Monster Mia

Twelve-year-old Mia and her scruffy pet rat Quentin are packed off to Rotwood Academy, a creepy school full of real monsters, and must keep her human identity secret while the vice principal hunts for outsiders. Monster Mia follows Mia, a twelve-year-old girl whose repeated trouble at ordinary school lands her and her pet rat Quentin at the mysterious Rotwood Academy. The place immediately gives her the creeps: every classmate appears to be some kind of creature, and the halls feel designed for beings who are not human. Mia quickly realizes she has to pass as one of them or risk exposure. She studies the routines, sticks close to Quentin, and searches for any exit before the other students notice she does not belong. Vice principal Van Vlad makes the stakes personal; he openly despises humans and seems alert to anything that does not fit the academy’s rules. Mia’s early days become a ten
