Sea Monster Cove High School Combines Academics with Entertainment

It’s been 27 years since Steve Alten’s first release, MEG: A Novel of Deep Terror, made its hardback debut, surfacing on every bestseller list, including the NY Times. But it was not until the mass-market paperback came out in the spring of 1998 that Alten’s page-turner found its true audience.       
“I became inundated with hundreds of emails from high school students, who were all basically telling me the same thing … ‘Mr. Alten, I HATE reading, but I LOVE MEG,’” Alten recalled. “Teachers were next, emailing me about catching students sneak-reading my novel in the library … ‘I didn’t think they knew we even had a library.’"