A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
As I finished this, I kept thinking: this really isn't a book for kids. It is too powerful and too sad. I know that kids have to go through experiences like this, but it is hard to envision giving them this book, before they need to know this kind of pain. And yet... To know these experiences is to know what humans are.

I still don't know if I would give this book to most kids. I do know, however, that I will not willingly read it aloud. I can't get through Where the Red Fern Grows, either.
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