Different for Boys

The Ask and the Answer

The Rest of Us Just Live Here

Release

Dandelion Clocks

Black Girl Unlimited

Everybody Sees the Ants

The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean

An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor.

At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting-- he’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It’s ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd-- whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself-- Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.

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Different for Boys

Patrick Ness, Tea Bendix, 2023

The Ask and the Answer

Patrick Ness, 2009

The Rest of Us Just Live Here

Patrick Ness, 2015

Release

Patrick Ness, 2017

Dandelion Clocks

Rebecca Westcott, 2014

Black Girl Unlimited

Echo Brown, 2020

Everybody Sees the Ants

A.S. King, 2011

The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean

David Almond, 2011