Books like The beastly visits by Mitra Modarressi

In the 24th century, Terran colonists arrive on Athshe, a lush planet inhabited by peaceful, dream‑oriented natives, and begin resource extraction and military occupation, sparking a rebellion that reshapes both worlds.

In NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel, Darling and her friends in the small Zimbabwean town of Paradise smile for strangers while navigating theft, charity gifts, and pop‑culture dreams of America and Britain.

High‑schooler Rafe returns to Hills Village Middle School, where he faces new challenges: special‑education classes, a reluctant football team, and the looming threat of his bully‑turned‑teammate. Determined to beat his past, he plans a bold art project and aims for both academic and athletic success.

Twins Jake and Lily's friendship is tested when one decides to hang out with a bully.

A young boy discovers he's the target of gossip at school and must find out who started the rumors.

Emily Windsnap, a twelve‑year‑old with a mermaid half of her genetics, discovers her true identity and battles a legendary sea monster that threatens her family and friends.

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When a class goldfish becomes the target of bullying, a friend must choose between friendship and being frozen out.

Posy, a curious rabbit, and Pip, a cheerful mouse, explore the world of monsters through a magical window.

A young boy's adventure with a monster friend in space school.

Griffin Bing and his friends rush to find a thirty‑million‑dollar lottery ticket and stop bully Darren Vader, while using one of Griffin’s newest inventions to help.

An account of famous monsters including the one at Loch Ness in Scotland, the Yeti or Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, and Bigfoot or Sasquatch of Canada and the Pacific Northwest.

"The beauty of the natural world lies in the details, and most of those details are not the stuff of calendar art," Natalie Angier writes in the introduction to The Beauty of the Beastly. "I have made it a kind of hobby, almost a mission, to write about organisms that many people find repugnant: spiders, scorpions, parasites, worms, rattlesnakes, dung beetles, hyenas. I have done so out of a perverse preference for subjects that other writers generally have ignored, and because I hope to inspire in readers an appreciation for diversity, for imagination, for the twisted, webbed, infinite possibility of the natural world. Every single story that nature tells is gorgeous." . She has taken pains to learn her science from the molecule up, finding "the very pulse of the machine" in everything from the supple structure of DNA to the erotic ways of barn swallows, queen bees, and the endangered, otherworldly primate called the aye-aye. Angier knows all that scientists know - and sometimes more - about the power of symmetry in sexual relations, about the brutal courting habits of dolphins, about the grand deceit of orchids, about the impact of female and male preference on evolution. She knows how scientists go about their work, and she describes their ways, their visions, and their arguments.

During the Blitz, young horticulturist Gwen Davis leaves London for Devon, where she meets Canadian officer Raley and free‑spirited Jane—two women who change her world as war reshapes their lives.

A story about Pinky defending his favorite color and friendship with a girl from the neighborhood bully.

Sixteen‑year‑old Anthony Witherspoon confronts the harsh realities of drug abuse in his Harlem neighborhood while balancing life at a Connecticut prep school.

Four friends fight monsters in a children's fantasy tale set in a world of trolls and supernatural elements.