Jerry's one of the best: honest, straightforward and hardworking. He's just scraped into the football team at his new school, and things are looking good. Then he meets Archie, leader of The Vigils, the school Mafia.
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(Listening Library (Audio), July 13, 2004)
Reissued now in hardcover with a new introduction by the author, Cormier's chilling look at the insidious world of gang intimidation and the abuse of power in a boys' boarding school is no less relevant today than it was in 1974.From the Hardcover edition.
Stunned by his mother's recent death and appalled by the way his father sleepwalks through life, Jerry Renault, a New England highschool student, pnders the poster in his locker--Do I dare disturb the universe?
A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund-raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.