Dandelion Clocks

Daniel's Gift

Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue

A Face First

The Magic School Bus Rides Again Sink or Swim

The Fix-It Friends: Three's a Crowd

The Box of Delights

Little Bits of Sky

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.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Dandelion Clocks

Rebecca Westcott, 2014

Daniel's Gift

Helldorfer, M.C. Helldorfer, 1987

Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue

Maurice Sendak, 1962

A Face First

Priscilla Cummings, 2001

The Magic School Bus Rides Again Sink or Swim

Judy Katschke, 2017

The Fix-It Friends: Three's a Crowd

Nicole C. Kear, Tracy Arah Dockray, 2018

The Box of Delights

John Masefield, 1935

Little Bits of Sky

Katie Harnett, S.E. Durrant, 2016