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Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Author: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Zach is eighteen. He is bright and articulate. He's also an alcoholic and in rehab instead of high school, but he doesn't remember how he got there. He's not sure he wants to remember. Something bad must have happened. Something really, really bad. Remembering sucks and being alive?well, what's up with that? I have it in my head that when w...  more » Happy and on some people's hearts he writes Sad and on some people's hearts he writes Crazy on some people's hearts he writes Genius and on some people's hearts he writes Angry and on some people's hearts he writes Winner and on some people's hearts he writes Loser. It's all like a game to him. Him. God. And it's all pretty much random. He takes out his pen and starts writing on our blank hearts. When it came to my turn, he wrote Sad. I don't like God very much. Apparently he doesn't like me very much either. Benjamin Alire Sáenz is a prolific novelist, poet, and author of children's books. Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood, his first novel for young adults, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a Young Adult Library Services Association Top Ten Books for Young Adults pick in 2005.
ISBN-13: 9781933693583
ISBN-10: 1933693584
Publication Date: 9/1/2009
Pages: 304
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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I didn't enjoy this book at all. I tried to read it many different times, but couldn't get past page 30. It was uninteresting and too much like A Million Little Pieces for me.
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