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A Monster Calls

By Patrick Ness, Jim Kay (Illustrator), Siobhan Dowd (Creator)

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| Hardcover | 9781406311525

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The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn’t the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming... The monsterContinue

The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn’t the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming... The monster in his back garden, though, this monster is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth. Costa Award winner Patrick Ness spins a tale from the final idea of much-loved Carnegie Medal winner Siobhan Dowd, whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself. Darkly mischievous and painfully funny, A Monster Calls is an extraordinarily moving novel of coming to terms with loss from two of our finest writers for young adults.

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  • A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness: review

    Put simply, A Monster Calls is the tale of Conor O'Malley, a 13-year-old boy who is repeatedly visited by a monster while his mother is dying. Patrick Ness has taken an original story from the brilliant writer Siobhan Dowd, who died of breast cancer ... (read full critics)

    telegraph.co.uk published on Wed, 14 Dec 2011

  • 'A Monster Calls' by Patrick Ness

    'A Monster Calls' By Patrick Ness, illustrated by Jim Kay Candlewick, $16.99, ages 10-14 Patrick Ness' "Chaos Walking" trilogy, completed in 2010, established his strength as a dystopian chronicler, but this story is firmly rooted — a plant metaphor ... (read full critics)

    chicagotribune published on Sat, 15 Oct 2011

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 224 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 1406311529
  • ISBN-13: 9781406311525
  • Publisher: Walker
  • Pub date: May 05, 2011
  • Also available as: Others
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