The Last Monster

-- The Last Monster € Sofia has never felt special. Not at school, or with her track team, and especially not since she's become sick. She's always been different, but this doesn't€make her stand out ... it's makes her invisible.€Then something special lands right in Sofia's lap. An ancient book that serves as a portal for the Greek philosopher, Xeno, one of Aristotle's lost students. Sofia has been chosen to be the next Guardian. Suddenly Sofia is not only trying to survive middle-school cliques and first crushes, she's in charge of protecting grotesquely beautiful, lonely monsters that have roamed the Earth for centuries. Drawn into Xeno's violent and unpredictable world of mystery, Sofia learns that loving outsiders has a price. -- "Garrett's prose, frequently poignant and sophisticated, is punctuated with wry humor."--Kirkus€ -- From the Hardcover edition.