A Monster Calls
About this book
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...
Subjects
- breast
- breast cancer
- bullying in schools
- cancer
- cancer, fiction
- children of cancer patients
- children's fiction
- children's nightmares
- death
- death & dying
- diseases
- england, fiction
- family
- fiction
- grief, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- loss (psychology)
- loss (psychology) in children
- monsters
- monsters, fiction
- mothers and sons
- mothers and sons, fiction
- mother-son relationship
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:young-adult-paperback=2016-08-28
- parents
- schools
- schools, fiction
- self-actualization (psychology)
- self-realization
- single-parent families
- single-parent families, fiction
- social themes
- young adult fiction