Monster

By Walter Dean Myers

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Monster is a young adult novel by Walter Dean Myers, first published in 1999. Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon is on trial for murder for his alleged role as a lookout in a robbery that ended in a shop owner's death. Written as a screenplay with journal entries, the book follows Steve as he tries to make sense of the trial and of who he really is.

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• John Green: “I never thought about writing for teenagers until I was 22 and read “Speak,” by Laurie Halse Anderson, and “Monster,” by Walter Dean Myers. Both those novels are capital-g Great.”