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Books : I Am the Cheese (Readers Circle)
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I Am the Cheese (Readers Circle) by: Robert Cormier Vegetarian Books Price: $8.99 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780375840395 ISBN: 0375840397 Label: Knopf Books for Young Readers Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: September 11, 2007 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: September 11, 2007 Studio: Knopf Books for Young Readers Sales Rank: 59647 Related Items: Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Adam's father is in hospital and Adam has set off to visit him. It's a long, cold journey; as he travels along, Adam gets tired, and to take his mind off his exhaustion, he traces the events that led up to his father being taken to hospital. He had testified against government level corruption and the family became the subject of a government-orchestrated protection plan. The journey is a kind of odyssey, a search - through the mysteries of the mind. Adam must unlock the past and really remember it if he is to survive. Amazon.com Review: Imagine discovering that your whole life has been a fiction, your identity altered, and a new family history created. Suddenly nothing is as it once seemed; you can trust no one, maybe not even yourself. It is exactly this revelation that turns 14-year-old Adam Farmer's life upside down. As he tries to ascertain who he really is, Adam encounters a past, present, and future too horrible to contemplate. Suspense builds as the fragments of the story are assembled--a missing father, government corruption, espionage--until the shocking conclusion shatters the fragile mosaic. Young adult readers will easily relate to the shy and confused Adam, whose desperate searching for self resembles a disturbingly exaggerated version of the identity crisis common to the teenage years. First published in 1977, I Am the Cheese provides an exciting introduction to psychological thrillers. This sensitive, emotional, subtly crafted novel by Robert Cormier (author of The Chocolate War) was a New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year, as well as a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. --Emilie Coulter Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - A story of unexpected twists and multiple identities.I am the Cheese is a great story about a young boy named Adam Farmer who is from the fictional town of Monument, Massachusetts. His life is very normal, but very unusual at the same time. It all starts one day when he is very young and his family leaves their home in the middle of the night. They arrive in Monument a few days later. His old location is also in the Northeast. Throughout the years Adam has continously heard his dad talking to a man named Mr. Grey on the phone. He does not know who the man is, but he does know that Mr. Grey plays a very significant role in his and his family's life. Adam eventually gets suspicious when he notices he has two different birth certificates with different birth dates. The whole book is based around ... Read More: Rating: - Who is Adam Farmer?Robert Cormier's I am the Cheese (Dell Laurel-Leaf, 1977), tells the heartbreaking tale of Adam Farmer as he journeys to find his father and uncover the truth about his past. Alternating between Adam's 80 mile bike ride to Vermont and mysterious taped sessions with Brint, an interrogator who is supposed to be helping Adam uncover the truths of his past, the reader begins to learn more and more about Adam's troubled and confusing past. Cormier expertly draws the reader in, and allows the reader to distrust and question Brint's motives just as Adam does. By dropping hints ever so slightly, both the reader and Adam begin to look at Brint in another light. Maybe he isn't a helpful doctor trying to help Adam, but a man desperate to find out ... Read More: Rating: - Just Because You're Paranoid...Adam Farmer doesn't know who he is. He's suspected things weren't right since a frenzied midnight bus ride when he was three. In his father's desk, he finds two birth certificates for himself bearing different birthdates. Though his parents have told him they have no living family, he eavesdrops on his mother's phone call with a woman who refers to Adam as her nephew. As the discoveries escalate, so does Adam's paranoia. Things he had accepted before now seem suspicious - even treacherous - like his father's meetings in their basement with the mysterious Mr. Grey and the family's emergency "vacations" following whispered phone conversations. Realizing that Adam "knows," his parents take them into their confidence and reveal the dangerous ... Read More: Rating: - Suspenseful Psychological Thriller for TeensI am the Cheese by Robert Cormier (Random House, 1997), is the story of a boy on a mission to see his father, a mysterious man in an institution, and Adam, a boy who discovers that his life has all been one big lie. Their stories weave in a suspenseful plot that keeps the reader guessing and thinking at every twist and turn. Readers may be taken aback, or even confused, by the book's use of three viewpoints. All three narrators feel underdeveloped, like mere facets of a real person. At first, the connections are not clear. Careful readers, however, will soon make links between the three characters and get wrapped up in their collective story. As the story builds, the reader is asked to become a detective of sorts, drawing their own conclusions ... Read More: Rating: - No one can be trusted.No one can be trusted. No one. Robert Cormier sends readers on a gripping psychological journey in the chilling mystery "I am the Cheese" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1977). Teenage Adam Farmer climbs aboard his bike destined to find his father and finds along the journey fragments of his own self identity connected to a loving (yet secret) family life. Bits and pieces of the protagonist's life are revealed through three different perspectives, Adam's first person bike ride, an interrogation transcription, and third person anecdotes amplifying the suspense of the story. Readers will be on the edge of their seats, turning the pages as fast as the pedals on Adam's bike trying to make sense of the mystery as a story of lies, distrust, and government corruption ... Read More: |
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