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Copyright © 2009 by Rick Yancey
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Yancey, Richard.
The monstrumologist / Rick Yancey.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his
apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies
real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of
Anthropophagi.
ISBN 978-1-4169-8448-1
ISBN 978-1-4391-5261-4 (eBook)
[1. Supernatural—Fiction. 2. Monsters—Fiction.
3. Apprentices—Fiction. 4. Orphans—Fiction.
5. New England—History—19th century—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.Y19197Mon 2009
[Fic]—dc22
2009004562
