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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 and destruction.

Il Trinity College è un istituto cattolico per la middle class: divisa, disciplina e tradizioni. Tra queste, vendere scatole di cioccolatini per beneficienza. Jerry, il nuovo arrivato, osa dire no, ma la banda dei Vigilanti, ragazzi dominanti, non accetta il suo rifiuto e tra i banchi di scuola si scatena la violenza. Età di lettura: da 12 anni.

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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 York Times" Outstanding Book of the Year, as well as a "School Library Journal" Best Book of the Year.

Robert Cormier was a journalist and author, acclaimed for his young adult novels with their uncompromising examination of contemporary issues. His novels included the prize-winning THE CHOCOLATE WAR and I AM THE CHEESE. Robert Cormier lived all his life in Massachusetts, USA, he died in 2000 aged 75.

Presuming nothing that both traditional believers and critical-thinking searchers will not find in their hearts, Better Than We Believed presents a strikingly clear concept of faith that answers the unhappiness of people you will recognize: MARK, who struggles with anger IRENE, who battles stress HENRY, who is consumed by hatred GLORIA, who has been betrayed BRIAN, who suffers depression MARY, who feels trapped by her duty to a loved one JOY, ...

Jedes Jahr veranstaltet die Schule den Verkauf von Schokolade, um ihr Budget aufzubessern. Als der Neuling Jerry nicht teilnehmen will, bewirkt er eine Kettenreaktion, die unhaltbare Zustände an der Schule aufzeigt.

EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ERIC HAS just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his mother and stepfather. Now he's looking for some tenderness—tenderness he finds in caressing and killing beautiful girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive 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? "Cormier is in t...

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Before there was Lois Lowry's The Giver or M. T. Anderson's Feed, there was Robert Cormier's I Am the Cheese, a subversive classic that broke new ground for YA literature. A boy's search for his father becomes a desperate journey to unlock a secret past. But the past must not be remembered if the boy is to survive. As he searches for the truth that hovers at the edge of his mind, the boy-and readers-arrive at a shattering conclusion. "An absor...

In 1974, after suffering rejections from seven major publishers, this uncompromising portrait of conformity and corruption made its debut and it quickly became a bestselling--and provocative--classic for young adults.

The head of Trinity College asks Archie Costello, the leader of The Vigils, a secret society that rules the school, to sell 20, 000 boxes of chocolates in the annual fund-raising effort. But Carter and Obie, leading members of The Vigils, can't contemplate the future until they have destroyed Archie Costello.

Better Than We Believed won the Eric Hoffer Award for good reason: presuming nothing that both traditional believers and critical-thinking searchers will not find in their hearts, it presents a strikingly clear concept of faith that answers the unhappiness of people we all recognize. This sequel offers more basic questions enlightened by a faith that makes sense, and that helps to live: when anger hits, or betrayal, a life threatening illness ...

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?

In 1974, after suffering rejections from seven major publishers, this uncompromising portrait of conformity and corruption made its debut and it quickly became a bestselling--and provocative--classic for young adults.

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...

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 ...

IN 1974, AFTER SUFFERING rejections from seven major publishers, "The Chocolate War" made its debut. An uncompromising portrait of conformity and corruption, it quickly became a bestselling--and provocative--classic for young adults. "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, " St...

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 order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with Jane Jerome, Karen's sister.

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.