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.
After breaking her ankle, Marta has nothing left in Billings except maybe her friends, but she decides to go back home and restart her career. While she works to keep rent, it seems that her mom has moved on from her leaving; she has a boyfriend and she was using Marta's room as an office. Marta works a variety of jobs to keep going: some at the local theater and some at Mrs. Holland's dance studio where she practically grew up. Her theater job leaves her in the company of a young man named Dennis. After Steve sees her with him, will their relationship recover?
When seventeen-year-old Marta finally enters the world of professional ballet in 1957, it is not what she expects. And when she walks in late without her clothes or bags because the train lost them, Madame Cosper, from the Intermountain Ballet Company, seems to hate her from the start. Despite her many setbacks, she befriends two fellow dancers as well as gets herself into a deeply complicated yet fun relationship with a college reporter. As her friendships grow and her life becomes dramatic, can she stay on track and continue to dance safely and keep her boyfriend from leaving her?
This is a fun and engaging children's book. A young boy spends his evening thinking about what he would rather be. He thinks of many imaginative things, both living and non-living, anything except a boy.
