Monster High: World's Scare #2

Hi, ghoulfriend. Frankie, Drac, Clawdeen, Cleo, and Lagoona are eekhausted after facing down the imps and their queen in Gossamer Grove to earn dream crystals—precious relics that grant their holder one wish each. But there’s no time to sleep like the dead. Sundown is here, and the ghouls have a long to-boo list: protest Gloom Tech, the nefarious organization funding the World’s Scare; create an award-winning invention; and find out just exactly who is looking into Frankenstein’s work now that he’s no longer around to protect his legacy. First up, Frankie and her newly crowned lab assistant Drac will have to visit the mysterious Dr. Volts for a missing piece of their emotion modulator. But the ghoul only works at night…when it’s thunderstorming. Creepy much?

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