Monsters - Kids Fiction

Some days are Snurtch days. Ruthie is having one of those. Ruthie has a problem at school. It is not the students. It is not the classroom. It is not the reading or the writing or the math. It is something scribbly, scrunchy, grabby,...

These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now and has been for nearly ninety years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets. The one who...

The first volume of a new middle-grade series, Drew Weing's The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo delivers a fresh and funny take on the age-old battle between kids and closet-dwelling monsters. Charles just moved to Echo City, and some of his new neighbors...

Ghoulia and the Ghost with No Name is the third bookin author/artist Barbara Cantini's fully illustrated, not-so-spooky chapter book series starring everyone's favorite little zombie. Ghoulia, Auntie Departed, and Tragedy the greyhound are back for another adventure at Crumbling Manor! They're preparing for the...

In this inventive, fast-paced novel, New York Times bestselling and Printz Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi takes on hard-hitting themes--from food safety to racism and immigration--and creates a zany, grand-slam adventure that will get kids thinking about where their food comes from. The zombie apocalypse...

Belch, the smallest monster, loves to play with her toys and have parties with her friends. But will she get to bed on time? Find out in this charming addition to Rhiannon Fielding's Ten Minutes to Bed series. Belch the Monster doesn't want to...

Cordelia's last year at Shadow School brings readers back for the finale in the spooky middle grade trilogy by J.A. White, the author of the acclaimed Thickety series and Nightbooks. Cordelia must complete her quest to save the world of the living from the...

For every boy and girl who loves Minecraft, an adventure novel from bestselling author Winter Morgan. Steve lives on a wheat farm. He has everything he needs to live in the Minecraft world: a bed, a house, and food. Steve likes to spend his...

A silly and spooky highly illustrated series that's perfect for fans of Eerie Elementary and Notebooks of Doom, featuring art on every page and fun activities at the end of each book Cousins Malia, Dante, and Ivan must face off against the evil queen...

Free the Beasts. Live the Adventure. Battle Beasts and fight Evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up Tom and Elenna are celebrating the safe return of Prince Rotu after their successful Quest to...

John Klassen's I Want My Hat Back meets Lucy Ruth Cummins's A Hungry Lion in this hilarious, deadpan story about a creature looking for a new friend after eating his last one. A little creature is looking for a new friend, but he's not...

"Rowan embarks on an expedition to prove once and for all that she is the rightful royal monster hunter, in the fourth and final book in this fantastical series by New York Times-bestselling author, Kelley Armstrong. The time has come! After discovering the true...

In this third installment in the spooky and silly series that's perfect for fans of Goosebumps and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, two kids home alone face off against a giant spider! Wolver Hollow is not a normal town. The adults are...

A Bank Street Best Book of 2021 Inspired by the children's song The Ants Went Marching and involving early math concepts, writer Kim Norman and illustrator Jay Fleck's The Ghosts Went Floating is a spooktacular adventure perfect for Halloween. The ghosts went floating, one...

Go on a haunted Halloween adventure through a spooky house in this spine-tingling, sturdy pop-up book Welcome to our Haunted House It's creepy and it's ghostly. If you don't want to lose your way You'll need to follow closely. Welcome to a kid-friendly pop-up...

Goosebumps now on Disney+!Courtney is a total show-off. She thinks she's so brave; and she's always making Eddie and his friends look like wimps. But now Eddie's decided he's had enough. He's going to scare Courtney once and for all. And he's come up...

An endearing and simple story about being a little bit afraid of the dark. For brave toddlers ages 30 months and up, with a focus on the child's emotions. Mila is lying in her bed in Mommy's house. It's dark all around her. Very...

Learn your ABCs in this silly and spooky Halloween board book, complete with a fun cast of trick-or-treaters. A is for Astronaut, M is for Mummy, S is for Spider, and Z is for Zebra Learn your ABCs with a cast of spooky and...

The Junior Monster Scouts take out the trash when a new villain comes to town in the hilarious fifth chapter book of the Junior Monster Scouts series! The Junior Monster Scouts have a new grump in town to contend with: Baroness Von Grumpier! A...

An adorable reminder of unconditional love for little monsters everywhere!"I'll love you even when treats are all you want to eat.I'll love you even when you get angry and stomp your feet!I'll love you no matter what you do.Little monster, I'll always and forever...

Don't miss this second installment of Zack Loran Clark and Nicholas Eliopulos's Adventurers Guild trilogy, where the stakes are raised, the action is breathless, and the dangers will stop even the bravest of hearts. Zed, Brock, and their friends may have saved Freestone from...

"Monster-truck fans won't want to miss this Halloween showdown." --Kirkus"Full-throttle Halloween fun." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)Readers will delight in this lively read-aloud story with a clever and surprising twist at the end--perfect for Halloween and year-round Ready, set, go The monster truck race is...

An explosively bright and colorful picture book with lots of kid appealDid you know that monsters love to scribble, scribble, mix, dance, and wiggle? Why? Because monsters love to make new colors Celebrate along with the hilarious monsters in this wild and energetic picture...

"Funny, exciting, and ultimately epic. Wow. I can't wait for the next one." --Adam Gidwitz, author of the New York Times bestseller A Tale Dark and Grimm "Set in a magical world filled with incredible creatures from folklore, this fast-paced fantasy will keep readers...

For fans of How to Babysit a Grandpa comes a tongue-in-cheek story that is a step-by-step manual for putting your monster to bed. If you have a monster that won't go to bed, don't bother asking your parents to help. They know a lot...

Return to Shadow School for the second installment of the spooky middle-grade series from J. A. White, the acclaimed author of Nightbooks and The Thickety series. Now available in paperback.Cordelia Liu's first year at Shadow School was a success. She studied hard and made...

A step 3 leveled reader based on the Disney+ series Monsters at Work-complete with a poster! Inspired by Disney and Pixar's hit film Monsters, Inc., the new Disney+ animated show Monsters at Work follows Tylor Tuskmon, an enthusiastic member of the Monsters, Inc. Facilities...

Monsters may look and act scary, but deep down they're not so different from you and me. They talk and giggle, they read and clean their rooms, and they have ENORMOUS chompers for...eating ice cream!This humorous book will have kids giggling and turning the...

The Junior Monster Scouts take out the trash when a new villain comes to town in the hilarious fifth chapter book of the Junior Monster Scouts series! The Junior Monster Scouts have a new grump in town to contend with: Baroness Von Grumpier! A...

Larry the lovable monster from Don't Push the Button is back with another hilarious, interactive adventure Perfect for kids with active imaginations and for any storytime, watch as the book changes right before your eyes ... but don't forget to follow Larry's instructions I...

From Dav Pilkey, creator of the New York Times bestselling Dog Man and Captain Underpants series, comes Oscar, a little dog with a big bullying problem.Oscar is a little dog with a big problem -- he gets more tricks than treats because other dogs...

Join Harry and Ava as they battle space monsters, in a thrilling new adventure series that's out of this world! Harry and Ava are intrepid young adventurers living on a massive space station near the Void - a black hole that swallowed their home...

From the prolific and beloved author and illustrator Elise Gravel comes this funny and cute board book for the littlest readers. In this sweet little book, a monster tries to scare a young child. But the child insists the monster is not scary but...

Goosebumps meets The Last Kids on Earth in the second action-packed adventure in a hilariously scary series about a secret society of monster-bashing babysitters."This shining gem in the campy monster drama genre is a step up from R.L. Stine's Goosebumps." --School Library JournalKelly's been...

Goosebumps now on Disney+!What should Carly Beth be for Halloween this year? TERRIFIED! Late at night, an ugly green mask is mysteriously calling out to her, and ugly green masks don't like to be ignored. If Carly Beth survives the night, even a scary...

Free the Beasts. Live the Adventure. Battle Beasts and fight Evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up! Four brave young would-be heroes have been magicked away to the Netherworld by the Evil Wizard...

A silly and spooky highly illustrated series that's perfect for fans of Eerie Elementary and Notebooks of Doom, featuring art on every page and fun activities at the end of each book Cousins Malia, Dante, and Ivan must face off against the evil queen...

Twelve-year-old Macy is an amateur treasure hunter who finds lost things along the southern Saskatchewan shores of Buffalo Pound Lake. When her mom announces she's leaving her park ranger job at the lake to be a police officer in the city, Macy decides she...

Desmond and Andres battle beach bullies who also happen to be creepy monsters in the third book of the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol chapter book series! When you go to the beach with Desmond Cole, it isn't all sand, surf, and sun. It's more...

Free the Beasts. Live the Adventure. Battle Beasts and fight Evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up! In the land of Tangala, a new Master or Mistress of the Beasts is to be...

This #1 New York Times bestselling picture book parody is the perfect Halloween read! Goodnight tomb. Goodnight goon. Goodnight Martians taking over the moon. It's bedtime in the cold gray tomb with a black lagoon, and two slimy claws, and a couple of jaws,...

What do you do with a grumpy kraken, a sickly sea serpent, and a tearful gigantic tortoise? You sing them a tune, of course! Following the sea shanty rhyme of "What Do You Do With . . .," a ship's crew of sailors has...

Named a Best Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews, this pungent parody of Snow White modernizes (and stinks up) the themes of the classic fairy tale to serve as a timely parable of the virtues of inclusive democracy versus the evils of corrupt regimes.Set...

A creature has eaten his friend. Now he's on a journey to find a new one with hilarious consequences in this bright, subversive debut picture book. A little creature is looking for a new friend, but he's not having any luck. Why is he...

Goosebumps now on Disney+!Lizzie and Luke have uncovered secret information about the freaky amusement park. Lizzie wants to help the others, but since the twins don't trust her, they're all in a deadlock. Did someone say DEAD? A trip through the hall of Mirrors...

A silly and spooky highly illustrated series that's perfect for fans of Eerie Elementary and Notebooks of Doom, featuring art on every page and fun activities at the end of each book Cousins Malia, Dante, and Ivan are looking for a portal to 13th...

Mo Willems delivers a smorgasbord of hunger, hubris, regret, and redemption as a Busy Creature hilariously chomps and chews its way through the alphabet now in board book format.Author: Mo WillemsISBN-10: 1368041299ISBN-13: 9781368041294Publisher: Hyperion Books for ChildrenLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2019Pages: 32Format: Board BookWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 4.90h...

Goosebumps now on Disney+!The infamous, Most Wanted Goosebumps characters are out on the loose and they're coming after you! There is no place to hide. Nothing is safe!Jay Gardner is a mischievous kid who can't stay out of trouble. Unfortunately, Jay gets in so...

In this second installment in the spooky and silly series that's perfect for fans of Goosebumps and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, a girl's dinner comes back to haunt her Wolver Hollow is not a normal town. The adults are too busy...

In this second volume of The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo, graphic novelist Drew Weing delivers a fresh and funny take on the age-old battle between kids and closet-dwelling monsters. Charles meets a lot of monsters in his line of work. While assisting...