Author: Walter Dean Myer
Title: Monster
Illustrator: Christopher Myer
Readability Score: Lexile: 670L, DRA: 70, Grade Level Equivalent: 7.1, Guided Reading: Z
Genre:Realistic Fiction
Subgenre: Young Adult
Theme: African American, Pride and Self-Esteem, Prejudice and Tolerance, Understanding Self and Others
Primary and Secondary Characters: Primary- Steve Harmon, Ms. O'Brien Secondary- Steve's parents, James King, other attorneys, jury, drugstore owner
Awards/ Date of Publication: 1999
- Publishers Weekly Best Book
- Book Sense 76 Pick
- Bulletin Blue Ribbon (The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books)
- Horn Book Fanfare
- ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
- ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice
- Kentucky Bluegrass Award
- ALA Best Book for Young Adults
- National Book Award Finalist
- Arizona Young Reader’s Award
- Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor Book
- Michael L. Printz Award
- Coretta Scott King Honor (Author)
Publishing Company: Harper Collins
ISBN: 978-0-06-028077-2
Summary: Steve Harmon is a 16- year-old African American that lives in Harlem. He is an aspiring film maker, but is currently on trial for a drugstore owner. Steve takes copious notes throughout the trail as if they were a film script. He is constantly questioning himself about many things, what part did he play in the murder, what his lawyer thinks of him, what his parents now think of him, etc.
Classroom Teaching Ideas:
1. Story elements: plot, character and setting
2. Conflict and resolution
3. Journal/Script Writing
4. The Judicial System
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