A Monster Calls: Inspired by an Idea from Siobhan Dowd

A Monster Calls: Inspired by an Idea from Siobhan DowdPatrick Ness's #1 New York Times bestseller and 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

Patrick Ness's #1 New York Times bestseller and 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 03/12/2013
ISBN: 9780763660659
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.10h x 6.40w x 0.60d
Award: Green Mountain Book Award - Nominee
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 147163 / Monster Calls
Reading Level: 4.8 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 5