The 13 stories in McHugh's debut collection offer poignant and sometimes heartwrenching explorations of personal relationships and their transformative power. In "Presence," a woman helps her husband through an experimental therapy for his Alzheimer's disease and, by the story's end, is less his spo
Monster, Human, Other
β Scribed by Gale, Laurel
- Book ID
- 109797249
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780553510126
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
For readers of Neil Gaiman's Coraline and Jonathan Auxier's The Night Gardener comes a perfectly peculiar tale that shows the scariest monsters are often the ones we create for ourselves.
MONSTER.
Isaac Read doesn't feel like a monster. He's just like every other kid on his blockβas long as he tapes down his tail, that is!
HUMAN.
Wren wishes her adopted family would stop teasing her about her lousy sense of smell and poor sense of direction. It's not her fault she doesn't have their sensitive snouts and keen eyesight.
OTHER.
The overcrowded voracans hate getting walked all overβliterally. They live underground.
Broken promises and new alliances spell trouble for Wren and Isaac as the voracans try to claw their way to the topβand bring some unlikely suspects with them!
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