Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

Author(s): Patrick Ness; Tim Miller

Junior fiction

From the best-selling author of A Monster Calls, this funny, wise middle-grade series explodes
every stereotype—including what it means to be a hero—in a brilliant reptilian take on surviving school.


Master storyteller Patrick Ness turns to middle grade in a hilarious adventure about a mismatched group of animals attending school together, brought to life by brilliantly funny illustrations.

Zeke and Daniel have just been made hall monitors by Principal Wombat. This has nothing to do with the fact that they are monitor lizards. And never mind the fact Alicia, the only other monitor lizard in the school, is also a hall monitor.

Somehow, the three hall monitors must impose order on arrogant lions, excitable seals and super-relaxed pandas. And worst of all, there is Pelicarnassus! A pompous giant pelican and the son of a major supervillain, who inexplicably has it out for the lizards. Can the hall monitor lizards and their new friend, a blind, fearsome red-tailed hawk, protect their school from all manner of outlandish threats?


Product Information

This book ‘Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody’ is full of thrills, plot twists, and funny jokes to keep you smiling along the way. I love the way the author, Patrick Ness writes this book: he has included cool characters, great illustrations (thanks to the illustrator Tim Miller), the references to ‘France’ are very funny and my favourite bit about this book is that Patrick Ness has found a way to get this book to relate and connect to every person who reads it. I think that this book should come out in books stores as soon as possible as it is an amazing story that the reader will not be able to put down.

Thanks Georgia

Yr 6

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 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.

General Fields

  • : 9781529517958
  • : Walker Books Australia
  • : Walker Books
  • : 191.0
  • : 29 September 2024
  • : 195mm x 127mm x 195mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Patrick Ness; Tim Miller
  • : Paperback
  • : Tim Miller
  • : 813.6
  • : 208
  • : YFP