Tunes for Bears to Dance to

by Robert Cormier

Overview

Henry Cassavant works at a grocery store, earning money to help his parents. His bigoted employer threatens to fire Henry unless he destroys the work of Mr. Levine, a Holocaust survivor. What can Henry do? For mature readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780780739239
Publisher:	Random House Childrens Books
Publication date:	01/28/2001
Pages:	101
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

American novelist and journalist Robert Cormier, who died in 2000, lived all of his 75 years within a few miles of his beloved hometown of Leominster, Massachusetts. The settings of Monument and Frenchtown in Cormier's I Am the Cheese (1977), Heroes (1998) and Frenchtown Summer (1999), are fictionalized versions of Leominster and its surroundings. His most famous work, The Chocolate War (1974), is heralded as a barrier-crushing piece of young adult literature that shattered the unwritten rules of the time. Cormier's work unapologetically dispensed with the notion that adolescents should be shielded from the more troublesome aspects of life.

Date of Birth:

January 17, 1925

Date of Death:

November 2, 2000

Place of Birth:

Leominster, Massachusetts

Place of Death:

Leominster, Massachusetts

Education:

Fitchburg State College

Website:

http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/author/cormier.html