However, such a manner of writing influences Meyers’ development of the theme only in a positive way. Monster writing style attracts the attention of the reader due to the contrasting mix of such strategies as controlled development of thoughts and stream of consciousness, which create unique tone and mood in the story. The style chosen by the author of this story takes several pages to get used to.
Such a decision to present the story from one person’s point of view, divide characters into good and bad ones, appeal to the facts from one diary only, and use not a standard form of narration is unique indeed. “Worth serious YA consideration.Steve Harmon is the writer, director, and main character of Monster. “Worth serious YA consideration.” –The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books “Published posthumously, this is an angry story, demonstrating again Myers’s acute social conscience.” – Horn Book It makes for a stirring valedictory.” – Booklist “In his last book, Myers has turned his thoughtful attention to matters of pressing global importance and issued an implicit challenge to his teen readers to become involved and make a difference. *”A clarion call from a beloved, much-missed master.” – Kirkus Reviews, Starred Stunning.” – JACQUELINE WOODSON, National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming It’s a book for anyone who has ever given thought to our own future and the futures of those coming behind us. “Walter Dean Myers was such a visionary. On a Clear Day is at once historical and futuristic, thoughtful and thought-provoking. National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature (2012-2013) But how will Sayeed, warlord and terrorist, fit into the equation?
Dahlia, a computer whiz, joins forces with an ex-rocker, an ex-con, a chess prodigy, an ex-athlete, and a soldier wannabe. And the C-8, a consortium of giant companies, control global access to finance, media, food, water, and energy resources-and they are only getting bigger and even more cutthroat. The Gaters live in closed safe communities, protected from the Sturmers, mercenary thugs.
Teens, armed only with their ideals, must wage war on the power elite.ĭahlia is a Low Gater: a sheep in a storm, struggling to survive completely on her own. Young heroes decide that they are not too young or too powerless to change their world in this gripping, futuristic young adult novel by the New York Times bestselling author of the Printz Award–winning Monster. This book should be in every reader’s hands.” –JACQUELINE WOODSON, National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming
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