I Am the Cheese (Anniversary) by Robert Cormier David Macaulay berries and flowers

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Originally published in 1972

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including The Wild Places

Before You Begin

I Am the Cheese (Anniversary) by Robert Cormier David Macaulay berries and flowersBefore there was Lois Lowry's The Giver or M. T. Anderson's Feed, there was Robert Cormier's I Am the Cheese, a subversive classic that broke new ground for YA literature. A boy's search for his father becomes a desperate journey to unlock a secret past. But the past must not be remembered if the boy is to survive. As he searches for the truth that hovers at the edge of his mind, the boy and readers arrive at a shattering conclusion. "An absorbing,