The Museum Animals Are Awake: Creep Street #16

The museum locks at nine. That's when the animals get out.Noor Rahimi draws everything she sees. Fur, feathers, bones, teeth - she gets it all down on paper, exactly right. So when her school's overnight art contest locks forty kids inside the Thackeray Museum of Natural History, Noor figures she's found the perfect place to spend the night: quiet halls, brass lamps, and a hundred years of stuffed animals holding perfectly still for her pencil.Then the polar bear's glass eyes follow her across the hall.At midnight, the display cases start to crack.The bear steps down out of its fake snow, stitched seams showing along its shoulder. A wolf pads across the marble on silent paws. A bone-white antelope shakes the broken glass off its back like rain. They aren't hunting the kids - and somehow that's worse. They're rebuilding the exhibits. Every diorama needs something inside it. Every empty case is waiting for a body to fill it.Noor and Pete Kaminski - the loudest new kid alive, allergic to dust, physically incapable of whispering - are the only two awake to see it happen. And Noor's sketchbook may be the only thing in the whole building that can put the animals back where they belong.But something in the museum has been sketching, too.And it just finished a drawing of Noor.Inside this Creep Street novel: - A locked-in overnight in a museum full of things that used to be alive- Taxidermy monsters that step out of shattered glass at midnight- A girl whose pencil is her only weapon- A sidekick who cannot stay quiet to save his life (or hers)- Short chapters and a cliffhanger every few pages - built for reluctant readers- A twist ending kids will read twicePerfect for ages 8-12 and readers at a 3rd-6th grade reading level who love spooky-but-fun scares, monster stories, and creepy chapter books they can finish in a weekend. Great for classroom libraries, school book fairs, Halloween gifts, and any kid who says they hate reading - right up until the display cases crack.Every Creep Street book is a standalone story. Read them in any order. Read them with the lights on.Somewhere in the Thackeray Museum, there's a case with your name on the little brass plate. Don't worry. They'll pose you nicely.