num_pages: 240
description: Eighteen-year-old Eric has just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his parents. Now he's looking for tenderness--tenderness he finds in killing girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive and sexually precocious, she is also looking for tenderness--tenderness that she finds in Eric. Will Lori and Eric be each other's salvation or destruction? An ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
language: English
title: Tenderness
titlecomplete: Tenderness
genres: Realistic Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Young Adult, Horror, Teen, Mystery, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2900
publisher: Ember