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The boy who drew monsters

by Keith Donohue
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Description

Ever since he nearly drowned in the ocean three years earlier, ten-year-old Jack Peter Keenan has been deathly afraid to leave his home in a small coastal town in Maine. Instead, Jack Peter begins to draw monsters, and when those monsters take on a life of their own, no one is safe from the terror they inspire. His mother, Holly, begins to hear strange sounds in the night coming from the ocean. When she seeks answers from the local Catholic priest and his Japanese housekeeper, they fill her head with stories of shipwrecks and ghosts. His father, Tim, wanders the beach, frantically searching for a strange apparition running wild in the dunes. And the boy's only friend, Nick, becomes helplessly entangled in the eerie power of the drawings. While those around Jack Peter are haunted by what they think they see, only he knows the truth behind the terrors that lurk in the outside world.

What it’s like

ViolenceStandard
CombatPacifist/Social
SpiceWholesome/Clean
ProfanityNone

Details

First published
October 7, 2014
Pages
288
Reading time
About 6 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Young readers
Publisher
Picador
Language
English
ISBN
9781250074881
Series
Standalone

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