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"Where There Be Monsters" by Alby C. Williams is a great book for young readers. It's a fantastic introduction to the fantasy/magic world, and I feel it's very age-appropriate for middle schoolers and even elementary schoolers who read at a middle school level. The representation of a young Black girl doing magic is strong, and I love it. For this to be Alby C. Williams' debut fantasy novel, with adventures filled with monsters, magic, mysteries, and mischief, she did an amazing job! I will definitely allow my daughter to listen to the audiobook and read the book.

The audiobook is great, and the narrator, Tyla Collier, did a great job telling the story and bringing it to life! She was easy to listen to and understand. Listened at 2x speed.

Glory Brown is desperate for adventure far from her family’s quaint, quiet life at The Light Inn. Generations of Browns have been stewards of this humble hotel, which acts as a sanctuary in the stretch of monster-filled land called the Seam. But Glory wants nothing more than to learn how to use her Moxie, a special magic only kids have, and to train to become a Spherinaut like her mother, exploring and documenting the perilous depths of the Outersphere.

When a mysterious boy named Marcus appears one day on a top-secret mission for the Parliamentarium – the school for aspiring Spherinauts – Glory packs up her beloved books and sets off on a once-in-a-lifetime journey that will shuttle her across time and space…and reveal new dangers lurking in the worlds beyond the Seam.

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•middle school
•black fantasy
•magical

Thank you, NetGalley, and MacmillanAudio for the audiobook in exchange for my honest review.