A Monster Calls by Ness Patrick
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...
Patrick Ness is the author of the Chaos Walking trilogy for which he has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the Costa Children's Book Award. He was also twice shortlisted for the Carnegie medal. Patrick has written two other books for adults and is a literary critic for the Guardian. He lives in London. Siobhan Dowd lived in Oxford with her husband, Geoff, before tragically dying from cancer in August 2007, aged 47. She was both an extraordinary writer and an extraordinary person.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781406311525 |
| ISBN 10 | 1406311529 |
| Title | A Monster Calls |
| Author | Ness Patrick |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Walker Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2011-05-05 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Winner of Kate Greenaway Medal 2012, Winner of Carnegie Medal 2012, Winner of Galaxy National Book Awards: National Book Tokens Children's Book of the Year 2011 |
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