· this is the UK version! · A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness is one book you will regret not reading. You may even tear up at the very end! A Monster Calls Summary. Buy Study Guide. The novel begins when a monster, formed from a yew tree, visits thirteen-year-old Conor O'Malley at seven minutes past midnight. Conor has just woken from a recurring nightmare in which his terminally ill mother's hands slip from his grasp. Despite the monster's imposing figure, Conor isn't afraid because it isn't the monster he truly fears—the one Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.
" ― Patrick Ness, quote from A Monster Calls "And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most." ― Patrick Ness, quote from A Monster Calls. The titular monster in A Monster Calls comes to Conor with a clear purpose: to tell him three stories, after which Conor will tell the monster one story of his own. Each of the stories that the monster relays bears similarities with Conor's life, and because of this he starts to expect that there is a clear-cut moral lesson to be learned at. Patrick Ness has 41 books on Goodreads with ratings. Patrick Ness's most popular book is A Monster Calls.
Darkly mischievous and painfully funny, A Monster Calls is an extraordinarily moving novel of coming to terms with loss from two of our finest writers for young adults, and the only book to win both the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medal. “Compelling powerful and impressive.”. Philip Pullman. “Electrifying.”. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness is one book you will regret not reading. You may even tear up at the very end!. Including an engaging screenplay by Patrick Ness, based upon the novel written by himself from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd. A devastating event happens in the life of a little boy, twelve-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall), as he seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mother's (Felicity Jones) terminal.
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