Monster Calls

Inspired by an Idea from Siobhan Dowd

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Jim Kay, Patrick Ness: Monster Calls (2011, Candlewick Press)

224 pages

English language

Published Sept. 7, 2011 by Candlewick Press.

ISBN:
978-0-7636-5633-1
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A brilliant, graphic novel written by young but promising Patrick Ness. This is the story about 13 year old Conor and his mother who is dying of cancer. Conor has to face the cruelty of real life and learn to let his close and dearest go. When no human can help him Monster appears...

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Subjects

  • Children's fiction
  • Monsters, fiction
  • Mothers and sons, fiction
  • Schools, fiction
  • Single-parent families, fiction
  • England, fiction
  • Grief, fiction
  • Cancer, fiction