Billy Hooten, Owlboy
By: by Thomas E. Sniegoski ; [illustrations by Eric Powell].
Contributors: Powell, Eric, ill.
Publisher: Yearling
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780440421801; 9780385904025
Subjects: Heroes -- Fiction.; Monsters -- Fiction.; Cartoons and comics -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Unassuming twelve-year-old Billy Hooten, who loves reading superhero comic books, suddenly learns that he has been chosen to become the next Owlboy, whose destiny it is to save the inhabitants of Monstros, a city underneath the cemetery next to Billy's house.