The Rag and Bone Shop (10 page)

About the Author

Robert Cormier
’s acclaimed novels for young adults have been translated into many languages and have consistently appeared on the Best Books for Young Adults lists of the American Library Association,
The New York Times
and
School Library Journal
. In 1991 he won the Margaret A. Edwards Award, honoring a lifetime contribution to writing for teens, for
The Chocolate War, I Am the Cheese
and
After the First Death
. His most recent novel for Delacorte Press was
Frenchtown Summer,
winner of the
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction.

Other books by Robert Cormier

After the First Death

Beyond the Chocolate War

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway

The Chocolate War

Eight Plus One

Fade

Frenchtown Summer

Heroes

I Am the Cheese

I Have Words to Spend

In the Middle of the Night

A Little Raw on Monday Mornings

Now and at the Hour

Other Bells for Us to Ring

Take Me Where the Good Times Are

Tenderness

Tunes for Bears to Dance To

We All Fall Down

Published by

Delacorte Press

an imprint of

Random House Children’s Books

a division of Random House, Inc.

1540 Broadway

New York, New York 10036

Copyright © 2001 by Constance S. Cormier, executrix for the estate of Robert Cormier

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cormier, Robert.

    The rag and bone shop: a novel / by Robert Cormier.

        p. cm.

    Summary: Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.

    [1. Criminal investigation—Fiction. 2. Detectives—Fiction. 3. Police—

Fiction. 4. Murder—Fiction. 5. Massachusetts—Fiction.]    I. Title.

    PZ7.C81634 Rag 2001

    [Fic]—dc21                    2001028540

October 2001

eISBN: 978-0-385-72992-5

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