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Emily Windsnap volume 2
Language
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.
3) Ruffleclaw
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Language
English
Description
"An earth monster decides to move in with a human family"--
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Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Language
English
Description
In their small Minnesota town, eleven-year-olds Frankie and her best friend Ruby try to track down the Mothman, but can they handle the terrifying truth when they finally come face to face with the monster in the moonlight?
5) Shrek!
Author
Language
English
Description
Horribly hideous Shrek leaves home and terrifies everyone he encounters in his search for his equally ugly bride.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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...
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English
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Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protege of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Language
English
Description
From the author of Monsters Born and Made comes an action-packed South Asian inspired fantasy that will have your heart racing at every turn. Seventeen-year-old Krescent Dune is buried under the weight of her dead parents' debt and the ruinous legacy they left behind. The only way she can earn enough money to escape her unforgiving island is by battling monstrous creatures in an underground fighting pit.
After a fight goes terribly wrong, she's banned...
9) The return
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English
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Springerville is famous for its legendary Mongolian Monster. Of course no one believes the story--it's just an exciting tale to attract tourists. But then an excavation team unearths the figurine of a screaming woman, the jawbone of a deformed animal, and a child's toy--all buried together. Odd, too, is the foul odor lingering in the air, strange noises at night, and a man's face found hanging in a tree.--From publisher description.
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English
Description
The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly).
The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly...
The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly...
11) Wanda's monster
Author
Publisher
A. Whitman
Language
English
Description
When Wanda fears that she has a monster in her closet, she takes her grandmother's advice and begins to look at things from the monster's point of view.
Author
Series
Publisher
Andersen Press USA
Edition
American edition.
Language
English
Description
"There is pandemonium in the jungle. A strange roaring sounds sends the animals stampeding, convinced it's a monster. But all is not as it seems. Only Elmer the patchwork elephant is brave enough to investigate, and what he discovers comes as quite a surprise"--
Author
Series
Notebook of doom volume 12
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The Notebook of Doom is missing and Alexander and his fellow-monster hunters, Rip and Nikki, are convinced that the boss-monster has it; but is that monster the mysterious Principal Vanderpants, who is certainly behaving oddly, or someone else--and they need to figure that out quickly because a mistake could have deadly consequences for Stermont Elementary.
16) Monster: a novel
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Monster, who runs an agency that deals with mythological pests, encounters Judy when he deals with a yeti she finds at the supermarket where she works, and together they battle an evil being disguised as the local crazy cat lady.
Author
Series
Survival Colony 9 volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Querry Gen, a member Survival Colony Nine, of one of the last human survivor groups following international war, is targeted by the monstrous Skaldi, although Querry has no memory of why.
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