![]() ![]() ![]() "Like L'Engle, Akwaeke Emezi asks questions of good and evil and agency, all wrapped up in the terrifying and glorious spectacle of fantastical theology. View the Study Pack View the Lesson Plans Study Guide. ![]() This award-winning novel from a rising-star author asks: What really makes a monster, and how do you save the world from something if no one will admit it exists? No one has encountered monsters in years, though, and Jam's quest to protect her best friend and uncover the truth is met with doubt and disbelief. Pet has emerged from one of her mother's paintings to hunt a true monster - and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature who some might call monstrous but, in reality, is anything but, she must reconsider what she's been told. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with the lesson that the city is safe for everyone. There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. But when a creature springs forth from a painting to befriend a trans girl. ![]() The award-winning, genre-defying novel by the New York Times best-selling author of The Death of Vivek Oji that explores themes of identity and justice and asks: How do you share the truth when the world around you is in denial? M onsters have been eradicated from the city of Lucilleat least, that’s what everyone is told. Pet is a nesting doll of creative possibilities." ( The New York Times ) ![]()
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