Sierra, Judy.
Summary: A collection of twenty-five nursery rhymes, rewritten to feature vampires, ghouls, mummies, the Loch Ness monster, and other fearsome creatures.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Poetry SierraAshman, Linda.
Summary: Humorous verses inform travelers about the dangers posed by monsters and other exotic creatures from many lands.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ASHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC AshmanSummary: Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Poetry HeaneyTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 829.3 TOLCarson, Anne
Summary: A novel in verse on a homosexual romance between two boys. Geryon "understood / that people need / acts of attention from one another, does it really matter which acts? / He was fourteen. / 'Sex is a way of getting to know someone,' / Herakles had said. He was sixteen." There is a strong mixture of whimsy and sadness in Geryon's story. He is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 CARPrelutsky, Jack.
Summary: Presents poems about gargoyles, vampires, the bogeyman, gremlins, and other monsters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.54 PRERex, Adam.
Summary: Stories in verse about the monster-sized problems Dracula, Wolfman, Bigfoot and other monsters have.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E RexCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.6 REXSummary: A series of unusual stories about chickens. Ranges from a woman who revived a chicken with CPR, a man who raises chickens for his own consumption, a woman who keeps a pet chicken, a group of suburbanites who banded together to stop a neighborhood rooster raiser, a headless rooster, and a man who's life changing experience comes when he sees one of his chickens protect her chicks from a hawk.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NATSummary: Beowulf and Grendel are in war-torn Spain, where honor is hard-fought, allegiances are dubious, and the bulls run wild. Amidst it all comes a young knight named Rodrigo, who fights for the name he's lost, the land he loves, and the virtue they've both forgotten.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2018
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Summary: "Walking in the woods, you think you spy a hairy face and beady eyes looking at you from the thick trees. Was it a beast of legend? Reports of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, and other cryptids come from all over the world. Could they be true? Researchers use thermal video cameras, night-vision goggles, drones, and other tools to investigate. Get an inside look at all the high-tech gear used to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pebble, an imprint of Capstone Press 2024