Coville, Bruce

When Charlie Eggleston stumbles into Mr. Elive's magic shop to use the phone, he finds a wise-cracking skull that leads him to the adventure of a lifetime.

Best friends Jake and "Weird Lily" enter the monster-filled land of Always October, made famous in Jake's grandfather's books, to save a foundling who becomes a monster during the full moon.

Edward, Fireball, Moongobble the magician and his faithful toad, Urk, travel to Flitwick City, the Forest of Night, and Bogfester Swamp on their quest to break the curse that turned their new friend, Oggledy Nork, into a monster.

Book one:Having jumped into the fantasy land of Luster, Cara joins Lightfoot the unicorn in the search for Queen Arabella Skydancer. Book two: Having jumped into Luster, the land of unicorns, Cara makes a perilous journey to bring back her grandmother, The Wanderer, in order to release the Queen of the unicorns and allow her to die.

Although bratty Blork is good at throwing tantrums, even a megatantrum can't save his pet poodnoobie when it is taken by the Big Pest Squad.

Stuart has managed to survive his first few weeks at Camp Haunted Hills, a movie camp. So he isn't surprised when Lucius turns into a hairy monster--until he figures out it isn't a trick.

Presents fourteen short stories about shape-changing entities by such authors as Bruce Coville, Jack Dann, Jessica A. Salmonson, Susan J. Kroupa, Anne Mazer, and Lawrence Watt-Evans.

A timid boy, eager to frighten the school bully on Halloween night, acquires a magic ring and the power to change himself into a hideous monster.

Anthony and his younger sister discover that the monster figures he got in an unusual box at an estate sale are alive, but they have no way of knowing that the "monsters" will lead them on fantastical adventures to other worlds in an effort to try to save Earth.

A collection of stories about such creatues as mermaids and centaurs, who are part-human and part-animal, and their struggles to understand their true identities.