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Diamond Bookshelf: Katie's Korner - Graphic Novel Reviews for Schools and Libraries
September 25, 2016
Monster Elementary Volume 1
Created by: Nicholas Doan & Caanan Grall
Publisher: Space Goat Publishing
Format: Softcover, 6 x 9, 104 Full Color, $22.99
ISBN: SC: 978-1-94158-189-6
REVIEW
Every time I look at the stress list for life’s most stressful events, “moving” always shows up in the top ten, if not the top five. For Desmodus, Lukos, Francesca, Rags, and Gilda, a move to a new, unsafe school is inevitable, which means that their stress levels are already way, way too high. When they get to their new school, however, their initial experience of “moving” stress is put in its place by an even bigger stressor: fitting in!
"Hello! We’re monsters!" they all worry. "We can’t go to public school!"
Monsters, the kids must not only pretend to be something they are not, humans (thankfully, for the reader because these monsters are pretty darn cool) or “Normies,” but also pretend to be coming of age without being noticed as a monster.
Thus, when the FBI ambushes their familiar and safe confines of the monster school, all five of our main, monster characters attend their parents decisions’ to move them to a public school, Kingha