Amelia Shadows and the Monster in the Box - by Matthew Dow Smith

Book Synopsis

Magic and mayhem collide in the second volume of this fantastical new series!

When your father is a powerful dark magician, you end up with a lot of interesting and dangerous things around the house -- souvenirs of his many magical exploits, trophies of his many battles, even a magical prisoner or two. But Amelia Shadows's father isn't just any powerful dark magician, he is the most powerful dark magician, in the whole world! So you know her house is filled with all sorts of stuff. Very dangerous stuff. Stuff she's not supposed to mess with. Not that Amelia has ever been good at obeying rules. While poking around in one her father's many trophy rooms, Amelia breaks the most important magic rule of all -- when you find a mysterious box making strange noises at you, under no circumstances should you open it! Now there's an incredibly dangerous and ferocious creature on the loose in the Shadows's house and Amelia had better find a way to get it back into its box before the head ghost Hans finds out, or even worse, her dad gets home!

About the Author

Matthew Dow Smith is a writer and comic book artist. He wrote and drew this book, for one thing. But he also wrote and drew DC's Misfits of Magic and a young adult series called The October Girl. And those books are pretty good, but this book is way better. And funnier. And has a cat in it. Books with cats in them are always better. He should probably do more books with cats in them. When he isn't making books, he's reading other people's books. And when he's not doing that, he's either deciding what book to read next or where to put all the books that he bought but hasn't read yet. He lives on the east coast of the United States.