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Monsters have become one of the great guilty pleasures of our age. From the zombies of The Walking Dead to the werewolves of Teen Wolf, from the vampires of The Strain to the wide assortment of creatures in Penny Dreadful, they are everywhere in mass media. Here, for your guilty reading pleasure, are 22 more tales of monsters, by some of the greatest writers ever to set typewriter to paper! Included are:
AFTER I STOPPED SCREAMING, by Pamela Sargent
THE...
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When she awakened, there was a fly buzzing about her Jell-O and the ice-cream had melted. The storm was still on, but seemed farther away - so much so that she could hear the solemn ticking of the wall-clock. And something more: a squeaking sound, like the protests of a wheelchair too long neglected. It was coming from outside her room. It was coming up the hall.
She looked at the doorway.
Sure enough, an old woman in a wheelchair muscled her way...
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Cam Jansen cracks another case! Cam and her best friend Eric go to the movies with her parents. When the second reel of a monster movie is missing, the theatre manager accuses one of his competitors of stealing it. But, Cam thinks that someone else took the film. She uses her photographic memory (Click!) to help catch the thief. Award-winning author David A. Adler has penned over 100 books for children. The star of his Cam Jansen Mysteries is a spunky...
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Monster High diaries volume 1
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Little, Brown and Company
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2015.
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"Draculaura brings her ghoulfriends on a special trip to Transylvania for her dad's wedding! Dracula is getting a new wife-and Draculaura is getting a new stepmomster!"--
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Market of monsters volume 1
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Nita's mother hunts monsters and, after Nita dissects and packages them, sells them online, but when Nita follows her conscience to help a live monster escape, she's sold on the black market in his place.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 32
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Hank the Cowdog is determined to find out who's behind the series of garbage barrel raids for which he is being held responsible.
9) Monster Camp
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
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[2023]
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When eleven-year old Sylvie joins a monster LARPing (a.k.a. live action role-play) summer camp, she finds herself in the performance of her life after realizing that she is the only human among real monsters.
10) Twist
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A group of gifted middle-school students must band together to save their town, as well as a fantasy world, from monsters.
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Princess Posey volume 4
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First-grader Posey and her friends are excited about Halloween, but also a little nervous about trick-or-treating and eating Miss Lee's monster stew.
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Ham Helsing volume 2
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Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Descended from a long line of adventurers and monster hunters, a gentle pig who prefers poetry writing to catching dangerous creatures reluctantly sets out on his first assignment, to hunt a dangerous vampire.
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Eleven-and-a-half-year-old Valentina Salazar grew up as a monster protector until her father's loss, but when a video of a mythical egg appears, Valentina convinces her older brother and sister to help her find and save it--all while avoiding the monster hunters who want to destroy it.
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Junie B. Jones volume 8
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Random House
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c1997
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After hearing from a classmate at kindergarten that people have monsters under their beds, Junie B. Jones is afraid to go to sleep that night.
16) Howl
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When no one in the small town of Merritt, Florida, believes that he was attacked by a monster, fifteen-year-old Virgil Knox fears the monster will return to finish him off, or worse--that he is becoming a monster himself.
17) Ninja Blaze!
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Random House
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[2019]
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"Blaze and his friends from Nickelodeon's Blaze and the Monster Machines use ninja skills to stop Crusher."--Provided by publisher.
18) The Cake Monster
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Random House
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[2015]
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Ogre Doug's birthday is today, but Cake Monster wants to eat the cake!
19) Odd & true
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Told from separate viewpoints, this is the story of Odette, who returns in 1909 after a two-year absence, promising to rescue her disabled sister Tru from the monsters they were taught to believe in.
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