EXCERPT WEDNESDAY! A MONSTER CALLS BY PATRICK NESS; FILM DIRECTED BY J.A. BAYONA (Movie opens January 6)
Happy New Year! Every Wednesday The Latina Book Club features an excerpt from an exciting new book. This week we are highlighting A MONSTER CALLS by Patrick Ness, which has been turned into a movie directed by the Spanish director J.A. Bayona. We'd like to thank publisher Candlewick Press for copies of the book for our readers. The movie opens on Three Kings Day, January 6, nationwide. Happy Reading. Happy Viewing. EXCERPT A MONSTER CALLS By Patrick Ness Candlewick Press The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. Conor was awake when it came. He’d had a nightmare. Well, not a nightmare. The nightmare. The one he’d been having a lot lately. The one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming. The one with the hands slipping from his grasp, no matter how hard he tried to hold on. The one that always ended with – “Go away,” Conor whispered into the darkness ...