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A young girl and her monster friend demonstrate good behavior and manners.

George wants to build a sand castle that would turn any monster green, but when he meets the strangest creature he has ever seen, the night takes an unexpected turn.

When Kelly Ferguson has to go on a rescue mission to Monster Island, where monster royalty is turning kids into hairy mutant monsters, she will have to face off against internet trolls, trash monsters, and her fear of screwing up.

Groggle is hoping to make the perfect Valentine's Day card for Snarlina.

"Jude Maddox knows nothing of love or even light. He knows only his grim duty as the Hand of Death, to lead the Knights of the Eternal Star into a land filled with nightmares and certain demise. It's only when he sees her--a young woman with wild, amber eyes who's as fierce, defiant, and swift as the shadow beasts themselves--that he feels the warmth of life in his blood. The other Knights may fear their lethal commander, with his hard, merciless...

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.

When a scout troop learns that their sleepaway camp is really a training ground for protecting the earth's most endangered species--monsters--the lowest-ranked Troop D (or Troop Dweeb, as the other troops refer to them) is next in line to earn their Monster Merit Badges. Join Troop D on a mission to rescue the legendary Big Foot, whose water supply has been contaminated. With the help of their troop master and the ever-handy century-old Scout's Handbook,...

Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.

"The girl, the monster, the prince, the queen ... must unite once more to fight the dark chaos they've unleashed--but is it already too late?"--

"Niko and Tag are on their way to space when suddenly Niko's robot copilot is captured by a snow monster (who looks an awful lot like Niko's annoying sister, Posh). After they reach Planet Ice, Tag is captured by the snow monster as well, leaving Niko to save them both. Niko must also defeat a killer bunny and the snow monster's army of snowmen before he and his crew race back to Planet Home, just in time for cocoa."--Publisher.