A Monster Calls

The best-selling book by twice-award Carnegie Medalist Patrick Ness about love, grief, and hope.

Ever since his mother's illness and the beginning of the seemingly ineffective therapies, Conor has been having the same dream every night. Tonight, however, is distinct. He wakes up to see someone at his window this evening. It is a force of nature, old, and elemental. And it wants Conor to do the most perilous thing of all. It seeks the reality.

Using the last concept of the late, acclaimed author Siobhan Dowd, Patrick Ness crafts a remarkable and tragic story about mischief, healing, and, most importantly, the will to live.