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by Patrick Ness
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Availability:In StockContributor:Patrick Ness, Jim Kay (Illustrator)Audience:Young AdultPublish date:2011-09-15Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Candlewick Press (MA)ISBN-13:9780763655594ISBN-10:763655597UPC:9780763655594Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Social Themes, Monsters, FamilyBook Topic:Death, Grief, Bereavement, ParentsAward:2011 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist - Young Adult Literature Award|2011 Cybils Finalist - Fantasy/Sci-Fi/ELM/Midgr Award|2012 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens Recommended - Fourteen and Up Award|2012 Indies Choice Book Awards Honor Book - Young Adult Award|2012 Texas Lone Star Reading List Commended - Young Adult Award|2013 Kentucky Bluegrass Award Nominee - Grades 6-8 Award|Isinglass Teen Read Award Nominee - Grades 6-8 Award|2014 Georgia Children's Book Award Nominee - Children's Book Award|2014 Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee - Ages 12 & Up Award|2014 Charlotte Award Nominee - Middle School/Grades 6-8 Award|2016 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award Nominee - Grades 4-8 AwardSize:8.30 x 6.60 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SCFGVF5KBR
The #1 New York Times bestseller

An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor.

At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. 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 monster in his backyard is different. It's 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Candlewick Press (MA)ISBN-13:9780763655594ISBN-10:763655597UPC:9780763655594Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:Social Themes, Monsters, FamilyBook Topic:Death, Grief, Bereavement, ParentsAward:2011 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist - Young Adult Literature Award|2011 Cybils Finalist - Fantasy/Sci-Fi/ELM/Midgr Award|2012 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens Recommended - Fourteen and Up Award|2012 Indies Choice Book Awards Honor Book - Young Adult Award|2012 Texas Lone Star Reading List Commended - Young Adult Award|2013 Kentucky Bluegrass Award Nominee - Grades 6-8 Award|Isinglass Teen Read Award Nominee - Grades 6-8 Award|2014 Georgia Children's Book Award Nominee - Children's Book Award|2014 Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee - Ages 12 & Up Award|2014 Charlotte Award Nominee - Middle School/Grades 6-8 Award|2016 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award Nominee - Grades 4-8 AwardSize:8.30 x 6.60 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SCFGVF5KBR
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.
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)

Awards

🏆 2011 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist - Young Adult Literature Award|2011 Cybils Finalist - Fantasy/Sci-Fi/ELM/Midgr Award|2012 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens Recommended - Fourteen and Up Award|2012 Indies Choice Book Awards Honor Book - Young Adult Award|2012 Texas Lone Star Reading List Commended - Young Adult Award|2013 Kentucky Bluegrass Award Nominee - Grades 6-8 Award|Isinglass Teen Read Award Nominee - Grades 6-8 Award|2014 Georgia Children's Book Award Nominee - Children's Book Award|2014 Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee - Ages 12 & Up Award|2014 Charlotte Award Nominee - Middle School/Grades 6-8 Award|2016 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award Nominee - Grades 4-8 Award

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Patrick Ness, Jim Kay (Illustrator)

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Patrick Ness

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