Beast Friends Forever: Meet the Beast

By Nate Evans and Vince Evans

Featuring beastly fun comic strips inside!

Is there a monster living under your bed?

Meet Otto! Zeke and Hannah's new best friend—even if he is a beast.

It's up to Zeke and his sister to keep this mini-monster out of their candy, out of their school…and out of trouble! Will they be able to keep him a secret? Will the school bully discover why he's swinging upside down from the basketball hoop in his underpants? More importantly, what does Otto want with Hannah's dolls?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Release date: Oct 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9781402258060

Book preview

BFF

The Atlantic Ocean.

Somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle…

This is the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Viking.

It’s over three football fields long.

It weighs 101,000 tons.

It’s a big ship.

And right now it’s in big trouble!

Meanwhile, belowdecks, a man is packing a cardboard box. He doesn’t know about the storm and the danger outside. He is thinking about his kids. They are very far away and he misses them.

Suddenly a siren sounds! WHOOOOT! WHOOOOT!

The man gasps, A plane is in trouble! Then he scrambles out the cabin door.

He leaves the package sitting open on his bunk.

He doesn’t know that this box is about to change everything…

CHAPTER 1

What Stinks?

Today stinks! thought Zeke…Stinks in a big way, like…walrus burps!

Zeke sat at the back of the old school bus as it rumbled along. He watched the crazy houses in his neighborhood roll past the window.

Most of the people that lived in his town loved the ocean, just like Zeke’s dad. He was in the navy and worked on an aircraft carrier.

Zeke sighed when the bus chugged by a house shaped like a submarine. It had been Jimbo’s home until yesterday.

Jimbo was Zeke’s best friend. And they had lots of awesome plans. First, they were going to build go-carts and race down Dead-Man’s Ditch. But Jimbo, who always had wild and crazy ideas, decided they should build a rocket ship instead! They were going to be the first nine-year-olds in outer space.

Jimbo already knew how to make real smoke bombs. How much tougher could it be to build a rocket? Zeke knew it would be super cool!

Then Jimbo’s dad got a new job in a new town. And Jimbo moved away. Just like that.

Zeke scowled. He couldn’t build a rocket by himself. And Dad was gone for six months again—far away, somewhere at sea. When you worked on an aircraft carrier you were gone a lot.

Reviews for Beast Friends Forever

[autumnblues · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Otto helps deal with bullying in a magically constructive manner. Beast Friends Forever Book 2 is an adorable mix of a comic book and children's short story with energetic engaging action based illustrations that makes a great summer read for kdis 9 and under. The main characters are Zeke and Hannah a brother and sister duel who have a creature friend, pet, playmate named Otto. Otto showed up one day in a box of candy that their Navy bound father sent them in the mail. Otto is the cutest little furry thing you will ever meet who speaks those adorable short-word sentences a 2 year old would speak. But don't take Otto to be boring as he has powers, even if he doesn't quite yet know how to control them, but Zeke and Hannah find immensely interesting. Who knew you could trade that old junk in your room for awesome treasures. Zeke and Hannah do and they know when Otto touches them while shouting out the magic word, magical things happen. I found this to be a unique story and the characters mix well. The book also deals with bullying in a constructive way by adding other characters into the magical mix. One of those other interesting characters in the book is a boy named Sal. Sal is the neighborhood bully and Otto tries to help Zeke and Hannah take control of the situation when Sal decides to push his weight around. Beast Friends Forever is book 2 in the series for the Evans brothers and reading it out of order does not take anything away from the story itself. The book is for ages 7 and up, although I would recommend it for ages 7-10.