“You’re a monster.
All the children here are monsters.
This is the Academy for Monsters.”

Falcon Quinn and his neighbors, Max and Megan, board bus #13 for school on an ordinary day in Maine. Only the bus doesn’t take its ordinary route, and the friends soon find themselves in an extraordinary place—on Shadow Island, at the Academy for Monsters.

With a student body stranger than the cast of any monster movie, the academy is home to creatures of all kinds. Falcon has always felt different, with his one bright blue eye and one shadow-black eye, but will he discover the other thing that makes him different when he finds himself in the Black Mirror? And when he learns that the school’s mission is to teach students to hide their monster natures, Falcon and his friends need to find a way to fight back.

Bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan introduces Falcon and his band of monster friends in this first installment of a hair-raising and sidesplitting adventure of monstrous proportions.

ISBN: 9780061728341
Imprint: HarperColl
On Sale: May 10, 2011
List price: $9.75
No of pages: 512
Trim Size: 5.130 in (w) x 7.630 in (h) x 1.000 in (d)
BISAC 1: JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General
BISAC 2: JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Adolescence & Coming of Age
BISAC 3: JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories
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Jennifer Finney Boylan

Biography

Jennifer Finney Boylan is the author of more than a dozen books, including a bestselling memoir, a collection of short stories entitled Remind Me to Murder You Later, and three novels for adults. Her novel Getting In won the Alex Award from the American Library Association in 1998 for an adult novel with special appeal to young adult readers. Since 1988 she has been a professor of English at Colby College.

Jenny Boylan lives at the end of a dirt road in Maine with a Sasquatch, a wind elemental, two weredogs, and a leprechaun.

Brandon Dorman

Biography

Brandon Dorman lives in Puyallup, Washington, and is the creator of Pirates of the Sea! and Santa’s Stowaway, and the illustrator of Jack Prelutsky’s Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face, as well as Halloween Night, by Marjorie Dennis Murray.

“You’re a monster.
All the children here are monsters.
This is the Academy for Monsters.”

Falcon Quinn and his neighbors, Max and Megan, board bus #13 for school on an ordinary day in Maine. Only the bus doesn’t take its ordinary route, and the friends soon find themselves in an extraordinary place—on Shadow Island, at the Academy for Monsters.

With a student body stranger than the cast of any monster movie, the academy is home to creatures of all kinds. Falcon has always felt different, with his one bright blue eye and one shadow-black eye, but will he discover the other thing that makes him different when he finds himself in the Black Mirror? And when he learns that the school’s mission is to teach students to hide their monster natures, Falcon and his friends need to find a way to fight back.

Bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan introduces Falcon and his band of monster friends in this first installment of a hair-raising and sidesplitting adventure of monstrous proportions.

ISBN: 9780061728341
Imprint: HarperColl
On Sale: May 10, 2011
List price: $9.75
No of pages: 512
Trim Size: 5.130 in (w) x 7.630 in (h) x 1.000 in (d)
BISAC 1: JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General
BISAC 2: JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Adolescence & Coming of Age
BISAC 3: JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories
BISAC 4:
BISAC 5:
BISAC 6:

Jennifer Finney Boylan

Biography

Jennifer Finney Boylan is the author of more than a dozen books, including a bestselling memoir, a collection of short stories entitled Remind Me to Murder You Later, and three novels for adults. Her novel Getting In won the Alex Award from the American Library Association in 1998 for an adult novel with special appeal to young adult readers. Since 1988 she has been a professor of English at Colby College.

Jenny Boylan lives at the end of a dirt road in Maine with a Sasquatch, a wind elemental, two weredogs, and a leprechaun.

Brandon Dorman

Biography

Brandon Dorman lives in Puyallup, Washington, and is the creator of Pirates of the Sea! and Santa's Stowaway, and the illustrator of Jack Prelutsky's Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face, as well as Halloween Night, by Marjorie Dennis Murray.