Robert Cormier

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1974
  • Latest Book:
    June 2009
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Full Series List in Order

Chocolate War

1 - The Chocolate War (1974)
2 - Beyond the Chocolate War (Jun-2001)

Books in Order: 20 titles

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  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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 fo...

  • Beyond the Chocolate War

    Chocolate War - 2

    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 tor...

  • Heroes Free Reader's Companion with Other

  • Tenderness

    Eighteen-year-old Eric has just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his mother and stepfather. Now he’s looking for tenderness -- tenderness he finds in caressing and killing beautiful girls.Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away f...

  • In the Middle of the Night

    Denny answered the phone.  He was forbidden to ever answer the phone, but at 16, he figured his dad’s rule was just stupid. And Denny is soon plunged into a terrifying ordeal of revenge and madness for a horrific incident that happened 25...

  • Tunes for Bears to Dance To

    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 bu...

  • I Have Words to Spend: Reflections of a Small-Town Editor

    In the tradition of those by William Allen White and Russell Baker, Robert Cormier’s essays, originally written as newspaper columns, offering touching, humorous, and intensely personal observations and anecdotes about small-town life in America. C...



  • A Little Raw on Monday Mornings

  • The Bumblebee Flies Anyway

    Sixteen-year-old Barney can't remember life before the Complex, an experimental clinlc. He knows he's different--he's the control subject. Then he uncovers a terrible secret about himself, a secret that drives him to fulfill his and his fellow subjec...

  • Take Me Where the Good Times Are

  • Now and at the Hour

  • After the First Death

    Sixteen-year-old Miro had instructions to kill the bus driver immediately. They would then take the busload of children to the bridge and begin the standoff. Artkin was Miro’s mentor; the mastermind behind this act of terrorism that would...

  • Other Bells for Us to Ring

    A young girl tests her curiosity about faith when her father is missing in action and her best friend disappears during World War II. Darcy Webster, a Unitarian, attempts to resolve her crisis with a visit to an old nun whose prayers were said to bri...

  • 8 + 1

    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Relationships of friend with friend, father with daughter, black with white, and young with old provide the basis of nine stories which explore the feelings and reactions of people in various situations...

  • I Am the cheese

    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 un...

  • The Chocolate War

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    Chocolate War - 1

    Jerry Renault is pondering the question on the poster in his locker: Do I dare disturb the universe? Refusing to sell chocolates in the annual Trinity School fund-raiser may not seem like a radical thing to do. But when Jerry challenges a secret s...

  • Heroes

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    Francis Joseph Cassavant is 18. He has just returned home from the Second World War, and he has no face. He does have a gun and a mission: to murder his childhood hero.  Francis lost most of his face when he fell on a grenade in France. He ...



  • We All Fall Down

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    Buddy Walker is troubled by his parent’s recent divorce, and when Harry Flowers suggests a prank, he goes along, just for opportunity to do something different. He doesn’t realize that someone is watching.  When Jane Jerome’s house is...

Award-Winning Books by Robert Cormier

Heroes
2000 Heartland Award -- Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert Cormier has published 20 books.

Robert Cormier does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Frenchtown Summer, was published in June 2009.

The first book by Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War, was published in January 1974.

Yes. Robert Cormier has 1 series.
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