Theme: Monsters

A Not Scary Story About Big Scary Things

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

A little boy walking through an ordinary forest encounters an extraordinary monster.

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Lamplighter

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Orphan Rossamünd Bookchild has been sworn into the Emperor’s service—his duty is to light the lamps along the Emperor’s highways and protect travelers from the ferocious bogles that live in the wild. But he’s found it no easier to fit in with the lamplighters than he did with the foundlings—always too small and too meek—and [...]

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Corydon And The Fall Of Atlantis (Corydon Trilogy)

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In this second book in the Corydon trilogy, trouble has invaded the Island of Monsters once again. The peace-loving Minotaur has beenkidnapped! Signs suggest he’s been taken to the city of Atlantis, and so Corydon and his fellow monsters set sail to rescue their friend. Their travels across Poseidon’s treacherous waters involve one narrow escape [...]

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The Death Collector

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

Three teens and a curator of unclassified artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to use unorthodox methods to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs.

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Monsters Are Afraid of the Moon

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 20, 2007

When Marie brings the moon into her bedroom, it scares away the monsters who have tormented her but also causes problems which only the village cats can help solve.

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Monster Blood Tattoo

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 20, 2007

Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl’s name, rossam and sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters who are more complicated that he previously thought.

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Dexter Bexley And The Big Blue Beastie

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

After running into a big blue beastie with his scooter, Dexster tries to come up with increasingly inventive ideas to keep the beastie from eating him.

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Bare Hands

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A boy confronts his mother’s suitor on New Year’s Eve when the boy kills the man’s duck and, in a fit of anger, the man kills the boy’s dog.

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