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BROWSE BOOK REVIEWS




Series: Scary School


Cover art for THE NORTHERN FRIGHTS
CHILDREN'S
Released: June 25, 2013
by Derek the Ghost, illustrated by Scott M. Fischer

"Another lightweight creature feature, with a teeming supporting cast of ookie-spookies. (Comic horror. 8-11)"
Six more-or-less-human Scary School students try their luck at frozen, all-monster Scream Academy ("Be judicious or be delicious") as part of an exchange program. Read full book review >
Cover art for MONSTERS ON THE MARCH
CHILDREN'S
Released: June 26, 2012
by Derek Taylor Kent, illustrated by Scott M. Fischer

"A joke that is on its way to wearing thin. (website) (Fantasy. 8-11)"
A new semester of "learning, horror, and mayhem" at a school where all the faculty and half of the students are monsters, the narrator is a ghost and the Locker of Infinite Oblivion is just one of the dark fates awaiting incautious passersby. Read full book review >