insipid dialogue and the ridiculous plot, that was a really great book. (

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Awards

Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Nominee – 2010)

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Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (Top Ten – 2007)

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Blue Bloods

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Oliver "Ollie" Hazard-Perry

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New York, New York, USA

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Epigraph

The family was not simply the sum of the connections created by a large, extended set of relations...a family...was a name, a material and symbolic patrimony, and a form of stakeholding in America..."describing a total lineage, past, present and future."
--Eric Homberger, "Mrs. Astor's New York"

You can't push it underground, You can't stop it screaming out, How did it come to this? You will suck the life out of me....
--Muse, "Time is Running Out"

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my dad, Bert de la Cruz, true blue in every sense of the word, who has heroes' blood in his veins. This book would not exist without the love, support, insight, and intelligence of my husband, Mike Johnston, to whom I owe everything.

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The Bank was a decrepit stone building at the tail end of Houston Street, on the last divide between the gritty East Village and the wilds of the Lower East Side.

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