Heroes

By Robert Cormier

Subjects: People with disabilities, Veterans, Young adult fiction, Reading Level-Grade 12, World War, 1939-1945, Disfigured men, Heroes, Fiction, Reading Level-Grade 11, Orphans, Revenge, Eighteen-year-old men, Forties (20th century), Betrayal

Description: 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.