Skip to main content
The Top Book List
Cover of The Monument by Gary Paulsen

Book · Middle Grade

The Monument

by Gary Paulsen

Ages 10–14 · Grades 5–9 · 160 pages · 1993

Get the book

We may earn a commission when you buy through links on this page. It never affects which books we recommend. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

About the book

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.

As Rocky learns to respect Mick and his talents, he helps her to develop her own artistic sensibilities.

But the townspeople see things in Mick's drawings that they don't want to know or accept about themselves. Can Mick help them accept one monument that will be meaningful to everyone?

For parents

Ages 10–14 · Grades 5–9

Grade ranges are editorial guidance. Every reader is different.

No content notes recorded.

More by Gary Paulsen