A Monster Calls: Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd
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A New York Times bestseller!
Patrick Ness’s Carnegie Medal–winning masterwork is poised to attract a discerning crossover audience.
The monster in Conor’s backyard is not the one he’s been expecting — the one from the nightmare he’s had every night since his mother started her treatments. This monster is 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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The monster in Conor’s backyard is not the one he’s been expecting — the one from the nightmare he’s had every night since his mother started her treatments. This monster is ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Seth drowns, desperate and alone. But then he wakes. Naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. And where is he? The street seems familiar, but everything is abandoned, overgrown, covered in dust. He remembers dying… Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd Hewitt can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. In the midst of the chaos, he knows that the town is hiding something from him — something awful. Todd and Viola face their worst enemy and are forced to live apart. Torn by confusion and compromise, suspicion and betrayal, can their trust in each other possibly survive? Read the riveting sequel! As a world-ending war surges around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. Becoming adults amid the turmoil, they question all they have known, racing through horror and outrage toward a shocking finale. Monitor lizard Zeke just became hall monitor and he’s given up on popularity with his mammal classmates. But when he gets on the wrong side of international supervillain Pelicarnassus, will Zeke be the hero that the school needs? A BRAND NEW SERIES!
Publisher : Candlewick; Reprint edition (March 12, 2013)
Language : English
Paperback : 224 pages
ISBN-10 : 0763660655
ISBN-13 : 978-0763660659
Reading age : 11+ years, from customers
Lexile measure : 730L
Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
Dimensions : 6.44 x 0.56 x 8.19 inches
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