MISFIT MANSION SERIES
A spooky-sweet series following an excitable blue monster girl named Iris and her foster home of “horrors,” their adventures together, and the meaning of family.
Despite her monstrous appearance, Iris has never felt like she belongs in a mansion filled with kelpies and gorgons and unicorns. She longs to find a family. Unfortunately, she and her housemates are trapped in a “foster home for horrors” run by former paranormal investigator Mr. Halloway. So, when a human boy named Mathias breaks the house’s sealing spell, Iris and her companions are set free upon the town of Dead End Springs.
What Iris doesn’t know is that Mathias is also a paranormal hunter (the kind who seeks to capture and destroy the horrors), or that there are other dangers ahead. As Iris searches for a home, she makes human friends, explores a brand-new world…and stumbles upon a dark secret that Halloway has kept locked in the basement of the house. Will this long-slumbering mystery destroy the family Iris so desperately seeks?
Misfit Mansion is an ALA Indie Next 2023 book, a part of the ALA Round Table Best Graphic Novels for Children list and the Little Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List. It is also a nominee for the Nene Award (HI), the Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (MD), and the Sunshine State Young Readers Award, Grades 3-5 List (FL). Both books were selected as Junior Library Guild Gold Selection books.
Books published by Atheneum (S&S) in 2023 and 2026. Logo design by Karyn Lee.
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"A cartoonishly adorable monster cast populate the brightly colored pages of this uplifting tale. Through earnest and optimistic depictions of found family dynamics, Davault presents the ups and downs of relationships while emphasizing openness, communication, and acceptance."
– Publishers Weekly, 5/22/23
"The charming, stylized art is set in pleasingly muted colors and dynamic layouts that keep the eyes moving from scene to scene...It's fun to imagine a world where humans and fantasy creatures exist in harmony, and Davault has done just that."
– Booklist, 7/1/23
"Readers who like their monsters cute as well as scary are in for a treat, as Davault fills her panels and montages with the (mostly) humanoid but variously horned, clawed, fanged, and multiheaded inhabitants of Mr. Halloway’s Home for Horrors...A warm play on the theme of inclusivity, with horrors more huggable than otherwise."
– Kirkus Reviews, 5/15/23