"Three teenage boy cousins on a road trip through California and the Southwest come to terms with truths about their families and themselves"--

Introduction by Amal El-Mohtar Allosaurus Burgers 57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides We Are the Cloud Conspicuous Plumage Shattered Sidewalks of the Human Heart Shucked The Beasts We Want to Be Calved When Your Child Strays from God Things with Beards Ghosts of Home The Heat of Us: Notes Towards an Oral History Angel, Monster, Man Sun in an Empty Room

The battle against the Beasts of Beastium continues! Only a wall divides Earth from the Beasts of Beastium. Only a boy and his dogbot defend the wall and protect Earth. Kai Masters. Border guard and beast battler! When it starts to snow in the middle of summer, Kai knows it's time for battle. Kai and his robot dog BC3 build their own Sub-Skate to battle the growing ice beast. But will their tools be enough to stop the beast from breaking through the border wall? Can they save the Earth from deep-freeze? Things will need to heat up!

Ichirohiko has suffered, caught in the space between human and beast, and has succumbed to the darkness. Kyuta leaves Kumatetsu, on the brink of death, in the care of the others and heads to the human world in pursuit of Ichirohiko. It's the start of a life and death battle in the streets of Shibuya to settle things not only with Ichirohiko, but with the darkness in his own heart...!! What can he do to save everyone? The times has come for Kumatetsu, Kyuta, and Kaede to each make their own decisions...

Fleeing tragedy and mistreatment, a young boy named Ren hides among the crowds in Tokyo's busy Shibuya ward. His efforts to run away are more successful than he realizes when he ends up in the world of the beasts! A rough-living bear named Kumatetsu gives Ren a new life and a new name--Kyuta--but is Kumatetsu really up to the job of being a mentor?

“A poignant story.” —School Library Journal “An unforgettable, life-affirming tale.” —Booklist The Graveyard Book meets Hatchet in this eerie novel about a boy who is stranded on a mysterious beach, from debut author Samantha M. Clark. A boy washes up on a mysterious, seemingly uninhabited beach. Who is he? How did he get there? The boy can’t remember. When he sees a light shining over the foreboding wall of trees that surrounds the shore, he decides to follow it, in the hopes that it will lead him to answers. The boy’s journey is a struggle for survival and a search for the truth—a terrifying truth that once uncovered, will force him to face his greatest fear of all if he is to go home. This gripping adventure will have readers hooked until its jaw-dropping and moving conclusion. Samantha M. Clark’s first novel heralds the arrival of an exciting new voice.

In Book 2 of this thrilling series for 6- to 9-year-olds, our hero, Kai Masters, must quickly jump into action when burning hot rock falls from the sky. He knows it's time for battle again. Was Kai right to choose the X-Archer T10? Will it be enough to beat the Terrasaur rock-beast's hurl attack? With cool diagrams and illustrations of various gadgets, and a graphic novel sequence of the battle scene, Kai's adventures in Beast-hunting really come to life!