Master storyteller Patrick Ness delivers a hilarious middle-grade adventure featuring Zeke and Daniel, monitor lizards turned hall monitors, alongside Alicia. Tasked with maintaining order among quirky animal classmates, they face challenges from a pompous pelican and other outrageous threats, with the help of a blind hawk.
Friendship, masculinity, sex—Anthony Stevenson has a lot of questions. Is it different for boys who like boys? A poignant and frank story filled with meta-humor by renowned author Patrick Ness.Anthony “Ant” Stevenson isn’t sure when he stopped being a virgin. Or even if he has. The rules aren’t always very clear when it comes to boys who like boys. In fact, relationships of all kinds feel complicated, even with Ant’s oldest friends. There’s Charlie, who’s both virulently homophobic and in a secret physical relationship with Ant. Then there’s drama kid Jack, who may be gay and has become the target of Charlie’s rage. And, of course, there’s big, beautiful Freddie, who wants Ant to ditch soccer, Charlie’s sport, and try out for the rugby team instead. Ant’s story of loneliness and intimacy, of unexpected support and heart-ripping betrayal, is told forthrightly with tongue-in-cheek black-bar redactions over the language that teenagers would actually use if, you know, they weren’t in a story. Award-winning author Patrick Ness explores teen sexuality, friendship, and romance with a deft hand in this structurally daring, illustrated short novel.
On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he’d hired to help on the farm…Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, something only the poorest of the poor ever have to resort to.The dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye, though. Sarah can’t help but be curious about him, an animal who supposedly doesn’t have a soul, but who is seemingly intent on keeping her safe.Because the dragon knows something she doesn’t. He has arrived at the farm with a prophecy on his mind. A prophecy that involves a deadly assassin, a cult of dragon worshippers, two FBI agents in hot pursuit—and somehow, Sarah Dewhurst herself.
Contains: The Knife of Never Letting Go The Ask and the Answer Monsters of Men
The entire Chaos Walking trilogy is now available in this striking 10th anniversary boxed set. Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in a constant, overwhelming Noise. There is no privacy. There are no secrets. Then Todd Hewitt unexpectedly stumbles on a spot of complete silence. Which is impossible. And now he's going to have to run... This new boxed set marks the 10th anniversary of Patrick Ness' award-winning modern classic, soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley. This boxed set includes anniversary editions of The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer and Monsters of Men.
With harpoons strapped to their backs, the proud whales of Bathsheba's pod live for the hunt, fighting in the ongoing war against the world of men. When they attack a ship bobbing on the surface of the Abyss, they expect to find easy prey. Instead, they find the trail of a myth, a monster, perhaps the devil himself...As their relentless Captain leads the chase, they embark on a final, vengeful hunt, one that will forever change the worlds of both whales and men.
This powerful 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning novel tells of two refugees starting over after losing everything. Jovan and his wife have fled war-torn Sarajevo. They have lost their children, their comfortable lives as public intellectuals, and their connection to each other. Now relocated to a suburb of Melbourne, they must rebuild their lives under the painful and sometimes violent hardships of immigrant life.
If you get out, you'd think you'd be one of the lucky ones. But you're not. The house infects you. There's an old stone house near Coal Hill School. Most people hurry past it. They've heard the stories. But, if you stop, and look up, you'll see the face of a girl, pressed up against a window. Screaming. Tanya finds herself drawn to the stone house. There's a mystery there, and she's going to solve it. But the more she investigates, the more she realises that there's a presence in the house. One that wants her. Something is waiting for Tanya in the stone house. Something that has been trapping others in its web over the years. Something that is far worse than any ghost.
Every sentence in this gorgeous little novel feels perfect and necessary. This focused, humane book is a joy. The New York Times Book Review
One of three new thrilling and creepy YA adventures created by master storyteller Patrick Ness as a companion to his Doctor Who spin-off series on BBC, Class. Each standalone novel fills in a gap or portal in the TV episodes. Patrick is the creator, and there are individual authors for each book.