More Than This
(Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)

Patrick Ness. (2013). More Than This. Candlewick Press.

Patrick Ness. 2013. More Than This. Candlewick Press.

Patrick Ness, More Than This. Candlewick Press, 2013.

Patrick Ness. More Than This. Candlewick Press, 2013.

OverDrive Product Record

sortTitle

More Than This

crossRefId

1323695

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1874-1/{8B290FAD-61BC-44FB-A82F-D4BF0A14F399}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1874-1/{8B290FAD-61BC-44FB-A82F-D4BF0A14F399}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1874-1/8B2/90F/AD/{8B290FAD-61BC-44FB-A82F-D4BF0A14F399}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1874-1/8B2/90F/AD/{8B290FAD-61BC-44FB-A82F-D4BF0A14F399}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780763667672
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ASIN
        • value: B00D460WQO
   • name: Kindle Book
   • id: ebook-kindle
3. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780763667672
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • id: ebook-overdrive

mediaType

eBook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Patrick Ness

id

8b290fad-61bc-44fb-a82f-d4bf0a14f399

title

More Than This

starRating

4

dateAdded

2015-01-28T12:20:00-05:00

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=242&titleID=1323695
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: LION: Libraries Online (CT)
     • id: 1354

OverDrive MetaData

interestLevel

UG

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • fileName: MoreThanThis_1323695
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ASIN
        • value: B00D460WQO
   • name: Kindle Book
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-kindle
   • onSaleDate: 9/10/2013
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/presale-placeholder-8b290f?.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • fileName: MoreThanThis_9780763667672_1323695
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780763667672
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 9/10/2013
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/presale-placeholder-8b290f?.epub-sample.overdrive.com

keywords

1. • value: dystopian
2. • value: Friendship
3. • value: YA
4. • value: Action
5. • value: Death
6. • value: Suicide
7. • value: Young Adult
8. • value: hell
9. • value: mystery
10. • value: England
11. • value: LGBTQ
12. • value: Adventure
13. • value: Science Fiction
14. • value: Thriller
15. • value: action adventure
16. • value: afterlife
17. • value: survival
18. • value: dystopia
19. • value: sci-fi
20. • value: dystopian fiction
21. • value: teen fiction books
22. • value: books for 13 year old boys
23. • value: books for 13 year old girls
24. • value: books for 14 year old girls
25. • value: books for 14 year old boys

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Ness, Patrick
   • bioText:

     I was born on an army base called Fort Belvoir, near Alexandria, Virginia. But I only stayed there for the first four months of my life and have never even been back to the East Coast of America. Since then, I've lived in Hawaii, Washington, California, and England.
     I've only ever really wanted to be a writer. I studied English Literature at the University of Southern California, and when I graduated, I got a job as a corporate writer at a cable company in Los Angeles, writing manuals and speeches and once even an advertisement for the Gilroy, California, Garlic Festival. I got my first story published in Genre magazine in 1997 and was working on my first novel when I moved to London in 1999. I've lived here ever since. I taught Creative Writing at Oxford University for three years, usually to students older than I was. I write for one of the U.K. national papers, and I've also been writer in residence for Booktrust. Anything and everything to do with writing, that's how I want to make my life.
     I made up stories all the time when I was young, though I was usually too embarrassed to show them to anybody. That's okay if you do that; when you're ready, you're ready. The important thing is to keep writing.
     For young adults, I've written A Monster Calls, More Than This, and the Chaos Walking trilogy: The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and The Answer, and Monsters of Men. I've also written two books for adults, a novel called The Crash of Hennington and a short story collection called Topics About Which I Know Nothing, a title that seemed funny at the time but less so 10,000 mentions later.
     Here's a helpful hint if you want to be a writer: When I'm working on a first draft, all I write is 1,000 words a day, which isn't that much (I started out with 300, then moved up to 500, now I can do 1,000 easy). And if I write my 1,000 words, I'm done for the day, even if it only took an hour (it usually takes more, of course, but not always). Novels are anywhere from 60,000 words on up, so it's possible that just sixty days later you might have a whole first draft. The Knife of Never Letting Go is 112,900 words and took about seven months to get a good first draft. Lots of rewrites followed. That's the fun part, where the book really starts to come together just exactly how you see it, the part where you feel like a real writer.
     Three Things You Might Not Know About Me:
     1. I have a tattoo of a rhinoceros.
     2. I've run three marathons.
     3. Under no circumstances will I eat onions.

   • name: Patrick Ness

publishDate

2013-09-10T00:00:00Z

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

More Than This

fullDescription

From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes an enthralling and provocative new novel chronicling the life — or perhaps afterlife — of a teen trapped in a crumbling, abandoned world.
A boy named Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. So how is he here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. But the neighborhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust, and completely abandoned. What's going on? And why is it that whenever he closes his eyes, he falls prey to vivid, agonizing memories that seem more real than the world around him? Seth begins a search for answers, hoping that he might not be alone, that this might not be the hell he fears it to be, that there might be more than just this. . . .

gradeLevels

1. • value: Grade 3
2. • value: Grade 4

popularity

1656

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BPQEAAA20/products/8b290fad-61bc-44fb-a82f-d4bf0a14f399/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
• shareInLibby:
  • href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=rzIUADHmp90
  • type: text/HTML

id

8b290fad-61bc-44fb-a82f-d4bf0a14f399

starRating

3.9

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1874-1/{8B290FAD-61BC-44FB-A82F-D4BF0A14F399}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1874-1/{8B290FAD-61BC-44FB-A82F-D4BF0A14F399}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1874-1/8B2/90F/AD/{8B290FAD-61BC-44FB-A82F-D4BF0A14F399}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1874-1/8B2/90F/AD/{8B290FAD-61BC-44FB-A82F-D4BF0A14F399}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Science Fiction & Fantasy
2. • value: Young Adult Fiction
3. • value: Young Adult Literature

publishDateText

09/10/2013

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9780763662585

mediaType

eBook

shortDescription

From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes an enthralling and provocative new novel chronicling the life — or perhaps afterlife — of a teen trapped in a crumbling, abandoned world.
A boy named Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. So how is he here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. But the neighborhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust, and completely abandoned. What's going on? And why is it that whenever he closes his eyes, he falls prey to vivid, agonizing memories that seem more real than the world around him? Seth begins a search for answers, hoping that he might not be...

sortTitle

More Than This

lexileScore

800

crossRefId

1323695

awards

1. • source: Young Adult Library Services Association
   • value: Best Fiction for Young Adults

publisher

Candlewick Press

atos

4.9

bisacCodes

1. • code: YAF001020
   • description: Young Adult Fiction / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories
2. • code: YAF015000
   • description: Young Adult Fiction / Dystopian
3. • code: YAF058250
   • description: Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Suicide