Wow! Maybe your teachers wrote the books. I did find some info, but although I googled several combinations of words and looked at recommended seventh-grade reading lists, the only vampire books I found had the kids being or becoming vampires; I found no scifi fitting your summary; and no story involving a boy winning a butler. I did find the following which might be helpful: Eddie's Menagerie (spelled m e n a g e r I e) is indeed by Carolyn Haywood (Haywood is spelled with an a, not an e as someone wrote here) and Ingrid Fetz. The Rebel Witch is the title of a book by Jack Lovejoy and Judith Gwyn Brown, published in 1978. It sounds like the Game book might be Orson Card's Ender's Game, or one of the books in the series, but the description of Ender's Game book one on Amazon doesn't sound like what you're describing. I looked up some seventh & eighth recommended reading lists and didn't find anything that fit your synopsis. Cindy ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.