Monster Hunters (Nightmare Academy, No. 1) - Hardcover

Lorey, Dean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061693693 ISBN 13: 9780061693694

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2008

Synopsis

Join Charlie Benjamin on a "fast-paced, action-packed"*adventure. When Charlie's nightmares bring monsters to Earth, Charlie gets a once-in-a-lifetime chance to learn to control his powers at the incredible Nightmare Academy. "Marvelous creatures"** greet Charlie and his new friends as they embark on "a straightforward thrill ride"*** of "rip-roaring monster slayings"*** in a debut novel that's "pure entertainment."**

About this title

About the Author:

Dean Lorey is a Hollywood screenwriter whose credits include co-executive producer of the cult TV hit Arrested Development. He was inspired to write Nightmare Academy, his first series for young readers, by his personal enthusiasm for imagined worlds and video games. The first book in the trilogy, monster hunters, received the Southern California Booksellers' Award for Best Children's Novel of the Year. Dean Lorey lives in Calabasas, California, with his wife, Elizabeth, and their sons, Chris (first reader for the Nightmare Academy trilogy) and Alex (then too young to read).

Brandon Dorman lives in Puyallup, Washington, and is the creator of Pirates of the Sea! and Santa's Stowaway, and the illustrator of Jack Prelutsky's Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face, as well as Halloween Night, by Marjorie Dennis Murray.

Review:

“Lots of fun and excitement...It’s Men in Black for kids. Pure entertainment” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Rip-roaring monster slayings...readers will appreciate the book’s cinematic vividness...a straightforward thrill ride.” (Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books)

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061693693
• ISBN 13: 9780061693694
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336
• Illustrator: Dorman Brandon