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A monster calls

Ness, Patrick 1971- (author.). Dowd, Siobhan. (Added Author).

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780763680817
  • ISBN: 0763680818
  • Physical Description: print
    225 pages ; 20 cm
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Previously published in 2011 with illustrations. This edition lacks illustrations.
"Includes a book group discussion guide"--Page [4] of cover.
"Soon to be a major motion picture"--Cover.
Awards Note:
Kate Greenaway Medal 2012; Carnegie Medal Award 2012.
Subject: Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
Monsters -- Juvenile fiction
Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction
Schools -- Juvenile fiction
Single-parent families -- Juvenile fiction
Breast -- Cancer -- Juvenile fiction
Loss (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
England -- Fiction
Breast -- Cancer
Loss (Psychology)
Monsters
Mothers and sons
Schools
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Single-parent families
England
Genre: Fiction.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library YA F NES (Text) DCL152342 Young Adult Volume hold Available -
Pouce Coupe Public Library F NES (Text) 35333000307482 Fiction Volume hold Available -

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Patrick Ness is the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling Chaos Walking trilogy. He has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, and the 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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