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(0)Robert Cormier
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the back of Adam Farmer's mind he always knew there was something not quite right about his family. It was more than just the fact that his Dad seemed to be stoically going through the motions, or that his sad-eyed mother spent most of her time in her room. Somewhere in the recesses of Adam's memory he recalled a frantic journey in the middle of the night, hurried like criminals onto a bus, staring out the windows at some dark, malevolent thing...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
All young adults familiar with Robert Cormier's nationally-acclaimed story of peer pressure at an exclusive prep school, The Chocolate War, will want to listen to this book. This brilliant sequel reveals what happens to devious Archie Costello when the students at Trinity School decide to take revenge on him. The school year is almost at an end, and the chocolate sale is past history. But no one at Trinity School can forget The Chocolate War. Devious...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house.
7) Heroes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After joining the army at fifteen and having his face blown away by a grenade in a battle in France, Francis returns home to Frenchtown hoping to find--and kill--the former childhood hero he feels betrayed him.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mike visits his grandmother’s bedside and learns a family secret.
A divorced father discovers that only love, not bribes, can keep his daughter “his” on Thursdays.
A young white boy finds that friendship—and betrayal—can cross racial boundaries.
Robert Cormier is one of America’s most acclaimed writers for young adults. Here are nine touching and
10) Tenderness
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Eric has just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his parents. Now he's looking for tenderness--tenderness he finds in killing girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive and sexually precocious, she is also looking for tenderness--tenderness that she finds in Eric. Will Lori and Eric be each other's salvation or destruction? An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1997, c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Denny lives in the shadow of a deadly accident with which his father was connected when he was Denny's age, a disaster for which some of the survivors still blame his father.
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1992, c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When her father is transferred to an army camp in Massachusetts during the Second World War, Darcy feels isolated in her French-Canadian neighborhood until she meets the vivacious Kathleen Mary O'Hara and learns about Catholicism.
15) Fade
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Paul Moreaux, the thirteen-year-old son of French Canadian immigrants, inherits the ability to become invisible, but this power soon leads to death and destruction.
18) Tenderness
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Lori Cranston is a confused fifteen-year-old dreamer in search of an escape from her troubled home life. She discovers and becomes enthralled with Eric, a young man with a violent past. As they embark on a harrowing journey, a hardened local cop, who has been following Eric for years, is intent on exposing him as a serial killer before Lori's fate is determined.
19) I am the cheese
Publisher
Empire Pictures
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
After witnessing a suspicious accident that killed his parents a teenage boy struggles to uncover his true identity without getting himself killed.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Archie is the brains of a society of thugs in sport coats called the Vigils. The Vigils have gained power over their fellow students and faculty by using intimidation. They meet their match in new student, Jerry Renault. Jerry refuses to participate in the school's annual fund-raising chocolate sale event. Brother Leon, the school's sadistic headmaster, makes a pact with the Vigils to sell 20,000 boxes of chocolates so he can be promoted to head of...