T. C. Shelley

Everybody knows fairies are born from a baby's first laugh, but what is less well known is that monsters are born from a person's last sigh. The Imp Child is born from a mixture of both, and so, to the disgust of other monsters, he looks just like a human boy. (Though admittedly most humans can't scale sheer walls at will, or hear the heartbeat of a squirrel miles away). He's a child with feet in both worlds, and he doesn't know where he fits: the grumpy gargoyles who adopt him only want him so that he can steal chocolate for them from the nearby shops. All the Imp Child wants is a place that feels like home, and a name all his own. But Thunderguts, king of the ogres, has a very different destiny in mind for the Imp Child, and he's searching high and low for him ...

The Monster Who Wasn't

The magical follow-up to The Monster Who Wasn't. The second book in this brilliantly rich and strange fantasy series will make us all believe in monsters - be they good, bad or somewhere in between.Sam might be half-monster and half-fairy, but since finding a loving family with the Kavanaghs, his daily life has been all human. And now he's facing one of the greatest human challenges - starting secondary school. But Sam barely has time to worry about the strange stuff teachers say (why do they call it the Great War when it sounds like was anything but great?) before he is thrust back into the world of monsters. Sam's school friends Amira, Hazel and Wilfred reveal that they are shifters: noble twin-souled beings who live half their lives as humans and the other half as dogs. When his new friends are kidnapped one by one, Sam is dragged into an adventure that will force him to confront both halves of his own identity, monster and fairy, if he wants a chance at saving their lives ...

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