monsters

With her family shattered after a manticore attack killed her baby brother and mother, Ester is left with her father, who has fallen painfully silent, and her need for vengeance against the monsters that did it. In the king's Royal Mews, the giant rocs of legend are trained to fly and hunt manticores with their handlers--Ester gets paired with a fledgling, Zahra, and starts to find her purpose while training for the empire's most dangerous manticore hunt in history.

Constance and Ivory Ivyweather are complete opposites, so they aren't happy to be sent away for the summer by their indifferent parents to the decaying town of Quixx that's covered by a mysterious fog that never seems to lift. The sisters soon meet Derrek, an astronomer who also happens to be a spider-like creature with a scientific mind and a tragic past, and they learn of the monsters who lurk in the shadows of the sleepy mountain town.

Thirteen-year-old Anya sets out to find her missing father but instead travels to Kiev, where she meets the tsar, dines with a rabbi, and rescues two brothers from a dangerous monster lurking beneath the city.

After agreeing to Aristide's proposal, Melphiera travels to Galbraith before winter settles in Marchalrayd, but they stop to stay at Fort Ritterd, where Melphiera is excited about the opportunity to supplement the knights' porridge with a healthy dose of monsters. Soon, Melphiera discovers that Aristide is hiding a big secret and a connection with her late mother. Melphiera and Aristide go hunting together, and Aristide gets jealous.

Melphiera tries to keep Aristide from going blood mad while he battles monsters to bring peace to the kingdom. Could the solution to the land's monster problem be eating them?.

Melphiera seeks to win the approval of the female knights of Galbraith with her culinary skills.

The gourmet princess Melphiera joined Galbraith little knowing she would have to give a dinner speech to all in Middlaeg Fortress and must make a good first impression--even after being thrown for a loop by the monstrous cuisine. Then, an intimidating figure interrupts the feast and gives Melphiera a test over which monsters even she cannot eat or drink.

Soara is a young orphan girl who was raised by knights and trained to fight against marauding monsters, but when she comes of age, she finds herself working with Kirik the dwarf, Architect of the Monster World, to build comfortable homes for monsterkind instead. First, The group builds a home for a thunder wolf and a mermaid, a pair of lovebirds who can't even touch each other. Then, they head off to the castle of the powerful and fearsome Demon Lord where they learn more about how the demon world came to be what it is now. The demon lord tells them about the woman who originally built his castle, and he asks for their help in finding her in order to build peace in their world.

Soara and the gang embarks on a quest to find Kirik's master, Kahyo, and they start by seeking out the masters of the land, sea, and air of the monster world. Along the way, they encounter a group of cats running a canteen, and they offer to rebuild the restaurant with improvements suited for their monster customers. Later, they come across an unusual family made up of a huge golem and and a group of green gnomes, and they come up with a solution to build a house where they can all live together. Finally, Soara and her party are faced with a mysterious new enemy.

Twelve-year-old Rika Lovelace-Rose has been having trouble expressing her feelings about her parents' divorce and her absent mother. When she gets in trouble for vandalism again, her father sends her from Colorado to Trinidad, where she's to spend the summer with her maternal grandmother. As soon as she arrives, things feel different on the island and she meets a group of kids her age that seem to have magical abilities. When she finds a grimoire that speaks to her, she learns she is a witch and that her mother is being held captive. Embracing her heritage and magical abilities, she joins with her new friends to take on the fearsome jumbie king in a harrowing maze.