Vampire Brat by Angie Sage

Werewolf and Vampire Trapping Expedition, but right then the best chance the Combined Werewolf and Vampire TrappingKit had of working was for me to chuck it out of the window in the hope that it would hit one of them on the head.
    But, you know, sometimes things do work out in the most unexpected way. A few minutes later the Friday bedroom door began to glow with a strange green light. I was so surprised that I nearly joined Wanda under the blankets.
    I was halfway up the ladder when I realized it was only Edmund. He shimmered through the door and kind of floated just above the floor. Edmund is quite a small ghost, although he is probably about ten, but I think kids were smaller in medieval times, which is when he is from. He has a bowl haircut, wears a tunic, and has a really neat dagger tucked into his belt. He talks with a funny accent and SirHorace says that is because he lived in someplace called Normandy before he became Sir Horace’s page. Edmund was only seven when he left home and went to live in Sir Horace’s castle, which is very young to start work. I guess that might excuse him from being such a runt—but it is still irritating.

    â€œWhat do you want, Edmund?” I asked.
    I felt annoyed at being halfway up the ladder like I was scared or something, andeven more annoyed when Wanda poked her head out from under the blankets and said, “Oh, hello, Edmund,” in an excited, really-happy-to-see-him kind of voice. She never sounds like that when she sees me .
    â€œSir Horace has sent me,” he said. “He seeks your help.”
    Now this sounded interesting.
    â€œWhat kind of help?” asked Wanda, who is nosy and always asks questions.
    â€œI cannot say, Wanda. I am but the messenger. He asks that you meet him at his treasure chest at midnight.”
    â€œOkay,” I said. “I’ll meet him, but Wanda won’t because she doesn’t like going out at midnight.”
    â€œYes I do,” said Wanda. “I love going out atmidnight. You can tell Sir Horace that we’ll both come, Edmund.”
    Well .
    The Combined Werewolf and Vampire Trapping Expedition was on .

10
VAMPIRE HUNT
    W anda could not stay awake. Soon she was snuffling away like a hedgehog, which is how she always sounds when she sleeps. So I had to stay awake to make sure we were down in the hall at midnight. I sat in bed and finished the Werewolf Spotter’s Handbook . Then I started reading Vampire Trapping for Beginners , which was okay but a bit boring because it seemed you had to be a Germanprofessor with a funny name before you had any hope of catching a vampire. My eyes began to feel very sleepy and kept closing, and I had to keep jumping awake again. It was very annoying, since I really didn’t want to miss midnight.
    To try and stay awake I listened to all the nighttime noises. Most people would find it really spooky in Spookie House at night, as there are all kinds of weird sounds, but I do not find it spooky at all because I know what they all are.
    Most of the noises are made by Uncle Drac. Uncle Drac spends a lot of the day asleep in his sleeping bag in the bat turret, which means he wanders around Spookie House in the night. But I know Uncle Drac’s grumbly cough and the sound of his footsteps,and I like to hear him padding about. Aunt Tabby does not sleep well and she often gets up and goes all the way down to the kitchen to make a cup of tea. I know her footsteps too; they are kind of impatient and spiky. Recently she has been watching vampire movies in the furry bathroom so I sometimes hear the whirr of the projector and the clattering sound the film makes when it comes to the end of a reel.
    Brenda and Barry do not walk around Spookie House at night at all. No way. Although Brenda pretends that she is not afraid of the dark, I know she is. And I also know that she locks the door of their big bedroom at the front of the house and makes Barry stay with her. He is not