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An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor.
At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting – he’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It’s ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd – whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself – Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, Jim Kay (Illustrator)
Patrick Ness is the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling Chaos Walking trilogy. He has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, and the Costa Children’s Book Award. Born in Virginia, he lives in London.
Siobhan Dowd spent twenty years as a human rights campaigner for PEN and Amnesty International before her first novel, A Swift Pure Cry, was published in 2006. She won the Carnegie Medal posthumously in 2009 after her death at the age of forty-seven.
ISBN-13: 9780763655594
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Publication date: 09/15/2011
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile: 730L
Age Range: 14 - 17 YearsBISAC Categories:
Book - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Death, Grief, Bereavement
Book - Young Adult Fiction | Monsters
Book - Young Adult Fiction | Family | Parents
LC Subjects:
-Self-actualization (Psychology) -Monsters
-Mothers and sons -Schools
-Single-parent families -Breast
-Cancer -Loss (Psychology)
-England -Breast cancer