The Monument

By Gary Paulsen

Book Overview

It all begins when Rocky follows Mick Strum around town while he sketches its people, animals and graveyard. Mick has been commissioned by Rocky's Kansas town to create a memorial to their war dead.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440407826
• ISBN13: 9780440407829
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Yearling
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.6" x 0.4" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

The Monument

Gary Paulsen's The Monument is a very eccentric story of a young African American girl with a leg brace in an orphanage. Rocky (the young girl) feels as if no one will ever adopt her and one day a couple walked in and said that they wanted to adopt her and she fills with a magical feeling inside herself. Rocky lives the life she never thought she would have.In this magnificent book you go on with her through everything that is as new to her as it is to you. By Mackenzie

A book to remember

Although it is a simple story, it is probably my favorite Gary Paulsen book so far. It talks a lot about art, but the real point of the book is a minority, handicapped girl who learns how to see life in a new way and discovers that she has a talent of her own. Along with that is a town that comes together to make one decision that will help it heal and then grow together. This book is short and easy to read, but makes a lasting impression.

This book was very deep.

This book was so good! It was deep and complex I was laughing one minute and crying the next. I loved this book, and this is I think only my second book that I have read by Paulsen. But if this is like all of his work then he will soon be one of my favorite authors!

A good book about art and self-discovery

After you read the back cover of "The Monument," you might expect the book to be mainly about a monument. In a way it is, in other ways it's not. Rachael was adopted and she now works where her new father does and doesn't really know what she wants to do with her life. That is, until she meets an artist named Mick, who is supposed to make a monument for Bolton, Kansas, where 18 war veterans were killed during battle. Rachael finds out that she wants to be an artist just like Mick. She will learn from Mick and the monument what art is all about.I thought "The Monument" was a pretty good book for what it was. I like Gary Paulsen's books about survival and adventure a lot better, but this was a pretty good book. If you like art, you'll probably like "The Monument" a lot more than if you don't like art that much.

The Monument

Gary Paulsen is an excellent writer of young adult novels. I'm am pleased with his other novels-TiltaWhirl John and The Car. He takes each character and make you feel their emotions by making his character come alive in various places and situations.However, He has done an excellent job with this book by putting his reader in the eyes of an artist. Mick and Rocky join together to share the need for art in a small town in Bolton, Kanas.Mick will produce a monument for the people of Bolton to last a life time!