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A Monster Calls
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A Monster Calls Prebound - 2013

by Patrick Ness; Jim Kay (Illustrator)

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From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd ("A Swift Pure Cry")Nwhose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herselfNcomes an unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor.

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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.

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  • Title A Monster Calls
  • Author Patrick Ness; Jim Kay (Illustrator)
  • Binding Prebound
  • Edition Turtleback Scho
  • Pages 204
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Turtleback Books
  • Publication date 2013-03-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780606316033 / 0606316035
  • Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 6.5 x 0.8 in (20.57 x 16.51 x 2.03 cm)
  • Age range 12 to 17 years
  • Grade levels 7 - 12
  • Reading level 730
  • Themes
    • Topical: Death/Dying
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Young Adult Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects England, Mothers and sons
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

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.
Jim Kay studied illustration and worked in the archives of the Tate Gallery and the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, two experiences that heavily influence his work. His images for A MONSTER CALLS use everything from beetles to breadboards to create interesting marks and textures. Jim Kay lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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