Patrick Ness

A Monster Calls

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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 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. The hardback edition of A Monster Calls (ISBN 9781406311525) contains astonishing illustrations throughout by Jim Kat. The e-book edition…
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120 printed pages
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  • Ninashared an impression3 years ago
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    A very warm story

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    Muy bueno!

  • Lulu Lulushared an impression5 years ago
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    You have to be so brave to become like connor o'malley 😥😭

Quotes

  • thebookishomehas quoted8 years ago
    Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
  • thebookishomehas quoted8 years ago
    There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere inbetween.
  • fitrianahas quoted8 years ago
    Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

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