Monster by Walter Dean Myers. 288 p. Amistad/ HarperCollins Publishers, April, 1999. 9780060280772.
Teen Tuesday features Monster by Walter Dean Myers. Monster was written in 1999 and won the very first Printz award twenty years ago. It was also a National Book Award Finalist as well as a Coretta Scott King Author Honor. Monster is the story of Steve Harmon who is on trial for felony murder after a convenience story robber goes wrong. It is told alternately in the first-person as a diary and in the third as a screenplay. The story flashes backward from his trial where prosecutors attempt to portray Steve as a monster who deserves a prison sentence.
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