CLAIM YOUR NAME

A word about you is not a verdict on you. A lot of people saying it does not make it truer. It makes it louder.
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The Monster Keepers I · C · A · N · ! Book 2 of 5 · out now
Some monsters only kids can see. This one, everybody helped make.

Nobody said it first.Everybody says it.

Book Two of The Monster Keepers. Sam's crew already know how to starve a monster. Nobody told them what to do about a word — because a word doesn't feed on the kid it lands on. It feeds on everybody else.

First — the three thoughts
  • It's just a joke. Everyone says it. Why am I the one who can't take it?
  • Nobody started it. So there's nobody to go to, and nothing to actually report.
  • If this many people are saying it, maybe some of it's true.
All three of those thoughts are normal, and none of them are evidence. This is a story for anybody who has done the maths on the third one at two in the morning and not liked the answer.

Three weeks after everything in Book One finished, nothing happens at all. No cold. No claw marks. Twenty-one quiet days, which is exactly what winning looks like — and also exactly what somebody else's preparation looks like.

Then, on a Monday, a word nobody has ever heard before is in every mouth in the school by lunchtime. Not shouted. Not written anywhere. Just said — in corridors, at the hatch, on the stairs — by people who could not tell you where they got it.

And at seven minutes past four in the morning, an account with no name and no face — a blank grey circle where a photograph goes — posts one word to nobody at all.

Sam, Theo and June go looking for whoever started it, the way you would. Nine hundred and four kids in that building. Not one of them said it first. Which is the moment the case stops being a hunt and turns into something much worse: a thing with no author, that everyone is carrying, that nobody thinks they're doing.

A word about you is not a verdict on you. A lot of people saying it does not make it truer. It makes it louder.From the book's own real-life page
The rule that stops working

"Starve it, and it shrinks." That worked in Book One, because the thing was eating one kid's reaction. A word is not eating you. Ignoring it changes nothing at all, and everybody who has tried it already knows that.

The rule they find instead

A word comes off you when you say your own name, out loud, in your own mouth — and somebody says it back, and there are people about. It works. Then it doesn't. Then nobody can work out why.

Why this one lands Book 2 · ages 10–14 · 12 chapters
The rumour you can't report

There's no name to give a teacher, no message to screenshot, nothing that broke a rule. Book Two is about the kind that has no author — the hardest kind to prove and the easiest kind to survive alone.

The four I·C·A·N moves

See it clearly. Know your worth. Make your move. Never go it alone. They're in the story, not in a lecture — and nobody gets one right first go.

The person who joined in

Nearly everybody in this book passed the word along without meaning anything by it. The story takes that seriously instead of picking a villain, and it does not let anybody off either.

The real pages

Three pages in this book are not a story and say so: one at the front, one in the middle, and a Help Page with real people on it in a lot of countries. They are written plainly, and they are not hidden at the back where nobody looks.

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The Keeper's casebook Five books · five letters · the spines spell it
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C
A
N
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I
I See You Book 1
Sam looks out of a bus window and sees something the size of a fridge eating off the boy behind him. Nobody else looks up. It notices him noticing.
C
Claim Your Name You are here
One word. Nine hundred mouths. No author. And an account with no face posting at 4:07 every morning to nobody at all. The crew's only method stops working on page one.
A
Act Normal Book 3
A thing that stopped, all over a building, in the same minute — and nobody called it off. A room swept from the inside. And Cass, who has answered every question anybody has thought to ask her, except the one nobody can finish.
N
Never Alone Book 4
The scariest thing in the whole series isn't fighting anything and isn't running anywhere. It's telling people. Out loud. On purpose. To their faces.
!
I Can! Book 5
Everything the Keepers have collected since page one of Book One turns out to have been pointing at the same place. Bring a torch.

Nobody in this book becomes brave. Sam is scared the whole way through and says so. June writes everything down because she doesn't trust anybody's memory, including her own. Theo is wrong, loudly, more than once, and keeps going anyway. Nobody claps when they finally manage the thing. They just do it with their voice shaking, in front of people, and find out it counts anyway.Loud and true are two different things.

Start with Chapter One. Free. Twenty-one quiet days, a bus stop, and a word that isn't in any dictionary — read it before you decide.
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The Monster Keepers · Book 2 · Claim Your Name · a novel by Timothy Helliwell
Grounded in ICAN Practical Psychology, created by Prof. CK Wong, JP.
If somebody is hurting you or making you feel unsafe, that is not a story and it is not yours to sort out alone — tell a trusted adult today. Every book in this series carries a Help Page with real services on it.
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