Heroes

Robert Cormier

About this book

After serving in the United States Army in World War II and having his face blown off by a grenade, Francis, a young soldier, returns home hoping to find--and kill--the former childhood hero he feels betrayed him.

Subjects

  • betrayal
  • disfigured men
  • eighteen-year-old men
  • fiction
  • forties (20th century)
  • heroes
  • orphans
  • people with disabilities
  • reading level-grade 11
  • reading level-grade 12
  • revenge
  • veterans
  • world war, 1939-1945
  • young adult fiction