Robert Cormier
4) Fade
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English
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Paul Moreaux, the thirteen-year-old son of French Canadian immigrants, inherits the ability to become invisible, but this power soon leads to death, destruction, and no escape.
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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They are all going to die. All of the patients at the Complex are terminal, with no hope of reprieve. But they’ve volunteered to come here, to this experimental clinic to allow themselves to be test subjects. Still, they’re all going to die.
All except Barney. Barney cannot remember much about his life before the Complex, but he knows that he’s there as a control. To see how the drugs being tested will affect a nonterminal
6) Tenderness
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English
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A pyschological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.
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English
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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...
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English
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During one hot summer long ago, Eugene begins his journey of self-awareness. It is the summer of his first love, of expeditions with his boisterous cousins, of Sahara afternoons and lingering evenings full of questions and mysteries. But it is most especially the summer of the airplane and the bond it creates between Eugene and the distant, enigmatic father he adores.
11) Heroes: a novel
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1998
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.
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Barney has only fleeting memories about his past but, as a voluntary patient at the institute for experimental medicine, he knows he is different from the terminally ill patients surrounding him. His involvement with the bitter, slowly dying, Mazzo brings Barney hope, pain, and a moment of heroic glory.
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c1979
Language
English
Description
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 involved in the rescue operation, and his son, chosen as the go-between.