of work that provides young adults with a window through which they can view the world, and which will help them to grow and understand themselves and their role in society. Cormier won the annual award in 1991, citing The Chocolate War; I Am the Cheese; and After the First Death. The Chocolate War has been challenged in various libraries and schools for its language and its depictions of sexual activity, secret societies, and anarchic students. Between 1990 and 2000 it was the fourth most frequently challenged book in the US, according to the American Library Association. Awards In 1991, The American Library Association bestowed its Margaret Edwards Award to I Am the Cheese, citing it as one of three 1974 to 1979 books "taken to heart by young adults over a period of years.” The ALA said that "Cormier's brilliantly crafted and troubling novels have achieved the status of classics in young adult literature." I Am the Cheese won the 1997 Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association. Named for the mythical bird, the Phoenix Award recognizes the best English language children's book that did not win a major award when it was originally published twenty years earlier. Death Cormier died on November 2, 2000 due to complications from a blood clot. Published works Non-Fiction I Have Words to Spend [Collected Newspaper Articles] (1991) Fiction Novels except as stated Now and at the Hour (1960) A Little Raw on Monday Mornings (1963) Take Me Where the Good Times Are (1965) The Chocolate War (1974) I Am the Cheese (1977) After the First Death (1979) 8 Plus 1 (1980), short story collection The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1983) Beyond The Chocolate War (1985) Fade (1988) Other Bells for Us to Ring (1990); UK title, Darcy (1991) We All Fall Down (1991) Tunes for Bears to Dance To (1992) In the Middle of the Night (1995) Tenderness (1997) Heroes (1998) Frenchtown Summer (1999) The Rag and Bone Shop (2000) Film adaptations I Am the Cheese (1983), in which Cormier appears as "Mr. Hertz" The Chocolate War (1988) Lapse of Memory (1991), an adaptation of I Am the Cheese The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999) Tenderness (2009) The Assignment (2012), a student feature-film adaptation of The Chocolate War See also References External links Robert Cormier at Random House Authors Robert Cormier at Barnes & Noble Meet the Writers Robert Cormier at Library of Congress