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    Zach Lopez vs. the Shadow Cats
    Zach Lopez vs. the Shadow Cats
    Zach Lopez vs. the Shadow Cats
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    Zach Lopez vs. the Shadow Cats

    By Tyler Champion and Justina Ireland

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    Zach Lopez has an identity crisis. Zach's friend has an evil double, and it's impossible for Zach to know who he can trust. Zach has lived in Devils' Pass long enough to know that the mysterious shapeshifters can only be monsters from the otherworld below the town. Worse, he discovers that there may be a larger evil coordinating the attacks from the Otherside. Zach and his friends need to keep the shapeshifters from taking over Devils' Pass-and enslaving all of humanity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateMay 15, 2020
    ISBN9781515887218
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      Zach Lopez vs. the Shadow Cats - Tyler Champion

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Cover

      Title Page

      The Loyal order of Helga

      Chapter One: Just a Normal Day?

      Chapter Two: The Loyal Order of Helga Takes Charge

      Chapter Three: A Purr-fect Plan

      Chapter Four: Too Cute

      Chapter Five: A Curious Kitty

      Chapter Six: Playing Cat and Mouse

      Chapter Seven: Chasing Tails

      Chapter Eight: Cat People

      Chapter Nine: Tiffany’s Time Out

      Chapter Ten: The Cat’s Meow

      Chapter Eleven: Herding Cats

      Chapter Twelve: The Queen Strikes Back

      Mr. Hofstrom’s Notebook

      Glossary

      You Should Talk

      Write On

      About the Author

      About the Illustrator

      Copyright

      Back Cover

      THE LOYAL ORDER OF HELGA

      Long, long ago, in a village called New Svalbard, the people who lived there faced unimaginable dangers. A sinkhole as old as time held a door — a portal — to the Otherside, a dark and dreadful place filled with literal nightmares.

      To warn travelers of the danger the village posed, the people renamed it Devils’ Pass — a reminder to all who lived there and passed through that a darkness sat in the area. A darkness that often had teeth.

      For years the people of Devils’ Pass endured the danger. Then Helga, one of the white settlers of the village, fell through the cursed sinkhole to the Otherside, coming face-to-face with the terrifying monsters. Helga spent many years there, fighting all sorts of monstrous creatures, learning about their ways and their weaknesses. Through trials and tribulations, and more than a little cunning, she became a fearsome warrior.

      Helga fought her way back to Devils’ Pass through the portal, now with an understanding of the deadly secrets of the Otherside. Almost immediately, her skills were put to the test. A fearsome frost giant menaced the village, crawling out of the sinkhole and terrorizing the people. Using only a flaming torch, Helga fought the giant and won. It was an astonishing act of bravery — but soon it was clear that the people of Devils’ Pass suffered from something else. The sinkhole made the people of the village forget that monsters lived there.

      Through some type of magic, however, not all of them forgot. Those who remembered the perils and nightmares the sinkhole brought forth became the Loyal Order of Helga. Along with Helga, the people who remembered the danger vowed to protect Devils’ Pass — and the entire world — from the vicious monsters of the Otherside.

      CHAPTER ONE

      Just a Normal Day?

      Zach Lopez opened one eye and looked at his bedside clock. Fifteen minutes until his alarm went off. Fifteen blissful, delicious minutes to sleep. He’d been in the middle of a dream about a land full of candy and magical cookies when he’d heard the unmistakable sound of his younger sister, Lisa, in the middle of a full-fledged temper tantrum downstairs.

      But you promised, she whined, loud enough that the house seemed to shake from the force of her voice.

      Zach groaned and rolled over, pulling the pillow over his head. Even though his sister was in fourth grade, she sometimes acted like a baby when she didn’t get her way. And today was one of those times.

      The pillow stuffed over Zach’s head muffled the noise from downstairs, and Zach started to drift off a bit. He’d stayed up way too late the night before helping the rest of the Loyal Order of Helga defeat a group of nightmares that had been plaguing the town. They’d finally destroyed the last one a little after midnight, way past everyone’s bedtime.

      Zach’s alarm went off and he sighed loudly. Figures, he muttered as he dragged himself from the bed and into the bathroom. There was no use putting it off anymore; eighth grade wasn’t going to wait. Even worse, Zach could tell that it was going to be one of those days again, the kind of day where everything that could go wrong, did.

      As he brushed his teeth, Zach thought about how many normal days he’d had since his family moved to Devils’ Pass, Minnesota, from Los Angeles five months ago. Two? Maybe three. That’s what happened when you lived in a town with a portal to a world full of monsters.

      In the middle of the park in Devils’ Pass, there was a sinkhole that was fenced off to keep people from falling into it. The sinkhole was also how the monsters got into Devils’ Pass from the Otherside, a land populated by monstrous creatures. Zach and the rest of the Loyal Order of Helga were tasked with fighting those monsters. They kept the town safe from whatever terrible plans the creatures had for the hapless citizens. Creatures such as glitter unicorns and cookie elves. Of doom. Other than that, regular life was pretty easy, as long as there wasn’t a monster to fight.

      The problem was that there were always monsters to fight.

      Zach finished getting ready and grabbed his backpack before heading downstairs. He

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