About this title: A group of teenagers break into and vandalize the home of the Jerome family. When 14-year-old Karen Jerome arrives home unexpectedly, she is beaten into a coma. As the family tries to deal with the tragedy, Jane, the older sister, falls in love with Buddy Walker not knowing that he is one of the people who destroyed her home and put her sister in a coma.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Laurel-Leaf
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780440215561ISBN:0440215560
Description: Good in Unknown jacket. Good to Very Good 0440215560 Tight spine, some cover and edge wear, with writing on inside of front cover. Young adult fiction. (#2422) read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Moderate wear on Cover/Interior Pages. (W3) Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 208 p. Audience: Children/juvenile; Young adult. read more
Description: Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 208 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13:9780385305013ISBN:038530501X
Description: Good. Purchasing this book supports the King County Library System Foundation. Thriftbooks and KCLSF have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Reader
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780385305013ISBN:038530501X
Description: Good. Hardcover ex-library book with dust jacket in good condition. All usual stamps and markings. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. read more
Edition: Large type / large print.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780440215561ISBN:0440215560
Description: Very Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 208 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
"This is a frequently challenged book (like most of Cormier's books) about a group of teenagers who break into a house, vandalize it, and assault the young teenage girl who makes the mistake of coming home early. The violence is ugly, brutal and exceedingly real. The book unflinchingly depicts it and then moves beyond it to address the consequences of this violence for everyone concerned.
Cormier deals with dark subjects in a complex and mature way. So many books for young adults romanticize violence in one way or another, but his do not. They show it in all its nasty, empowering glory. They're disturbing and make you feel dirty once you've read them, but they also make you think and analyze the whys and wherefores and that's what good books do.
This one is disturbing enough to give you nightmares, but compelling and truth telling all the same. Given the amount of violence our young adults experience in their day-to-day worlds, more books need to help them explicate it for themselves."
"If you loved The Chocolate War, you will probably enjoy this one as well, although this is an easier read.
One of the protagonists sees people as either "good" or "bad." He ultimately learns that what you do determines in which category you fit, not what you think or how you feel. Interesting characters and realistic social dynamics for a high school student to think about, along with a page-turner plot. As always with Cormier, no cheesy fairy-tale endings. Just reality.
For teachers & parents:
Deals very realistically with alcoholism, peer pressure, and divorce. Also explores sociopathic behavior, realistic teen romance. I'd recommend this to a teen trying to understand alcoholism (maybe has a parent who is alcoholic, is struggling with it himself, etc.)"
"I actually liked the ending of this book, which is a surprise because usually I don't like the endings of Robert Cormier's books. The plotline about the Avenger seems a little obsolete though..."
"This book is excellent like all the other Cormier books I've read, but I feel that it is best for eighth, ninth, tenth grade. The content is for mature readers only--in the book, a high school girl is terrorized by a gang of local boys in her own home and ends up in a coma. In a strange twist of fate, her sister ends up dating one of the boys.
Several story lines come together as an eleven-year-old serial killer calling himself The Avenger monitors the family, causing further violence and terror in the story.
The book is well crafted and full of suspense, rich characters, and a complex plot. However, it is best read by young adults."
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