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Robert Cormier
Every year, Trinity School runs a chocolate sale. Each boy volunteers to sell a quota of boxes. But this year it’s different, because new kid Jerry Renault has refused to…
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A bus load of children held hostage by terrorists is at the heart of this novel. The background is the hearts and minds of those drawn into the web of…
Robert Cormier is widely recognised as one of the leading authors of young adult fiction. This collection of brand new essays demonstrates a variety of critical approaches to Cormier’s work…
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This series introduces readers to popular authors whose work they’ve probably already read. Readers will learn why these writers felt compelled to write for children. Cormier’s award-winning work as a…
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Sarah Thomson
Virginia Monseau
Robert Cormiers works are read and enjoyed by countless young adults. He is widely considered the most important young adult novelist, a creator of fully realized, memorable characters whose worlds…
Ann Angel
With his novels The Chocolate War and I Am the Cheese, author Robert Cormier earned a reputation for writing novels that realistically and unflinchingly explored the tragic side of human…
Jerry Renault, the protagonist of Robert Cormier’s The Chocolate War, finds himself at the center of bullying efforts conducted by his high school’s secret society when he refuses to comply…
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A Study Guide for Robert Cormier’s The Chocolate War, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
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Ghostly revenge for a tragedy, a fire twenty-five years ago which killed twenty-two children. Is it really the ghost of one of the victims, or is there more to this…
A collection of 85 short stories by award-winning author Robert Cormier originally written as newspaper columns when he was a journalist. I Have Words to Spend includes commentary about people…
When 12-year-old Jason–the last person known to see a young murdered girl alive–is suspected of her murder, the police bring in an expert interrogator, a man who always gets a…
A provocative and compelling story of a teenager determined to confront his past.
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…
A high-school freshman who refuses to participate in the annual fund- raising chocolate sale is forced to defend his convictions.
Released from juvenile detention after serving time for killing his parents, the disturbed Eric becomes obsessed with finding teenage girls to seduce and murder before meeting the equally troubled Lori.
Events of the hijacking of a bus of children by terrorists seeking the return of their homeland are described from the perspectives of a hostage, a terrorist, an Army general…
As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed the Jerome home and left 14-year-old Karen Jerome in a coma, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in…
In this sequel to The Chocolate War , dark deeds continue at Trinity High School, climaxing in a public demonstration of one student’s homemade guillotine.
Tells a provocative story about the return home of teenage war hero and war victim, Francis Joseph Cassavant. This book gets to the heart of human nature and the moral…
Adam’s father is in hospital and Adam has set off to visit him. It’s a long, cold journey; as he travels along, Adam gets tired, and to take his mind…
Eighteen-year-old Frances returns home from World War II without a face, having fallen on a grenade. Now, with gun in hand, Francis is looking for a man he once admired…
After his brother’s death, Henry and his parents move to a new town, where he meets and befriends Mr. Levine, an elderly survivor of the Holocaust. Then another man comes…
Revenge for a tragedy, a fire twenty-five years ago which killed twenty-two children. Must Denny live forever with his father’s fatal mistake?
First published in 1977, I Am the Cheese provides an exciting introduction to psychological thrillers. This sensitive, emotional, subtly-crafted novel by the author of The Chocolate War was a New…
The acclaimed author of The Chocolate War and All Fall Down offers a horrifying examination of the abuse of power in a novel that challenges readers to look at how…
A Study Guide for Robert Cormier’s I Am the Cheese, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Robert J. Cormier
To free us from being at the mercy of the last person who had our ear, God wrote the truth into our nature. It is there to be seen by…
Writing in his familiar, straightforward, and popular voice, Father Robert Cormier presents seven true stories of believers who dared to ask tough questions of God at moments of crisis, and…
Better Than We Believed presented a strikingly clear concept of faith that answered the unhappiness of people we all recognise. This sequel offers more basic questions enlightened by a faith…
Mark Tishler
This series has been created to assist HSC students of English in their understanding of the set texts. This guide focuses on Robert Cromier’s We All Fall Down.
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Thomas K. Hazzard,Diane M. Sanabria
Originally a part of Lancaster, Leominster’s first house was built in 1725 by Gershom Houghton. By the mid-1800s Leominster had become an industrial center. The comb-making industry, begun in Obadiah…
Thomas K Hazzard,Diane M Sanabria
Beryl Young
(This book is entirely in French.) A biographical novel about Romeo LeBlanc, a poor boy from New-Brunswick who would later become Governor general of Canada.
Robert Challe
Les Illustres francaises assembles seven couples who, in the Paris of Louis XIV, are subject to the obstacles which familial strategies have put in the way of their happiness. The…
Edward G. Ballard,Alan B. Brinkley,Ramona T. Cormier,Harold N. Lee,Stephen C. Pepper
Ramona Cormier,Shannon Dubose,James K. Feibleman,John D. Glenn,Harold N. Lee
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970…
