SynopsisEver since his mentor'the original Demonkeeper? mysteriously disappeared, Nat has been in charge of the demons that live in his house. Most of them are just nuisances, but the Beast who lives in the basement is very dangerous. When Nat goes out one night, a clueless burglar breaks into the house and unwittingly sets the Beast free. Meanwhile, a vicious villain, the Thin Man, wants to use the Beast for his own evil purposes. Can Nat defeat the Thin Man and return the Beast to the basement without any major casualties?, Demons are all around usmost of them are relatively harmless, like the ones that go bump in the night or make you stub your toe. But some are dangeroussome can kill. Since he was orphaned as a boy, Nat has been trained by his aged mentor Daliwahl to be a demonkeeper, controlling a menagerie of demons in their old, rickety house in Seattle. But now Dahliwahl is gone and Nat is on his own. Keeping demons isnt a very social activity, and when Nat goes on a date with Sandy, a junior librarians assistant, its a disaster in more ways that onewhile Nats out, a very scary demon called the Beast escapes. Can Nat get the Beast back to the house and make things right with Sandyand do it all by himself? With its fast-paced action, slapstick humor, and a winning, unlikely hero, "Demonkeeper" is a high-spirited romp that will keep readers glued to the page., When Nat, the weirdest boy in Seattle, leaves for a date with the plainest girl in town, chaos breaks out in the houseful of demons of which he is the sole guardian.
LC Classification NumberPZ7.B879857Dem 2007