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Tenderness
Contributor(s): Cormier, Robert (Author)
ISBN: 0385731337     ISBN-13: 9780385731331
Publisher: Rh Childrens Books
OUR PRICE:   $8.09  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2004
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Annotation: 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 top form in this chilling portrait of a serial murderer. . . . Gripping."--"School Library Journal, Starred
"An "ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Runaways
- Young Adult Fiction | Law & Crime
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Violence
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 890
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.19" W x 8.03" (0.39 lbs) 240 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 14778
Reading Level: 6.0   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 8.0
 
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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 top form in this chilling portrait of a serial murderer. . . . Gripping."--School Library Journal, Starred

An ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults