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A Monster Calls

Patrick Ness · 2011

204 pages

Thirteen-year-old Conor is visited at night by a monster shaped like a yew tree, who promises to tell him three stories in exchange for a fourth, one Conor must tell himself. Meanwhile his mother is ill, and Conor struggles with grief, anger and guilt.

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Coming of Age, Magical Realism, Melancholic

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