Three little monsters make a most unusual cake and prepare other perfectly horrible treats for their mother's birthday.

Grover worries page by page about meeting the monster at the end of this book.

Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.

"Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family's decaying Mexico City estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago he once was, but his innate impulses--though curbed...

There's a storm brewing over Eerie-on-Sea, and the fisherfolk say a monster is the cause. Someone has woken the ancient Gargantis, who sleeps in the watery caves beneath this spooky seaside town where legends have a habit of coming to life. It seems the Gargantis is looking for something: a treasure stolen from her underwater lair. And it just might be in the Lost-and-Foundery at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, in the care of one Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder....

Mike Wazowski, who has wanted to become a scarer his entire life, enrolls in Monsters University, where he meets Sulley, a natural Scarer who doesn't think Mike has what it takes to scare children.

Discusses what zombies are and how they become zombies, if they really do exist.

Maggie wants to get rid of the monster that visits her room every night and accepts her mother's suggestion to simply ask the monster what it wants.

An assortment of monsters demonstrates good and bad manners.

Huggly and his monster friends, Booter and Grubble, set out to find the yummy human food he has tried, pizza.