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A Monster Calls Bound for Schoo Edition
Contributor(s): Ness, Patrick (Author), Kay, Jim (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0606316035     ISBN-13: 9780606316033
Publisher: Turtleback Books
OUR PRICE:   $20.83  
Product Type: Prebound - Other Formats
Published: March 2013
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Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Juvenile Fiction | Family - Parents
- Juvenile Fiction | Monsters
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 730
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.5" W x 8.1" (1.27 lbs) 204 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Death/Dying
- Topical - Family
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 147163
Reading Level: 4.8   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 5.0
 
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Publisher Description:
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.