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After-school monster After-school monster Marissa Moss A little girl comes home after school and finds a monster in the house. OL106889W
Freaks of nature Freaks of nature Mark S. Blumberg "In Freaks of Nature, Mark Blumberg turns a scientist's eye on the oddities of nature, showing how a subject once relegated to the sideshow can help explain some of the deepest complexities of biolog… OL11983897W
Monster in the outfield Monster in the outfield Robert Marsh During a faculty versus the students baseball game, the teachers try some dirty tricks to win. Luckily, the students have a monster on their team. With the help of Gabby's beastly pet, Dwight, the st… OL12048619W
Gremlins Gremlins George Gipe When Billy forgets to follow specific instructions for care of his strange new pet, Gizmo, beastly gremlins pop up to wreak havoc on the town. OL122751W
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them J. K. Rowling The book 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find' is a copy of Harry Potter's textbook that was written by Newt Scamander, a magizoologist and fictional character from Series. The book has the same name … OL13716952W
Aliens Aliens Perry, Janet Describes how alien monsters have been imagined in books and movies and examines real creatures in nature that resemble or may have served as inspiration for them. OL14851030W
Precious and the Boo Hag Precious and the Boo Hag Patricia McKissack Home alone with a stomachache while the family works in the fields, a young girl faces up to the horrifying Boo Hag that her brother warned her about. OL14860557W
Swamp monsters don't chase wild turkeys Swamp monsters don't chase wild turkeys Marcia Thornton Jones,Debbie Dadey "There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the creepy scientist in town to help with the class's ecology projects really be a swamp monster? The Bailey School kids are go… OL14912885W
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein Peter Ackroyd When two nineteenth-century Oxford students--Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley--form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only… OL14914924W
Novels (Congo / Eaters of the Dead / Sphere) Novels (Congo / Eaters of the Dead / Sphere) Michael Crichton Contains three of Crichton's previously published novels: [Congo][1], set deep in the jungle near the legendary ruins of a lost city; [Sphere][2], set a thousand feet below the surface of the South P… OL14950504W
Cinemonsters Cinemonsters Martin H. Greenberg,Ray Bradbury,Charles G. Waugh,Edgar Allan Poe,Frank D. McSherry Collection contains: Who goes there? / John W. Campbell, Jr. -- [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- Casting the runes / M.R. James -- The foghor… OL15012283W
My Creature My Creature Jack Prelutsky "I made a creature out of clay, just what it is is hard to say!" OL15012513W
No cookies? No cookies? Sarah Willson Cookie Monster's visiting nephew prefers to eat a healthy meal before enjoying a plate of freshly baked cookies. OL15013226W
The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit Christopher Wormell Once, in a cave, lived a horrible ugly monster. Perhaps the most horrible and ugly monster in the world. So ugly is the monster that he can turn a blue sky to snow and evaporate a pond just by dip… OL15023533W
Cream of creature from the school cafeteria Cream of creature from the school cafeteria Mike Thaler When the food in the school cafeteria takes on a life of its own and spreads out as a green blob eating everything in sight, the students find there is only one way to stop it. OL15039918W
The Loch Ness monster The Loch Ness monster Elaine Landau Introduces the folklore and reported sightings of the unidentified creature known as the Loch Ness Monster and evaluates the evidence for and against its existence. OL15040263W
Beasts Beasts Stewart Ross Discusses mythical beasts such as Bigfoot, dragons, and the Minotaur as well as real-life dangerous animals like tigers, polar bears, and snakes. OL15043596W
Inside a house that is haunted Inside a house that is haunted Alyssa Satin Capucilli A cumulative rhyme in which the spider, ghost, cat, and other inhabitants of a haunted house wake up and startle each other. OL15061407W
Night wings Night wings Joseph Bruchac,Sally Wern Comport My dream from last night haunts me. I am still running, still trying to hide from something I cannot see. I know that it sees me with eyes that can pierce the darkness. I know that it hungers to take… OL15069311W
There are monsters everywhere There are monsters everywhere Mercer Mayer A boy who is certain that his house is filled with monsters takes a karate class in order to vanquish them. OL15075000W
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