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After The First Death by Robert Cormier
Category: Classic
AFTER THE FIRST DEATH is a brilliantly tense hostage drama, by Robert Cormier, the acclaimed author of THE CHOCOLATE WAR. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. On the outskirts of a small American town, a bus-load of young children is being held hostage. The hijackers are a ...Show more
Beyond the Chocolate War - out of print by Robert Cormier
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Teenage Books S.
The story continues a few months after THE CHOCOLATE WAR ends. As the school year draws to an end, many students look forward to leaving but Carter and Obie, leading members of the ruthless secret society, The Vigils, can't contemplate the future until they have destroyed the leader, Archie Costello. Ob ...Show more
Fade by Robert Cormier
Category: Young Adult Fiction
IT IS THE summer of 1938 when young Paul Moreaux discovers he can "fade." First bewildered, then thrilled with the power of invisibility, Paul experiments. But his "gift" soon shows him shocking secrets and drives him toward a chilling act. "Imagine what might happen if Holden Caufield stepped into H. G ...Show more
Frenchtown Summer by Robert Cormier
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Teenage Books S.
The story of a young boy's summer: a summer of Sahara afternoons, of lingering evenings, full of questions and mysteries.
Heroes by Robert Cormier
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Puffin Teenage Fiction Ser.
A provocative story about the return home of teenage war hero and war victim, Francis Joseph Cassavant, to confront his past - the youth leader he idolized and who betrayed him - and the girl he still loves.
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
Category: Young Adult | Series: Reader's Circle
Before there was Lois Lowry s The Giver or M. T. Anderson s Feed, there was Robert Cormier s I Am the Cheese, a subversive classic that broke new ground for YA literature. A boy s search for his father becomes a desperate journey to unlock a secret past. But the past must not be remembered if the boy is ...Show more
I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
Category: Children's
A young boy desperately tries to unlock his past yet knows he must hide those memories if he is to remain alive.
Tenderness by Robert Cormier
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Teenage Fiction S.
Lori is looking for tenderness; she leaves home to hitchike to Massachusetts. In a diner she sees the face of Eric Poole, a convicted murderer, on TV. Eric is also looking for someone to be tender with. Lori and Eric meet, and an ill-fated trust develops between them.
Tenderness by Robert Cormier
Category: Young Adult Fiction
EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ERIC HAS just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his mother and stepfather. Now he's looking for some tenderness--tenderness he finds in caressing and killing beautiful girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive but sexually precocious ...Show more
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Category: Children's | Series: Puffin Teenage Bks.
The headmaster of Trinity College asks Archie Costello, the leader of the Vigils, a secret society that rules the school, to help with the selling of 20,000 boxes of chocolates in the annual fund-raising effort. Archie sees the chance of adding to his power - he is the Assigner, handing out to the boys ...Show more
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Chocolate War Ser.
A high-school freshman who refuses to participate in the annual fund-raising chocolate sale is forced to defend his convictions.
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Category: Children's
Reissued now in hardcover with a new introduction by the author, Cormier's chilling look at the insidious world of gang intimidation and the abuse of power in a boys' boarding school is no less relevant today than it was in 1974.