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The Monster Calls

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The Monster Calls is filled with spellbinding truth. The plot centers around a boy named Conor O’Malley and the truth he fears. When his mother got cancer everybody started to treat him differently. Adults touched him with a feathered hand, students avoided him like a plague, and Harry threw knives that cut deep into his heart. He lied in the shadow of a disease and he hated it. Then, one night the Monster came walking and told him three stories that spoke the truth. Stories that were wild, scary, and listening to them felt like being cheated. Each story changed him and infused him with red hot anger. At the end of the three stories the Monster demanded Conor’s truth. That nearly killed him. This book has moments of anger, hope, and utter
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