Miraculous Creatures Mistaken for Monsters
The story goes like this: On the morning of his fifth birthday, Gabe Gibbons awoke to discover his parents had packed their bags and took off in the middle of the night. They didn't leave a note conveying the rhyme or the reason for their departure, nor why they chose to abandon him. But they did have the decency to leave behind a birthday cake and a card on the kitchen counter, as well as a bizarre voicemail for Gabe's aunt and uncle, instructing them to swing by the apartment and pick him up at precisely two in the afternoon.
Since that day, well, Gabe has never given much thought as to why his parents disappeared. They just didn't want him. End of story. Or is it? When Gabe's aunt and uncle abruptly uproot them from their home in Brooklyn and buy a decrepit estate down in marshlands of Louisiana, he begins to believe there is more to the story. In the midst of his quest to uncover the truth, Gabe befriends a girl the locals call the Marsh Maven—who may or may have not have magical powers—and accepts a summer job at the eccentric Professor M.'s Secret Sanctuary for Mythical Creatures. In doing so, he is propelled into a far more monstrously complicated problem that can only be solved by uncovering what really happened on his fifth birthday.
Since that day, well, Gabe has never given much thought as to why his parents disappeared. They just didn't want him. End of story. Or is it? When Gabe's aunt and uncle abruptly uproot them from their home in Brooklyn and buy a decrepit estate down in marshlands of Louisiana, he begins to believe there is more to the story. In the midst of his quest to uncover the truth, Gabe befriends a girl the locals call the Marsh Maven—who may or may have not have magical powers—and accepts a summer job at the eccentric Professor M.'s Secret Sanctuary for Mythical Creatures. In doing so, he is propelled into a far more monstrously complicated problem that can only be solved by uncovering what really happened on his fifth birthday.