description: Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school.
language: English
title: The Catcher in the Rye
titlecomplete: The Catcher in the Rye
characters: Sally Hayes, Holden Caulfield, Allie Caulfield, Stradlater, Robert Ackley, D.B Caulfield, Phoebe Caulfield
genres: Read For School, Coming Of Age, American, School, Novels, Young Adult, Literature, High School, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 3393493
places: New York City, New York, Agerstown, Pennsylvania
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Teen Read Award
category: Best All-Time-Fave, awardedAt: -568051200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Bantam Books