A snake monster is putting the SQUEEZE on the Super Secret Monster Patrol!

Pick a book. Grow a Reader!

This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers.

With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina.

Branches books help readers grow!In this second book of the series, construction equipment and machine parts are going missing all over Stermont!

Then an entire playground disappears! Could a monster be to blame?

The Super Secret Monster Patrol will need to stop this crafty monster FAST -- before the whole town falls apart!

About the Author 

Troy Cummings has been drawing since he was a little kid. His illustrations have appeared in newspapers and magazines, on websites, on frozen-fish-stick packages, and in hospital waiting rooms.

His picture books include The Eensy Weensy Spider Freaks Out!, More Bears!, and Giddy-Up, Daddy! The Notebook of Doom was his first early chapter book series.

He lives in Indiana with his cat and family.