Yuckers!

YUCKERS!

WHAT SMELLS LIKE COTTON CANDY AND GOES THUMP, THUMP, THUMP?

Stevie Brickwald is so gross. He even eats Yuckers! cereal, and everyone knows it’s full of weird chemicals. Then Stevie mixes Yuckers! with a secret ingredient, and very strange things start happening at school.

All the lunch milk disappears. A small pink dog is seen diving into the drinking fountain. A mysterious thumping interrupts Ms. Cosgrove’s math class.

Could there really be another monster loose at P.S. 13? Danny Keegan knows that all monsters aren’t bad. After all, some of his best friends are monsters.

WELCOME TO P.S. 13 and the Crazy classroom of THE FIFTH GRADE MONSTERS!

Mel Gilden is the author of many children's books, some of which received rave reviews in such places as School Library Journal and Booklist. Licensed properties include adaptations of feature films, and of TV shows such as Beverly Hills, 90210; and NASCAR Racers. He has also written books based on video games and has written original stories based in the Star Trek universe. His short stories have appeared in many original and reprint anthologies. He has written cartoons for TV, has developed new shows, and was assistant story editor for the DIC television production of The Real Ghostbusters. He consulted at Disney and Universal, helping develop theme park attractions. Gilden spent five years as co-host of the science-fiction interview show, Hour-25, on KPFK radio in Los Angeles. Gilden lectures to school and library groups, and has been known to teach fiction writing. He lives in Los Angeles, California, where the debris meets the sea, and still hopes to be an astronaut when he grows up.