THE MONUMENT Soft cover - 1994
by GARY PAULSEN
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The Newbery Honor author of Hatchet and Dogsong delivers the moving story of an artist hired to design a war monument who forces a small Kansas town to confront issues they would rather ignore. An American Bookseller Pick-of-the-Lists and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
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- Title THE MONUMENT
- Author GARY PAULSEN
- Binding Soft cover
- Edition Reissue
- Condition New
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher A YEARLING BOOK, New York, New York, U.S.A
- Date 1994
- Bookseller's Inventory # sh3047
- ISBN 9780440407829 / 0440407826
- Weight 0.27 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5.12 x 0.41 in (19.30 x 13.00 x 1.04 cm)
- Ages 12 to UP years
- Grade levels 7 - UP
- Reading level 890
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Themes
- Topical: Adoption
- Library of Congress subjects City and town life, Kansas
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91013919
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the publisher
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As Rocky learns to respect Mick and his talents, he helps her to develop her own artistic sensibilities.It all begins when Rocky follows Mick Strum around town while he sketches its people, animals and graveyard. Mick has been commissioned by Rocky's Kansas town to create a memorial to their war dead.
But the townspeople see things in Mick's drawings that they don't want to know or accept about themselves. Can Mick help them accept one monument that will be meaningful to everyone?
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Citations
- Booklist, 10/15/1993, Page 458