Robert Cormier Books In Order

Chocolate War Books In Order

  1. The Chocolate War (1974)
  2. Beyond the Chocolate War (1985)

Novels

  1. Now and At the Hour (1960)
  2. A Little Raw on Monday Mornings (1963)
  3. Take Me Where the Good Times Are (1965)
  4. I Am the Cheese (1977)
  5. After the First Death (1979)
  6. The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1983)
  7. Fade (1988)
  8. Other Bells for Us to Ring (1990)
  9. We All Fall Down (1991)
  10. Tunes for Bears to Dance to (1992)
  11. In the Middle of the Night (1995)
  12. Tenderness (1997)
  13. Heroes (1998)
  14. The Rag and Bone Shop (2001)

Collections

  1. Eight Plus One (1980)
  2. Frenchtown Summer (1999)

Non fiction

  1. I Have Words to Spend (1991)

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Robert Cormier Books Overview

The Chocolate War

Stunned by his mother’s recent death and appalled by the way his father sleepwalks through life, Jerry Renault, a New England high school student, ponders the poster in his locker Do I dare disturb the universe?Part of his universe is Archie Costello, leader of a secret school societ the Virgils and master of intimidation. Archie himself is intimidated by a cool, ambitious teacher into having the Virgils spearhead the annual fund raising event a chocolate sale. When Jerry refuses to be bullied into selling chocolates, he becomes a hero, but his defiance is a threat to Archie, the Virgils, and the school. In the inevitable showdown, Archie’s skill at intimidation turns Jerry from hero to outcast, to victim, leaving him alone and terribly vulnerable.

Beyond the Chocolate War

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 Archie Costello, commander of the secret school organizationcalled the Virgils, stall has some torturous assignments to hand out before he graduates. In spite of this pleasure, Archie is troubled by his right hand man, Obie, who has started to move away from the Virgils. Luckily Archie knows his stooges will fix that. But won’t Archie be shocked when he discovers the surprise Obie has waiting for him?And there are surprises waiting for others. The time for revenge has come to those boys who secretly suffered the trials of Trinity. The fuse is set for the final explosion. Who will survive?

I Am the Cheese

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 off his exhaustion, he traces the events that led up to his father being taken to hospital. He had testified against government level corruption and the family became the subject of a government orchestrated protection plan. The journey is a kind of odyssey, a search through the mysteries of the mind. Adam must unlock the past and really remember it if he is to survive.

After the First Death

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 deceit and intrigue surrounding this intrigue. Characters include the 16 year old terrorist, Miro, a boy with no past and no future.

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway

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.

Fade

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 him shocking secrets and drives him toward a chilling act.

Imagine what might happen if Holden Caufield stepped into H. G. Wells The Invisible Man, and you ll have an idea how good Fade is…
. I was absolutely riveted. Stephen King

Other Bells for Us to Ring

Eleven year old Darcy hasn’t lived in any one place long enough to have a best friend until her family settles in Frenchtown and she meets Kathleen Mary O’Hara. Darcy is spellbound by Kathleen Mary’s vivid tales of Catholicism. She shows Darcy a world beyond Frenchtown: a world of daring games and secrets, of sins and miracles. With Darcy’s father off fighting the war somewhere in Europe, Kathleen Mary couldn’t have come into her life at a better time. Then, just as suddenly as they appeared, Kathleen Mary and her family disappear. While Darcy waits to hear from her, she learns that her father is missing in action. Christmas is coming, and Darcy is unsure about the power of God’s love. Will the miracle she hopes for really happen?

We All Fall Down

They entered the house at 9:02 P.M. and trashed their way through the Cape Cod cottage. At 9:46 P.M. Karen Jerome made the mistake of arriving home early. Thrown down the baseme*nt stairs, Karen slips into a coma. The trashers slip away. But The Avenger has seen it all.

Tunes for Bears to Dance to

A masterful portrayal of hatred, prejudice and manipulation that challenges readers to examine how they would behave in the face of evil. Henry meets and befriends Mr. Levine, an elderly Holocaust survivor, who is carving a replica of the village where he lived and which was destroyed in the war. Henry’s friendship with Mr. Levine is put to the test when his prejudiced boss, Mr. Hairston, asks Henry to destroy Mr. Levine’s village.

In the Middle of the Night

The sin of the father will be visited upon the son.

On Halloween, eight years before Denny Colbert was born, his father was involved in a tragic accident that killed twenty two children. And one of those children can’t forget.

Sixteen year old Denny just wants to be like other kids his age. But he isn’t allowed to have a driver’s license or answer the telephone, and his family moves so often that he’s always the new kid in school. Then there are the phone calls they start every October, a week or two before the anniversary. Every year, the ringing of the telephone wakes Denny up In the Middle of the Night. And every year, his father calmly answers the calls, listening to the angry voice on the other end for several minutes before hanging up. But this Halloween is different it’s been twenty five years since the accident. Denny and his mother dread the inevitable phone calls, letters. and newspaper articles. But Denny’s father is determined that they are not going to disconnect the phone and they are not going to move again.

When Denny defies his parents one afternoon and answers the telephone, he finds himself drawn into a provocative, and potentially deadly, relationship with the mystery caller someone called Lulu who haunts his days and nights and may haunt yours.

In this chillingly suspenseful novel, Robert Cormier examines the consequences of a young man’s rebellion against his father’s past.

Tenderness

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? Told from their alternating points of view, this harrowing thriller speeds to its fateful conclusion with an irresistible force, and a final twist that will not be easily forgotten.

Heroes

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The Rag and Bone Shop

Twelve year old Jason is accused of the brutal murder of a young girl. Is he innocent or guilty? The shocked town calls on an interrogator with a stellar reputation: he always gets a confession. The confrontation between Jason and his interrogator forms the chilling climax of this terrifying look at what can happen when the pursuit of justice becomes a personal crusade for victory at any cost. From the Hardcover edition.

Eight Plus One

Meet seventeen year old Mike, who visits his grandmother’s bedside and learns a family secret.A divorced father who discovers only love, not bribes, can keep his daughter ‘his’ on Thursdays. And Jerry, a young boy desperately looking for the missing Grover Cleveland card to complete his set of president cards. Here are nine stories by Robert Cormier, one of the most gifted writers of young adult fiction today; stories that are warm, touching, and intensely personal to be savored by readers of all ages.

Frenchtown Summer

Eugene is remembering the summer of 1938 in Frenchtown, a time when he began to wonder what I was doing here on the planet Earth. Here in vibrant, exquisite detail are his lovely mother, his aunts and uncles, cousins and friends, and especially his beloved, enigmatic father. Here, too, is the world of a mill town: the boys swimming in a brook that is red or purple or green, depending on the dyes dumped that day by the comb shop; the visit of the ice man; and the boys trips to the cemetery or the forbidden railroad tracks. And here also is a darker world the mystery of a girl murdered years before. Robert Cormier’s touching, funny, melancholy chronicle of a vanished world celebrates a son s connection to his father and human relationships that are timeless.

I Have Words to Spend

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, nature, music, and movies. Excellent oral reading topics for speech/drama/theater clas*ses.

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