Cormier, Robert

A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fundraising drive, and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.

As the Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the vandals, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with a girl who lives in the house.

A young boy desperately tries to unlock his past yet knows he must hide those memories if he is to remain alive.

Eleven-year-old Henry escapes his family's problems by watching the woodcarving of Mr. Levine, an elderly Holocaust survivor, but when Henry is manipulated into betraying his friend he comes to know true evil.

A young high school student refuses to join the school's annual fund raising drive and learns about intimidation and peer pressure first hand.

Francis Joseph Cassavant is eighteen. 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 received the Silver Star for bravery, but was it really an act of heroism? Now, having survived, he is looking for a man he once admired and respected, a man adored by many people, a man who also received a Silver Star for bravery. A man who destroyed Francis' life.