Beasties

Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7

Animorphs meets Spy School in Beasties, an all-new adventure from New York Times bestselling author Peter Lerangis about four kids who discover an alien artifact in Central Park that turns them into animals. The clock is ticking as they need to find a cure before their natural predators find them first! 

On a field trip to Central Park, an accidental encounter with a supernatural artifact that looks a lot like a piece of poop turns Riley and his classmates into all kinds of critters. His sister’s a hawk, the school bully’s a raccoon, and Riley? He’s stuck in the body of a New York City rat.Their once-peaceful morning quickly has turns into survival-of-the-fittest fight with one goal: stay alive long enough to turn themselves back into normal kids. But as it turns, they’re not the only humans-turned-into-animals on the loose in Central Park.…On their wild chase to untangle the mystery of the magical poop, Riley and friends find themselves in the center of a dangerous Manhattan-wide plot. They must use all their animal abilities to stop the bad guys, find the cure, and get back home without getting eaten. It’s the adventure of a lifetime—because if they fail, these beasties will stay beasts forever.

About the Author

Peter Lerangis is the author of more than one hundred and seventy books, which have sold more than six-and-a-half million copies and been translated into thirty-five different languages. These include the five books in the New York Times bestselling Seven Wonders series, The Colossus Rises, Lost in Babylon, The Tomb of Shadows, The Curse of the King, and The Legend of the Rift; two books in the 39 Clues series; and the Max Tilt and Throwback trilogies. He lives in New York City with his family.