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The ''Falcon Quinn'' series is a series of children's fantasy novels by Jennifer Boylan, previously a writer for adults.

[[Character Name and ~~The~~ Noun Phrase|The titular Falcon]] is an almost-thirteen-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother in a small town in Maine. One day, on the freezing cold Spring Equinox, he nearly falls through the frozen pond in pursuit of his tuba. He doesn't think too much of it at first, and gets on the schoolbus with his classmates Max and Megan. But rather than winding up at school, they find themselves taken to a strange building with no architectural solidity, and are greeted by a strange woman who informs them that they're all monsters!

[[Character Name and the Noun Phrase|The titular Falcon]] is an almost-thirteen-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother in a small town in Maine. One day, on the freezing cold Spring Equinox, he nearly falls through the frozen pond in pursuit of his tuba. He doesn't think too much of it at first, and gets on the schoolbus with his classmates Max and Megan. But rather than winding up at school, they find themselves taken to a strange building with no architectural solidity, and are greeted by a strange woman who informs them that they're all monsters!

They've come to an Academy for Monsters, a place which seeks to educate them and their many fellow students about their monster nature... and how to repress it. Monsters, in addition to scaring humans, are hunted by the guardians--so-called "protectors" of humans. Of course, many monsters hold no love for humans, either. To top it all off, Falcon doesn't even know what kind of monster he ''is!'' Now he and his friends must make a choice: Do they stick with their cool new powers despite the odds, or do they try to blend in to survive?

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* [[Beware My Stinger Tail]]: Beware the poison of La Chupakabra, the famous goatsucker of Peru!

* [[Be Yourself]]

* [[Bigfoot Sasquatch and Yeti]]: Max is a sasquatch, and ''quite'' [[Boisterous Bruiser|proud of that fact]].

* [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti]]: Max is a sasquatch, and ''quite'' [[Boisterous Bruiser|proud of that fact]].

* [[Blessed ~~With~~ Suck]]: Destynee, who finds out that she is {{spoiler|a ''giant enchanted slug.''}} However, she does eventually figure out it's more [[Cursed ~~With~~ Awesome|blessed than suck.]]

* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Destynee, who finds out that she is {{spoiler|a ''giant enchanted slug.''}} However, she does eventually figure out it's more [[Cursed with Awesome|blessed than suck.]]

* [[Brain In A Jar]]: Quimby, though he's less a brain and more a strange, disembodied head.

* [[Brain In a Jar]]: Quimby, though he's less a brain and more a strange, disembodied head.

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Max!

* [[But Your Wings Are Beautiful]]: {{spoiler|How Weems feels about Destynee's slug form.}}

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** Jonny: "It's just this thing I can do."

** Mr. Slate: "Shaddap!"

* [[Character Name and ~~The~~ Noun Phrase]]

* [[Character Name and the Noun Phrase]]

* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: {{spoiler|Falcon's tuba-playing ability, which ressurrects his friends who were turned into music.}}

* [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Older Sisters]]: Megan's twin older sisters. {{spoiler|Actually, they've been at the Academy for a long time.}}

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** Similarly, Sparkbolt's poems, despite being written in the same [[Hulk Speak]], are considered to be quite eloquent by his Franken-peers.

* [[Enemy Within]]: {{spoiler|Falcon's guardian half. Or his monster half, if you look at things from the guardian point of view.}}

* [[Everything's Deader ~~With~~ Zombies]]

* [[Everything's Deader with Zombies]]

* [[Eye Beams]]: {{spoiler|Each of Falcon's eyes has a different kind. The black one has more typical [[Heat Vision]], while the blue one can [[Healing Factor|heal people, even from the brink of death.]]}}

* [[Feather Motif]]

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* [[The Masochism Tango]]: {{spoiler|Crow and Vega.}} "Has anybody ever told you two that you have the weirdest marriage ''ever?!''"

* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: Falcon has them, which, for a long while, is the only real sign of his monster-dom. {{spoiler|It's still not clear which of his eyes is his "monster" eye and which is his "guardian" eye. While it initially ''seems'' obvious that blue is guardian and black is monster, his black eye also seems to have a hatred for monsters and a guardian-esque lust for destruction, and in terms of [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]], Crow's fireballs are blue, like Falcon's healing powers. And healing is more fitting of an angelic nature than fireballs.}}

* [[Misunderstood Loner ~~With~~ a Heart of Gold]]: {{spoiler|It's debatable whether Crow is this or a more standard [[Loners Are Freaks]] example. On the one hand, he truly does seem to regret being separate from Falcon and his reasons for being trapped in the tower really do suck. On the other hand, he's shown to have no problems with [[Would Hurt a Child|threatening to kill children]] if their allegiance would waver. He's scary.}}

* [[Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold]]: {{spoiler|It's debatable whether Crow is this or a more standard [[Loners Are Freaks]] example. On the one hand, he truly does seem to regret being separate from Falcon and his reasons for being trapped in the tower really do suck. On the other hand, he's shown to have no problems with [[Would Hurt a Child|threatening to kill children]] if their allegiance would waver. He's scary.}}

* {{spoiler|[[The Mole]]}}: {{spoiler|Jonny.}}

* [[Monster Mash]]

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* [[Prison Break]]

* [[Psychic Dreams for Everyone]]

* [[Puppy Love]]: Many, [[In Universe]].

* [[Puppy Love]]: Many, [[In-Universe]].

* [[Raised By Grandparents]]: Falcon was raised by his grandmother. {{spoiler|His father can't leave a tower due to a curse and his mother's insane.}}

* [[Raised by Grandparents]]: Falcon was raised by his grandmother. {{spoiler|His father can't leave a tower due to a curse and his mother's insane.}}

* [[Ravens and Crows]]: Crow. Ya think?

* [[Secret Test of Character]]: {{spoiler|The Academy's first few weeks, to see who has the courage to remain a monster. However, given a few lines from Falcon's grandmother early on, the results of the test might be debatable...}}

* [[Shout Out]]: Zombies can gain powers by singing and dancing. [[Thriller|Hmmm...]]

* [[Shout-Out]]: Zombies can gain powers by singing and dancing. [[Thriller|Hmmm...]]

** There's a band that plays strange kinds of percussion. It's composed entirely of [[Blue Man Group|green men.]]

* [[Similar Squad]]: When Falcon ends up at {{spoiler|Guardian high school}} in the second book, he encounters a number of people who are ''eerily similar'' to the people he knows at the Academy. {{spoiler|Jonny reveals that this is because monsters all have a guardian counterpart, which sheds some new light on the [[Balance Between Good and Evil]] subplot.}}

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* [[The World Is Just Awesome]]: Pearl takes Falcon and Megan for a ride through the sky, which delights them both. {{spoiler|And foreshadows that they'll both be able to fly on their own soon.}}

* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: {{spoiler|Both Vega ''and'' Crow seem to have no problems with this, which ''highly'' distresses Falcon (seeing as they're his parents and all).}}

* [[Your Vampires Suck]]: Ms. Redflint does not think highly of vampires, and considers them walking superiority/inferiority complexes. What with the angst and the "[[Twilight (~~Literature~~)|Twilight]] brooding" and all.

* [[Your Vampires Suck]]: Ms. Redflint does not think highly of vampires, and considers them walking superiority/inferiority complexes. What with the angst and the "[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]] brooding" and all.