That is why I take the films of myself. I want to know who I am. I want to know the road to panic that I took. I want to look at myself a thousand times to look for one true image. When Miss O’Brien looked at me, after we had won the case, what did she see that caused her to turn away?
What did she see?
About the Authors
WALTER DEAN MYERS is the renowned author of AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY DEAD BROTHER, a National Book Award Finalist; SHOOTER, a Children’s BookSense Summer Pick; MONSTER, the first winner of the Michael L. Printz Award; THE DREAM BEARER and HANDBOOK FOR BOYS: A Novel, both New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age; BAD BOY: A Memoir, a Parents’ Choice Gold Award winner; STREET LOVE, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; and the Newbery Honor Books SCORPIONS and SOMEWHERE IN THE DARKNESS. He makes frequent appearances with the National Basketball Association’s “Read to Achieve” program. Mr. Myers lives with his family in Jersey City, New Jersey. You can visit him online at www.walterdeanmyers.net.
Caldecott Honor artist CHRISTOPHER MYERS is the illustrator of Coretta Scott King Honor Book JAZZ; TIME TO LOVE: Stories from the Old Testament; BLUE JOURNEY a BCCB Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award winner; and Coretta Scott King Honor Book HARLEM: A Poem, all written by Walter Dean Myers. He is the author-illustrator of Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book BLACK CAT; JABBER-WOCKY; FLY!; and WINGS, and the illustrator of LIES AND OTHER TALL TALES by Zora Neale Hurston. A graduate of Brown University, Christopher Myers lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Praise
“Riveting…. An emotionally charged story that readers will find compelling and disturbing.”
—SLI
“Unforgettable.”
—Language Arts
“A subtle and provocative novel about what it means to be alive in our time, especially but not exclusively for young African American males.”
—Riverbank Review
“Once you pick this book up, it becomes part of you until you reach the last page.”
—Alliance for Cultural Enrichment, Dialogue
“A fascinating portrait of a terrified young man wrestling with his conscience. The tense drama of the courtroom scenes will enthrall readers, but it is the thorny moral questions raised in Steve’s journal that will endure in readers’ memories.”
—ALA Booklist (boxed review)
“A riveting novel. A taut and moving drama.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“The drama and ethical questions raised will keep the audience not just reading but thinking.”
—The Bulletin
“Chilling and engrossing.”
—The New York Times
“This will be one of the most interesting and creative books you will read in a long time.”
—React
“A fictitious story that rings alarmingly true.”
—The Columbus Dispatch (OH)
“A searingly emotional account.”
—San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle
“We are left to ponder ambiguities and to harbor questions about what really happened.”
—Houston Chronicle
ALSO BY WALTER DEAN MYERS
FICTION
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY DEAD BROTHER National Book Award Finalist
DOPE SICK
THE DREAM BEARER
GAME
HANDBOOK FOR BOYS: A Novel
IT AIN’T ALL FOR NOTHIN’
THE MOUSE RAP
PATROL: An American Soldier in Vietnam Jane Addams Children’s Book Award
THE RIGHTEOUS REVENGE OF ARTEMIS BONNER
SCORPIONS Newbery Honor Book
SHOOTER
THE STORY OF THE THREE KINGDOMS
STREET LOVE
NONFICTION
BAD BOY: A Memoir
BROWN ANGELS: An Album of Pictures and Verse
I’VE SEEN THE PROMISED LAND: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
MALCOLM X: A Fire Burning Brightly
NOW IS YOUR TIME!: The African-American Struggle for Freedom Coretta Scott King Author Award
THE HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS: When Pride Met Courage
Credits
Cover art © 1999 by Christopher Myers
Cover design by Alison Donalty
Copyright
MONSTER. Text Copyright © 1999 by Walter Dean Myers. Illustrations Copyright © 1999 by Christopher Myers. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub © Edition NOVEMBER 2008 ISBN: 9780061975028
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