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The Monstrumologist
The Monstrumologist
(Part of Monstrumologist, The)  
By Rick Yancey
This edition: Trade Paperback
Ages: 14 and up
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Awards and Nominations

  • ALA Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book
  • ALA Best Books For Young Adults
  • Amelia Elizabeth Walden Finalist (NCTE/ALAN)
  • Booklist Editors' Choice
  • Florida Book Award Gold Medal, YA
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Description

Will Henry is an assistant to a doctor with a most unusual speciality: monster hunting! In the short time he has lived with the doctor, Will has grown used to late night callers and dangerous business. But when one visitor comes with the body of a young girl and the monster that was feeding on her, Will's world changes forever. The doctor has discovered a baby Anthropophagi - a headless monster that feeds through the mouthfuls of teeth in its chest - and it signals a growing number of Anthropophagi. Now, Will and the doctor must face the horror threatening to consume our world and find the rest of the monsters before it is too late...

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"This gothic thriller will appeal to kids who like scary with high brow Dickensian writing...Yancey builds the action towards the climactic cemetary scene while also deftly handling the changing interpersonal dynamic between the doctor and Will.  REaders who enjoyed Yancey's Alfred Kropp series...won't want to miss this one.  Recommended."
-- Library Media Connection
"Yancey takes...gore and violence...to thrilling new levels in this sophisticated tale."
-- School Library Journal
"This story is gothic horror at its finest and most disturbing.  A cross between Mary Shelley and Stephen King, the tale will force readers to stay up late to finish and then remain awake, afraid to shut off the lights...The richness of the language, the strain of wry humor, and the perfectly drawn characters make it a marvelous read...This book is perfect for readers who want their nightmares in a literary package."
-- VOYA
"This has all the elements of the best Victorian mystery and horror...Readers who like their horror truly horrible and yet archly distant and peppered with ecstatic Victorian-scented comments on the woes of the human condition will jump right in and not emerge until the last relieved gasp."
-- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
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...powerful psychic talents, but after her island town is devastated, she becomes an unlikely hero. The Mostrumologist By Rick Yancey Will Henry, orphan and assistant to a monstrumologist, races against time to save his town (and himself) from ...
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