A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

The monster showed up 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 nightmare he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming.

This monster, though, is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth.

Patrick Ness spins a tale from the final story idea of 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 about coming to terms with loss from two of our finest writers for young adults.

Compelling.powerful and impressive. --Philip Pullman, author of the award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy

Exceptional.this is storytelling as it should be--harrowing, lyrical, and transcendent. --Meg Rosoff, author of the Printz Award-winning novel How I Live Now

Brilliant and elegant, with all the thrills and ambition you would expect from the author of the Chaos Walking trilogy. --Frank Cottrell Boyce, award-winning author of Millions and Cosmic

Haunting, lyrical, powerful, and true. Patrick Ness has crafted a masterful story about grief and loss, love and hope that lingers in the heart like a ghost. --Libba Bray, author of the Printz Award-winning novel Going Bovine

Patrick Ness is the author of A Monster Calls, More Than This, The Rest of Us Just Live Here, and the critically acclaimed and best-selling Chaos Walking trilogy. He has twice been awarded the prestigious Carnegie Medal and has received numerous other awards, including a Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a Book Trust Teenage Prize, and a 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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ISBN 13	9780763660659
ISBN 10	0763660655
Title	A Monster Calls
Author	Patrick Ness
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Candlewick Press,U.S.
Year published	2013-03-12
Number of pages	224
Prizes	Short-listed for Green Mountain Book Award 2014
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