The Creakers
by Tom Fletcher (Author) Shane DeVries (Illustrator)
At night, this mischievous bunch peeks out from under your bed. When you hear that creak . . . creak . . . THE CREAKERS are there!
Discover a hilarious and eerie middle-grade story by a UK star. What would you do if you woke up to a world with no grown-ups? When all the parents in the world disappear, most kids think this is amazing! They can finally run wild and eat candy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But Lucy Dungston wants to get her mom back, especially because her dad disappeared not long ago. Lucy wants the truth, and she's convinced that the creaking sounds that come from under her bed can lead her to it. Creak . . . creak . . . That's when Lucy meets the Creakers, a bunch of sticky, smelly creatures who live under children's beds.
This troublesome bunch has taken all the grown-ups to an upside-down world called the Woleb. Lucy must act fast if she wants to rescue the grown-ups, because adults who stay in the Woleb too long start becoming Creakers!
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Gr 3-5--When all of the adults disappear from the town of Whiffington, Lucy Dungston makes it her mission to find them and bring them back. She learns that the Creakers, garbage-eating monsters who live beneath the floorboards under children's beds, are responsible. To get the adults back, Lucy must go into the Woleb, the Creakers' world. With help from a few other children in the town, she discovers a way in--but can she get the adults out? The frequent authorial interjections ("OK, so things are about to get a little scary. Don't say I didn't warn you.") indicate that the story is supposed to be frightening, but most readers will find the bumbling Creakers more funny than scary, and Lucy and her friends never appear to be in any real danger. There's plenty of humor, some of it mildly scatological, but nothing too gross. Plentiful illustrations add to the book's wacky charm, and the narrative ends with Lucy and the townspeople finding a way to live in harmony with the Creakers, rather than in a pitched battle. VERDICT An additional purchase for libraries in need of funny, not very scary horror.--Misti Tidman, Mansfield/Richland County Public Library, OH
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JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV052000 - Juvenile Fiction | Monsters
Adventure and adventurers
Missing persons
Monsters
