Frank Carlson Library

An Injured Bigfoot is Helped by 12 year-old Micki Mosso, while a Bigfoot Hunter Seeks a Trophy. There's Action and Adventure at the Ice-Mine.The backdrop for this fantasy adventure is the very real Ice-Mine of Sweden Valley, Pa. in Potter County. In the Summer, ice forms in the cavern of this strange phenomenon of nature, only to disappear in the Fall. Some have speculated that an enormous cavern exists below the Ice-Mine. In our story, we imagine...

Jessica Khoury brings her masterful world-building and emotional depth to this soaring fantasy series. In a world where everyone is born with wings, stone monsters prowl the skies, hunting those who dare to fly too high. In the Clandoms, everyone is born with wings, though not all the clans are treated equally. Ellie Meadows longed to become a Goldwing, the knights who protect the people - but because she came from the humble Sparrow Clan, her dream...

Watch out! Finn faces more monsters than ever in Darkmouth: Chaos Descends, the third book in the tween fantasy series that Kirkus Reviews called "Ghostbusters meets Percy Jackson as written by Terry Pratchett." Finn isn't even a full-fledged Legend Hunter yet, but he's already had to save the world-twice. The Legends are planning their next attack and, of course, it's up to Finn to stop them. Too bad he'd rather be doing…anything else. Perfect...

Ever since the monster apocalypse hit town, average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan has been living in his tree house, which he's armed to the teeth with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from abandoned stores. But Jack alone is no match for the hordes of Zombies and Winged Wretches and Vine Thingies, and especially not for the eerily intelligent monster known only as Blarg....

Still reeling from the heartbreaking death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves hounded by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it's too late.

"Dr. Victor has a secret. Has he created a monster? The Bailey School kids are going to find out!"--Cover.

The first bite is only the beginning. Twenty of today's favorite writers explore the intersections between the living, dead, and undead. Their vampire tales range from romantic to chilling to gleeful-and touch on nearly every emotion in between. Neil Gaiman's vampire-poet in "Bloody Sunrise" is brooding, remorseful, and lonely. Melissa Marr's vampires make a high-stakes game of possession and seduction in "Transition." And in "Why Light?" Tanith...

The Sandman is seventeen-year-old Nora's closest friend and best-kept secret. He has to be, if she doesn't want a one-way ticket back to the psychiatrist. It took her too long to learn not to mention the hooded figure in her dreams to her mother, who still watches Nora as if she'll crack. So when Nora's friends start mysteriously dying gruesome deaths in their sleep, she isn't altogether surprised when the police direct their suspicion at her. The...

FINDING THEIR MISSING GRANDMA WILL BE NO SMALL FEAT! Rubi and her much more daring--and skateboard-obsessed--brother, Quinn, are visiting their grandmother on beautiful Vashon Island for the weekend. It's the first time they've taken the ferry from Seattle by themselves. But weirdly, when they arrive, Nana is nowhere to be found! Then their Uncle James lets them in on a little secret: Bigfoot may have been spotted! And their Nana isn't any old grandma--she's...

This true love's kiss will wake a horror…You know the story. Once upon a time, a princess was cursed to sleep for a hundred years. When the curse was broken, the princess woke and discovered that everyone in her kingdom had become rotting, flesh-eating, corpse-like monsters.…Maybe you don't know this story.Newly awakened, Princess Briar is the only one in her castle unaffected by the mysterious rotting. She suspects her kingdom is suffering a...