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The Chocolate War
The Chocolate War
Author: Robert Cormier
ISBN-13: 9780006712077
ISBN-10: 000671207X
Pages: 190
Edition: n.e.
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Publisher: Lions
Book Type: Paperback
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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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Reviewed by Taylor Rector for TeensReadToo.com

This is a horrifying story about a boy's school where there is literally a chocolate war.

A secret society of boys, which the administration has always turned their back on, takes over a school chocolate sale. The boys are all asked to sell fifty boxes at two dollars apiece instead of the normal twenty-five at a dollar. And the leader of the secret society is one of the students who is pushing the sale. And he tells one student to refuse to sell the
chocolate for ten days, but on the eleventh he is to take them. And he doesn't.

This book is interesting, and has a lot of twists and turns. I can see why a lot of schools use this book to teach with. There are a lot of moral lessons and many things that can be learned. I enjoyed reading this, and would recommend it to anyone who has ever had bully problems.
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I found this book surprisingly violent and graphic in places. And I thought the themes of being bullied and singled out are as timeless and relevant today as ever. However, at the same time, I found the premise of a battle of wills over selling chocolate for their school, a bit outdated. I'd hoped that The Chocolate War would capture me as much as The Outsiders did, but it just didn't measure up quite so high. But it's a worthy read.