Author : Robert Cormier
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 1991-12-01
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 9780440211341
Gracie Adams, a widowed mother of three, is horrified to discover that one evening's emotional consolation has led to an unexpected pregnancy.
Author : Margaret O. Hyde
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 2013-11
Category :
ISBN : 1438149336
Author : Adrienne E. Gavin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137284889
This compelling New Casebook is the first essay collection devoted to the work of groundbreaking American author Robert Cormier. Written by a team of international children's literature experts, the volume offers a variety of critical and theoretical approaches to the range of Cormier's controversial young adult novels. The newly-commissioned essays explore the author's earlier best-known writings for teenagers as well as his later less critically examined texts, focussing on key issues such as adolescence, identity, bullying and child corruption. Recognizing Cormier's achievement, this long-overdue critical resource is essential reading for anyone with an interest in his influential work and lasting impact on young adult fiction.
Author : Robert Cormier
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 28,23 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : 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
Author : Robert Cormier
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0307548449
Money’s tight and Henry is lucky to have the job at Mr. Hairston’s grocery store. His parents are both lost in despair following the death of Henry’s older brother, and Henry is glad for the opportunity to feel like he’s helping. Saving to buy a marker for Eddie’s grave, Henry tries to ignore Mr. Hairston’s commentary about the customers. But Henry is shocked when he is told he’s being laid off. That is, unless he agrees to do one thing, one terrible thing.
Author : Patricia J. Campbell
Publisher : Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Young adult fiction, American
ISBN : 0385730462
Explore Robert Cormier's writings for young adults.
Author : Robert Cormier
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 23,50 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : 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.
Author : Donna Gilliland Shippen
Publisher : Walch Publishing
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Children's literature, American
ISBN : 9780825139154
Author : Janet Burroway
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,27 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1480463310
DIVDIVDIVJanet Burroway’s critically acclaimed novel, which the New Yorker hailed as “enormously enjoyable” and Newsweek called “a novel of rare and lustrous quality,” is the story of a woman whose unraveling marriage sends her on a personal odyssey halfway around the world to Japan/divDIV Virginia Marbalestier has come a long way from the California trailer park where she grew up. Now a designer at the textile firm where her husband is the number-two executive, as the mother of a young daughter and the mistress of an English Tudor manor, she has it all. But her husband, Oliver, is becoming increasingly elitist and controlling, resentful of her friendships, and rough in bed. The arrival of a new employee, a distressed young woman in whom Virginia finds the missing threads of her own identity, and the firm’s possible merger with a Japanese competitor heighten the tensions between Virginia and Oliver, and impel Virginia to set off on a foreign adventure that will change her life forever./div/div/div
Author : Paul J. Austin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1469111462
The author’s parents and grandparents and several aunts, as far back as he remembers frequently told him to finish school and go to college to learn the skill of a lawyer. That was due to Paul’s excellent memory and inquisitive mind; and to become a lawyer they believed that Paul could help a lot of people! Paul had every intent on fulfilling the dreams of his parents and grandparents but the tables turned and trouble at school started to aggrandize so he dropped out of high school. Paul’s cousin, Farley, introduced him to the dope game when he was about fourteen years old. Mr. Claude W. Austin, Jr., the author’s father purchased all instruments for a band; having five sons perhaps he perceived that they would pick them up and take it to success. The younger brothers, Claude Jr., and Dallas, learned to play some of the instruments. And even though Paul could sing very well, he found selling drugs more interesting. When Paul was about eighteen, he met a former prostitute that was about thirty-three and she often talked about some of the things that the pimp was popular for and had her and the other hookers carrying out. Elaine was working a 9 to 5 job and she invited Paul to move in with her and she pledged to take care of him!! But by then, Paul had realized that he was a Casanova, and therefore he wasn’t gonna allow one woman to corral him!!! Paul’s idea on pimping came from Elaine.
