In the book Crashing Eden, Michael Sussman tells about a boy named Joss who is going through depression. This is a realistic fiction book that it is set in present day and begins when a sixteen-year-old boy gets bullied at school.
In the book There’s a Zombie in the Basement, Stan Yan tells the tale of an anxious young boy who cannot sleep because he is afraid of scary creatures in the dark. This fictional picture book is set in the present day in a little boy’s bedroom. The story begins at bedtime when the boy calls his parents to his room because he is afraid of what might be lurking in the basement. He fears that many frightening monsters such as zombies, vampires, ghosts, and grim reapers are coming to get him. Will the monsters attack?
Girls, friendships, curfew, homework, his Mom’s terrible cooking...life is really complicated for young monster detective Will Allen! In the fourth installment in the Chronicles of the Monster Detective Agency series, Will Allen and the Terrible Truth by Jason Edwards, Will finds that his monster fighting tools, the “RevealeR” and “Monster Scope” have lost their powers. He turns to Bigelow, his “monster-detective” mentor for help, but Bigelow will only tell him that everything he needs to fight monsters is inside of himself.
