I Am the Cheese

By Robert Cormier
(Knopf Books for Young Readers, Paperback, 9780375840395, 256pp.)

Publication Date: September 11, 2007

Other Editions of This Title: DVD-Video, Mass Market Paperback, , Prebound

Categories: Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories, Social Issues - Peer Pressure

Something about Robert Cormier's I Am the Cheese, made author Ben Marcus worry. It was the first time he had encountered an unreliable narrator â?? and he found it disconcerting. Do you have a favorite narrator who doesn't quite tell the truth? Tell us who in the comments. More at NPR.org

"A horrifying tale . . . the buildup of suspense is terrific." - School Library Journal, Starred"AN ABSORBING, EVEN brilliant job. The book is assembled in mosaic fashion: a tiny chip here, a chip there. . . . Everything is related to something else; everything builds and builds to a fearsome climax. . . . Cormier . . . has the knack of making horror out of the ordinary, as the masters of suspense know how to do." - The New York Times Book Review