We All Fall Down

We All Fall Down
Author: Robert Cormier
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2013-03-19
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0307549070

Buddy Walker is troubled by his parent’s recent divorce, and when Harry Flowers suggests a prank, he goes along, just for opportunity to do something different. He doesn’t realize that someone is watching. When Jane Jerome’s house is trashed, and sister brutally injured in a home invasion, she struggles to continue with her life as her family falls apart. The Avenger has witnessed reckless evil. He has killed before and knows that he just needs to wait until the time is right before he can take his revenge. Robert Cormier once again sheds light on the conflict between good and evil and the dark side of human nature. In his classic style, each character’s point of view is revealed invoking both sympathy and horror while showing the complexities of the psyche.

We All Fall Down

We All Fall Down
Author: Robert Cormier
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1993-08-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0440215560

They entered the house at 9:02 P.M. and trashed their way through the Cape Cod cottage. At 9:46 P.M. Karen Jerome made the mistake of arriving home early. Thrown down the basement stairs, Karen slips into a coma. The trashers slip away. But The Avenger has seen it all.

Fade

Fade
Author: Robert Cormier
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-03-19
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0307523314

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. Wells’ The Invisible Man, and you’ll have an idea how good Fade is. . . . I was absolutely riveted.”—Stephen King

Beyond the Chocolate War

Beyond the Chocolate War
Author: Robert Cormier
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2013-03-19
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0307834263

The school year is almost at an end, and the chocolate sale is ancient history. But no one at Trinity School can forget the Chocolate War. Devious Archie Costello, commander of the secret school organization called the Vigils, still has some torturous assignments to hand out before he graduates. In spite of this pleasure, Archie is troubled that his right-hand man, Obie, has started to move away from the Vigils. Luckily Archie knows his stooges will fix that. But Obie has some plans of his own.

After the First Death

After the First Death
Author: Robert Cormier
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1991-02-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0440208351

Who will be the next to die? They've taken the children. And the son of a general. But that isn't enough. More horrors must come...

The Rag and Bone Shop

The Rag and Bone Shop
Author: Robert Cormier
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2001-12-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0385729928

Twelve-year old Jason is accused of the brutal murder of a young girl. Is he innocent or guilty? The shocked town calls on an interrogator with a stellar reputation: he always gets a confession. The confrontation between Jason and his interrogator forms the chilling climax of this terrifying look at what can happen when the pursuit of justice becomes a personal crusade for victory at any cost.

The Chocolate War

The Chocolate War
Author: Robert Cormier
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2013-03-19
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0307834298

One of the most controversial YA novels of all time, The Chocolate War is a modern masterpiece that speaks to fans of S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders and John Knowles’s A Separate Peace. After suffering rejection from seven major publishers, The Chocolate War made its debut in 1974, and quickly became a bestselling—and provocative—classic for young adults. This chilling portrait of an all-boys prep school casts an unflinching eye on the pitfalls of conformity and corruption in our most elite cultural institutions. “Masterfully structured and rich in theme; the action is well crafted, well timed, suspenseful.”—The New York Times Book Review “The characterizations of all the boys are superb.”—School Library Journal, starred review “Compellingly immediate. . . . Readers will respect the uncompromising ending.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Editor’s Choice A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year

Tenderness

Tenderness
Author: Robert Cormier
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2013-03-19
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0385729871

Eighteen-year-old Eric has just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his mother and stepfather. Now he’s looking for tenderness—tenderness he finds in caressing and killing beautiful girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naïve but sexually precocious, she is also looking for tenderness—tenderness she finds in Eric. Will Lori and Eric be each other’s salvation or destruction? Told from their alternating points of view, this harrowing thriller speeds to its fateful conclusion with an irresistible force, and a final twist that will not be easily forgotten.

Frenchtown Summer

Frenchtown Summer
Author: Robert Cormier
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2009-05-27
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 030755628X

Eugene is remembering the summer of 1938 in Frenchtown, a time when he began to wonder “what I was doing here on the planet Earth.” Here in vibrant, exquisite detail are his lovely mother, his aunts and uncles, cousins and friends, and especially his beloved, enigmatic father. Here, too, is the world of a mill town: the boys swimming in a brook that is red or purple or green, depending on the dyes dumped that day by the comb shop; the visit of the ice man; and the boys’ trips to the cemetery or the forbidden railroad tracks. And here also is a darker world–the mystery of a girl murdered years before. Robert Cormier’s touching, funny, melancholy chronicle of a vanished world celebrates a son’s connection to his father and human relationships that are timeless.