Pew, Kailei
Summary: Blossom loves jumping snake, swimming in the bog, and playing slime ball. She doesn't love the creepy sounds above her bed that no one else seems to notice. Determined to get to the top of it once and for all, Blossom hatches a plan that leads her to find courage...and a new friend. This is a wholesome twist on a familiar fear that will make you wonder--what do the monsters under our beds think...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: With gentle prodding from the narrator and help from the reader, four monsters are led to face their greatest fear--bubbles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RUBBirkjær, Betina
Summary: "There's a monster living in the attic. Not a loud monster but a quiet one. It's probably making a kid trap. Each night, it grows in the dark. Everyone knows monsters feed on darkness. This is Monster-Scared. With humor and charm, award-winning author Betina Birkjær and illustrator Zarah Juul show us how the things we can't see grow bigger and scarier, how the slightest sound or shadow can send...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BIRChouteau, Jordan
Summary: "In this funny, empowering tale, a little boy is afraid of the creatures hiding under his bed, behind the hamper, and in his closet every night--that is, until his parents give him a magic no-more-monsters patch that makes him invisible to all of them! Now sweet dreams couldn't come easier"--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: As eleven-year-old Dawz and Mim, the terrifying but kind-hearted monster who lives in his closet, become more aware of each other, they must uncover the true nature of their mysterious connection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KROLoux, Matthew
Summary: There are whispers around the village that monsters are lurking outside the gates. Prunella doesn't pay this talk much mind--until she unearths a strange skull-shaped ring in her garden. When she places it on her finger she's transformed into a skeleton girl, terrifying her monster-fearing town! Exiled, Prunella wanders the wilderness, where she discovers that monsters aren't as bad as she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2022
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Summary: When Buster, a timid housecat, discovers monsters in his home, he gets help from two street cats, Chauncey and Nova, to get them out before his owner returns from work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Graphic 2022
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Summary: Ms. Frizzle takes the class on a camping trip, but Arnold is worried about monsters, and sets out to create a "Monster Scaring Perimeter" powered by a generator to keep the lights on--and in the process the class learns about sources of clean energy (and maybe monsters).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC KATRowling, J. K.
Summary: The kingdom of Cornucopia was once the happiest in the world. It had plenty of gold, a king with the finest moustache one could possibly imagine, and butchers, bakers, and cheesemongers whose exquisite foods made a person dance with delight when they ate them. Everything was perfect , except for the misty Marshlands to the north, which, according to legend, were home to the monstrous Ickabog....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD ROWCzekaj, Jef
Summary: Perfect for back-to-school and Halloween, this is a funny and sweet story about a monster's first day of school by the popular author-illustrator of Cat Secrets. Little Ghoul is nervous about her first day of school. Her mom assures her that it will be great: The teachers will be scary. The lunch will be revolting! And the other classmates will be spine-tingling and creepy. But what if Little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blazer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CZEEsbaum, Jill
Summary: Spencer the bunny's older brothers frighten him with stories about Frankenbunny and other monsters until Spencer figures out how to overcome his fears and his brothers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books, an imprint of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ESBSchneider, Josh
Summary: A young boy conquers his fear of bedtime monsters after making a surprising discovery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E SCHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHMorrissey, Dean.
Summary: While visiting his grandfather, Paddy hears a story about monsters on the radio and is sure they are coming to the house to get him, but Pop has an idea sure to stop them--or is it?
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MorriSchaefer, Lola M.
Summary: A child laughs at the increasing numbers of scary monsters that appear at bedtime, until a ghoul that seems scarier than all the rest arrives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Whispering Coyote Press 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC SCHBright, Rachel
Summary: When he hears rustling, creaking, and bumping in the dark as he's trying to fall asleep, Love Monster is sure a hungry, scary unknown something is on its way to get him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus Giroux 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRIHiguera, Donna Barba
Summary: Ramón is worried about his first day at a new school, but it helps to remind El Cucuy, the monster who lives in his cactus pot, of how brave and strong they both are.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 SPANISH HIGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HIGHowe, James
Summary: Simon is sure there are monsters under his bed in the night--he can even hear them breathing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1986
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HOWMcKee, David.
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andersen Press USA 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCKTremblay, Paul
Summary: "Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart. In "The Dead Thing," a middle-schooler struggles to deal with the aftermath of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TREVan Leeuwen, Jean.
Summary: Amanda the pig sees monsters at night, but her parents and her brother find different ways to convince her that there are no monsters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phyllis Fogelman Books 2003
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR Purple VanLeeuwen 2003Willems, Mo
Summary: When two fearful children are terrified of each other, their respective monsters try to help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Willems 2017Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WILDisney, Walt
Summary: Monsters Mike and Sulley attempt to return a little girl named Boo to her bedroom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grolier, Inc. 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC DisneGravel, Elise
Summary: A monster tries to use its sharp claws and long horns to scare a passerby, but no one seems to feel afraid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD GRAPark, Barbara.
Summary: Junie B. Jones and the yucky blucky fruitcake: Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartener, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival, but a fruit cake was not exactly what she had in mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2003