Preview of Crosses Summary:

"We cut ourselves." Like the first line of Robert Cormier's groundbreaking novel The Chocolate War ("They murdered him"), Crosses starts with a bang and never lets up.

Crosses tells the story of two young women who are cutters. Katie and Nancy cut their own skin with sharp objects; Nancy even keeps a supply of jagged glass in her purse or hidden in her room so she has quick and easy access when the...