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Levi and Kat are making a documentary about these mystery snowmen who appeared all over town seemingly overnight. I loved reading through all of the evil shenanigans. This was a good mix of mystery and creepy - definitely would recommend for upper elementary.

I didn't realize this was the second book in the No Place for Monsters series - No Place for Monsters is on our 2022-2023 Bluebonnet List, so I will definitely be checking that out as well!

Here is another installment of the series No Place for Monsters following Kat and Levi and the hell mouth that is there small town in this case they are dealing with the King Boojum that is leaving weird snowman all over town in people’s yards that keep popping up overnight. They end up trapped in their school during a freak snowstorm that is really the King coming to harvest all the kids and start testing Kat, Levi and their friends with games to weed out the prizes for the head monster. This was a really fun read and I loved seeing all new monsters that they are fighting and the book was set up like a case file set up by Sinistral which was very X-Files which I really enjoyed. Just a really fun read and can’t wait for the next adventure.

Thanks to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's Book Group and Netgalley for the complimentary copy of this book in e-book form. All opinions in this review are my own.

Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this young reader's fiction book. I didn't know that this was a second installment but it can be read as a standalone in my opinion. I think this book was a good combination of suspense and mystery/crime fiction for young readers. It is age appropriate and also provides some challenge to the middle grade reader, not too childish and not too frightening/inappropriate. Good for a classroom or library addition.

School of Phantoms is the delightful second book in the No Place for Monsters series by Kory Merritt. Like the first book, the illustrations perfectly complement the text. This is exactly the type of book I would have loved as a child--frightening yet full of character. The creepy snowmen really freaked me out But I loved the return of Willow.

To begin the book, Levi and Kat are making a documentary film about hundreds of snowmen that suddenly appeared overnight. They think it's related to the Boojum (the bad guy they defeated in the first book) possibly coming back. But of course, since no one remembers the Boojum except Levi, Kat, and Twila, no one believes there is a danger. But when a blizzard occurs and the entire school is snowed in, the evil shenanigans really begin.