When eighth-grader Zach Lopez starts school (where his mother is the newly appointed principal) in Devil's Pass, Minnesota, he expects to be miserable; after all he is a transplant from Los Angeles and the only Puerto Rican in the school--what he does not expect is the sinkhole in the middle of the park with a connection to the "otherside" and a town regularly beset by the monsters who come through it, but he soon learns that Devil's Pass specializes in the weird and dangerous.
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call number/section: 1000
subjects: unicorns, juvenile fiction, monsters, puerto rican children, middle schools, mothers and sons, friendship, fiction, puerto ricans, schools, school stories, mother-son relationship, minnesota, juvenile fiction, fiction, horror fiction