Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror by Jennifer Finney Boylan

Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror by Jennifer Finney Boylan

"You're a monster.

All the children here are monsters.

This is the Academy for Monsters."

Falcon Quinn and his neighbors, Max and Megan, board bus #13 for school on an ordinary day in Maine. Only the bus doesn't take its ordinary route, and the friends soon find themselves in an extraordinary place--on Shadow Island, at the Academy for Monsters.

With a student body stranger than the cast of any monster movie, the academy is home to creatures of all kinds. Falcon has always felt different, with his one bright blue eye and one shadow-black eye, but will he discover the other thing that makes him different when he finds himself in the Black Mirror? And when he learns that the school's mission is to teach students to hide their monster natures, Falcon and his friends need to find a way to fight back.

Bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan introduces Falcon and his band of monster friends in this first installment of a hair-raising and sidesplitting adventure of monstrous proportions.

Professor Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of more than a dozen books, is the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University. Her column Men & Women appears on the op/ed page of the New York Times on alternate Wednesdays.

She serves on the Board of Trustees of PEN America. From 2011 to 2018 she served on the Board of Directors of GLAAD and also provided counsel for the TV series Transparent and I Am Cait. Her 2003 memoir, She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders was the first bestselling work by a transgender American.

A novelist, memoirist, and short story writer, she is also a nationally known advocate for human rights. She lives in New York City, and in Belgrade Lakes, Maine, with her wife, Deedie. They have a son, Sean and a daughter, Zai.