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The Chocolate War
The Chocolate War
Author: Robert Cormier
Stunned by his mother's recent death and appalled by the way his father sleepwalks through life, Jerry Renault, a New England high school student, ponders the poster in his locker-Do I dare disturb the universe? — Part of his universe is Archie Costello, leader of a secret school societ-the Virgils-and master of intimidation.  Ar...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780440900320
ISBN-10: 0440900328
Publication Date: 5/1993
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
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Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Trinity School is having a chocolate sale but the implications go far beyond the selling of sweets to raise money. The Vigils that run Trinity has anded with the power hungry Brother Leon to make it a record breaking fundraiser. And for Jerry to resist the Vigils could cost him his life.
Intimidation at a prep school, good and evil in high school - good does not always win out in the end - the themes of adolescence in a 1974 novel that still applies.


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