The Monster Keepers The Books 4 Moves For Grown-upsGrown-ups

A five-book adventure · Ages 8–14

THE MONSTERKEEPERS

Some monsters only kids can see.

  • I See You
  • ·
  • Claim Your Name
  • ·
  • Act Normal
  • ·
  • Never Alone
  • ·
  • I CAN!
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Something on the roof of your school has started counting.

Not sheep. Names.

The case files

Five books.
One word.

Each book hands you one move — and one more piece of who is doing the counting. Put the five letters together and you get the only word that matters.

ICover of I See You — a boy facing a large glowing green monster with one eye in a violet stairwell

Book One

I See You

Sam is the only one who can see them. Then the monsters stop eating and start writing names down.

Read Book 1 →
CCover of Claim Your Name — a glowing green monster and a small figure in a midnight teal-blue scene

Book Two

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.

Read Book 2 →
ACover of Act Normal — a glowing green monster in a dark school corridor of doorways

Book Three

Act Normal

Nine hundred students. Eleven doorways nobody walks through. And a boy who is in the building but on no list.

Read Book 3 →
NCover of Never Alone — four children standing together in front of a glowing doorway, a huge one-eyed monster behind them

Book Four

Never Alone

Some monsters are betting that you are on your own. Nobody is writing in the record book, and it keeps filling up anyway.

Read Book 4 →
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Coming soon

Book Five

I CAN!

Sealed. The last one is a whole sentence.

Not yet
The Monster Keepers complete series box set — all five titles listed under a huge glowing one-eyed monster watching a town at night

The complete case file

All five books. One box.

Every letter in order, nothing missing — the whole word from the first sighting to the last night on the roof. Sealed until Book Five lands.

Not yet

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I C A N
!I CAN!

Four small moves

It's a loop.
Not a to-do list.

  • IInsightStop, think, see it straight.
  • CConfirmationKnow who you are, name your goal.
  • AAbilityYou've got a move.
  • NNurtureFeel the win, grow — not alone.

When you get to N, you go straight back to I and run it again — a bit stronger each time. That is the whole trick, and there is no level to finish.

Fair warning

This book …

No homework.

It's a novel — a monster-detective adventure.

Don't react. Give it nothing.

Not being pulled is the most effective move there is — what the monsters eat is the distress. When your heart is hammering, "don't react" is the plan. (Unless someone puts hands on you — then it's zero tolerance, every time.)

Scared and strong were never opposites.

Sam is scared the whole way through. He does it anyway.

Keeper's kit

Some things only show up in the dark.

Switch the lights off and sweep the page with your torch. There are eight things written here you can't see right now.

Some monsters only kids can see.

Tap it. Or hold a mirror up. Your call.

Book 5 and the box set are still sealed

I CAN! finishes the word, and the five-book box follows it. Leave a grown-up's email and we'll say when they unlock.
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◆ For grown-ups ◆

More than half of
them never tell you.

Not because they don't trust you. Because telling costs something — and right now nothing in their hands feels worth the price. This series is built to change that arithmetic, inside a story they actually want to finish.

1 in 5US students aged 12–18 report being bullied at schoolNCES / StopBullying.gov
44%of them told an adult at school. The rest carried it alone.NCES / StopBullying.gov
46%of US teens 13–17 have faced at least one cyberbullying behaviourPew Research Center, 2022
89%exclusion is the most common form reported in UK dataDitch the Label, 2020

What you're up against

  • "If I tell, I'm a snitch — and it gets worse." The fear of retaliation beats the hope of rescue.
  • "I told a teacher. Nothing happened." One dead end and the child stops reporting for good.
  • "What did I do wrong?" Silent self-blame — the part that outlasts the bullying itself.
  • "We didn't see anything." Most of it happens where no adult is standing.

Why a novel, not a workbook

A child will not read a chapter called "Coping Strategies". They will read a book about a monster on the roof. So the method never appears as a lesson — it appears as the thing the characters do when they are out of options, and the reader picks it up the way they pick up how a magic system works.

The emotional pull of a story; the tools of a method; one voice; safe by design.

Usable in the hallway, the group chat, and inside their own head. What a child should be able to carry out of a book

Written with the safety architecture built in

Read This FirstA front page that sets the ground rules before chapter one.
When It's RealA mid-book page for harm that is not a story problem: tell a trusted adult, today.
The Help PageEvery volume closes with region-appropriate helplines — kept current online.
ReviewedChild-clinical and sensitivity review on the manuscript before release.

Nothing in these books asks a child to handle physical harm or threats alone. Where that line is crossed, the story does one thing only: tell a trusted adult, and keep telling until someone acts.

Grounded in ICAN Practical Psychology, created by Prof. CK Wong, JP.
Written for the child it is happening to, the child doing it, and everything that passes between them — at home, in class, and in the child's own head.

Read this first A note from Prof. CK Wong, JP Why children don’t tell, what the numbers actually say, and what works — in his own words. Read the note → The method About ICAN Practical Psychology The psychology under the story, and the man who built it. About the method → If it is happening now The Help Page Real helplines by country — checked, dated and kept current. Find help →
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If physical violence is happening right now — zero tolerance.

Tell a trusted adult straight away — a parent, a teacher, a school counsellor, the head teacher, even the police; anyone who will listen. Telling is not weakness and it is not a last resort; it is the smartest move there is. If someone has hurt you, or threatened to, that is not something to handle on your own, and it is not something to wait out. Every book in this series ends with the Help Page, and these are the lines on it.

The full Help Page — every country, kept current →

Emergency servicesUS & Canada 911 · UK 999 · Australia 000 · Singapore 999
988 — Suicide & Crisis LifelineUS · call or text 988, 24/7
Crisis Text LineUS · text HOME to 741741
ChildlineUK · 0800 1111, free and 24/7
Kids HelplineAustralia · 1800 55 1800, 24/7
Kids Help PhoneCanada · 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868
Tinkle FriendSingapore · 1800 274 4788, ages 13 and under, Mon–Fri afternoons
Samaritans of Singapore (SOS)Singapore · 1767, 24/7