Beasties
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Chapter Book · Ages 8–12 · 2025

Beasties

By Peter Lerangis

Kids turned into animals must find a cure before predators catch them.

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288 pages
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Riley and friends stumble upon an alien artifact in Central Park, transforming them into animals. As a rat, hawk, and raccoon, they must navigate a dangerous plot, find a cure, and survive the park's predators. Can they reverse the transformation before it's too late?

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A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! In this all-new adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of the Seven Wonders series, Peter Lerangis, four kids discover an alien artifact in Central Park that turns them into animals. The clock is ticking for them to find a cure–before the park’s predators find them first.On a field trip to Central Park, Riley and his classmates accidentally encounter a supernatural artifact that looks a lot like, well, honestly … a piece of poop. But one of them gets too close, there’s a blinding flash, and suddenly the five friends are turned into various critters. Riley’s sister’s a hawk, the school bully’s a raccoon, and Riley? He’s transformed into everyone’s least favorite animal, a New York City rat.Their once-dull morning quickly turns into a fight for survival. The kids have stayed alive long enough find a way to turn themselves back to normal. But as it turns out, they’re not the only humans-turned-into-animals on the loose in Central Park….As it turns out, Riley and his friends have accidentally thrust themselves into the center of a dangerous Manhattan-wide plot. And now they must use all their animal abilities to stop the bad guys, find the cure, and get back home without, you know, getting eaten on the way. It’s a wild adventure of a lifetime–because if they fail, these beasties will stay beasts forever.

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Format
Hardcover
Pages
288
Reading age
8–12
Audience
Middle Grade
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Publication
Published
April 22, 2025
Publisher
HarperCollins
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9780063285385

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