John Richter, the Youthful Offender Program Coordinator at the Orange County Corrections Department in Florida, writes to Robert Cormier about his Literature-N-Living class. He describes the class and the work students do including discussion, essay…
In this two-page, handwritten letter, John Richter, head of a Florida program to help incarcerated adolescent males, expresses his sympathy and sorrow at the news of Robert Cormier's passing. He underscores that Cormier's novels helped the youth…