ABOUT
THE BOOK
CHRONICLES OF A LIZARD NOBODY
BY PATRICK NESS
ILLUSTRATED BY TIM MILLER

When Zeke and his friends become Hall Monitors, they have no idea what they’re in for. Especially when Pelicarnassus – school bully and wannabe supervillain – develops a grudge that gets wildly out of hand… Can they save their school – and maybe the world – from being destroyed by a megalomaniac pelican?

For ages 8+

PATRICK NESS

Patrick Ness is the award-winning and bestselling author of the Chaos Walking trilogy, which inspired a major motion picture. 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. He has won every major prize in children’s fiction, including the Carnegie Medal twice. He has also written the screenplay for the film version of A Monster Calls and Class, the BBC Doctor Who drama.

TIM MILLER

Tim Miller is the author-illustrator of Moo Moo in a Tutu, What’s Cooking, Moo Moo?, Tiny Kitty, Big City, and Izzy Paints. He is also the illustrator of Horse Meets Dog by Elliott Kalan, Snappsy the Alligator (Did Not Ask to Be in This Book) and Snappsy the Alligator And His Best Friend Forever! (Probably) by Julie Falatko, Margarash by Mark Riddle, and the middle-grade series Hamstersaurus Rex by Tom O’Donnell. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and three rescue cats.

Photography © Marc Sethi

2024 Children’s Fiction judges

Leanne Fridd

Patrice Lawrence

Sarah Webb


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