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Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
The monster showed up after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster that thirteen year old Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he's had nearly every night since...
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Scholomance volume 3
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English
Description
"The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it's all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we'll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls. And now the impossible dream has come true. I'm out, we're all out--and I didn't even have to turn into...
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Shadow of the leviathan volume 1
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English
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In Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at the Empire’s borders, where contagions abound and the blood of the leviathans works strange magical changes, it’s a death both terrifying and impossible. Assigned to investigate is Ana Dolabra, a detective whose reputation for brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities. Rumor has it that she wears...
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Monsters of Verity volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When a new monster, who feeds on chaos and brings out its victim's inner demon, emerges from the shadows, Kate finds herself lured home to face a monster she thought she killed, a boy she thought she knew, and a demon all her own.
6) Subhuman
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Unit 51 novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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At a research station in Antarctica, five of the world's top scientists have been brought together to solve one of the greatest mysteries in human history. Their subject, however, is anything but human . . . Deep beneath the ice, the submerged ruins of a lost civilization hold the key to the strange mutations that each scientist has encountered across the globe: A misshapen skull in Russia. The grotesque carvings of a lost race in Peru. The mummified...
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No place for monsters volume 1
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English
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Cowslip Grove seems like the perfect place to raise a family until the children start disappearing. Nobody looks for the children because nobody can remember them. Nobody except Levi and Kat. Now they must figure out what terrible presence is taking the chilren and fight it to save the missing kids, before the whole town disappears.
"Nothing ever seems out of place in Cowslip Grove. Lawns are neatly mowed, sidewalks are tidy, and the sounds of ice...
10) The bath monster
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Publisher
Andersen Press USA
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever wondered where your dirty bath water goes? The Bath Monster slurps it up, of course!"--
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Emily Windsnap volume 2
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English
Description
Reunited with her merman father and now living on an island located in the Bermuda Triangle, twelve-year-old Emily accidentally awakens the fearsome kraken and also faces a bully from her past.
14) Monster & son
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
A monster and son fill their day with rough and rowdy fun.
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Princess in Black volume 9
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The Princess in Black and her friends are enjoying a day of sun and sea on Princess Sneezewort's royal boat when a real, live mermaid princess emerges from the waves! Eeeeeee! Princess Posy needs their help protecting her very cute sea goats from being eaten by a very greedy kraken. But the princesses and the Goat Avenger quickly realize that fighting underwater can be tough for land dwellers, and only the mermaid Princess Posy can save the day....
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Monsters unleashed volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When twelve-year-old outcast Freddie Liddle and his best (and only) friend, Manny Vasquez, accidentally bring their 3D monster creations to life, the boys must stop them before they take over the entire town."--
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Monsters. Real or imagined, literal or metaphorical, they have exerted a dread fascination on the human mind for many centuries. They attract and repel us, intrigue and terrify us, and in the process reveal something deeply important about the darker recesses of our collective psyche. Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters--how they have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and...
19) Monster notebook
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Series
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Alexander Bopp's Monster Notebook features information about monsters from The Notebook of Doom series.
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Publisher
Happy Yak, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Warning! This book contains a monster. A really angry, really scary, really bad monster... or so the monster says. And Monster has a very important question: are you a monster too? A fun interactive read-aloud picture book that will have children of all ages roaring and stomping along, as Monster encourages them to be the scariest monster possible."