I am the messenger

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The work I am the messenger represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Melton Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

I am the messenger

Statement of responsibility

by Markus Zusak

Creator

• trueZusak, Markus
• Zusak, Markus

Author

• Zusak, Markus

Subject

• Detective and mystery fiction
• Detective and mystery fiction
• trueFamily relationships
• Fiction
• trueFriendship
• Heroes
• Heroes -- Fiction
• Heroes -- Juvenile fiction
• trueHeroes and heroines
• Heroes and heroines -- Fiction
• Juvenile works
• trueLosers (Persons)
• trueMysteries
• Mystery fiction
• trueNineteen-year-old men
• truePurpose in life
• trueRealistic fiction
• trueSelf-esteem
• Self-esteem -- Fiction
• Self-esteem -- Fiction
• Self-esteem in adolescence
• Self-esteem in adolescence -- Juvenile fiction
• trueSelf-esteem in teenage boys
• Taxicab drivers
• trueTaxicab drivers
• Taxicab drivers -- Fiction
• Taxicab drivers -- Fiction
• Taxicab drivers -- Juvenile fiction
• YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Coming of Age
• YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Mysteries & Detective Stories
• Young adult fiction
• YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Travel & Transportation
• trueYoung men
• Young adult works
• trueAustralia
• trueAustralian fiction
• trueBank robberies

Genre

• Young adult works
• Juvenile works
• trueMysteries
• Mystery fiction
• trueRealistic fiction
• Young adult fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• trueAustralian fiction
• Detective and mystery fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when the first ace arrives in the mail. That's when Ed becomes the messenger. Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission?

Member of

• trueMessenger

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Tone

• trueSuspenseful
• trueAtmospheric

Writing style

• trueCompelling
• trueGritty

Character

• trueWell-developed
• trueAwkward

Award

• Children's Book of the Year Award for Older Readers (Children's Book Council of Australia), 2003.
• NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, 2003.
• USBBY Outstanding International Book, 2006.
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2012
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2006

Awards note

Michael L. Printz Honor for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2006

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 640
• Decoding demand: 96 (very high)
• Semantic demand: 100 (very high)
• Syntactic demand: 87 (very high)
• Structure demand: 88 (very high)

Intended audience source

• Lexile
• Lexile

Interest level

• UG
• High School

LC call number

PZ7.Z837

LC item number

Iae 2005

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640

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 9
• 12

Reading level

• 3.9
• 6.2

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader AR
• Reading Counts RC

Target audience

adolescent