There's an odd new boy at Naturalleies Middle School. He seems to know Ide, a thirteen-year-old vampire who attends NMS ... but she knows that she has never seen him before. Cannan starts asking strange questions and following Ide and her friends, and Ide begins to suspect that something about Cannan is not quite normal ... Middle school is no easy journey, especially when dealing with emotional trauma and boy troubles, but Ide may find out that she has more in common with this night crawler than she would prefer. Then again, who ever said being a supernatural would be easy?

On the day before Ide Noapte's fourteenth birthday, she is greeted at school by Phyre Tynan, a girl who is visiting for the day. Phyre is cold and distant, and Ide's attempts at friendship are futile; but Ide suspects that something about Phyre is "different"-sort of like everyone else in her small town of Naturalleies. Taking place over the course of twenty-four hours, this is Ide and Phyre's account of a day that changed their perceptions of the world around them-a day when the girls discover that, no matter how bad life gets, there is always a flame at the end of the passage.

The first book in the Transcendence Series by teenage author Thea Toocheck Fall is Ide Noapte's favorite time of year. (By the way-it's pronounced EE-duh no-AHP-tay.) Halloween is her birthday, and this year she turns thirteen. She's a normal girl, really smart and very fast, with many friends and a cute crush named Austin. She's just casually going about her life when she overhears a conversation between her parents. When a hint is dropped (and who would have thought that they planned it?) about their past, everything that Ide thought she knew is changed. And suddenly, it's just Ide and her...