A Monster Calls
by Patrick Ness and Jim Kay
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- Grade
- 5-12
- Genre
- Science Fiction / Fantasy
Year Published 2011
Word Count 33,446
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 730L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.8
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 147163, 5 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Health
- Subject Headings
- Self-actualization (Psychology)
- Young Adult Fiction | Monsters
- Schools
- England
- Loss (Psychology)
- Cancer
- Breast cancer--Fiction
- Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Family | Parents
- Mothers and sons--Fiction
- Mothers and sons
- Single-parent families
- Single-parent families--Fiction
- Breast
- Monsters--Fiction
- Schools--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Loss (Psychology)--Fiction
- Monsters
- Breast cancer
- Young Adult Fiction
- England--Fiction
- Lists With This Book
- Death & Loss
- Sample: HMH Into Literature
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Awards & Distinctions 10
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Top 10 Selection, 2012
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Fiction Selection, 2011
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