FADE IN: INTERIOR: Early morning in CELL BLOCK D, MANHATTAN DETENTION CENTER. Steve (Voice-Over) Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll cal...l it what the lady prosecutor called me ... Monster.
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9780064407311 |
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HarperCollins Publishers |
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Paperback |
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
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Winner of ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults (United States).
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Winner of ALA Booklist Editors' Choice (United States).
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Winner of ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (United States).
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Winner of Book Sense Pick (United States).
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Winner of Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book (United States).
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| NZ Review |
Myers grapples with complex moral questions that will definitely make readers stop and think. -- Booklist, Editors' Choice 1999The main character is a teenage boy accused of having participated in a crime that ended in murder, but the intriguing moral questions at the root of this award-winning book cross age boundaries. -- Booklist April 1, 2000 |
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Author's Bio
Michael L. Printz Award winner and Margaret A. Edwards Award recipient Walter Dean Myers is a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award. He is the author of Handbook for Boys; Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam; Monster; Bad Boy: A Memoir; and the Newbery Honor Books, Scorpions and Somewhere in the Darkness. He lives in Jersey City, NJ, with his family. You can visit Walter Dean Myers online at www.walterdeanmyersbooks.com.
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