By Patrick Ness (author) , Tim Miller (illustrator) Part of the Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody series
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Master storyteller Patrick Ness turns to middle grade in a hilarious adventure about a mismatched group of animals attending school together, brought to life by brilliantly funny illustrations.
Zeke and Daniel have just been made hall monitors by Principal Wombat. This has nothing to do with the fact that they are monitor lizards. And never mind the fact Alicia, the only other monitor lizard in the school, is also a hall monitor. Somehow, the three hall monitors must impose order on arrogant lions, excitable seals and super-relaxed pandas.
And worst of all, there is Pelicarnassus! A pompous giant pelican and the son of a major supervillain, who inexplicably has it out for the lizards. Can the hall monitor lizards and their new friend, a blind, fearsome red-tailed hawk, protect their school from all manner of outlandish threats?
Also available, Book 2: The Hat of Great Importance
Patrick Ness is the award-winning and bestselling author of the Chaos Walking trilogy. He is also the author of critically acclaimed novels A Monster Calls, More Than This, Release, The Rest of Us Just Live Here, And the Ocean Was Our Sky and Burn.
Patrick was born on an army base called Fort Belvoir, near Alexandria, Virginia, in the United States. His father was a drill sergeant in the US Army. He lived in Hawaii until he was almost six, spent the ten years after that in suburban Washington state, and then on to Los Angeles, where he studied English Literature at the University of Southern California.
His main job after graduating was as corporate writer at a cable company, writing manuals, form letters and speeches and once even an advertisement for the Gilroy, California Garlic Festival (this is true). If you're American and hated your cable company, he probably wrote you a letter of apology.
He got his first story published in Genre magazine in 1997 and was working on his first novel when he moved to London in 1999. He's lived here ever since. Sometimes he teaches creative writing but mostly he tries to write 1,000 words a day, 'come hell or high water'.
In May 2008, he published The Knife of Never Letting Go , his first book for young adults. It won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Booktrust Teenage Prize and he hasn't looked back since.
Here is an interview with Patrick Ness where he talks about his new book The Rest of Us Just Live Here.
1. He has a tattoo of a rhinoceros. 2. He has run two marathons. 3. He is a certified scuba diver. 4. He wrote a radio comedy about vampires. 5. He has never been to New York City but... 6. He has been to Sydney, Auckland and Tokyo. 7. He got accepted into film school but turned it down to study writing. 8. He was a goth as a teenager (well, as much of a goth as you could be in Tacoma, Washington and still have to go to church every Sunday). 9. He is no longer a goth. 10. Under no circumstances will he eat onions.
Click here to read a Q&A with Patrick Ness
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I feel this book is a mystery and it is very humorous and all the characters are easily relatable characters to children.
Zeke was very kind and Daniel is very shy and he never sticks up for himself. Alicia is very kind she supports her friends.
There are quite a lot of illustrations which makes the book more fun.... Read Full Review
Master storyteller Patrick Ness turns to middle grade in a hilarious adventure about a mismatched group of animals attending school together, brought to life by brilliantly funny illustrations. Zeke and Daniel have just been made hall monitors by Principal Wombat.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-10 years old
Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody features in the following genres: Featured Books for 9+ readers, Recommendations, Fantasy / Magical, Funny, Animal Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational
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Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody was written by Patrick Ness and published by Walker Books Ltd
Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody has 203 pages
Yes it is part of Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody series
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