A graphic novel
BY WALTER DEAN MYERS
Adapted by Illustrated by
Guy A. Sims Dawud Anyabwile
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Monster: A Graphic Novel
Text copyright © 1999 by Walter Dean Myers
and © 2015 by the Estate of Walter Myers
Illustrations copyright © 2015 by Dawud Anyabwile
All rights reserved. Manufactured in China.
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written
permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sims, Guy A.
Monster: a graphic novel / by Walter Dean Myers ; adapted by Guy A. Sims ; illustrated by Dawud
Anyabwile. — First edition.
pages cm
Summary: While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his
experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with
the course his life has taken.
ISBN 978-0-06-227500-4 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-06-227499-1 (pbk.)
1. Graphic novels. [1. Graphic novels. 2. Trials (Murder)—Fiction. 3. Prisons—Fiction.
4. Self-perception—Fiction. 5. African Americans—Fiction. 6. Myers, Walter Dean, date, Monster—
Adaptations.] I. Anyabwile, Dawud, date, illustrator. II. Myers, Walter Dean, date, Monster. III. Title.
PZ7.7.S547Mo 2015 2013043138
[741.5’973]—dc23 CIP
AC
The artist used Photoshop to create the digital illustrations for this book.
Typography by Dana Fritts
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