Netz, Mo
Summary: "Ever since her dad died, 11-year-old Jerry Blum and her mom have bounced around dead-end towns, staying in a series of rundown motels where her mother picks up housekeeping work and Jerry can get around in her wheelchair. But the Slumbering Giant motel is different. Lights blink on and off in the surrounding trees, a mysterious radio station plays only at midnight, and people disappear into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NETOgle, Rex
Summary: Will Hunter thought his life couldn't get any worse - his parents just got divorced ; his best (and only) friend now is his dog, Fitz ; and his Mom moved them from New York City to a middle-of-nowhere town called East Emerson. But Will was wrong - things are about to get way worse. Because East Emerson is filled with a whole lot of monsters that only he can see. To everyone else they look like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OGLChristo, Alexandra
Summary: Atia is a monster who feeds on fear. As the last of her kind, she hides in the shadows of the world to escape the wrath of the unpredictable Gods. Silas is a Herald, carrying messages and ferrying the dead as punishment for a past he can’t remember. Stripped of his true name, he yearns to recover his identity. Atia would never dream of allying with someone like him, but when she breaks a sacred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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Summary: "One boy's journey to help his village becomes a quest to save the kingdom. Strange things are happening in Tom's village. First, the horses were attacked. Then, the river dried up. Now, the last of the crops has mysteriously burned. Everyone is terrified. But Tom isn't afraid. He's always dreamed of a quest -- a real quest! -- and vows to go to the king and bring help for them. But Tom soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2007
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BLAGray, Ayana
Summary: Once a prisoner to Fedu, the vengeful god of death, Koffi has regained her freedom, but she is far from safe. Fedu will stop at nothing to hunt her down and use her power to decimate the mortal world. Koffi knows when Fedu will strike: during the next Bonding, a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event. To survive, Koffi will have to find powerful new allies quickly, and convince them to help her in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRARivera, Kaela
Summary: The dream world is real! Now the all-new action-packed world of LEGO DREAMZzz takes readers into an incredible world where magic and monsters exist, and only imagination can save both the waking world and the dream realms in this novel based on the new series! Mateo, Izzie, Cooper, Logan, and Zoey are a group of young adventurers who will be tested like never before when they are drawn into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: Seventeen-year-old musician Xue faces a lifetime of servitude until Duke Meng offers her freedom in exchange for serving as a musician in residence, but Xue soon discovers the Duke is a celestial ruler with ulterior motives and she must unlock her past to prevent an impending war in the Six Realms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC LINWishingrad, Alysa
Summary: "Monsters are still lurking on the island of Barrow's Bay. Dare Coates is sure of it. No drifter or ruffian could have killed her father, the Captain of the Guard, while he was on patrol. But everyone insists that monsters have been gone for years now. Dare's mother. Her classmates. Even the governor, who swiftly marries her mother just months after her father's death. Dare's suspicions grow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WISMarsh, Katherine
Summary: "A descendant of Medusa, Ava is sent to the Accademia del Forte in Venice after an altercation with a classmate, where she must learn to control her emotions, especially when she unearths a terrible secret that could change the world forever"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARBerwah, Tanvi
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Kress makes ends meet by fighting monsters, but her debts keep piling up until she is finally forced to make a deal and join a desperate rescue mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BERHutchinson, Shaun David
Summary: When the normally unseen sixth grader Hector discovers he can turn invisible, he learns that he is not the only invisible boy at his school and there are worse things than bullies lurking the halls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road 2024
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Summary: Will thought his life couldn't get any worse when his mom moved them from New York City to the tiny town of East Emerson. But Will was wrong. The town was filled with monsters, and he's the only person who can see them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC OGLMarsh, Katherine
Summary: Ava Baldwin hadnt meant to lose her temper. But Owen King deserved it. Ava has always tried to keep her anger in check, just like her mom taught her. But when arrogant, know-it-all classmate Owen tries to speak over her again, Ava explodes . . . and Owen freezes, becoming totally unresponsive. He eventually recovers, but shortly afterward, Ava's parents send her to the Accademia del Forte, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MARPembrick, Ollister B.
Summary: Sketcher, adventurer, disguiser, and sneaker Ollister B. Pembrick roamed all of Skree with a sketchbook and pen to discover and document the endless living wonders of the Maker's world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PEMBrallier, Max
Summary: "June Del Toro went on a wild flight in a super-rad solo episode; now get ready for the dynamic duo: it's Quint and Dirk! Picking up after the events of The Last Kids on Earth and the Doomsday Race, adventure abounds as the best buddies encounter new monsters and embark on a postapocalyptic quest for the ages. You won't want to miss this essential Last Kids story that includes crucial details...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JT SF Brallier 2022Andrew, Kelly
Summary: Wyatt Westlock has returned to her childhood home of Willow Heath, intending to burn it down--until she finds Peter hanging in the basement, a boy whom she considered a friend, semi-immortal and ritually sacrificed every year to keep the ancient forces in the nearby forest at bay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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Summary: When twelve-year-old River's only friend is kidnapped and dragged to the terrifying spirit world of The Otherwoods, they have no choice but to face the world's monsters and their own fears to become the hero they were destined to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WINAronofsky, Darren
Summary: "When King Neptune uses the last remaining drops of magic mermaid ink to create creatures designed to put NYC underwater, Eric "Doodles" King calls upon his Coney Island friends, aka Monster Club, and his drawing skills to stop Neptune before it's too late"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AROGong, Chloe
Summary: The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery. A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang-a network of criminals far above the law. Their only rivals in power are the White...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Manisha is no stranger to monsters—she’s been running from them for years, from beasts who roam the jungle to the King’s army, who forced her people, the naga, to scatter to the ends of the earth. You might think that the kingdom’s famed holy temples atop the floating mountains, where Manisha is now a priestess, would be safe—but you would be wrong. Seventeen-year-old Pratyush...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2024
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Summary: Now separated, sixteen-year-old indentured beastkeeper Koffi and seventeen-year-old warrior candidate Ekon will have to find their way back to each other as they face off against the god of death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022