The Welcome to Stubtoe Elementary (The Terribles #1)

by Travis Nichols (Author)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: The Terribles

The Terribles might be monsters, but they're also kids just like you! Well, sort of. This hilarious peek into the world of vampires, mummies, swamp-things, and bigfoots is perfect for fans of the Hotel Transylvania movies.

Vampires, mummies, and gelatinous balls of goo (oh my!). That's right, monsters are real and they've settled down on the quiet island of Creep's Cove. It's a pretty typical place: houses, stores, portals to various nightmarish parallel dimensions. And a school for the kiddos. Meet the crew: Vlad, a fame-thirsty vampire, Allie, a stuffed animal-dissecting alien, Lizzie, a short-tempered kaiju, and so many others!

Told in alternating chapters, comics, poems, charts, and activities each focused on different classic spooky characters this story is the introduction to monsters you humans have been waiting for.

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Kirkus Reviews

High-appeal characters presented with plenty of laughs.

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Nichols strews simply drawn cartoon art in a mix of single and sequential panels throughout and caps his series kickoff with a glossary of blobby “Glob Talk” for those who might wish to, for instance, glurf rather than yell, or shlarf rather than engulf their lunches.

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"Who can resist a blob who can't stop eating cruciferous veggies and swells to take over a town? Or Griff, an invisible kid who's a master at hide-and-seek? High-appeal characters presented with plenty of laughs." —Kirkus Reviews
Travis Nichols
Travis Nichols is an author and illustrator of books and comics for kids. His books have been published by Penguin Random House, Chronicle, Macmillan, and Viz. He has written and illustrated comics for SpongeBob SquarePants, Uglydoll, Nickelodeon Magazine, and Hello Kitty. When not writing and drawing, Travis makes cool stuff, collecting hobbies, and spending quality time with his favorite people on earth.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780593425749
Lexile Measure
620
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Random House Books for Young Readers
Publication date
July 20, 2023
Series
The Terribles
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV035000 - Juvenile Fiction | School & Education
JUV052000 - Juvenile Fiction | Monsters
Library of Congress categories
Islands
Monsters
Elementary schools

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