Sixteen-year-old Barney has only fleeting memories about his past but, as a voluntary patient at the institute for experimental medicine, he knows he is different from the terminally ill patients surrounding him. His involvement with the bitter, slowly dying, Mazzo brings Barney hope, pain, and a moment of heroic glory.
year: 1993, 1983, 1984
call number/section: 1000
subjects: terminal care facilities, fiction, death, friendship
Editions
Cormier, Robert
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers (1993)
Sixteen-year-old Barney is amnesic but, as a voluntary patient, he knows he is different from terminally ill patients. His involvement with the bitter, slowly dying Mazzo brings Barney hope, pain, and a moment of heroic glory.
Schools: 2
Cormier, Robert
Pantheon Books (1983)
Sixteen-year-old Barney has only fleeting memories about his past but, as a voluntary patient at the institute for experimental medicine, he knows he is different from the terminally ill patients surrounding him. His involvement with the bitter, slowly dying, Mazzo brings Barney hope, pain, and a moment of heroic glory.
Schools: 4
Cormier, Robert
Dell Pub. Co. (1984)
Barney Snow, a voluntary participant in medical experiments at a hospital for the terminally ill, becomes emotionally involved with the dying patients.
Schools: 0
Cormier
Schools: 0
Cormier, Robert
Schools: 0