| International Standard Book Number |
9781665957366 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1665957360 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Sambury, Liselle, author.
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| Title Statement |
A mastery of monsters (bk. 1) / Liselle Sambury.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
580 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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| Series Statement |
Mastery of monsters ; bk. 01
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| General Note |
Content warning: Death of a parent, death of a teenage child, fatphobia, mentions of disordered eating (restriction), dismemberment, drug and alcohol use, violence/gore, and a mention of suicide.
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| Summary, Etc. |
When August's brother disappears before his sophomore semester, everyone thinks the stress of college got to him. But August knows her brother would never have left her voluntarily, especially not after their mother so recently went missing. The only clue he left behind was a note telling her to stay safe and protect their remaining family. And after August is attacked by a ten-foot-tall creature with fur and claws, she realizes that her brother might be in more danger than she could have imagined. Unfortunately for her, the only person with a connection to the mysterious creature is the bookish Virgil Hawthorne and he knows about them because he is one. If he doesn't find a partner to help control his true nature, he'll lose his humanity and become a mindless beast -- exactly what the secret society he's grown up in would love to put down. Virgil makes a proposition: August will join his society and partner with him, and in return, he'll help her find her brother. And so August is plunged into a deadly competition to win one of the few coveted candidate spots, all while trying to accept a frightening reality: that monsters are real, and she has to learn to master them if she's to have any hope of saving her brother.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Contests Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Monsters Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Missing persons Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Secret societies Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Shapeshifting Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Siblings Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Teenage girls, Black Juvenile fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Young adult fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Campus fiction.
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