num_pages: 151
description: 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?
language: English
title: The Monument
titlecomplete: The Monument
genres: Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, War, Novels, Middle Grade, Fiction, Art, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 494
publisher: Yearling