Monster Locker

In this first volume of a thrilling middle grade graphic novel series, a sixth-grader named Pablo discovers his locker is a portal to the realm of monsters!

For hundreds of years, something in the basement of Glenfield Middle School has waited for its chance to open a portal into the realm of monsters. Now its time has come, and the school is going to need a hero. Pablo Ortiz . . . isn’t that guy. All he wants to do is lie low and get through middle school in one piece. So when Pablo accidentally opens the portal and summons a vengeful Aztec goddess, he’ll need the butt-kicking skills of his new friends and the wisdom passed down by his abuela to take her on.

Jorge Aguirre is an author and two-time Emmy-nominated animation writer. He cocreated and wrote the graphic novel series The Chronicles of Claudette. The New York Times called the first book in the series, Giants Beware!, a ＂rollicking fun story.＂ It also received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and was a nominee for a Texas Bluebonnet Award. He wrote the book Call Me Iggy and is working on its sequel. A Colombian American born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, Jorge calls the great state of New Jersey home.

Andrés Vera Martínez is a cartoonist, author, and illustrator from Texas. He adapted and illustrated Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan as a graphic novel for Scholastic Graphix. He cowrote and illustrated LittleWhiteDuck: AChildhoodinChina with Na Liu. The graphic memoir received starred reviews from Kirkus, the Horn Book Magazine, and School Library Journal. His work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators, the Junior Library Guild, Slate Cartoonist Studio, NPR, and the New York Times. Andrés now resides in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, with his wife and two children.